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 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 387 442
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 16 10 42
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.092% 0.075% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.083% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 14
10th Percentile £97,250 - £62,500
25th Percentile £100,938 £92,500 £64,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile - £123,750 £98,125
90th Percentile £110,125 £126,375 £137,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -12.50%

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 15,959 12,061 20,792
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 90.88% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,650 7,596 16,403
10th Percentile £37,375 £42,000 £39,550
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -4.08%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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 (87.50%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) Data Strategy
3 12 (75.00%) Data Lake
3 12 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 12 (75.00%) Databricks
4 8 (50.00%) AWS
4 8 (50.00%) GCP
5 7 (43.75%) Analytics
5 7 (43.75%) Data Architecture
5 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
5 7 (43.75%) Data Management
5 7 (43.75%) Data Transformation
5 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (37.50%) Agile
6 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
6 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (37.50%) Data Design
6 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
6 6 (37.50%) Data Migration
6 6 (37.50%) Data Mining
6 6 (37.50%) Data Vault
6 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (37.50%) Kimball Methodology
6 6 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
6 6 (37.50%) Metadata
6 6 (37.50%) Migration

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 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) GCP
3 6 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (37.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (37.50%) Data Mining
2 6 (37.50%) Data Vault
2 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (37.50%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Financial Institution
3 6 (37.50%) Retail
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Data Strategy
2 12 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (43.75%) Analytics
3 7 (43.75%) Data Architecture
3 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
3 7 (43.75%) Data Management
3 7 (43.75%) Data Transformation
3 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (37.50%) Data Design
4 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Kimball Methodology
4 6 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Physical Data Model
4 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Databricks