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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 171 326
Rank change year-on-year -107 +155 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,050 2,275 1,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 2.19% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.29% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 620 933 902
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,250 £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 £115,100 £134,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £63,771 £61,250
% change year-on-year +17.61% +4.12% +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 84,697 99,477 149,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 58,401 83,209
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,025 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,330
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 1 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 1 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 -103 897 £80,000 -3.03% 207
UK excluding London -109 632 £75,000 +17.61% 114
Work from Home -108 401 £79,932 -5.96% 124
London -58 375 £90,000 -5.26% 110
North of England -52 211 £79,932 +3.14% 18
South East -42 117 £85,000 +42.86% 28
North West -68 102 £75,000 +7.14% 14
Midlands -90 101 £59,300 +22.08% 17
Scotland -67 97 £70,576 -21.58% 11
West Midlands -72 74 £59,300 +23.45% 6
Yorkshire +2 71 £79,932 +1.50% 4
South West -37 66 £59,637 -10.99% 18
North East +12 38 £79,932 +3.14%
East Midlands -21 27 £45,000 -25.00% 11
Wales +11 21 £55,000 -8.33% 11
East of England -86 11 £110,000 +37.50% 8
Northern Ireland +39 7 - - 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 47 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.14%) Apache
3 17 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.67%) Confluence
6 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.095%) Appian
9 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.57%) Trello
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.29%) Primavera
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.095%) Maximo
7 1 (0.095%) Odoo
7 1 (0.095%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 423 (40.29%) Azure
2 325 (30.95%) AWS
3 222 (21.14%) GCP
4 183 (17.43%) Power Platform
5 64 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 63 (6.00%) Snowflake
7 42 (4.00%) dbt
8 35 (3.33%) Serverless
9 33 (3.14%) PowerApps
10 29 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.76%) SaaS
11 27 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (2.00%) Matillion
15 19 (1.81%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.71%) GitHub
17 13 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.095%) HTTP
4 1 (0.095%) Internet
4 1 (0.095%) Intranet
4 1 (0.095%) IPsec
4 1 (0.095%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.095%) RIP
4 1 (0.095%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (30.76%) Data Warehouse
2 156 (14.86%) Power BI
3 148 (14.10%) Metadata
4 138 (13.14%) BigQuery
5 121 (11.52%) Data Lake
6 119 (11.33%) Looker
7 97 (9.24%) Tableau
8 45 (4.29%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (3.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 33 (3.14%) Big Data
11 30 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (2.29%) NoSQL
14 20 (1.90%) Apache Arrow
14 20 (1.90%) Apache Ignite
14 20 (1.90%) Dremio
15 19 (1.81%) Data Vault
15 19 (1.81%) Relational Database
16 17 (1.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (3.24%) Git
2 16 (1.52%) JIRA
3 14 (1.33%) GitLab
4 9 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.48%) ERwin
6 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.095%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.095%) Vagrant
General
1 354 (33.71%) Finance
2 297 (28.29%) Analytical Skills
3 249 (23.71%) Social Skills
4 110 (10.48%) Marketing
5 99 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (7.14%) Banking
7 71 (6.76%) Public Sector
8 65 (6.19%) Law
9 58 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (4.86%) Retail
11 30 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (2.67%) Retail Banking
13 26 (2.48%) Legal
14 25 (2.38%) Investment Banking
15 23 (2.19%) Front Office
16 21 (2.00%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.71%) Games
18 13 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
20 6 (0.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 592 (56.38%) Architect
2 424 (40.38%) Data Architect
3 148 (14.10%) Senior
4 133 (12.67%) Solutions Architect
5 117 (11.14%) Lead
6 110 (10.48%) Data Engineer
7 79 (7.52%) Senior Architect
8 76 (7.24%) Consultant
9 65 (6.19%) Senior Data Architect
10 64 (6.10%) Principal Architect
11 51 (4.86%) Analyst
11 51 (4.86%) Developer
12 44 (4.19%) Enterprise Architect
13 38 (3.62%) Data Consultant
14 30 (2.86%) Java Architect
14 30 (2.86%) Principal Data Architect
15 28 (2.67%) Data Analyst
16 27 (2.57%) Lead Architect
17 26 (2.48%) Senior Consultant
18 25 (2.38%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.48%) Pandas
2 24 (2.29%) .NET
3 21 (2.00%) NumPy
3 21 (2.00%) PySpark
4 20 (1.90%) gRPC
4 20 (1.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 20 (1.90%) SciPy
5 19 (1.81%) HTML
6 17 (1.62%) Kafka
7 9 (0.86%) Middleware
8 6 (0.57%) Apache Beam
9 5 (0.48%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.48%) CSS
9 5 (0.48%) J2EE
9 5 (0.48%) RESTful
9 5 (0.48%) Web Services
10 4 (0.38%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.38%) JSON
11 3 (0.29%) HTML5
11 3 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 124 (11.81%) Self-Motivation
2 75 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 72 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 65 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.67%) Credit Risk
6 27 (2.57%) Taxonomies
7 24 (2.29%) Reference Data
8 19 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.33%) Cyberattack
9 14 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.24%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.14%) Derivative
11 12 (1.14%) Equities
11 12 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.14%) Hedge funds
11 12 (1.14%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.48%) Windows
2 4 (0.38%) Unix
3 2 (0.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.095%) Android
4 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.095%) Solaris
4 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (50.76%) Data Modelling
2 366 (34.86%) Data Governance
3 309 (29.43%) Analytics
4 303 (28.86%) ETL
5 267 (25.43%) Data Engineering
6 266 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
7 246 (23.43%) Agile
7 246 (23.43%) Mentoring
8 232 (22.10%) Roadmaps
9 230 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
10 219 (20.86%) Data Management
11 214 (20.38%) Data Integration
12 168 (16.00%) Data Strategy
13 150 (14.29%) Data Security
14 139 (13.24%) Decision-Making
15 137 (13.05%) Data Analysis
16 133 (12.67%) Data Science
17 128 (12.19%) Innovative Thinking
18 118 (11.24%) DevOps
19 117 (11.14%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 308 (29.33%) SQL
2 179 (17.05%) Python
3 75 (7.14%) Java
4 41 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 33 (3.14%) Scala
6 30 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.57%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.38%) R
9 19 (1.81%) C#
10 15 (1.43%) Ruby
11 11 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 97 (9.24%) Degree
2 89 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.57%) Azure Certification
4 47 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.71%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.62%) Master's Degree
7 37 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 32 (3.05%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.43%) CISSP
10 11 (1.05%) PhD
11 9 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.86%) MBA
12 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.57%) IIBA
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.19%) CFA
16 2 (0.19%) CIMA
16 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (26.86%) Data Quality
2 166 (15.81%) GDPR
3 19 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.71%) QA
5 11 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.29%) PMO
8 3 (0.29%) PSD2
8 3 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.095%) GMP
10 1 (0.095%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (1.24%) Docker
2 8 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.095%) HDFS
4 1 (0.095%) LXC
4 1 (0.095%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (1.33%) Terraform
2 11 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.38%) 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 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 155 (14.76%) Google
2 135 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 85 (8.10%) Databricks
4 24 (2.29%) Oracle
5 18 (1.71%) SAP
6 15 (1.43%) Sparx
7 13 (1.24%) Informatica
8 7 (0.67%) Teradata
9 5 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.48%) Talend
10 4 (0.38%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.38%) Dell
10 4 (0.38%) Facebook
10 4 (0.38%) IBM
10 4 (0.38%) Twitter
11 2 (0.19%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.19%) Aruba
11 2 (0.19%) Cognos
11 2 (0.19%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.19%) SnapLogic