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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 355 460
Rank change year-on-year -139 +105 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 193 641 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.72% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.77% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 118 395 386
10th Percentile £70,327 £55,000 £68,703
25th Percentile £81,250 £61,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £80,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -13.51% +8.82%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,938
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% +5.88%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 28 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 28 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 +40 120 £102,500 +13.89% 155
Midlands +15 24 £77,500 +30.69% 120
West Midlands +33 22 £81,500 +37.44% 69
South East -16 20 £82,500 +3.13% 202
North of England -80 19 £94,637 +26.18% 142
Yorkshire +23 13 £94,637 +18.30% 59
North West -68 6 £85,000 +21.43% 63
South West +72 3 £70,000 - 78
East of England +27 3 £72,221 +44.44% 85
North East +28 2 - - 20
East Midlands +25 2 £62,500 -10.71% 43
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 148 (76.68%) Data Architecture
2 101 (52.33%) Azure
3 99 (51.30%) Data Modelling
4 93 (48.19%) Finance
5 90 (46.63%) Data Strategy
6 71 (36.79%) Data Governance
7 62 (32.12%) AWS
8 60 (31.09%) Analytics
8 60 (31.09%) Agile
9 59 (30.57%) Data Management
10 54 (27.98%) Microsoft
10 54 (27.98%) SQL
11 53 (27.46%) Roadmaps
12 48 (24.87%) GCP
13 41 (21.24%) Migration
14 40 (20.73%) Metadata
15 39 (20.21%) Social Skills
15 39 (20.21%) Data Warehouse
16 38 (19.69%) Degree
16 38 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
17 37 (19.17%) Data Migration
17 37 (19.17%) Banking
18 36 (18.65%) Data Lake
19 35 (18.13%) Logical Data Model
20 32 (16.58%) Physical Data Model
21 30 (15.54%) Metadata Management
21 30 (15.54%) TOGAF
22 29 (15.03%) Business Development
22 29 (15.03%) Azure Certification
23 28 (14.51%) 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 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.15%) Apache
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.04%) IBM Domino
4 2 (1.04%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Maximo
2 1 (0.52%) Odoo
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 101 (52.33%) Azure
2 62 (32.12%) AWS
3 48 (24.87%) GCP
4 23 (11.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 23 (11.92%) Power Platform
5 20 (10.36%) Snowflake
6 16 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.11%) dbt
10 5 (2.59%) SaaS
10 5 (2.59%) Serverless
11 4 (2.07%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.07%) PaaS
11 4 (2.07%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.55%) Boomi
12 3 (1.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.73%) Metadata
2 39 (20.21%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (18.65%) Data Lake
4 19 (9.84%) Power BI
5 17 (8.81%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.25%) SQL Server
7 13 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (5.70%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.66%) Big Data
10 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.59%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.59%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.07%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (2.07%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
14 2 (1.04%) Apache Hive
14 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (2.07%) ERwin
2 3 (1.55%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (48.19%) Finance
2 39 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 38 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (19.17%) Banking
5 27 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (10.88%) Financial Institution
6 21 (10.88%) Retail Banking
7 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.15%) Retail
9 7 (3.63%) Legal
10 5 (2.59%) Back Office
10 5 (2.59%) Law
11 4 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.55%) Advertising
13 2 (1.04%) Local Government
14 1 (0.52%) Front Office
14 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.52%) Marketing
14 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.11%) Kafka
2 5 (2.59%) PySpark
3 1 (0.52%) .NET
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.52%) HTML
3 1 (0.52%) Middleware
3 1 (0.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Taxonomies
2 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.66%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.04%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Clustering
8 1 (0.52%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (76.68%) Data Architecture
2 99 (51.30%) Data Modelling
3 90 (46.63%) Data Strategy
4 71 (36.79%) Data Governance
5 60 (31.09%) Agile
5 60 (31.09%) Analytics
6 59 (30.57%) Data Management
7 53 (27.46%) Roadmaps
8 41 (21.24%) Migration
9 37 (19.17%) Data Migration
10 35 (18.13%) Logical Data Model
11 32 (16.58%) Physical Data Model
12 30 (15.54%) Metadata Management
12 30 (15.54%) TOGAF
13 29 (15.03%) Business Development
14 27 (13.99%) Data Privacy
14 27 (13.99%) ETL
15 25 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence
16 24 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
17 23 (11.92%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.98%) SQL
2 25 (12.95%) Python
3 7 (3.63%) Java
4 6 (3.11%) Scala
5 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) C#
6 1 (0.52%) PHP
6 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (19.69%) Degree
2 29 (15.03%) Azure Certification
3 24 (12.44%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.66%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) CFA
9 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.22%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.59%) Terraform
2 2 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.51%) Databricks
3 15 (7.77%) Google
4 10 (5.18%) Informatica
5 8 (4.15%) SAP
6 4 (2.07%) Oracle
6 4 (2.07%) Talend
7 2 (1.04%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.04%) IBM
7 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.04%) Teradata
8 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.52%) ESRI
8 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.52%) IFS
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) Zoho