Senior Data Architect Jobs

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 786 925 1142
Rank change year-on-year +139 +217 -288
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 108 68 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.065% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.071% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 55 56 50
10th Percentile £55,584 £61,818 £58,876
25th Percentile £57,288 £63,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £116,250
90th Percentile - £110,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +55.00%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Architect.

Salary trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +150 90 £70,000 -12.50% 8
UK excluding London +39 58 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London +143 47 £85,000 -2.86% 5
Work from Home +69 25 £61,206 -21.02% 3
North of England +67 24 £100,000 +17.65% 1
Scotland -44 18 - -
North West - 18 £100,000 - 1
West Midlands +36 10 £57,150 -32.76%
Midlands +16 10 £57,150 -32.76%
South East +31 6 £60,000 -5.91% 2
Yorkshire +99 4 £65,603 -22.82%
North East - 2 £65,603 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 69 (63.89%) Data Modelling
2 64 (59.26%) Data Architecture
3 47 (43.52%) Finance
3 47 (43.52%) Metadata
4 42 (38.89%) Data Strategy
5 38 (35.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (34.26%) Roadmaps
7 33 (30.56%) Agile
8 32 (29.63%) Analytics
9 29 (26.85%) Metadata Management
10 28 (25.93%) AWS
11 25 (23.15%) Azure
11 25 (23.15%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (22.22%) Data Management
13 22 (20.37%) GCP
13 22 (20.37%) Logical Data Model
13 22 (20.37%) Physical Data Model
14 21 (19.44%) Marketing
15 19 (17.59%) Information Management
15 19 (17.59%) Management Information System
15 19 (17.59%) Data Quality
16 18 (16.67%) DevOps
16 18 (16.67%) ETL
17 17 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
17 17 (15.74%) SQL
17 17 (15.74%) Law
17 17 (15.74%) Migration
17 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
17 17 (15.74%) Banking
17 17 (15.74%) Data Governance

Senior 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 5 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.93%) AWS
2 25 (23.15%) Azure
3 22 (20.37%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) PaaS
4 6 (5.56%) Serverless
5 5 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (4.63%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (3.70%) Stackdriver
7 1 (0.93%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (43.52%) Metadata
2 25 (23.15%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (12.04%) Data Lake
4 11 (10.19%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.48%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.56%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.63%) Big Data
9 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.70%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.93%) NewSQL
11 1 (0.93%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) ERwin
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 47 (43.52%) Finance
2 38 (35.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (19.44%) Marketing
4 17 (15.74%) Banking
4 17 (15.74%) Law
5 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 12 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.63%) Social Skills
8 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.63%) Kafka
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.93%) EDI
3 1 (0.93%) FHIR
3 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Management Information System
2 17 (15.74%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.48%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.78%) PMI
6 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.78%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (63.89%) Data Modelling
2 64 (59.26%) Data Architecture
3 42 (38.89%) Data Strategy
4 37 (34.26%) Roadmaps
5 33 (30.56%) Agile
6 32 (29.63%) Analytics
7 29 (26.85%) Metadata Management
8 24 (22.22%) Data Management
9 22 (20.37%) Logical Data Model
9 22 (20.37%) Physical Data Model
10 19 (17.59%) Information Management
11 18 (16.67%) DevOps
11 18 (16.67%) ETL
12 17 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (15.74%) Business Strategy
12 17 (15.74%) Data Governance
12 17 (15.74%) Migration
12 17 (15.74%) Operational Stability
12 17 (15.74%) SDLC
12 17 (15.74%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.74%) SQL
2 8 (7.41%) Python
3 3 (2.78%) Java
4 2 (1.85%) Scala
5 1 (0.93%) C++
5 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 12 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.78%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.11%) Databricks
3 10 (9.26%) Informatica
4 7 (6.48%) Oracle
5 4 (3.70%) Teradata
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