Senior Data Architect Jobs in England

Senior Data Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Data Architect salary in England is £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 731 876
Rank change year-on-year +53 +145 +202
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 15 92 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.11% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.11% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 14 55 34
10th Percentile - £55,808 £61,885
25th Percentile £56,809 £58,400 £73,374
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £70,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -18.84% -9.21%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £129,875 £112,000 £111,750
UK median annual salary £86,250 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +23.21% -12.50% -14.67%

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 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in England

Senior Data Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Architect in England

Senior Data Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Architect in England

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +72 8 £122,500 +42.03% 15
North of England +25 5 £61,206 -38.79% 18
Yorkshire +64 2 £61,206 -6.70% 8
North West -18 2 £61,206 -38.79% 8
Midlands +55 1 £61,206 +7.10% 16
West Midlands +39 1 £61,206 +7.10% 9
North East +35 1 £61,206 -6.70% 2
Senior Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
2 11 (73.33%) Data Strategy
3 8 (53.33%) IT Strategy
3 8 (53.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
4 7 (46.67%) Coaching
4 7 (46.67%) Azure
4 7 (46.67%) SQL
5 6 (40.00%) RDBMS
5 6 (40.00%) AWS
5 6 (40.00%) Open Source
5 6 (40.00%) Line Management
5 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
5 6 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
5 6 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
5 6 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (40.00%) Digital Strategy
5 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (40.00%) Data Design
5 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 4 (26.67%) ETL
7 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
7 4 (26.67%) GCP

Senior 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) SAS
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
2 11 (73.33%) Data Strategy
3 8 (53.33%) IT Strategy
3 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
4 7 (46.67%) Coaching
5 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (40.00%) Data Design
5 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
5 6 (40.00%) Digital Strategy
5 6 (40.00%) Line Management
5 6 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
5 6 (40.00%) Open Source
5 6 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
5 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) ETL
7 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Informatica
2 3 (20.00%) Talend
3 2 (13.33%) Teradata