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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 171 327
Rank change year-on-year -110 +156 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,042 2,223 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 2.15% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.25% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 613 934 896
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,335 £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 £91,313
90th Percentile £115,000 £134,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,385 £61,250
% change year-on-year +16.49% +5.12% +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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £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 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
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 6 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 6 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 -94 889 £80,000 -3.03% 178
UK excluding London -100 633 £75,000 +16.49% 104
Work from Home -111 393 £79,932 -5.96% 102
London -69 366 £90,000 -5.26% 94
North of England -30 213 £79,932 +3.14% 17
South East -33 115 £85,000 +42.86% 15
North West -50 103 £75,000 +7.14% 12
Midlands -79 101 £59,300 +22.08% 18
Scotland -57 97 £70,576 -21.58% 12
West Midlands -69 74 £59,300 +23.45% 10
Yorkshire +18 71 £79,932 -0.09% 5
South West -52 67 £63,773 -5.52% 17
North East +9 39 £79,932 +3.14%
East Midlands -21 27 £45,000 -25.00% 8
Wales +16 21 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -79 11 £110,000 +37.50% 10
Northern Ireland +30 7 - - 9
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 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (2.59%) Apache
3 18 (1.73%) 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 (0.096%) Appian
9 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.58%) Trello
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.44%) 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 (0.096%) Maximo
7 1 (0.096%) Odoo
7 1 (0.096%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 421 (40.40%) Azure
2 320 (30.71%) AWS
3 215 (20.63%) GCP
4 181 (17.37%) Power Platform
5 63 (6.05%) Snowflake
6 61 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (3.45%) Serverless
8 35 (3.36%) dbt
9 33 (3.17%) PowerApps
10 29 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.78%) SaaS
11 28 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (2.02%) Matillion
15 19 (1.82%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.73%) GitHub
17 13 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (1.25%) 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 (0.096%) HTTP
4 1 (0.096%) Internet
4 1 (0.096%) Intranet
4 1 (0.096%) IPsec
4 1 (0.096%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.096%) RIP
4 1 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (31.19%) Data Warehouse
2 154 (14.78%) Power BI
3 151 (14.49%) Metadata
4 138 (13.24%) BigQuery
5 123 (11.80%) Data Lake
6 119 (11.42%) Looker
7 97 (9.31%) Tableau
8 44 (4.22%) SQL Server
9 35 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 34 (3.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 34 (3.26%) Big Data
11 30 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.40%) NoSQL
13 21 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (1.82%) Data Vault
14 19 (1.82%) Relational Database
15 17 (1.63%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 13 (1.25%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 34 (3.26%) Git
2 16 (1.54%) JIRA
3 14 (1.34%) GitLab
4 10 (0.96%) 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 (0.096%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.096%) Vagrant
General
1 349 (33.49%) Finance
2 298 (28.60%) Analytical Skills
3 250 (23.99%) Social Skills
4 109 (10.46%) Marketing
5 100 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (6.91%) Public Sector
7 69 (6.62%) Banking
8 63 (6.05%) Law
9 58 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (4.89%) Retail
11 30 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (2.78%) Retail Banking
13 25 (2.40%) Legal
14 22 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.73%) Games
15 18 (1.73%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.54%) Front Office
17 13 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
19 6 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 593 (56.91%) Architect
2 425 (40.79%) Data Architect
3 148 (14.20%) Senior
4 131 (12.57%) Solutions Architect
5 117 (11.23%) Lead
6 108 (10.36%) Data Engineer
7 80 (7.68%) Senior Architect
8 76 (7.29%) Consultant
9 67 (6.43%) Senior Data Architect
10 64 (6.14%) Principal Architect
11 52 (4.99%) Analyst
12 43 (4.13%) Developer
13 42 (4.03%) Enterprise Architect
14 38 (3.65%) Data Consultant
15 30 (2.88%) Java Architect
15 30 (2.88%) Principal Data Architect
16 29 (2.78%) Data Analyst
17 27 (2.59%) Lead Architect
18 26 (2.50%) Senior Consultant
19 25 (2.40%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.21%) .NET
2 22 (2.11%) PySpark
3 19 (1.82%) Pandas
4 18 (1.73%) HTML
4 18 (1.73%) Kafka
5 14 (1.34%) NumPy
6 13 (1.25%) gRPC
6 13 (1.25%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (1.25%) SciPy
7 9 (0.86%) Middleware
8 6 (0.58%) Apache Beam
9 5 (0.48%) J2EE
9 5 (0.48%) RESTful
9 5 (0.48%) Web Services
10 4 (0.38%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.38%) CSS
10 4 (0.38%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.38%) JSON
11 3 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 78 (7.49%) Management Information System
3 72 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 65 (6.24%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.69%) Credit Risk
6 27 (2.59%) Taxonomies
7 25 (2.40%) Reference Data
8 19 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.34%) Cyberattack
10 14 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.25%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.15%) Derivative
12 12 (1.15%) Equities
12 12 (1.15%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.15%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.48%) Windows
2 3 (0.29%) Unix
3 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.096%) Android
4 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.096%) Linux
4 1 (0.096%) Solaris
4 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (51.34%) Data Modelling
2 367 (35.22%) Data Governance
3 303 (29.08%) Analytics
3 303 (29.08%) ETL
4 271 (26.01%) Data Engineering
5 264 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
6 247 (23.70%) Mentoring
7 240 (23.03%) Agile
8 233 (22.36%) Business Intelligence
9 231 (22.17%) Roadmaps
10 219 (21.02%) Data Management
11 215 (20.63%) Data Integration
12 170 (16.31%) Data Strategy
13 152 (14.59%) Data Security
14 141 (13.53%) Decision-Making
15 139 (13.34%) Data Analysis
16 131 (12.57%) Data Science
17 129 (12.38%) Innovative Thinking
18 121 (11.61%) DevOps
19 119 (11.42%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 305 (29.27%) SQL
2 172 (16.51%) Python
3 69 (6.62%) Java
4 40 (3.84%) T-SQL
5 32 (3.07%) Scala
6 25 (2.40%) R
7 21 (2.02%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.73%) C#
10 13 (1.25%) Ruby
11 11 (1.06%) 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 (0.096%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 98 (9.40%) Degree
2 88 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.61%) Azure Certification
3 48 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (3.84%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 37 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.98%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.44%) CISSP
9 11 (1.06%) PhD
10 9 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 9 (0.86%) MBA
11 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.58%) IIBA
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.19%) CFA
15 2 (0.19%) CIMA
15 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (27.35%) Data Quality
2 166 (15.93%) GDPR
3 20 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.73%) QA
5 11 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.58%) 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 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.096%) GMP
10 1 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (1.15%) Docker
2 8 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.096%) HDFS
4 1 (0.096%) LXC
4 1 (0.096%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (1.44%) Terraform
2 10 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.19%) Argo
4 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Cast Iron
5 1 (0.096%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 155 (14.88%) Google
2 134 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 84 (8.06%) Databricks
4 24 (2.30%) Oracle
5 18 (1.73%) SAP
6 15 (1.44%) Sparx
7 12 (1.15%) 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%) Twitter
11 3 (0.29%) IBM
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