Data Architect Jobs in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect salary in England is £96,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 363 452
Rank change year-on-year -120 +89 +103
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 195 629 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.73% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.77% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 120 392 386
10th Percentile £70,420 £55,000 £68,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £62,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £82,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.81% +9.47%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,813 £111,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £97,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,182 81,825 80,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,287 60,848 51,240
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
London +36 124 £100,000 +11.11% 126
Midlands +14 24 £77,500 +30.69% 42
West Midlands +37 22 £81,500 +37.44% 26
South East -10 19 £82,500 -2.94% 60
North of England -68 18 £94,637 +26.18% 60
Yorkshire +29 13 £94,637 +18.30% 24
North West -67 5 £85,000 +17.24% 26
South West +60 3 £70,000 -6.67% 27
East of England +24 3 £72,221 +44.44% 25
North East +24 2 - - 10
East Midlands +17 2 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 150 (76.92%) Data Architecture
2 101 (51.79%) Azure
3 99 (50.77%) Data Modelling
4 95 (48.72%) Finance
5 93 (47.69%) Data Strategy
6 73 (37.44%) Data Governance
7 61 (31.28%) AWS
7 61 (31.28%) Data Management
8 60 (30.77%) Agile
9 59 (30.26%) Analytics
10 56 (28.72%) Roadmaps
11 52 (26.67%) Microsoft
12 51 (26.15%) SQL
13 49 (25.13%) GCP
14 43 (22.05%) Migration
15 40 (20.51%) Degree
15 40 (20.51%) Metadata
16 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
16 39 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
17 38 (19.49%) Data Migration
17 38 (19.49%) Data Warehouse
18 37 (18.97%) Data Lake
19 36 (18.46%) Banking
19 36 (18.46%) Logical Data Model
20 33 (16.92%) Physical Data Model
21 30 (15.38%) Metadata Management
21 30 (15.38%) Business Development
21 30 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 30 (15.38%) Azure Certification
22 29 (14.87%) Databricks

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (5.64%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.10%) Apache
3 7 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) IBM Domino
4 2 (1.03%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Odoo
2 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.79%) Azure
2 61 (31.28%) AWS
3 49 (25.13%) GCP
4 22 (11.28%) Power Platform
5 21 (10.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (10.26%) Snowflake
7 14 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.08%) dbt
11 5 (2.56%) PaaS
11 5 (2.56%) SaaS
11 5 (2.56%) Serverless
12 4 (2.05%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.05%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.54%) Boomi
13 3 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.51%) Metadata
2 38 (19.49%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (18.97%) Data Lake
4 18 (9.23%) Power BI
5 17 (8.72%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.18%) SQL Server
7 13 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.64%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.62%) Big Data
10 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.56%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.56%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.05%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (2.05%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.54%) Hadoop
14 2 (1.03%) Apache Hive
14 2 (1.03%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (2.05%) ERwin
2 3 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (48.72%) Finance
2 39 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.46%) Banking
4 30 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (11.28%) Financial Institution
5 22 (11.28%) Retail Banking
6 13 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.59%) Legal
8 6 (3.08%) Retail
9 5 (2.56%) Back Office
9 5 (2.56%) Law
10 4 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Advertising
12 2 (1.03%) Local Government
13 1 (0.51%) Front Office
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.08%) Kafka
2 5 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (0.51%) .NET
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.51%) HTML
3 1 (0.51%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.64%) Taxonomies
2 9 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.03%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Clustering
8 1 (0.51%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.51%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (76.92%) Data Architecture
2 99 (50.77%) Data Modelling
3 93 (47.69%) Data Strategy
4 73 (37.44%) Data Governance
5 61 (31.28%) Data Management
6 60 (30.77%) Agile
7 59 (30.26%) Analytics
8 56 (28.72%) Roadmaps
9 43 (22.05%) Migration
10 38 (19.49%) Data Migration
11 36 (18.46%) Logical Data Model
12 33 (16.92%) Physical Data Model
13 30 (15.38%) Business Development
13 30 (15.38%) Metadata Management
14 29 (14.87%) TOGAF
15 28 (14.36%) Data Privacy
16 26 (13.33%) ETL
17 25 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
18 24 (12.31%) Asset Management
19 23 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.15%) SQL
2 25 (12.82%) Python
3 7 (3.59%) Java
4 6 (3.08%) Scala
5 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.51%) Bicep
6 1 (0.51%) C#
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
6 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (20.51%) Degree
2 30 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 25 (12.82%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.54%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) CFA
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 13 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.15%) GDPR
3 3 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.56%) Terraform
2 2 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.87%) Databricks
3 15 (7.69%) Google
4 10 (5.13%) Informatica
5 8 (4.10%) SAP
6 3 (1.54%) Oracle
6 3 (1.54%) Talend
7 2 (1.03%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.03%) Teradata
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.51%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) IFS
8 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.51%) Zoho