Data Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Data Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Architect salary in Birmingham is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 95 134
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 10 50 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.70% 1.81% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.92% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 32 3
10th Percentile £56,628 - £70,200
25th Percentile £69,063 £52,325 £75,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,150 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.61% -32.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £108,750 £60,000 £95,375
90th Percentile £110,500 £70,000 £101,300
West Midlands median annual salary £80,750 £59,300 £85,000
% change year-on-year +36.17% -30.24% +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,352 2,603 1,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 94.28% 93.27%
Number of salaries quoted 792 2,117 1,385
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,625 £84,964 £81,650
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Birmingham

Data Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in Birmingham

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 across the Birmingham region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Presales
3 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Presales
4 2 (20.00%) Business Case
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle