Data Architect Jobs in the South East

Data Architect
England > South East

The median Data Architect salary in the South East is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 271 332
Rank change year-on-year -12 +61 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 28 118 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.68% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.72% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10 76 29
10th Percentile £80,250 £55,000 £65,739
25th Percentile £81,250 £61,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.47% +21.43%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,125 £100,000 £113,500
England median annual salary £96,250 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +13.24% -8.11% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 9,120 16,283 11,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 94.28% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,059 11,498 7,509
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,102 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the South East

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in the South East

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the South East

Data Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Thames Valley +36 18 £90,000 +47.54% 5
Berkshire +22 14 £97,500 +59.84% 4
Surrey +27 3 £115,000 +24.32%
Buckinghamshire +25 3 £90,000 - 1
Kent - 2 £82,500 -
Middlesex - 2 £90,000 -
Oxfordshire +42 1 £90,000 -
East Sussex +19 1 £90,000 -
Hampshire +11 1 £82,500 -2.94% 1
West Sussex - 1 £72,500 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 South East region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 25 (89.29%) Data Modelling
2 23 (82.14%) Data Architecture
2 23 (82.14%) Azure
3 21 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (67.86%) Data Governance
5 17 (60.71%) AWS
6 16 (57.14%) Data Quality
6 16 (57.14%) Data Integration
6 16 (57.14%) GCP
6 16 (57.14%) Data Engineering
6 16 (57.14%) Data Strategy
6 16 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (57.14%) Roadmaps
7 15 (53.57%) Machine Learning
8 14 (50.00%) Law
8 14 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (50.00%) Architectural Design
8 14 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
8 14 (50.00%) Data Science
8 14 (50.00%) Mentoring
9 13 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (46.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 13 (46.43%) Generative AI
9 13 (46.43%) ETL
9 13 (46.43%) Customer Insight
9 13 (46.43%) Marketing
10 7 (25.00%) SQL
10 7 (25.00%) Analytics
11 6 (21.43%) Metadata
11 6 (21.43%) Microsoft

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.14%) IBM Domino
2 1 (3.57%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Maximo
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 17 (60.71%) AWS
3 16 (57.14%) GCP
4 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.57%) Alation
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.57%) Collibra
7 1 (3.57%) dbt
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (21.43%) Metadata
3 4 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.71%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (10.71%) Power BI
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.14%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
6 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 14 (50.00%) Law
2 13 (46.43%) Marketing
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Advertising
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Data Modelling
2 23 (82.14%) Data Architecture
3 19 (67.86%) Data Governance
4 16 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 16 (57.14%) Data Integration
4 16 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (57.14%) Data Strategy
4 16 (57.14%) Roadmaps
5 15 (53.57%) Machine Learning
6 14 (50.00%) Architectural Design
6 14 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 14 (50.00%) Data Science
6 14 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 14 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 13 (46.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 13 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (46.43%) Customer Insight
7 13 (46.43%) ETL
7 13 (46.43%) Generative AI
8 7 (25.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) Java
2 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) CFA
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Postgraduate
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.57%) ESRI
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Talend