Data Architecture Contracts in London

Data Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 175 191
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 210 234 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.34% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.51% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 179 262
10th Percentile £475 £463 £475
25th Percentile £513 £563 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £749 £869 £775
90th Percentile £824 £925 £835
England median daily rate £600 £650 £669
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.80% +2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £68.25 - £34.33
25th Percentile £76.88 - £34.44
Median hourly rate £92.50 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +164.29% -0.71% -61.22%
75th Percentile £96.88 - £36.31
90th Percentile £98.75 - £36.58
England median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.25
% change year-on-year +169.91% -15.39% -60.64%

All Process and 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 11,442 15,487 23,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.69% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,745 11,095 17,006
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £805 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 307 268
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £64.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.60 £82.33
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in London

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 16 May 2025. 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 +4 28 £550 -25.42% 16
East London - 4 £638 -
West London +13 3 £600 +27.66% 5
North London - 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (8.10%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.86%) Apache
4 4 (1.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Drupal
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.38%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.90%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.90%) SAP MDG-S
4 3 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.48%) Magento
6 1 (0.48%) Maximo
6 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (40.48%) Azure
2 71 (33.81%) AWS
3 34 (16.19%) GCP
3 34 (16.19%) Power Platform
3 34 (16.19%) Snowflake
4 23 (10.95%) dbt
5 14 (6.67%) GitHub
6 12 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (5.71%) SaaS
7 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.29%) Serverless
10 8 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (3.81%) Collibra
10 8 (3.81%) IaaS
11 7 (3.33%) PaaS
12 6 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.48%) IPsec
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (18.57%) Data Lake
2 39 (18.57%) Metadata
3 32 (15.24%) Power BI
4 21 (10.00%) Big Data
5 13 (6.19%) Hadoop
6 12 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (5.71%) BigQuery
7 11 (5.24%) NoSQL
7 11 (5.24%) Relational Database
7 11 (5.24%) Tableau
8 10 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.29%) Data Vault
9 9 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (3.33%) Delta Lake
10 7 (3.33%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.38%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (4.76%) ERwin
2 6 (2.86%) GitLab
3 5 (2.38%) JIRA
4 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.90%) Liquibase
4 4 (1.90%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) MLflow
5 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 66 (31.43%) Finance
2 65 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.81%) Public Sector
5 21 (10.00%) Banking
6 10 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.76%) Retail
7 9 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.86%) Back Office
8 6 (2.86%) Marketing
9 5 (2.38%) Local Government
10 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.95%) French Language
12 2 (0.95%) Front Office
12 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.95%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (60.48%) Architect
2 91 (43.33%) Data Architect
3 27 (12.86%) Data Engineer
4 22 (10.48%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (10.00%) Lead
6 18 (8.57%) Senior
7 15 (7.14%) Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
9 10 (4.76%) Azure Architect
9 10 (4.76%) Senior Architect
10 9 (4.29%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (3.81%) Azure Data Architect
11 8 (3.81%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.81%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Data Modeller
13 6 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (2.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.24%) React
2 10 (4.76%) Kafka
3 9 (4.29%) Jinja
4 7 (3.33%) Node.js
5 6 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.38%) Plotly
6 5 (2.38%) PySpark
7 4 (1.90%) Middleware
7 4 (1.90%) Spring
7 4 (1.90%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.43%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.43%) JPA
9 2 (0.95%) .NET
9 2 (0.95%) Shiny
10 1 (0.48%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.48%) FHIR
10 1 (0.48%) Kedro
10 1 (0.48%) LangChain
10 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.62%) Data Structures
2 15 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 10 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.90%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Equities
8 2 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.95%) IoT
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.33%) Linux
2 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.95%) Unix
3 2 (0.95%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (53.81%) Data Modelling
2 81 (38.57%) Data Governance
3 67 (31.90%) ETL
4 57 (27.14%) Analytics
5 49 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (21.90%) Data Integration
7 45 (21.43%) Migration
8 35 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 35 (16.67%) Data Strategy
9 34 (16.19%) Roadmaps
10 33 (15.71%) Agile
10 33 (15.71%) Data Management
10 33 (15.71%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 28 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (13.33%) Visualisation
13 27 (12.86%) Data Transformation
14 26 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (11.90%) CI/CD
15 25 (11.90%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.19%) SQL
2 54 (25.71%) Python
3 13 (6.19%) Scala
4 7 (3.33%) Java
5 6 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.38%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.90%) R
8 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.95%) Bicep
9 2 (0.95%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.95%) Degree
4 9 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.29%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (3.81%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.43%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.48%) ISEB
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.48%) PMP
10 1 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (22.86%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.62%) GDPR
3 14 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.76%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (2.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (7.62%) Terraform
2 12 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.48%) Packer
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (13.33%) Databricks
2 24 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.52%) Google
4 17 (8.10%) Informatica
5 16 (7.62%) SAP
6 11 (5.24%) Oracle
7 10 (4.76%) Talend
8 9 (4.29%) Sparx
9 8 (3.81%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (2.86%) IBM
11 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.90%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.90%) VMware
13 3 (1.43%) Dell
13 3 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.95%) Adobe
14 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.95%) Sage
15 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow