Data Architecture Job Trends in Central London

Data Architecture
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 138 131
Rank change year-on-year +70 -7 +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 75 52 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.18% 1.60% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 1.67% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 51 25 38
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,250 £55,500
25th Percentile £81,750 £70,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £93,475
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +1.63% +9.97%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £131,500 £128,750
London median annual salary £82,500 £92,500 £92,000
% change year-on-year -10.81% +0.54% +2.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,089 3,116 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.48% 95.64% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,921 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in Central London

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +41 47 £83,672 -12.84% 101
City of Westminster - 8 - -
West End of London - 1 - - 3
Data Architecture
London

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.67%) Azure
2 15 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.33%) AWS
4 8 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (10.67%) Snowflake
5 6 (8.00%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.00%) dbt
7 3 (4.00%) Serverless
8 2 (2.67%) Alation
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (2.67%) Fivetran
8 2 (2.67%) GitHub
9 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (18.67%) Power BI
3 11 (14.67%) Data Lake
4 8 (10.67%) Metadata
5 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (8.00%) Tableau
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.00%) MySQL
6 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.67%) Big Data
7 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.67%) DataStage
7 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.67%) Looker
7 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.67%) QlikView
8 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) ERwin
2 6 (8.00%) Git
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.67%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 28 (37.33%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.00%) Banking
4 3 (4.00%) Law
4 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.67%) Marketing
5 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
5 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (57.33%) Architect
2 41 (54.67%) Data Architect
3 16 (21.33%) Lead
4 11 (14.67%) Lead Architect
4 11 (14.67%) Lead Data Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Data Manager
6 2 (2.67%) GCP Architect
6 2 (2.67%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (2.67%) Programme Manager
6 2 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.67%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
7 1 (1.33%) Analyst
7 1 (1.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) DataOps Leader
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) Principal Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) Kafka
2 3 (4.00%) PySpark
3 2 (2.67%) XML
4 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.33%) JDBC
4 1 (1.33%) LDAP
4 1 (1.33%) OAuth
4 1 (1.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.33%) ODBC
4 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.00%) Data Governance
2 39 (52.00%) Roadmaps
3 37 (49.33%) Data Strategy
4 33 (44.00%) Analytics
5 26 (34.67%) Data Modelling
6 23 (30.67%) AI
7 21 (28.00%) Agile
8 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.33%) Coaching
9 16 (21.33%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (18.67%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (18.67%) Data Integration
10 14 (18.67%) Mentoring
11 11 (14.67%) Creative Thinking
11 11 (14.67%) Data Science
11 11 (14.67%) Digital Strategy
12 10 (13.33%) DevOps
12 10 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (12.00%) Data Security
13 9 (12.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) SQL
2 17 (22.67%) Python
3 6 (8.00%) Scala
4 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 30 (40.00%) Degree
2 7 (9.33%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.67%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (30.67%) Databricks
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) Dell
3 2 (2.67%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) IBM
3 2 (2.67%) Informatica
4 1 (1.33%) Confluent
4 1 (1.33%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle
4 1 (1.33%) Salesforce