Data Architecture Jobs in England

Data Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 271 172
Rank change year-on-year -20 -99 +146
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 525 894 1,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.04% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.22% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 286 546 798
10th Percentile £56,809 £52,325 £45,759
25th Percentile £63,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £109,688 £95,000 £108,365
90th Percentile £126,250 £113,750 £141,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.09% -0.09% +10.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,536 73,513 84,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.12% 85.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,795 53,935 50,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +11 218 £100,000 +11.11% 239
South East +110 149 £82,500 -2.94% 146
Midlands +23 65 £65,000 +9.61% 41
North of England -96 56 £75,000 -6.17% 62
West Midlands +27 45 £75,000 +26.48% 23
Yorkshire +24 31 £75,000 -6.17% 24
South West +67 26 £60,000 -5.92% 33
North West -86 25 £75,000 - 29
East Midlands +10 20 £64,125 +42.50% 15
East of England +40 4 £80,000 -27.27% 17
North East +7 4 £61,992 -22.44% 9
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 27 (5.14%) Apache Spark
2 25 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.86%) Apache
4 6 (1.14%) Luigi
5 5 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.38%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.90%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.38%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 244 (46.48%) Azure
2 147 (28.00%) AWS
3 102 (19.43%) GCP
4 78 (14.86%) Power Platform
5 70 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 58 (11.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (4.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.48%) dbt
11 12 (2.29%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.10%) SaaS
13 10 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.52%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.52%) Serverless
15 7 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.14%) Amazon S3
16 6 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) DNS
2 2 (0.38%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (27.81%) Data Warehouse
2 121 (23.05%) Data Lake
3 78 (14.86%) Metadata
4 70 (13.33%) Power BI
5 43 (8.19%) NoSQL
6 29 (5.52%) SQL Server
7 27 (5.14%) Tableau
8 21 (4.00%) Big Data
9 20 (3.81%) Hadoop
10 19 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 18 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (3.05%) BigQuery
13 14 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (2.29%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.71%) Delta Lake
16 8 (1.52%) Data Vault
17 7 (1.33%) Apache Hudi
17 7 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
18 5 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (2.86%) Git
2 11 (2.10%) ERwin
2 11 (2.10%) JIRA
3 10 (1.90%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.38%) LSMW
6 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.19%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 186 (35.43%) Finance
2 126 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 103 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (19.62%) Law
4 41 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (7.62%) Banking
6 27 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.57%) Financial Institution
8 23 (4.38%) Retail Banking
9 21 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.05%) Retail
11 12 (2.29%) Legal
12 10 (1.90%) Marketing
13 9 (1.71%) Advertising
14 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.76%) Back Office
18 3 (0.57%) Local Government
18 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 227 (43.24%) Architect
2 159 (30.29%) Data Architect
3 151 (28.76%) Lead
4 102 (19.43%) Senior
5 70 (13.33%) Data Engineer
6 36 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 32 (6.10%) Enterprise Architect
9 29 (5.52%) Lead Architect
10 22 (4.19%) Senior Architect
11 18 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (3.05%) Data Manager
12 16 (3.05%) Developer
12 16 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Head of Architecture
14 12 (2.29%) Azure Data Engineer
14 12 (2.29%) Senior Data Architect
15 11 (2.10%) Lead Data Architect
15 11 (2.10%) Principal Architect
15 11 (2.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.10%) Kafka
2 22 (4.19%) PySpark
3 15 (2.86%) Middleware
4 14 (2.67%) REST
5 11 (2.10%) SOAP
6 8 (1.52%) ADO
6 8 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (1.52%) MERN Stack
6 8 (1.52%) WebSockets
7 7 (1.33%) .NET
7 7 (1.33%) PyArrow
8 5 (0.95%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.95%) HTML
8 5 (0.95%) RESTful
8 5 (0.95%) Visualforce
9 4 (0.76%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.76%) CSS
9 4 (0.76%) Entity Framework
9 4 (0.76%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.57%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.29%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.95%) Life Science
9 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.57%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.57%) NHS
11 3 (0.57%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.57%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.38%) FMCG
12 2 (0.38%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.33%) Unix
2 4 (0.76%) Windows
3 2 (0.38%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (51.43%) Data Modelling
2 232 (44.19%) Analytics
3 208 (39.62%) Data Strategy
4 188 (35.81%) Roadmaps
5 180 (34.29%) Data Governance
6 162 (30.86%) Data Management
7 151 (28.76%) Business Intelligence
8 127 (24.19%) Agile
9 115 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (21.52%) ETL
11 112 (21.33%) Data Engineering
12 100 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
13 89 (16.95%) Decision-Making
14 68 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 67 (12.76%) Artificial Intelligence
16 65 (12.38%) Mentoring
17 64 (12.19%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (12.00%) DevOps
18 63 (12.00%) Migration
19 62 (11.81%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 173 (32.95%) SQL
2 108 (20.57%) Python
3 20 (3.81%) Java
4 15 (2.86%) Scala
5 13 (2.48%) C#
6 11 (2.10%) R
7 10 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.52%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.33%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.57%) VB
11 2 (0.38%) Bicep
11 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.38%) SOQL
11 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.19%) JCL
Qualifications
1 99 (18.86%) Degree
2 41 (7.81%) Azure Certification
3 33 (6.29%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.05%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.57%) MBA
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CFA
12 1 (0.19%) CITP
12 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.19%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (21.71%) Data Quality
2 58 (11.05%) Accessibility
3 41 (7.81%) GDPR
4 29 (5.52%) QA
5 13 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (2.48%) Docker
2 7 (1.33%) HDFS
3 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.10%) Terraform
3 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Matomo
Vendors
1 121 (23.05%) Microsoft
2 75 (14.29%) Databricks
3 61 (11.62%) SAP
4 27 (5.14%) Google
5 24 (4.57%) Informatica
6 23 (4.38%) IBM
6 23 (4.38%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.33%) Avaloq
9 4 (0.76%) Oracle
9 4 (0.76%) Sparx
10 3 (0.57%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.57%) Talend
11 2 (0.38%) Fiserv
11 2 (0.38%) iManage
11 2 (0.38%) TSYS
12 1 (0.19%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.19%) Ariba
12 1 (0.19%) IFS
12 1 (0.19%) Workday