Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 455 570
Rank change year-on-year +78 +115 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 719 633 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.65% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.71% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 431 428 473
10th Percentile £55,000 £64,850 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,000 £76,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +96 646 £81,250 -12.16% 99
UK excluding London +178 459 £70,000 -12.50% 58
London +31 221 £90,000 -10.00% 51
Work from Home +26 211 £82,500 -8.33% 61
North of England +149 150 £75,000 -14.29% 18
South East +78 127 £80,000 -5.88% 15
North West +70 76 £72,500 -30.95% 11
Midlands +44 69 £59,300 -18.21% 5
West Midlands +56 53 £59,300 -30.24% 3
Yorkshire +102 52 £80,000 -5.88% 5
South West -3 49 £70,000 +1.45% 4
Scotland -49 34 £72,500 +16.47% 6
North East +15 22 £77,500 - 2
East of England -12 19 £50,000 -37.50% 3
East Midlands -12 16 £70,000 -3.45% 2
Wales -2 7 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 430 (59.81%) Data Architecture
2 413 (57.44%) Data Modelling
3 361 (50.21%) Azure
4 303 (42.14%) Data Warehouse
5 255 (35.47%) AWS
6 218 (30.32%) Analytics
7 217 (30.18%) ETL
8 214 (29.76%) Data Governance
9 203 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
10 199 (27.68%) Data Quality
11 184 (25.59%) Analytical Skills
12 176 (24.48%) Data Integration
13 175 (24.34%) GCP
14 153 (21.28%) Data Engineering
14 153 (21.28%) Finance
15 151 (21.00%) Metadata
16 150 (20.86%) Data Strategy
17 146 (20.31%) Data Security
18 144 (20.03%) GDPR
19 140 (19.47%) SQL
20 132 (18.36%) Mentoring
21 129 (17.94%) Business Intelligence
22 127 (17.66%) Innovative Thinking
23 124 (17.25%) BigQuery
24 123 (17.11%) Roadmaps
24 123 (17.11%) Google
25 116 (16.13%) Data Management
26 115 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
27 114 (15.86%) Looker
28 113 (15.72%) Self-Motivation

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.39%) Apache
3 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 361 (50.21%) Azure
2 255 (35.47%) AWS
3 175 (24.34%) GCP
4 82 (11.40%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.68%) Snowflake
6 31 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (4.17%) Serverless
8 22 (3.06%) Matillion
9 21 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (2.50%) PaaS
11 17 (2.36%) SaaS
12 16 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (1.25%) IaaS
14 6 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.70%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.70%) Azure Storage
16 4 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
16 4 (0.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.39%) Wireless
2 6 (0.83%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
4 2 (0.28%) Extranet
4 2 (0.28%) LAN
4 2 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (42.14%) Data Warehouse
2 151 (21.00%) Metadata
3 124 (17.25%) BigQuery
4 114 (15.86%) Looker
5 104 (14.46%) Data Lake
6 79 (10.99%) Power BI
7 47 (6.54%) Data Vault
8 45 (6.26%) NoSQL
9 41 (5.70%) Big Data
10 39 (5.42%) Tableau
11 23 (3.20%) SQL Server
12 15 (2.09%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.67%) Hadoop
15 11 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
17 9 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
19 7 (0.97%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Git
2 6 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.56%) ERwin
4 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.28%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 184 (25.59%) Analytical Skills
2 153 (21.28%) Finance
3 81 (11.27%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
5 59 (8.21%) Banking
6 53 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.17%) Retail Banking
9 29 (4.03%) Retail
10 23 (3.20%) Marketing
11 22 (3.06%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.36%) Law
13 12 (1.67%) Legal
14 7 (0.97%) Billing
15 6 (0.83%) Automotive
15 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.56%) Wearables
18 3 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.92%) Kafka
2 13 (1.81%) Middleware
3 10 (1.39%) XML
4 5 (0.70%) HTML
4 5 (0.70%) Itk
4 5 (0.70%) PySpark
4 5 (0.70%) Web Services
5 4 (0.56%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.56%) REST
6 3 (0.42%) .NET
6 3 (0.42%) J2EE
6 3 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.42%) SOAP
7 2 (0.28%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.28%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.14%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.14%) EDI
8 1 (0.14%) FHIR
8 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 113 (15.72%) Self-Motivation
2 56 (7.79%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.39%) IoT
7 9 (1.25%) Blog
7 9 (1.25%) Reinsurance
7 9 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.97%) PMI
9 7 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.83%) NHS
10 6 (0.83%) Replication
11 4 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.42%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.09%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Solaris
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (59.81%) Data Architecture
2 413 (57.44%) Data Modelling
3 218 (30.32%) Analytics
4 217 (30.18%) ETL
5 214 (29.76%) Data Governance
6 203 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (24.48%) Data Integration
8 153 (21.28%) Data Engineering
9 150 (20.86%) Data Strategy
10 146 (20.31%) Data Security
11 132 (18.36%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.94%) Business Intelligence
13 127 (17.66%) Innovative Thinking
14 123 (17.11%) Roadmaps
15 116 (16.13%) Data Management
16 115 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
17 111 (15.44%) ERD
18 103 (14.33%) Agile
19 92 (12.80%) Data Science
20 82 (11.40%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (19.47%) SQL
2 55 (7.65%) Python
3 29 (4.03%) Java
4 26 (3.62%) T-SQL
5 14 (1.95%) Scala
6 13 (1.81%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.11%) R
8 6 (0.83%) C++
9 5 (0.70%) C
9 5 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) Haskell
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 52 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.12%) Degree
4 22 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.70%) MCAD
11 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (27.68%) Data Quality
2 144 (20.03%) GDPR
3 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.42%) QA
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (1.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.28%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.97%) Terraform
3 2 (0.28%) Ansible
3 2 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 123 (17.11%) Google
2 98 (13.63%) Databricks
3 67 (9.32%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.64%) Oracle
5 14 (1.95%) Informatica
6 12 (1.67%) SAP
7 5 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (0.70%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.56%) NEC
9 3 (0.42%) Sparx
9 3 (0.42%) Teradata
10 2 (0.28%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.28%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.28%) Cisco
10 2 (0.28%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.28%) Splunk
11 1 (0.14%) Confluent
11 1 (0.14%) ESRI
11 1 (0.14%) IBM
11 1 (0.14%) Talend