Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in South London

Data Architecture
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.86% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.79% - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
London median daily rate £603 £603 £700
% change year-on-year -0.08% -13.86% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 201 189 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.64% 87.50% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 127 179
10th Percentile £352 £260 £188
25th Percentile £455 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £588
90th Percentile £640 £773 £653
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 22
10th Percentile £54.42 £23.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -28.90%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.13
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.28 £83.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in South London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Bromley -6 1 £475 -20.83% 2
Croydon - 1 £500 - 1
Data Architecture
London

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow