Data Architect Jobs in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect salary in London is £102,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 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
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 303 312
Rank change year-on-year +27 +9 +158
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 120 216 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.91% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.96% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 68 145 243
10th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £72,100
25th Percentile £93,438 £80,000 £83,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £115,625 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £124,500 £125,250 £127,500
England median annual salary £96,250 £82,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.81% +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 11,267 22,461 31,529
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,798 16,738 23,299
10th Percentile £41,175 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,196 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 27 May 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 27 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
Central London +28 27 £110,000 +25.71% 9
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 87 (72.50%) Data Architecture
2 67 (55.83%) Data Strategy
3 65 (54.17%) Azure
4 64 (53.33%) Finance
5 53 (44.17%) Data Modelling
5 53 (44.17%) Data Governance
6 46 (38.33%) AWS
7 43 (35.83%) Agile
7 43 (35.83%) Data Management
7 43 (35.83%) Roadmaps
8 37 (30.83%) GCP
8 37 (30.83%) Microsoft
9 35 (29.17%) Degree
10 33 (27.50%) Metadata
11 30 (25.00%) Analytics
12 29 (24.17%) SQL
13 28 (23.33%) Banking
13 28 (23.33%) Migration
14 26 (21.67%) Data Migration
14 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
14 26 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
14 26 (21.67%) Data Privacy
15 25 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (20.83%) Azure Certification
16 24 (20.00%) AWS Certification
16 24 (20.00%) Data Lake
16 24 (20.00%) Metadata Management
17 23 (19.17%) Logical Data Model
18 22 (18.33%) Physical Data Model
18 22 (18.33%) Asset Management

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 7 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.17%) Apache
3 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (54.17%) Azure
2 46 (38.33%) AWS
3 37 (30.83%) GCP
4 11 (9.17%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 5 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (4.17%) PaaS
7 4 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.50%) dbt
8 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.50%) Serverless
9 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.67%) SaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.50%) Metadata
2 24 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 17 (14.17%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.50%) Power BI
5 6 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.17%) Big Data
7 4 (3.33%) Data Vault
7 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.50%) Spark SQL
8 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.67%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (53.33%) Finance
2 28 (23.33%) Banking
3 26 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
4 25 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (17.50%) Financial Institution
5 21 (17.50%) Retail Banking
6 6 (5.00%) Legal
7 4 (3.33%) Back Office
7 4 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Law
8 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) Kafka
2 2 (1.67%) PySpark
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Taxonomies
2 7 (5.83%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.67%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.67%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) Clustering
5 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Replication
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (72.50%) Data Architecture
2 67 (55.83%) Data Strategy
3 53 (44.17%) Data Governance
3 53 (44.17%) Data Modelling
4 43 (35.83%) Agile
4 43 (35.83%) Data Management
4 43 (35.83%) Roadmaps
5 30 (25.00%) Analytics
6 28 (23.33%) Migration
7 26 (21.67%) Data Migration
7 26 (21.67%) Data Privacy
8 24 (20.00%) Metadata Management
9 23 (19.17%) Logical Data Model
10 22 (18.33%) Asset Management
10 22 (18.33%) Physical Data Model
11 21 (17.50%) Business Development
11 21 (17.50%) Commercialisation
11 21 (17.50%) Cost Management
11 21 (17.50%) Innovative Thinking
12 17 (14.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.17%) SQL
2 15 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (3.33%) Java
4 3 (2.50%) Scala
5 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 35 (29.17%) Degree
2 25 (20.83%) Azure Certification
3 24 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) GDPR
2 8 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Ansible
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.50%) Databricks
3 7 (5.83%) Google
4 5 (4.17%) Informatica
5 3 (2.50%) Talend
6 2 (1.67%) SAP
6 2 (1.67%) Teradata
7 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.83%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle