Lead Data Architect Jobs in England

Lead Data Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Data Architect salary in England is £84,258 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 805 904
Rank change year-on-year +128 +99 +214
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 12 26 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.030% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.032% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 6 26 23
10th Percentile £55,375 £61,000 £84,500
25th Percentile £69,023 £77,500 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,258 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £87,328 £98,750 £126,250
90th Percentile £109,299 £105,000 £140,500
UK median annual salary £84,258 £95,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -11.31% -13.64% +10.00%

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 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Lead Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Architect in England

Lead Data Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Architect in England

Lead Data Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Architect in England

Lead 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 Lead Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
London +115 4 £84,335 -23.33% 3
North of England +51 2 £65,750 -17.81% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £65,750 - 1
South West +99 1 £70,000 -26.32% 3
Lead Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Data Architect in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Data Architecture
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 7 (58.33%) Data Integration
4 6 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
4 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (50.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 6 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
4 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) ETL
5 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
5 5 (41.67%) Google
5 5 (41.67%) Presales
5 5 (41.67%) Physical Data Model
5 5 (41.67%) ETL Development
5 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (41.67%) Amazon Redshift

Lead 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) GCP
5 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (8.33%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (41.67%) BigQuery
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (8.33%) Advertising
5 1 (8.33%) Back Office
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Structures
1 5 (41.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Data Architecture
2 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 8 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 7 (58.33%) Data Integration
3 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 6 (50.00%) ETL
4 6 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
4 6 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (41.67%) Co-Creation
5 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (41.67%) Intelligent Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (41.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) IFS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft