Data Architect Job Trends 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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 252 239
Rank change year-on-year +41 -13 +135
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 62 69 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.65% 0.63% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.67% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13 36 26
10th Percentile - £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £82,500 £69,063 £68,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £95,313 £88,438
90th Percentile - £98,125 £104,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +3.03% -5.71%

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 8,759 10,367 7,060
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 95.05% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,515 5,793 5,084
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 30 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 30 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 +58 52 £90,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire +33 31 £90,000 -
Berkshire +11 19 - - 1
East Sussex +26 10 £87,500 +59.09% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £90,000 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 53 (85.48%) Azure
2 49 (79.03%) Data Modelling
3 46 (74.19%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (72.58%) Data Architecture
5 43 (69.35%) Data Integration
6 41 (66.13%) Data Engineering
7 26 (41.94%) Analytics
7 26 (41.94%) Data Governance
8 25 (40.32%) ETL
9 24 (38.71%) Data Quality
9 24 (38.71%) Digital Analytics
9 24 (38.71%) E-Commerce
9 24 (38.71%) Snowflake
10 23 (37.10%) Microsoft
11 22 (35.48%) Accessibility
11 22 (35.48%) Data Management
12 21 (33.87%) Data Strategy
12 21 (33.87%) GCP
13 20 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (30.65%) AI
14 19 (30.65%) Architectural Design
14 19 (30.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 19 (30.65%) AWS
14 19 (30.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (30.65%) Customer Insight
14 19 (30.65%) Data Science
14 19 (30.65%) Generative AI
14 19 (30.65%) Machine Learning
14 19 (30.65%) Mentoring
14 19 (30.65%) Roadmaps

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:

Cloud Services
1 53 (85.48%) Azure
2 24 (38.71%) Snowflake
3 21 (33.87%) GCP
4 19 (30.65%) AWS
5 8 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.61%) dbt
7 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (74.19%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (32.26%) Law
2 19 (30.65%) Marketing
3 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.61%) Finance
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (79.03%) Data Modelling
2 45 (72.58%) Data Architecture
3 43 (69.35%) Data Integration
4 41 (66.13%) Data Engineering
5 26 (41.94%) Analytics
5 26 (41.94%) Data Governance
6 25 (40.32%) ETL
7 24 (38.71%) Digital Analytics
7 24 (38.71%) E-Commerce
8 22 (35.48%) Data Management
9 21 (33.87%) Data Strategy
10 20 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (30.65%) AI
11 19 (30.65%) Architectural Design
11 19 (30.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (30.65%) Customer Insight
11 19 (30.65%) Data Science
11 19 (30.65%) Machine Learning
11 19 (30.65%) Mentoring
11 19 (30.65%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (38.71%) Data Quality
2 22 (35.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
Vendors
1 23 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Google