Data Architecture Jobs in the North West

Data Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 177 135
Rank change year-on-year -90 -42 +75
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 19 113 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 1.11% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 1.36% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10 63 13
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £64,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £85,125 £84,964 £112,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £100,000 £114,500
England median annual salary £81,500 £80,000 £80,500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -0.62% +7.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +7 15 £75,000 - 23
Merseyside +25 2 £45,000 -40.00%
Cheshire +2 2 £84,000 +14.22% 3
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.26%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) Tableau
3 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Looker
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Private Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Architect
2 8 (42.11%) Data Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Data Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Science Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Head of Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Head of Data Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architecture Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architecture Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Solution Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Analytics
2 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
2 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (36.84%) Data Engineering
3 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
4 6 (31.58%) Data Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 5 (26.32%) TOGAF
6 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
6 4 (21.05%) MLOps
6 4 (21.05%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Adaptive Web Design
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) ArchiMate
7 3 (15.79%) Architecture Roadmap
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) ETL
7 3 (15.79%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Sparx