Data Architect Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 268 303
Rank change year-on-year +93 +35 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 271 123 224
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.27% 1.01% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.11% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 192 68 149
10th Percentile £72,750 £80,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £90,938 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £103,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +15.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £116,800 £124,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £97,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year -12.82% +20.00% -12.16%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 19,734 11,061 23,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 90.46% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,602 6,965 17,232
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -13.32%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Central London +32 63 £82,500 -25.00% 13
South London - 8 £112,500 -
West London - 6 £87,500 - 2
North London - 1 £85,000 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 151 (55.72%) Data Architecture
2 99 (36.53%) Data Governance
3 92 (33.95%) Analytics
3 92 (33.95%) Data Modelling
4 90 (33.21%) Azure
5 86 (31.73%) Data Strategy
6 62 (22.88%) AI
7 61 (22.51%) AWS
8 60 (22.14%) Databricks
9 54 (19.93%) SQL
10 53 (19.56%) Roadmaps
11 46 (16.97%) Machine Learning
12 45 (16.61%) GCP
13 41 (15.13%) Data Engineering
14 40 (14.76%) Migration
15 39 (14.39%) Data Lake
15 39 (14.39%) Snowflake
16 38 (14.02%) Metadata
16 38 (14.02%) Microsoft
17 36 (13.28%) Agile
17 36 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
18 35 (12.92%) Data Management
19 33 (12.18%) Data Quality
20 32 (11.81%) Security Cleared
21 31 (11.44%) Logical Data Model
22 30 (11.07%) Physical Data Model
23 29 (10.70%) Degree
24 27 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
24 27 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
25 24 (8.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 90 (33.21%) Azure
2 61 (22.51%) AWS
3 45 (16.61%) GCP
4 39 (14.39%) Snowflake
5 24 (8.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (8.86%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.80%) Azure AI
7 12 (4.43%) Amazon S3
7 12 (4.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 12 (4.43%) dbt
8 10 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.11%) Intacct
10 3 (1.11%) SaaS
11 2 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.37%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.39%) Data Lake
2 38 (14.02%) Metadata
3 27 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.75%) Power BI
5 18 (6.64%) Data Vault
6 15 (5.54%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.69%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.58%) Star Schema
10 6 (2.21%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.85%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.85%) Tableau
12 4 (1.48%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.48%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Git
2 2 (0.74%) rollup.js
3 1 (0.37%) JIRA
General
1 83 (30.63%) Finance
2 45 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.64%) Financial Institution
5 17 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.06%) Banking
8 9 (3.32%) Law
9 8 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.95%) Retail
10 7 (2.58%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.48%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Front Office
13 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.21%) PySpark
2 4 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.11%) Kafka
4 2 (0.74%) .NET
4 2 (0.74%) REST
4 2 (0.74%) Snowpark
4 2 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.58%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.74%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.74%) Clustering
7 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.74%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.74%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.37%) AS400
8 1 (0.37%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.37%) FMCG
8 1 (0.37%) iSeries
8 1 (0.37%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (55.72%) Data Architecture
2 99 (36.53%) Data Governance
3 92 (33.95%) Analytics
3 92 (33.95%) Data Modelling
4 86 (31.73%) Data Strategy
5 62 (22.88%) AI
6 53 (19.56%) Roadmaps
7 46 (16.97%) Machine Learning
8 41 (15.13%) Data Engineering
9 40 (14.76%) Migration
10 36 (13.28%) Agile
10 36 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (12.92%) Data Management
12 31 (11.44%) Logical Data Model
13 30 (11.07%) Physical Data Model
14 27 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (8.12%) Data Integration
16 20 (7.38%) Data Migration
16 20 (7.38%) Data Transformation
17 19 (7.01%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.93%) SQL
2 21 (7.75%) Python
3 7 (2.58%) Scala
4 3 (1.11%) Bicep
5 1 (0.37%) Java
5 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.70%) Degree
3 20 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 16 (5.90%) AWS Certification
6 15 (5.54%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.21%) SnowPro
9 5 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.37%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.74%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.37%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (22.14%) Databricks
2 38 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.32%) Oracle
5 6 (2.21%) Google
6 3 (1.11%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.11%) Sage
7 2 (0.74%) SAP
7 2 (0.74%) Workday
8 1 (0.37%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.37%) Informatica
8 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.37%) OpenAI