Data Architect Jobs in the City of London

Data Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Data Architect salary in the City of London is £98,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 June 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 150 180
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 10 27 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.80% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.84% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 41
10th Percentile £89,250 - £61,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,500 £88,750 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% -4.05% +5.71%
75th Percentile £106,875 £112,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £128,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £110,000 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,834 3,229 4,259
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 96.22% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,385 2,510 3,540
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,988
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 June 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 City of London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Data Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Databricks
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) GCP
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) GDPR
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Power BI
6 2 (20.00%) Terraform
6 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) Big Data
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
1 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Informatica
3 2 (20.00%) Talend
4 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Teradata
4 1 (10.00%) Workday