Principal Data Architect Jobs in England

Principal Data Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Data Architect salary in England is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 657 829 922
Rank change year-on-year +172 +93 +208
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 13 8 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.009% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.010% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 18
10th Percentile £88,875 - £95,075
25th Percentile £97,500 £68,750 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £72,500 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% -38.30% +30.56%
75th Percentile £123,750 £76,250 £133,750
90th Percentile £144,750 - £145,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £72,500 £117,500
% change year-on-year +58.62% -38.30% +51.61%

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 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Architect in England

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Architect in England

Principal Data Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Principal Data Architect in England

Principal 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 Principal Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +106 9 £115,000 - 1
Yorkshire +71 2 £95,000 -
North of England +59 2 £95,000 +31.03% 1
South East +96 1 £92,500 - 2
Principal Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Data Architecture
1 10 (76.92%) Data Strategy
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 7 (53.85%) Data Governance
3 7 (53.85%) Analytics
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Data Management
4 6 (46.15%) Taxonomies
4 6 (46.15%) Business Strategy
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 5 (38.46%) Data Collection
5 5 (38.46%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (38.46%) Metadata
5 5 (38.46%) Legal
5 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Service Management
5 5 (38.46%) Contact Management
5 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
6 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
6 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
7 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
7 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) Migration
7 3 (23.08%) SQL
7 3 (23.08%) AWS

Principal 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Metadata
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (15.38%) Flink
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Legal
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Local Government
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Taxonomies
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Architecture
1 10 (76.92%) Data Strategy
2 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) Analytics
3 7 (53.85%) Data Governance
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Business Strategy
4 6 (46.15%) Data Management
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
5 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (38.46%) Contact Management
5 5 (38.46%) Data Collection
5 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
5 5 (38.46%) Service Management
5 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
7 3 (23.08%) Migration
7 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle