Data Architect Jobs in Manchester

Data Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Data Architect salary in Manchester is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 159 228
Rank change year-on-year +13 +69 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 10 53 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.45% 1.03% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.09% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 35 8
10th Percentile £56,809 £55,000 £76,750
25th Percentile £67,155 £62,500 £82,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -27.27% +38.49%
75th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £115,000 - £115,000
North West median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year +17.86% -23.29% +41.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,989 4,862 4,552
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.50% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 3,754 2,673
10th Percentile £32,475 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,143 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,325 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Manchester

Data Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in Manchester

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Data Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) IaaS
4 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Data Design
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
5 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
General
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Adaptive Web Design
5 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Design
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle