Data Architecture Jobs in Manchester

Data Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 148 117
Rank change year-on-year +28 -31 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 26 71 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.21% 1.38% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.60% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14 45 10
10th Percentile £56,809 £49,000 £47,450
25th Percentile £59,168 £55,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year - -10.45% +39.47%
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,964 £112,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £100,000 £115,400
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +17.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,046 4,447 4,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.03% 86.67% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 3,393 2,562
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,155 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -4.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in Manchester

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in Manchester

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in Manchester

Data Architecture
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Stockport - 3 £75,000 -
Data Architecture
North West

Data Architecture
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 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.69%) IaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) NoSQL
2 6 (23.08%) Tableau
3 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
4 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (15.38%) Metadata
5 3 (11.54%) Data Vault
6 2 (7.69%) Power BI
6 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.85%) Data Mart
7 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.85%) Looker
7 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Architect
1 14 (53.85%) Lead
2 7 (26.92%) Data Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Lead Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Lead Enterprise Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Science Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Domain Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Head of Payments
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
1 3 (11.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Life Science
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Roadmaps
2 15 (57.69%) Mentoring
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) Analytics
4 11 (42.31%) Adaptive Web Design
4 11 (42.31%) Architecture Roadmap
5 10 (38.46%) ArchiMate
5 10 (38.46%) Business Strategy
5 10 (38.46%) Data Strategy
5 10 (38.46%) Thought Leadership
5 10 (38.46%) TOGAF
6 9 (34.62%) Architectural Design
6 9 (34.62%) Collaborative Culture
6 9 (34.62%) Data Modelling
6 9 (34.62%) IT Strategy
6 9 (34.62%) Product Backlog
7 8 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (30.77%) Data Management
8 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (19.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (19.23%) GDPR
2 5 (19.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Databricks
2 3 (11.54%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) StreamSets