Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 154 180
Rank change year-on-year +39 +26 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 529 229 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 1.70% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.84% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 153 181
10th Percentile £425 £463 £485
25th Percentile £500 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £642
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -8.29%
75th Percentile £688 £720 £775
90th Percentile £775 £835 £875
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £66.25 -
25th Percentile - £71.88 £92.50
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.16% +167.61%
75th Percentile - £91.88 £97.50
90th Percentile - £96.75 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +168.52% -45.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,987 12,459 14,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.61% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,238 9,752
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 256 181
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the London region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 80 £630 +9.57% 60
West London -8 13 £625 - 22
East London -2 3 £450 -29.41% 4
South London - 1 £650 - 4
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (6.43%) Apache Spark
3 29 (5.48%) Apache
4 6 (1.13%) Confluence
5 5 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.38%) Appian
7 2 (0.38%) Camunda
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Endur
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Maximo
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 230 (43.48%) Azure
2 143 (27.03%) AWS
3 90 (17.01%) Snowflake
4 73 (13.80%) Power Platform
5 66 (12.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 64 (12.10%) GCP
7 49 (9.26%) dbt
8 45 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (4.54%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 23 (4.35%) Serverless
12 22 (4.16%) Azure Databricks
13 21 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (3.78%) GitHub
15 17 (3.21%) Collibra
16 12 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
17 11 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 9 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) DSL
2 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (20.04%) Metadata
2 93 (17.58%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (15.31%) Data Lake
4 64 (12.10%) Power BI
5 37 (6.99%) Delta Lake
6 29 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 22 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (3.78%) BigQuery
9 20 (3.78%) Data Vault
10 19 (3.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (3.40%) Big Data
11 18 (3.40%) SQL Server
12 16 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (2.65%) MongoDB
13 14 (2.65%) Star Schema
13 14 (2.65%) Tableau
14 10 (1.89%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (5.86%) Git
2 17 (3.21%) JIRA
3 13 (2.46%) ERwin
4 10 (1.89%) MLflow
5 9 (1.70%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.13%) GitLab
8 4 (0.76%) Selenium
9 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
General
1 174 (32.89%) Finance
2 168 (31.76%) Social Skills
3 79 (14.93%) Banking
4 65 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (3.59%) Retail
7 15 (2.84%) Marketing
8 14 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.46%) Front Office
10 11 (2.08%) Legal
11 9 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.51%) Billing
12 8 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.95%) Military
15 4 (0.76%) Back Office
15 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 279 (52.74%) Architect
2 185 (34.97%) Data Architect
3 87 (16.45%) Data Engineer
4 69 (13.04%) Lead
5 66 (12.48%) Solutions Architect
6 39 (7.37%) Senior
7 28 (5.29%) Enterprise Architect
8 25 (4.73%) Analyst
8 25 (4.73%) Consultant
9 19 (3.59%) Azure Architect
9 19 (3.59%) Azure Data Engineer
9 19 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (3.40%) Databricks Architect
11 17 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (3.02%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.02%) Data Consultant
13 15 (2.84%) Azure Data Architect
13 15 (2.84%) Data Modeller
13 15 (2.84%) Databricks Engineer
14 14 (2.65%) Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.70%) PySpark
2 40 (7.56%) Terraform
3 29 (5.48%) Kafka
4 18 (3.40%) REST
5 12 (2.27%) .NET
6 10 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.70%) Middleware
7 9 (1.70%) React
8 8 (1.51%) Great Expectations
8 8 (1.51%) SOAP
9 6 (1.13%) JSON
9 6 (1.13%) LangChain
9 6 (1.13%) pytest
10 5 (0.95%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.95%) RESTful
11 4 (0.76%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.76%) Playwright
11 4 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.10%) Data Structures
2 60 (11.34%) Product Ownership
3 52 (9.83%) Cloud Native
4 27 (5.10%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (3.78%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.40%) Reference Data
8 17 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.84%) Taxonomies
10 13 (2.46%) Reinsurance
11 11 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.70%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.51%) Replication
14 6 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.13%) Digital Media
14 6 (1.13%) Fixed Income
14 6 (1.13%) NHS
14 6 (1.13%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (49.72%) Data Modelling
2 215 (40.64%) Analytics
3 193 (36.48%) Data Governance
4 168 (31.76%) AI
5 154 (29.11%) Data Engineering
6 143 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
6 143 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 125 (23.63%) ETL
8 119 (22.50%) Roadmaps
9 112 (21.17%) CI/CD
10 106 (20.04%) Agile
11 100 (18.90%) Business Intelligence
11 100 (18.90%) Machine Learning
12 99 (18.71%) Migration
13 96 (18.15%) DevOps
13 96 (18.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 89 (16.82%) Data Transformation
15 83 (15.69%) Integration Patterns
16 82 (15.50%) Lakehouse
17 71 (13.42%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 184 (34.78%) SQL
2 132 (24.95%) Python
3 20 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (3.02%) Scala
5 14 (2.65%) Java
6 10 (1.89%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.13%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.95%) Cypher
9 3 (0.57%) R
9 3 (0.57%) SHACL
9 3 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.38%) Bash
10 2 (0.38%) C#
10 2 (0.38%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C++
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 77 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.16%) Degree
4 20 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.57%) CISA
11 3 (0.57%) MBA
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) CCSP
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.91%) GDPR
3 20 (3.78%) QA
4 7 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.32%) Solvency II
5 6 (1.13%) IFRS
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.38%) GRC
7 2 (0.38%) GxP
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.38%) NCSC
7 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
7 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.38%) SEPA
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 24 (4.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.13%) Ansible
3 5 (0.95%) Grafana
4 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 152 (28.73%) Databricks
2 77 (14.56%) Microsoft
3 36 (6.81%) Oracle
4 27 (5.10%) Salesforce
5 22 (4.16%) Google
6 19 (3.59%) Informatica
7 16 (3.02%) SAP
8 12 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.70%) Foundry
10 7 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.13%) Talend
12 5 (0.95%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.95%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.95%) Sparx
13 4 (0.76%) IBM
13 4 (0.76%) Mistral
13 4 (0.76%) Teradata
13 4 (0.76%) Workday