Principal Data Architect Job Trends in the North West

Principal Data Architect
England > North West

The median Principal Data Architect salary in the North West is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.010% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +58.62% -40.21%

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 8,753 3,503 8,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 87.88% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,599 2,200 6,902
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £53,125 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £79,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Principal Data Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Principal 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 Principal Data Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Merseyside - 1 £62,500 - 1
Principal Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2026, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Economics

Principal 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Economics
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks