Data Architecture Job Trends in London

Data Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 159 206
Rank change year-on-year +33 +47 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 449 262 291
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.73% 2.23% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.37% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 316 139 193
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,840 £62,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £84,258
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.99% +5.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,840 11,039 16,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.48% 93.89% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,708 6,992 9,838
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in London

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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 +19 71 £90,000 +9.09% 99
West London -7 21 £125,000 +165.96% 22
North London +5 5 £85,000 -24.11% 2
South London - 1 - - 5
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 21 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.34%) Apache
4 4 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.56%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.45%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 208 (46.33%) Azure
2 117 (26.06%) AWS
3 83 (18.49%) Snowflake
4 73 (16.26%) Power Platform
5 67 (14.92%) GCP
6 48 (10.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (8.24%) Microsoft Purview
8 34 (7.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 33 (7.35%) Azure Databricks
10 32 (7.13%) dbt
11 30 (6.68%) Amazon S3
12 25 (5.57%) SaaS
13 20 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (4.45%) GitHub
14 11 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 11 (2.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 11 (2.45%) Serverless
15 9 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (19.15%) Metadata
2 75 (16.70%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (15.14%) Data Lake
4 61 (13.59%) Power BI
5 38 (8.46%) Data Vault
6 37 (8.24%) Delta Lake
7 29 (6.46%) Tableau
8 22 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (4.90%) SQL Server
9 19 (4.23%) Semantic Layer
9 19 (4.23%) Star Schema
10 18 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (3.34%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.34%) Relational Database
13 13 (2.90%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (2.23%) Big Data
16 8 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (8.24%) Git
2 19 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.89%) JIRA
3 4 (0.89%) MLflow
4 3 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) rollup.js
General
1 137 (30.51%) Finance
2 127 (28.29%) Social Skills
3 48 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.80%) Marketing
5 31 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.90%) Retail
9 16 (3.56%) Legal
10 13 (2.90%) Law
10 13 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.56%) Banking
11 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.89%) Back Office
13 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.67%) Billing
14 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Legal Technology
15 2 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 235 (52.34%) Architect
2 201 (44.77%) Data Architect
3 84 (18.71%) Data Engineer
3 84 (18.71%) Senior
4 76 (16.93%) Lead
5 34 (7.57%) Senior Architect
5 34 (7.57%) Senior Data Architect
6 30 (6.68%) Lead Data Engineer
7 20 (4.45%) Developer
7 20 (4.45%) Enterprise Architect
7 20 (4.45%) Lead Architect
8 19 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.01%) Senior Manager
10 17 (3.79%) Data Manager
10 17 (3.79%) Lead Data Architect
11 16 (3.56%) Consultant
12 15 (3.34%) Snowflake Architect
13 14 (3.12%) Data Consultant
14 13 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (2.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.35%) PySpark
2 27 (6.01%) Terraform
3 17 (3.79%) Kafka
4 12 (2.67%) Node.js
5 10 (2.23%) REST
6 9 (2.00%) Middleware
7 8 (1.78%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.78%) SOAP
8 5 (1.11%) .NET
8 5 (1.11%) React
9 4 (0.89%) CSS
9 4 (0.89%) RESTful
9 4 (0.89%) YAML
10 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.67%) HTML
10 3 (0.67%) Next.js
10 3 (0.67%) Pandas
10 3 (0.67%) Tailwind CSS
11 2 (0.45%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.45%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.35%) Data Structures
4 19 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.34%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.56%) Data Fabric
8 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.56%) Life Science
8 7 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.34%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.34%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.11%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (47.44%) Data Modelling
2 210 (46.77%) AI
3 194 (43.21%) Analytics
4 144 (32.07%) Data Governance
5 141 (31.40%) Data Engineering
6 118 (26.28%) Data Pipeline
6 118 (26.28%) Roadmaps
7 115 (25.61%) Data Strategy
8 106 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (20.71%) Agile
10 92 (20.49%) Lakehouse
10 92 (20.49%) Machine Learning
11 79 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 76 (16.93%) CI/CD
13 74 (16.48%) Technical Leadership
14 71 (15.81%) Mentoring
15 70 (15.59%) ETL
16 64 (14.25%) Data Transformation
16 64 (14.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 56 (12.47%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 182 (40.53%) SQL
2 149 (33.18%) Python
3 27 (6.01%) Scala
4 17 (3.79%) Bicep
5 11 (2.45%) C#
5 11 (2.45%) R
6 10 (2.23%) Java
6 10 (2.23%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.78%) Apex Code
7 8 (1.78%) SOQL
7 8 (1.78%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.89%) VBA
9 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (8.91%) Degree
2 39 (8.69%) Azure Certification
3 38 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.23%) SnowPro
6 14 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.67%) CIPD
11 2 (0.45%) CISA
11 2 (0.45%) CITP
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) MBA
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
12 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (33.63%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.01%) GDPR
3 13 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.90%) QA
4 7 (1.56%) PMO
5 4 (0.89%) GRC
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.67%) Grafana
2 3 (0.67%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 110 (24.50%) Databricks
2 102 (22.72%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.79%) SAP
5 13 (2.90%) Google
6 9 (2.00%) Foundry
7 8 (1.78%) Informatica
7 8 (1.78%) Oracle
8 7 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.11%) Workday
10 4 (0.89%) Braze
10 4 (0.89%) Palantir
10 4 (0.89%) Sage
11 3 (0.67%) RedGate
12 2 (0.45%) Charles River
12 2 (0.45%) eFront
12 2 (0.45%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.45%) SimCorp
12 2 (0.45%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.45%) Talend