Data Architect Jobs in Manchester

Data Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Data Architect salary in Manchester is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 159 231
Rank change year-on-year +3 +72 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 8 54 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.35% 1.03% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 1.09% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 36 7
10th Percentile £63,016 £55,000 £76,500
25th Percentile £72,327 £63,125 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £94,375 £100,000 £113,750
90th Percentile £106,750 - £115,000
North West median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -26.32% +47.29%

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 2,069 4,937 4,426
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.36% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 3,807 2,601
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,063 £40,988 £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 £93,125 £82,040 £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 17 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 17 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 6 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making

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 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) IaaS
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Adaptive Web Design
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle