Data Architect Jobs in the Midlands

Data Architect
England > Midlands

The median Data Architect salary in the Midlands is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 259 298
Rank change year-on-year +34 +39 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 27 64 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.38% 0.54% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.57% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 22 37 22
10th Percentile £56,903 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £52,325 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £59,300 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.80% -18.21% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 - £87,300
England median annual salary £94,637 £82,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -10.81% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,468 11,211 8,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 94.31% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,829 8,342 4,674
10th Percentile £27,213 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,030 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +21 25 £80,750 +36.17% 20
East Midlands +24 2 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Midlands region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 21 (77.78%) Data Architecture
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
3 16 (59.26%) Data Modelling
4 15 (55.56%) Analytics
5 14 (51.85%) SQL
6 12 (44.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (37.04%) ETL
7 10 (37.04%) Data Migration
7 10 (37.04%) Migration
8 9 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
8 9 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
8 9 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (29.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (29.63%) Presales
9 8 (29.63%) Databricks
9 8 (29.63%) Data Governance
9 8 (29.63%) Finance
10 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (25.93%) AWS
10 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
10 7 (25.93%) Data Strategy
10 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
10 7 (25.93%) GCP
10 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
10 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
11 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
11 6 (22.22%) Data Transformation
11 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
11 6 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.70%) Odoo
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (29.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
4 7 (25.93%) GCP
5 5 (18.52%) Snowflake
6 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
7 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (11.11%) Boomi
7 3 (11.11%) SaaS
8 2 (7.41%) IaaS
8 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (7.41%) PaaS
9 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.70%) OCI
9 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
2 6 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (18.52%) BigQuery
4 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.41%) Big Data
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.70%) MySQL
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) ERwin
2 1 (3.70%) ER Studio
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Data Structures
1 5 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Data Architecture
2 16 (59.26%) Data Modelling
3 15 (55.56%) Analytics
4 10 (37.04%) Data Migration
4 10 (37.04%) ETL
4 10 (37.04%) Migration
5 9 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
5 9 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
6 8 (29.63%) Data Governance
6 8 (29.63%) Presales
7 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (25.93%) Data Strategy
7 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
8 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
8 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
8 6 (22.22%) Data Transformation
8 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (18.52%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) PHP
3 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) Google
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Zoho