Senior Data Architect Job Trends in London

Senior Data Architect
England > London

The median Senior Data Architect salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 429 481
Rank change year-on-year +47 +52 +337
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 5 30 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.042% 0.16% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.16% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 11
10th Percentile £81,000 £103,713 -
25th Percentile £93,750 £120,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £137,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +125.41% -28.24%
75th Percentile - £180,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £123,500 - £92,500
England median annual salary £106,250 £120,000 £69,750
% change year-on-year -11.46% +72.04% -15.45%

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 10,900 18,392 21,003
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 95.37% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,566 17,358
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.02% +4.64%
75th Percentile £97,313 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 - 1 £97,500 - 4
Senior Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Data Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Databricks
4 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (40.00%) Data Design
4 2 (40.00%) Data Vault
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (40.00%) GDPR
4 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (40.00%) Talend
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (40.00%) Retail
4 2 (40.00%) Informatica
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Python

Senior 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (40.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Data Design
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Economics
5 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Informatica
2 2 (40.00%) Talend
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft