Data Architecture Job Trends in the East of England

Data Architecture
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 169 161
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 16 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.22% 0.12% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.13% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £54,570 £56,053 £86,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,471 £90,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £97,048
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -33.02% +33.86%
75th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £118,025
90th Percentile £98,625 £93,500 £131,250
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £79,932
% change year-on-year +6.45% -3.04% +0.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,208 3,025 3,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.30% 87.53% 73.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 1,620 2,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the East of England

Data Architecture
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the East of England region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
Essex - 7 £71,000 - 3
Suffolk +17 3 £95,000 +46.15% 2
Hertfordshire -23 3 £75,000 - 5
Norfolk - 2 £55,383 - 3
Cambridgeshire -25 1 £97,500 +26.26% 3
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Datadog
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Broadband
2 1 (6.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (6.25%) Airbyte
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Toad
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Advertising
3 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Games
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Data Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Data Modeller
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 9 (56.25%) Data Governance
3 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Data Strategy
4 6 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 5 (31.25%) Physical Data Model
5 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) AI
6 4 (25.00%) Observability
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Validation
7 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (18.75%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks