Data Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Architecture over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 170 322
Rank change year-on-year -99 +152 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,082 2,128 2,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 2.16% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.26% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 596 903 895
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,335 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £80,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +9.59% +4.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.04% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -97 902 £80,000 -3.03% 207
UK excluding London -79 679 £75,000 +20.00% 137
Work from Home -99 434 £79,932 -5.96% 95
London -81 359 £90,000 -5.01% 138
North of England -18 223 £79,932 +3.14% 21
South East -27 117 £85,000 +41.67% 64
North West -51 113 £75,000 +25.00% 13
Scotland -41 108 £65,000 -27.78% 11
Midlands -86 107 £59,300 +24.84% 12
West Midlands -66 75 £59,300 +24.84% 10
South West -22 72 £59,637 -8.25% 9
Yorkshire +11 71 £79,932 +1.50% 3
North East +10 39 £79,932 +3.14% 5
East Midlands -8 32 £45,000 -25.00% 1
Wales +17 27 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Northern Ireland +39 13 - - 7
East of England -84 11 £110,000 +37.50% 6
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Architecture
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 40 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.40%) Apache
3 19 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.65%) Confluence
6 4 (0.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.28%) IIS
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.092%) Appian
Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.55%) Trello
4 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.28%) Primavera
4 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.092%) Maximo
6 1 (0.092%) Odoo
6 1 (0.092%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 461 (42.61%) Azure
2 364 (33.64%) AWS
3 211 (19.50%) GCP
4 206 (19.04%) Power Platform
5 59 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 57 (5.27%) Snowflake
7 35 (3.23%) dbt
8 32 (2.96%) PowerApps
8 32 (2.96%) Serverless
9 29 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 27 (2.50%) SaaS
12 25 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.76%) Matillion
14 18 (1.66%) GitHub
15 17 (1.57%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.18%) Broadband
3 2 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.18%) LAN
3 2 (0.18%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) WAN
3 2 (0.18%) Wireless
4 1 (0.092%) HTTP
4 1 (0.092%) Intranet
4 1 (0.092%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (34.20%) Data Warehouse
2 180 (16.64%) Power BI
3 151 (13.96%) Data Lake
4 148 (13.68%) Metadata
5 138 (12.75%) BigQuery
6 120 (11.09%) Tableau
7 118 (10.91%) Looker
8 59 (5.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 44 (4.07%) Data Vault
10 43 (3.97%) SQL Server
11 33 (3.05%) Big Data
12 32 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (2.31%) NoSQL
15 19 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.66%) Relational Database
17 15 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 14 (1.29%) MongoDB
19 13 (1.20%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 33 (3.05%) Git
2 15 (1.39%) JIRA
3 14 (1.29%) GitLab
4 10 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.46%) ERwin
6 3 (0.28%) MLflow
6 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.092%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.092%) Vagrant
General
1 397 (36.69%) Finance
2 294 (27.17%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (25.14%) Social Skills
4 128 (11.83%) Marketing
5 104 (9.61%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 68 (6.28%) Banking
9 60 (5.55%) Law
10 48 (4.44%) Retail
11 32 (2.96%) Retail Banking
12 30 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (2.31%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.31%) Legal
14 18 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.57%) Games
16 16 (1.48%) Front Office
17 11 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
17 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 587 (54.25%) Architect
2 428 (39.56%) Data Architect
3 171 (15.80%) Senior
4 122 (11.28%) Consultant
5 118 (10.91%) Lead
6 116 (10.72%) Solutions Architect
7 109 (10.07%) Data Engineer
8 88 (8.13%) Principal Architect
9 78 (7.21%) Senior Architect
10 66 (6.10%) Senior Data Architect
11 60 (5.55%) Data Consultant
12 54 (4.99%) Principal Data Architect
13 50 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
14 47 (4.34%) Analyst
14 47 (4.34%) Senior Technology Consultant
14 47 (4.34%) Technology Consultant
15 45 (4.16%) Developer
16 40 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
17 31 (2.87%) Data Analyst
18 30 (2.77%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.03%) PySpark
2 20 (1.85%) .NET
3 19 (1.76%) HTML
3 19 (1.76%) Pandas
4 17 (1.57%) Kafka
5 14 (1.29%) NumPy
6 13 (1.20%) gRPC
6 13 (1.20%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (1.20%) SciPy
7 10 (0.92%) Middleware
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Beam
8 5 (0.46%) CSS
8 5 (0.46%) J2EE
9 4 (0.37%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.37%) RESTful
10 3 (0.28%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.28%) HTML5
10 3 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.28%) JSON
10 3 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (11.46%) Self-Motivation
2 80 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 68 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.91%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.68%) Credit Risk
6 26 (2.40%) Reference Data
7 20 (1.85%) Taxonomies
8 19 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.29%) Cyberattack
11 13 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.11%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.11%) Derivative
12 12 (1.11%) Equities
12 12 (1.11%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.11%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 10 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.28%) Unix
1 3 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.092%) Android
2 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.092%) Linux
2 1 (0.092%) Solaris
2 1 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (49.63%) Data Modelling
2 366 (33.83%) Data Governance
3 326 (30.13%) Analytics
4 295 (27.26%) ETL
5 281 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (25.42%) Roadmaps
7 269 (24.86%) Data Engineering
8 258 (23.84%) Business Intelligence
9 243 (22.46%) Mentoring
10 226 (20.89%) Agile
11 221 (20.43%) Data Management
12 213 (19.69%) Data Integration
13 168 (15.53%) Strategic Roadmap
14 164 (15.16%) Data Strategy
15 159 (14.70%) Data Analysis
16 151 (13.96%) Data Science
17 150 (13.86%) Data Security
18 143 (13.22%) Decision-Making
18 143 (13.22%) DevOps
19 132 (12.20%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 296 (27.36%) SQL
2 165 (15.25%) Python
3 70 (6.47%) Java
4 38 (3.51%) T-SQL
5 31 (2.87%) Scala
6 23 (2.13%) R
7 21 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 19 (1.76%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.39%) C#
10 13 (1.20%) Ruby
11 11 (1.02%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.28%) VB
15 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.092%) Bicep
16 1 (0.092%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.092%) VBA
Qualifications
1 100 (9.24%) Degree
2 77 (7.12%) Azure Certification
3 76 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 68 (6.28%) AWS Certification
5 52 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (3.88%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.40%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.39%) CISSP
10 11 (1.02%) PhD
11 9 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.83%) MBA
12 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.55%) IIBA
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.37%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.18%) CIMA
15 2 (0.18%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (26.34%) Data Quality
2 162 (14.97%) GDPR
3 21 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.66%) QA
5 12 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.55%) SLA
7 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.28%) PMO
8 3 (0.28%) PSD2
8 3 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (1.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.092%) HDFS
3 1 (0.092%) LXC
3 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (1.57%) Terraform
2 10 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.18%) Argo
4 2 (0.18%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 148 (13.68%) Google
2 131 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 84 (7.76%) Databricks
4 24 (2.22%) Oracle
5 14 (1.29%) SAP
5 14 (1.29%) Sparx
6 11 (1.02%) Informatica
7 7 (0.65%) Teradata
8 5 (0.46%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.46%) Talend
9 4 (0.37%) Dell
10 3 (0.28%) Facebook
10 3 (0.28%) Twitter
11 2 (0.18%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.18%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.18%) Cognos
11 2 (0.18%) IBM
11 2 (0.18%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.18%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.18%) SnapLogic