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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 438 570
Rank change year-on-year +60 +132 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 691 701 862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.68% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.74% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 426 466 467
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,597 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,313 £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 £103,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +15.11% -4.14%

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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 5 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 5 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 +96 626 £82,500 -10.81% 119
UK excluding London +123 416 £72,500 -9.38% 62
London +26 231 £87,500 -12.50% 62
Work from Home +22 215 £82,500 -9.59% 74
North of England +137 139 £75,000 -21.05% 16
South East +72 114 £85,000 +3.03% 18
North West +61 66 £70,000 -23.29% 11
Midlands +57 63 £59,300 -18.21% 10
West Midlands +62 52 £59,300 -28.12% 5
Yorkshire +108 51 £80,000 -15.79% 4
South West -12 44 £75,000 +5.63% 5
Scotland -61 30 £72,500 +9.85% 4
North East +14 22 £77,500 - 1
East of England +9 19 £50,000 -37.50% 3
East Midlands -13 11 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Wales +6 5 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 422 (61.07%) Data Architecture
2 411 (59.48%) Data Modelling
3 335 (48.48%) Azure
4 268 (38.78%) Data Warehouse
5 237 (34.30%) AWS
6 217 (31.40%) ETL
7 215 (31.11%) Data Governance
8 193 (27.93%) Data Quality
9 191 (27.64%) Analytics
9 191 (27.64%) Analytical Skills
10 181 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
11 178 (25.76%) Data Integration
12 169 (24.46%) GCP
13 155 (22.43%) Data Engineering
14 152 (22.00%) Metadata
15 150 (21.71%) GDPR
16 148 (21.42%) Data Strategy
17 146 (21.13%) Finance
18 145 (20.98%) Data Security
19 129 (18.67%) Mentoring
20 128 (18.52%) SQL
21 125 (18.09%) Innovative Thinking
22 123 (17.80%) Roadmaps
23 122 (17.66%) BigQuery
24 120 (17.37%) Google
25 118 (17.08%) Data Management
26 115 (16.64%) Platform Engineering
27 113 (16.35%) Self-Motivation
28 112 (16.21%) Looker
28 112 (16.21%) 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 24 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.30%) Apache
3 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.58%) 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 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 335 (48.48%) Azure
2 237 (34.30%) AWS
3 169 (24.46%) GCP
4 58 (8.39%) Power Platform
5 53 (7.67%) Snowflake
6 34 (4.92%) Serverless
7 33 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.62%) Matillion
9 21 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (2.89%) PaaS
11 19 (2.75%) SaaS
12 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.74%) IaaS
14 8 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 5 (0.72%) Amazon S3
17 5 (0.72%) Azure Stack
17 5 (0.72%) Azure Storage
18 4 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.74%) Wireless
2 6 (0.87%) DNS
2 6 (0.87%) 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
1 268 (38.78%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (22.00%) Metadata
3 122 (17.66%) BigQuery
4 112 (16.21%) Looker
5 109 (15.77%) Data Lake
6 55 (7.96%) Power BI
7 40 (5.79%) Big Data
8 34 (4.92%) NoSQL
9 25 (3.62%) Data Vault
10 22 (3.18%) SQL Server
11 15 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.17%) Tableau
12 14 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.45%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.16%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.01%) OLAP
15 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.01%) Git
2 6 (0.87%) ERwin
3 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 191 (27.64%) Analytical Skills
2 146 (21.13%) Finance
3 78 (11.29%) Social Skills
4 54 (7.81%) Banking
4 54 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
6 38 (5.50%) Public Sector
7 33 (4.78%) Retail
8 28 (4.05%) Marketing
9 25 (3.62%) Retail Banking
10 20 (2.89%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.75%) Law
12 12 (1.74%) Legal
13 7 (1.01%) Billing
14 6 (0.87%) Automotive
14 6 (0.87%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.58%) Games
16 4 (0.58%) Wearables
17 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.75%) Kafka
2 8 (1.16%) XML
3 5 (0.72%) HTML
3 5 (0.72%) Itk
3 5 (0.72%) Middleware
3 5 (0.72%) PySpark
3 5 (0.72%) Web Services
4 4 (0.58%) Apache Beam
4 4 (0.58%) REST
5 3 (0.43%) .NET
5 3 (0.43%) J2EE
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%) JSON
6 2 (0.29%) JWT
6 2 (0.29%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.29%) Spring
6 2 (0.29%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.35%) Self-Motivation
2 51 (7.38%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.46%) Taxonomies
6 16 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.45%) IoT
7 10 (1.45%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.30%) Blog
8 9 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.01%) PMI
9 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.58%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.58%) Replication
12 3 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.01%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
2 2 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Solaris
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (61.07%) Data Architecture
2 411 (59.48%) Data Modelling
3 217 (31.40%) ETL
4 215 (31.11%) Data Governance
5 191 (27.64%) Analytics
6 181 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (25.76%) Data Integration
8 155 (22.43%) Data Engineering
9 148 (21.42%) Data Strategy
10 145 (20.98%) Data Security
11 129 (18.67%) Mentoring
12 125 (18.09%) Innovative Thinking
13 123 (17.80%) Roadmaps
14 118 (17.08%) Data Management
15 115 (16.64%) Platform Engineering
16 112 (16.21%) ERD
17 106 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
18 93 (13.46%) Agile
19 79 (11.43%) Metadata Management
20 78 (11.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 128 (18.52%) SQL
2 48 (6.95%) Python
3 27 (3.91%) T-SQL
4 20 (2.89%) Java
5 11 (1.59%) Scala
6 8 (1.16%) R
7 6 (0.87%) C++
8 5 (0.72%) C
8 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.29%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Haskell
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (9.70%) Security Cleared
2 47 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.21%) Degree
4 17 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.72%) MCAD
12 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (27.93%) Data Quality
2 150 (21.71%) 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 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
2 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 10 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Kibana
3 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 120 (17.37%) Google
2 106 (15.34%) Databricks
3 70 (10.13%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.46%) Oracle
4 17 (2.46%) SAP
5 14 (2.03%) Informatica
6 5 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.43%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.43%) IBM
8 3 (0.43%) Sparx
8 3 (0.43%) Teradata
9 2 (0.29%) Cisco
9 2 (0.29%) NEC
9 2 (0.29%) Okta
9 2 (0.29%) Splunk
10 1 (0.14%) Confluent
10 1 (0.14%) ESRI
10 1 (0.14%) Peregrine
10 1 (0.14%) SnapLogic