Data Architect Job Trends in Essex

Data Architect
East of England > Essex

The median Data Architect salary in Essex is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.44% - 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% - 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £50,000
East of England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year - +35.34% -19.39%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 586 411 438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.42% 90.53% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 344 189 355
10th Percentile £26,825 £23,600 £25,400
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,173 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.36% -1.34%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,400 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -4.15%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in Essex

Data Architect
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Essex.

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Essex

Data Architect
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the Essex region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Basildon - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £90,000 - 1
Colchester - 1 £90,000 - 1
Data Architect
East of England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Essex region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Beam
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Synapse
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
1 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Beam
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks