Principal Data Architect Jobs in London

Principal Data Architect
England > London

The median Principal Data Architect salary in London is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 504 623
Rank change year-on-year +128 +119 +240
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 9 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.070% 0.004% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.005% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 10
10th Percentile £107,000 - £86,500
25th Percentile £112,500 - £107,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 - £130,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £142,500 - £145,000
90th Percentile £148,000 - -
England median annual salary £115,000 £72,500 £117,500
% change year-on-year +58.62% -38.30% +30.56%

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 11,521 22,183 33,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 94.12% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,470 16,676 24,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Architect in London

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Architect in London

Principal Data Architect
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Principal Data Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Data Architecture
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
1 7 (77.78%) Data Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Taxonomies
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Data Management
3 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Legal
3 5 (55.56%) Contact Management
3 5 (55.56%) Service Management
3 5 (55.56%) Data Collection
3 5 (55.56%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (55.56%) Metadata
3 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (11.11%) High Availability
6 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Legal
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Architecture
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
1 7 (77.78%) Data Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (55.56%) Contact Management
3 5 (55.56%) Data Collection
3 5 (55.56%) Data Management
3 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 5 (55.56%) Service Management
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle