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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 436 572
Rank change year-on-year +65 +136 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 697 727 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.76% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 431 484 476
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £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 £104,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +91 632 £82,500 -8.33% 104
UK excluding London +137 423 £72,500 -9.38% 50
London +22 230 £86,250 -13.75% 56
Work from Home +30 219 £82,500 -8.33% 67
North of England +137 140 £75,000 -14.29% 15
South East +75 118 £85,000 +3.03% 12
North West +59 66 £70,000 -20.00% 10
Midlands +49 64 £59,300 -18.21% 8
Yorkshire +114 52 £80,000 -5.88% 4
West Midlands +68 52 £59,300 -28.12% 4
South West +14 45 £75,000 +5.63% 6
Scotland -61 30 £72,500 +9.85% 3
North East +18 22 £77,500 -13.89% 1
East of England +4 19 £50,000 -37.50% 4
East Midlands -15 12 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Wales +6 5 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 424 (60.83%) Data Architecture
2 415 (59.54%) Data Modelling
3 341 (48.92%) Azure
4 271 (38.88%) Data Warehouse
5 238 (34.15%) AWS
6 220 (31.56%) ETL
7 219 (31.42%) Data Governance
8 194 (27.83%) Data Quality
8 194 (27.83%) Analytics
9 190 (27.26%) Analytical Skills
10 181 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
11 179 (25.68%) Data Integration
12 168 (24.10%) GCP
13 156 (22.38%) Data Engineering
14 150 (21.52%) GDPR
14 150 (21.52%) Metadata
15 147 (21.09%) Data Strategy
16 144 (20.66%) Data Security
16 144 (20.66%) Finance
17 128 (18.36%) Mentoring
18 127 (18.22%) SQL
19 126 (18.08%) Roadmaps
20 124 (17.79%) Innovative Thinking
21 122 (17.50%) BigQuery
22 120 (17.22%) Google
23 119 (17.07%) Data Management
24 115 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
25 113 (16.21%) Self-Motivation
26 112 (16.07%) Looker
26 112 (16.07%) ERD

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 25 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.29%) Apache
3 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 341 (48.92%) Azure
2 238 (34.15%) AWS
3 168 (24.10%) GCP
4 58 (8.32%) Power Platform
5 53 (7.60%) Snowflake
6 33 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.73%) Serverless
7 25 (3.59%) Matillion
8 23 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (3.01%) SaaS
10 20 (2.87%) PaaS
11 18 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (1.72%) IaaS
13 8 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 5 (0.72%) Amazon S3
16 5 (0.72%) Azure Stack
16 5 (0.72%) Azure Storage
17 4 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.87%) Wireless
2 6 (0.86%) DNS
2 6 (0.86%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Extranet
3 2 (0.29%) LAN
3 2 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.29%) WAN
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (38.88%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (21.52%) Metadata
3 122 (17.50%) BigQuery
4 112 (16.07%) Looker
5 111 (15.93%) Data Lake
6 55 (7.89%) Power BI
7 41 (5.88%) Big Data
8 34 (4.88%) NoSQL
9 26 (3.73%) Data Vault
10 21 (3.01%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 14 (2.01%) Tableau
12 11 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.15%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.00%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.00%) OLAP
16 6 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (1.00%) ERwin
1 7 (1.00%) Git
2 4 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 190 (27.26%) Analytical Skills
2 144 (20.66%) Finance
3 79 (11.33%) Social Skills
4 53 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (7.32%) Banking
6 43 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 34 (4.88%) Retail
9 28 (4.02%) Marketing
10 23 (3.30%) Retail Banking
11 20 (2.87%) Law
12 19 (2.73%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.72%) Legal
14 7 (1.00%) Billing
15 6 (0.86%) Automotive
15 6 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.73%) Kafka
2 8 (1.15%) XML
3 5 (0.72%) HTML
3 5 (0.72%) Itk
3 5 (0.72%) PySpark
3 5 (0.72%) Web Services
4 4 (0.57%) Apache Beam
4 4 (0.57%) Middleware
4 4 (0.57%) REST
5 3 (0.43%) .NET
5 3 (0.43%) J2EE
5 3 (0.43%) JSON
5 3 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.43%) SOAP
5 3 (0.43%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.29%) JWT
6 2 (0.29%) OAuth
6 2 (0.29%) Spring
6 2 (0.29%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.21%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (7.17%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.44%) Taxonomies
6 16 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.43%) IoT
7 10 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.29%) Blog
8 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.00%) PMI
9 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.86%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.72%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.43%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.43%) NHS
12 3 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.86%) Linux
2 3 (0.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Solaris
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (60.83%) Data Architecture
2 415 (59.54%) Data Modelling
3 220 (31.56%) ETL
4 219 (31.42%) Data Governance
5 194 (27.83%) Analytics
6 181 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
7 179 (25.68%) Data Integration
8 156 (22.38%) Data Engineering
9 147 (21.09%) Data Strategy
10 144 (20.66%) Data Security
11 128 (18.36%) Mentoring
12 126 (18.08%) Roadmaps
13 124 (17.79%) Innovative Thinking
14 119 (17.07%) Data Management
15 115 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
16 112 (16.07%) ERD
17 106 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
18 90 (12.91%) Agile
19 79 (11.33%) Migration
20 76 (10.90%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (18.22%) SQL
2 47 (6.74%) Python
3 26 (3.73%) T-SQL
4 19 (2.73%) Java
5 11 (1.58%) Scala
6 8 (1.15%) R
7 6 (0.86%) C++
8 5 (0.72%) C
8 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.14%) Haskell
11 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 47 (6.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.73%) Degree
4 16 (2.30%) AWS Certification
4 16 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.72%) MCAD
10 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (27.83%) Data Quality
2 150 (21.52%) GDPR
3 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.43%) QA
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
2 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 10 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.72%) Terraform
3 3 (0.43%) WebSphere Cast Iron
4 2 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 120 (17.22%) Google
2 109 (15.64%) Databricks
3 69 (9.90%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.44%) Oracle
4 17 (2.44%) SAP
5 16 (2.30%) Informatica
6 5 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
6 5 (0.72%) IBM
7 4 (0.57%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.57%) Teradata
8 3 (0.43%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.43%) Sparx
9 2 (0.29%) Cisco
9 2 (0.29%) Okta
9 2 (0.29%) Splunk
10 1 (0.14%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.14%) ESRI
10 1 (0.14%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.14%) NEC
10 1 (0.14%) Peregrine