Data Architect Jobs in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect salary in England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 454 544
Rank change year-on-year +105 +90 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 626 590 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.65% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.71% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 392 402 420
10th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +13 228 £87,500 -12.50% 50
North of England +150 141 £75,000 -21.05% 13
South East +52 116 £85,000 +3.03% 12
North West +68 69 £70,000 -26.32% 8
Midlands +30 63 £59,300 -18.21% 7
West Midlands +53 51 £59,300 -28.12% 3
Yorkshire +113 50 £80,000 -11.11% 4
South West -7 43 £75,000 +5.63% 5
North East +17 22 £77,500 - 1
East of England +12 19 £50,000 -37.50% 1
East Midlands -17 12 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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.

1 382 (61.02%) Data Modelling
2 374 (59.74%) Data Architecture
3 309 (49.36%) Azure
4 252 (40.26%) Data Warehouse
5 218 (34.82%) AWS
6 210 (33.55%) ETL
7 207 (33.07%) Data Governance
8 185 (29.55%) Data Quality
9 178 (28.43%) Analytical Skills
10 174 (27.80%) Analytics
11 169 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
12 168 (26.84%) Data Integration
13 162 (25.88%) GCP
14 150 (23.96%) Data Engineering
15 145 (23.16%) GDPR
15 145 (23.16%) Data Strategy
16 144 (23.00%) Metadata
16 144 (23.00%) Data Security
17 128 (20.45%) Mentoring
18 126 (20.13%) Innovative Thinking
19 121 (19.33%) BigQuery
20 120 (19.17%) Finance
21 119 (19.01%) Google
22 115 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
23 113 (18.05%) Self-Motivation
24 112 (17.89%) Looker
24 112 (17.89%) ERD
25 110 (17.57%) SQL
26 105 (16.77%) Data Management
27 102 (16.29%) Roadmaps

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 23 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.60%) Apache
3 7 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.16%) SAS
4 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 309 (49.36%) Azure
2 218 (34.82%) AWS
3 162 (25.88%) GCP
4 47 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 45 (7.19%) Snowflake
6 31 (4.95%) Serverless
7 26 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (3.83%) Matillion
9 17 (2.72%) SaaS
10 15 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.40%) PaaS
11 7 (1.12%) IaaS
12 6 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.80%) Azure Stack
13 5 (0.80%) Azure Storage
14 4 (0.64%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (0.64%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.92%) Wireless
2 4 (0.64%) DNS
3 2 (0.32%) Extranet
3 2 (0.32%) LAN
3 2 (0.32%) Network Security
3 2 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (40.26%) Data Warehouse
2 144 (23.00%) Metadata
3 121 (19.33%) BigQuery
4 112 (17.89%) Looker
5 99 (15.81%) Data Lake
6 47 (7.51%) Power BI
7 38 (6.07%) Big Data
8 29 (4.63%) NoSQL
9 19 (3.04%) Data Vault
9 19 (3.04%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.60%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.60%) Tableau
11 8 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.12%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.12%) OLAP
12 7 (1.12%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (1.12%) Git
2 5 (0.80%) ERwin
3 4 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.32%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.32%) MLflow
5 1 (0.16%) JIRA
General
1 178 (28.43%) Analytical Skills
2 120 (19.17%) Finance
3 74 (11.82%) Social Skills
4 50 (7.99%) Banking
5 38 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 33 (5.27%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (4.63%) Retail
9 22 (3.51%) Retail Banking
10 21 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.92%) Legal
12 9 (1.44%) Marketing
13 7 (1.12%) Billing
14 6 (0.96%) Automotive
15 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.64%) Wearables
17 3 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.32%) Games
18 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.72%) Kafka
2 7 (1.12%) Middleware
3 5 (0.80%) PySpark
3 5 (0.80%) XML
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Beam
4 4 (0.64%) REST
5 3 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.48%) SOAP
5 3 (0.48%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.32%) HTML
6 2 (0.32%) Itk
6 2 (0.32%) JSON
6 2 (0.32%) JWT
6 2 (0.32%) OAuth
6 2 (0.32%) RESTful
6 2 (0.32%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.32%) Spring
6 2 (0.32%) Web Services
6 2 (0.32%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.05%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (8.47%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.56%) Taxonomies
5 15 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.60%) Reinsurance
7 9 (1.44%) Blog
7 9 (1.44%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.44%) IoT
8 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.12%) PMI
8 7 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.64%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.48%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.48%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.48%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.32%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.44%) Linux
2 2 (0.32%) Unix
2 2 (0.32%) Windows
3 1 (0.16%) Solaris
3 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (61.02%) Data Modelling
2 374 (59.74%) Data Architecture
3 210 (33.55%) ETL
4 207 (33.07%) Data Governance
5 174 (27.80%) Analytics
6 169 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
7 168 (26.84%) Data Integration
8 150 (23.96%) Data Engineering
9 145 (23.16%) Data Strategy
10 144 (23.00%) Data Security
11 128 (20.45%) Mentoring
12 126 (20.13%) Innovative Thinking
13 115 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
14 112 (17.89%) ERD
15 105 (16.77%) Data Management
16 102 (16.29%) Roadmaps
17 89 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
18 86 (13.74%) Agile
19 76 (12.14%) Metadata Management
20 71 (11.34%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 110 (17.57%) SQL
2 45 (7.19%) Python
3 26 (4.15%) T-SQL
4 16 (2.56%) Java
5 11 (1.76%) Scala
6 7 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 7 (1.12%) R
7 2 (0.32%) C
7 2 (0.32%) C++
7 2 (0.32%) Go
7 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.16%) Haskell
8 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (9.74%) Security Cleared
2 42 (6.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.59%) Degree
4 18 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.28%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) MCAD
12 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (29.55%) Data Quality
2 145 (23.16%) GDPR
3 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.16%) QA
4 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (1.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) HDFS
2 1 (0.16%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 8 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.64%) Terraform
3 2 (0.32%) Kibana
4 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 119 (19.01%) Google
2 97 (15.50%) Databricks
3 56 (8.95%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.24%) Informatica
5 10 (1.60%) Oracle
6 8 (1.28%) SAP
7 5 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.48%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.48%) Sparx
9 2 (0.32%) Cisco
9 2 (0.32%) IBM
9 2 (0.32%) NEC
9 2 (0.32%) Okta
9 2 (0.32%) Splunk
9 2 (0.32%) Teradata
10 1 (0.16%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.16%) Confluent
10 1 (0.16%) ESRI
10 1 (0.16%) SnapLogic