Data Architect Job Trends in the South East

Data Architect
England > South East

The median Data Architect salary in the South East is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 229 245
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 45 85 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.52% 0.75% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.78% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8 45 27
10th Percentile £74,650 £55,000 £51,500
25th Percentile £82,188 £66,250 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £94,375
90th Percentile £98,375 - £111,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £85,000

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 7,939 10,921 7,294
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 96.34% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 6,096 5,214
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 South East.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies 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 7 November 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 7 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
Thames Valley +28 38 £93,750 +4.17% 35
Berkshire +21 20 £97,500 - 26
Buckinghamshire +14 17 - - 8
East Sussex +17 5 £85,000 +54.55% 2
Hampshire +8 1 £82,500 +6.45% 3
Middlesex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £90,000 - 2
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 South East region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 41 (91.11%) Data Modelling
2 39 (86.67%) Azure
3 37 (82.22%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (80.00%) Data Integration
5 35 (77.78%) Data Architecture
6 33 (73.33%) Data Engineering
7 25 (55.56%) Data Governance
8 23 (51.11%) Data Quality
8 23 (51.11%) ETL
9 21 (46.67%) GCP
10 20 (44.44%) AI
10 20 (44.44%) Architectural Design
10 20 (44.44%) AWS
10 20 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (44.44%) Data Science
10 20 (44.44%) Machine Learning
10 20 (44.44%) Mentoring
10 20 (44.44%) Roadmaps
11 19 (42.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 19 (42.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (42.22%) Customer Insight
11 19 (42.22%) Data Strategy
11 19 (42.22%) Generative AI
11 19 (42.22%) Strategic Roadmap
12 17 (37.78%) Analytics
13 16 (35.56%) Microsoft
14 15 (33.33%) Snowflake
15 14 (31.11%) Accessibility
15 14 (31.11%) Data Management
15 14 (31.11%) Digital Analytics

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.22%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Maximo
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 39 (86.67%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) GCP
3 20 (44.44%) AWS
4 15 (33.33%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (82.22%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
General
1 20 (44.44%) Law
2 19 (42.22%) Marketing
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (91.11%) Data Modelling
2 36 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 35 (77.78%) Data Architecture
4 33 (73.33%) Data Engineering
5 25 (55.56%) Data Governance
6 23 (51.11%) ETL
7 20 (44.44%) AI
7 20 (44.44%) Architectural Design
7 20 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (44.44%) Data Science
7 20 (44.44%) Machine Learning
7 20 (44.44%) Mentoring
7 20 (44.44%) Roadmaps
8 19 (42.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 19 (42.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (42.22%) Customer Insight
8 19 (42.22%) Data Strategy
8 19 (42.22%) Generative AI
8 19 (42.22%) Strategic Roadmap
9 17 (37.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 5 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (51.11%) Data Quality
2 14 (31.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) ESRI
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Talend