Data Architect Jobs in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect salary in London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 315 313
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 +163
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 125 198 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.84% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.89% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69 139 211
10th Percentile £79,250 £71,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £91,250 £80,000 £82,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £113,750
90th Percentile £127,250 £120,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £97,500 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -8.11% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,136 22,344 28,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 94.35% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,416 16,292 21,958
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

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 10 July 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
Central London +41 29 £110,000 +29.41% 16
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 2025, 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 London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 97 (77.60%) Data Architecture
2 76 (60.80%) Azure
3 71 (56.80%) Data Modelling
4 70 (56.00%) Data Strategy
5 66 (52.80%) Finance
6 58 (46.40%) Data Governance
7 51 (40.80%) AWS
7 51 (40.80%) Agile
8 46 (36.80%) Data Management
9 44 (35.20%) Microsoft
10 42 (33.60%) Roadmaps
11 40 (32.00%) GCP
12 39 (31.20%) Analytics
13 38 (30.40%) SQL
14 37 (29.60%) Metadata
15 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
16 32 (25.60%) Data Lake
17 29 (23.20%) Metadata Management
17 29 (23.20%) Banking
17 29 (23.20%) Degree
18 28 (22.40%) Migration
18 28 (22.40%) Data Privacy
18 28 (22.40%) Azure Certification
19 27 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
19 27 (21.60%) Data Migration
20 26 (20.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 25 (20.00%) AWS Certification
21 25 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
21 25 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
22 24 (19.20%) Physical Data Model

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 13 (10.40%) Apache Spark
2 9 (7.20%) Apache
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 76 (60.80%) Azure
2 51 (40.80%) AWS
3 40 (32.00%) GCP
4 17 (13.60%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.20%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (2.40%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.40%) dbt
10 3 (2.40%) GitHub
11 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.60%) SaaS
11 2 (1.60%) Serverless
12 1 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.60%) Metadata
2 32 (25.60%) Data Lake
3 25 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (12.00%) Power BI
5 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.60%) Big Data
7 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.80%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.00%) Data Vault
8 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (52.80%) Finance
2 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.20%) Banking
4 27 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (20.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (17.60%) Financial Institution
6 22 (17.60%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.80%) Legal
7 6 (4.80%) Retail
8 4 (3.20%) Back Office
8 4 (3.20%) Law
9 3 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Front Office
10 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) Kafka
2 3 (2.40%) PySpark
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.40%) Taxonomies
3 2 (1.60%) Data Fabric
3 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
3 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.80%) Clustering
4 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.80%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.80%) Replication
4 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (77.60%) Data Architecture
2 71 (56.80%) Data Modelling
3 70 (56.00%) Data Strategy
4 58 (46.40%) Data Governance
5 51 (40.80%) Agile
6 46 (36.80%) Data Management
7 42 (33.60%) Roadmaps
8 39 (31.20%) Analytics
9 29 (23.20%) Metadata Management
10 28 (22.40%) Data Privacy
10 28 (22.40%) Migration
11 27 (21.60%) Data Migration
12 25 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
13 24 (19.20%) Physical Data Model
14 23 (18.40%) ETL
15 22 (17.60%) Asset Management
15 22 (17.60%) Business Development
15 22 (17.60%) Commercialisation
15 22 (17.60%) Cost Management
15 22 (17.60%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.40%) SQL
2 21 (16.80%) Python
3 5 (4.00%) Scala
4 4 (3.20%) Java
5 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (23.20%) Degree
2 28 (22.40%) Azure Certification
3 25 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) GDPR
2 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (35.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.00%) Databricks
3 8 (6.40%) Google
4 5 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (2.40%) Oracle
5 3 (2.40%) Talend
6 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.80%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.80%) Workday