Senior Data Architect Job Trends in London

Senior Data Architect
England > London

The median Senior Data Architect salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 387 453
Rank change year-on-year -1 +66 +131
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 20 8 50
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.097% 0.065% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.072% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile £88,250 £85,250 £62,500
25th Percentile - £94,000 £69,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £122,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +42.03% -4.17%
75th Percentile £97,500 £128,125 £120,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £132,500 £145,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £86,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.25% +23.21% -20.00%

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 19,089 11,122 22,098
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.10% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,045 7,232 16,650
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Data Architect job vacancy trend in London

Senior Data Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in London

Senior Data Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Architect in London

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -13 2 £90,000 -18.55% 2
Senior Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2026, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Data Architecture
2 13 (65.00%) Analytics
3 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 9 (45.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (45.00%) GCP
4 8 (40.00%) Data Management
4 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 8 (40.00%) Databricks
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
5 7 (35.00%) Data Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Logical Data Model
5 7 (35.00%) Metadata
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (30.00%) AI
7 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.00%) CI/CD

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
1 9 (45.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Intacct
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
1 7 (35.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Back Office
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (35.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Data Architecture
2 13 (65.00%) Analytics
3 9 (45.00%) Data Governance
4 8 (40.00%) Data Management
4 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) Data Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Logical Data Model
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (30.00%) AI
7 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (35.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Sage
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce