Principal Data Architect Job Trends in the City of London

Principal Data Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Principal Data Architect salary in the City of London is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 163 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.063% 0.036% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.038% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £103,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 - -
75th Percentile £111,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £107,500 - -

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 1,507 2,609 3,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 93.92% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 1,743 2,735
10th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,344 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Principal Data Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Principal Data Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Principal Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Principal Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Principal Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Stewardship
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux

Principal Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Stewardship
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Dell