Data Architect Job Trends in the North West

Data Architect
England > North West

The median Data Architect salary in the North West is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 235 208
Rank change year-on-year +39 -27 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 48 6 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.44% 0.13% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.14% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 46 1 54
10th Percentile £61,844 - £55,543
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +15.15% -10.81%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,153 4,186 10,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 89.04% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,462 2,085 7,870
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £27,475
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,900 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the North West

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the North West

Data Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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
Manchester +6 25 £90,000 +5.88% 14
Merseyside - 12 £90,000 - 1
Cheshire - 7 £82,500 - 3
Lancashire - 4 £75,466 - 6
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 23 (47.92%) Data Strategy
2 22 (45.83%) Data Architecture
3 18 (37.50%) Analytics
4 17 (35.42%) Data Modelling
5 16 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 16 (33.33%) Data Quality
6 15 (31.25%) Architectural Design
6 15 (31.25%) Azure
7 13 (27.08%) AWS
8 11 (22.92%) Data Engineering
8 11 (22.92%) Databricks
8 11 (22.92%) Snowflake
9 10 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (18.75%) Power BI
10 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
11 8 (16.67%) Metadata
11 8 (16.67%) Metadata Management
11 8 (16.67%) Migration
12 7 (14.58%) Data Design
12 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
12 7 (14.58%) Data Transformation
12 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
13 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (12.50%) Data Management
13 6 (12.50%) GCP
13 6 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
13 6 (12.50%) Salesforce
13 6 (12.50%) SQL
13 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
14 5 (10.42%) AI

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) Snowflake
4 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 6 (12.50%) GCP
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (8.33%) dbt
8 2 (4.17%) Collibra
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.08%) GitHub
9 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Power BI
2 8 (16.67%) Metadata
3 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.33%) Data Vault
4 4 (8.33%) Db2
4 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.33%) Tableau
5 3 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) MLflow
General
1 7 (14.58%) Influencing Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Retail
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Kafka
1 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Data Strategy
2 22 (45.83%) Data Architecture
3 18 (37.50%) Analytics
4 17 (35.42%) Data Modelling
5 16 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 15 (31.25%) Architectural Design
7 11 (22.92%) Data Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (16.67%) Metadata Management
9 8 (16.67%) Migration
10 7 (14.58%) Data Design
10 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
10 7 (14.58%) Data Transformation
10 7 (14.58%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (12.50%) Data Management
11 6 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
12 5 (10.42%) AI
12 5 (10.42%) DevOps
12 5 (10.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Databricks
2 6 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) Oracle
5 3 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) Informatica