Data Architecture Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Data Architecture
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 5 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.78% - 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% - 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £71,375 - -
25th Percentile £71,563 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £76,563 - £63,438
90th Percentile £77,125 - £76,250
South East median annual salary £76,250 £90,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -15.28% +14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 521 907 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 81.79% 83.36% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 390 476 529
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.78% +2.28% -

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Abingdon - 2 - - 3
Oxford - 1 - - 4
Banbury - 1 £72,500 -
Data Architecture
South East

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Airbyte
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (20.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Snowpark
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Sharing
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks