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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 165 331
Rank change year-on-year -113 +166 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,028 2,405 1,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 2.30% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 2.40% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 606 939 909
10th Percentile £52,325 £45,952 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +15.38% +6.12% +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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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% +9.38%

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 27 April 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 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 -109 882 £79,932 -3.11% 162
UK excluding London -125 620 £75,000 +15.38% 79
Work from Home -111 388 £79,932 -5.96% 81
London -71 366 £90,000 -5.26% 89
North of England -59 208 £79,932 +3.14% 16
South East -23 117 £85,000 +41.67% 16
Midlands -96 101 £57,150 +17.65% 13
North West -81 100 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Scotland -69 93 £70,576 -21.58% 7
West Midlands -81 74 £59,300 +23.45% 6
Yorkshire +4 70 £79,932 +1.50% 4
South West -28 63 £55,250 -17.54% 13
North East +13 38 £79,932 +3.14% 2
East Midlands -25 27 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Wales +14 20 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -92 11 £110,000 +37.50% 9
Northern Ireland +36 6 - - 2
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 47 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.21%) Apache
3 17 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.68%) Confluence
6 4 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.29%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
8 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.097%) Appian
9 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.58%) Trello
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.29%) Primavera
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.097%) Maximo
7 1 (0.097%) Odoo
7 1 (0.097%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 419 (40.76%) Azure
2 323 (31.42%) AWS
3 220 (21.40%) GCP
4 182 (17.70%) Power Platform
5 64 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 63 (6.13%) Snowflake
7 42 (4.09%) dbt
8 35 (3.40%) Serverless
9 33 (3.21%) PowerApps
10 29 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (2.72%) SaaS
12 26 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (2.04%) Matillion
15 19 (1.85%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.75%) GitHub
17 13 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.097%) HTTP
4 1 (0.097%) Intranet
4 1 (0.097%) IPsec
4 1 (0.097%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.097%) RIP
4 1 (0.097%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (31.42%) Data Warehouse
2 155 (15.08%) Power BI
3 146 (14.20%) Metadata
4 138 (13.42%) BigQuery
5 122 (11.87%) Data Lake
6 119 (11.58%) Looker
7 96 (9.34%) Tableau
8 44 (4.28%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (3.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.21%) Big Data
11 30 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (2.33%) NoSQL
14 20 (1.95%) Apache Arrow
14 20 (1.95%) Apache Ignite
14 20 (1.95%) Dremio
15 19 (1.85%) Data Vault
16 18 (1.75%) Relational Database
17 16 (1.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (3.31%) Git
2 16 (1.56%) JIRA
3 14 (1.36%) GitLab
4 9 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.49%) ERwin
6 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.29%) MLflow
7 3 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.097%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.097%) Vagrant
General
1 339 (32.98%) Finance
2 294 (28.60%) Analytical Skills
3 233 (22.67%) Social Skills
4 98 (9.53%) Marketing
5 97 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (6.91%) Banking
6 71 (6.91%) Public Sector
7 65 (6.32%) Law
8 58 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (4.77%) Retail
10 29 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (2.53%) Legal
11 26 (2.53%) Retail Banking
12 25 (2.43%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.24%) Front Office
14 20 (1.95%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.75%) Games
16 13 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
18 6 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 589 (57.30%) Architect
2 424 (41.25%) Data Architect
3 146 (14.20%) Senior
4 131 (12.74%) Solutions Architect
5 117 (11.38%) Lead
6 109 (10.60%) Data Engineer
7 77 (7.49%) Senior Architect
8 64 (6.23%) Consultant
8 64 (6.23%) Principal Architect
8 64 (6.23%) Senior Data Architect
9 51 (4.96%) Analyst
10 50 (4.86%) Developer
11 41 (3.99%) Enterprise Architect
12 38 (3.70%) Data Consultant
13 30 (2.92%) Java Architect
13 30 (2.92%) Principal Data Architect
14 28 (2.72%) Lead Architect
15 27 (2.63%) Data Analyst
16 26 (2.53%) Senior Consultant
17 25 (2.43%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.53%) Pandas
2 24 (2.33%) .NET
3 21 (2.04%) NumPy
3 21 (2.04%) PySpark
4 20 (1.95%) gRPC
4 20 (1.95%) Protocol Buffers
4 20 (1.95%) SciPy
5 19 (1.85%) HTML
6 17 (1.65%) Kafka
7 9 (0.88%) Middleware
8 6 (0.58%) Apache Beam
9 5 (0.49%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.49%) CSS
9 5 (0.49%) J2EE
9 5 (0.49%) RESTful
9 5 (0.49%) Web Services
10 4 (0.39%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.39%) JSON
11 3 (0.29%) HTML5
11 3 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 123 (11.96%) Self-Motivation
2 73 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 72 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 64 (6.23%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.72%) Credit Risk
6 27 (2.63%) Taxonomies
7 23 (2.24%) Reference Data
8 19 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.36%) Cyberattack
9 14 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.17%) Derivative
11 12 (1.17%) Equities
11 12 (1.17%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.17%) Hedge funds
11 12 (1.17%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.07%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.49%) Windows
2 4 (0.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.097%) Android
4 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.097%) Solaris
4 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (51.56%) Data Modelling
2 364 (35.41%) Data Governance
3 304 (29.57%) ETL
4 303 (29.47%) Analytics
5 267 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
6 266 (25.88%) Data Engineering
7 244 (23.74%) Mentoring
8 240 (23.35%) Agile
9 227 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
10 219 (21.30%) Data Management
11 218 (21.21%) Roadmaps
12 216 (21.01%) Data Integration
13 165 (16.05%) Data Strategy
14 151 (14.69%) Data Security
15 136 (13.23%) Data Analysis
16 134 (13.04%) Decision-Making
17 131 (12.74%) Data Science
18 128 (12.45%) Innovative Thinking
19 117 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
20 114 (11.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 306 (29.77%) SQL
2 177 (17.22%) Python
3 74 (7.20%) Java
4 40 (3.89%) T-SQL
5 33 (3.21%) Scala
6 30 (2.92%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.43%) R
9 18 (1.75%) C#
10 15 (1.46%) Ruby
11 10 (0.97%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.29%) VB
14 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.19%) VBA
15 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 96 (9.34%) Degree
2 89 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.67%) Azure Certification
4 46 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 37 (3.60%) Master's Degree
7 32 (3.11%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.46%) CISSP
9 11 (1.07%) PhD
10 9 (0.88%) MBA
11 8 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.58%) IIBA
14 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.19%) CFA
15 2 (0.19%) CIMA
15 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (27.24%) Data Quality
2 165 (16.05%) GDPR
3 19 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.75%) QA
5 11 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.58%) SLA
7 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.29%) PSD2
8 3 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) HL7
9 2 (0.19%) PMO
10 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.097%) GMP
10 1 (0.097%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (1.17%) Docker
2 7 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.097%) HDFS
4 1 (0.097%) LXC
4 1 (0.097%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (1.26%) Terraform
2 11 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.29%) WebSphere Cast Iron
5 2 (0.19%) Argo
5 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 154 (14.98%) Google
2 133 (12.94%) Microsoft
3 85 (8.27%) Databricks
4 24 (2.33%) Oracle
5 18 (1.75%) SAP
6 15 (1.46%) Sparx
7 14 (1.36%) Informatica
8 8 (0.78%) Teradata
9 5 (0.49%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.49%) Talend
10 4 (0.39%) Dell
10 4 (0.39%) Facebook
10 4 (0.39%) IBM
10 4 (0.39%) Twitter
11 3 (0.29%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.19%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.19%) Aruba
12 2 (0.19%) Cognos
12 2 (0.19%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.19%) SnapLogic