Data Architect Jobs in Central London

Data Architect
London > Central London

The median Data Architect salary in Central London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 161 189
Rank change year-on-year +32 +28 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 31 27 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.22% 0.71% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.75% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 26 20 48
10th Percentile £93,375 - £69,900
25th Percentile £106,250 £62,500 £79,518
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £88,750 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.94% -4.05% +5.71%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,625
90th Percentile £123,750 £128,750 £113,250
London median annual salary £100,000 £87,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Central London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in Central London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in Central London

Data Architect
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +23 18 £110,000 +22.22% 3
Data Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Central London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 21 (67.74%) Data Architecture
2 17 (54.84%) Data Governance
2 17 (54.84%) Data Strategy
3 15 (48.39%) Azure
4 14 (45.16%) Roadmaps
5 13 (41.94%) Degree
5 13 (41.94%) Finance
6 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
7 9 (29.03%) SQL
8 8 (25.81%) ETL
8 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
9 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
9 7 (22.58%) DevOps
10 6 (19.35%) Data Structures
10 6 (19.35%) GCP
10 6 (19.35%) Technology Strategy
10 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
10 6 (19.35%) Migration
10 6 (19.35%) AWS
10 6 (19.35%) IT Strategy
11 5 (16.13%) Teradata
11 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
11 5 (16.13%) SAS
11 5 (16.13%) Python
11 5 (16.13%) Analytics
12 4 (12.90%) Terraform
12 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
12 4 (12.90%) Databricks
12 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (16.13%) SAS
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) SaaS
4 3 (9.68%) IaaS
4 3 (9.68%) PaaS
4 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.45%) OCI
5 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.23%) dbt
6 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.68%) Big Data
2 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Front Office
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Data Architecture
2 17 (54.84%) Data Governance
2 17 (54.84%) Data Strategy
3 14 (45.16%) Roadmaps
4 8 (25.81%) ETL
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
6 6 (19.35%) IT Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (16.13%) Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) TOGAF
8 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
8 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (9.68%) Data Analytics
9 3 (9.68%) Presales
9 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (6.45%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) Scala
4 1 (3.23%) Go
4 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
1 2 (6.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Teradata
3 4 (12.90%) Databricks
4 3 (9.68%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) Informatica
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
5 2 (6.45%) Talend
6 1 (3.23%) Alteryx