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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 144 120
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 19 77 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.84% 1.48% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.71% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12 47 9
10th Percentile £57,045 £51,250 £55,500
25th Percentile £65,417 £55,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +45.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,964 £112,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £100,000 £115,800
North West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +33.93%

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 2,160 4,498 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.32% 86.33% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 3,431 2,489
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,773
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £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 16 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 16 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Snowflake
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (10.53%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.26%) IaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.26%) PaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
1 4 (21.05%) Tableau
2 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.26%) Looker
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Architect
2 9 (47.37%) Lead
3 7 (36.84%) Data Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Data Architect
5 4 (21.05%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior
6 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (15.79%) Lead Architect
6 3 (15.79%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 2 (10.53%) Data Science Leader
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Domain Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Life Science
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Analytics
2 9 (47.37%) Roadmaps
3 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
4 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (31.58%) Data Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
5 6 (31.58%) Data Strategy
5 6 (31.58%) Visualisation
6 5 (26.32%) Adaptive Web Design
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) ArchiMate
6 5 (26.32%) Architecture Roadmap
6 5 (26.32%) Business Strategy
6 5 (26.32%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (26.32%) TOGAF
7 4 (21.05%) Architectural Design
7 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (21.05%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (21.05%) Data Science
7 4 (21.05%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica