Data Architect Job Trends in the South East

Data Architect
England > South East

The median Data Architect salary in the South East is £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 223 268
Rank change year-on-year -36 +45 +154
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 30 93 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.34% 0.78% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.81% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6 56 19
10th Percentile - £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £66,250 £74,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.88% +19.30%
75th Percentile £93,750 £96,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £100,625 £97,500 £128,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%

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 8,033 11,436 7,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 96.42% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,488 6,474 5,460
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,730 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,520 £53,294 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +2 25 £93,750 +4.17% 15
Berkshire +13 20 £97,500 - 9
Buckinghamshire -5 4 - - 5
Kent - 2 £82,500 -
East Sussex +15 1 £90,000 +63.64% 1
Hampshire +11 1 £82,500 +6.45% 5
Middlesex - 1 - - 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 15 October 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 28 (93.33%) Data Modelling
2 25 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (83.33%) Azure
3 24 (80.00%) Data Architecture
3 24 (80.00%) Data Integration
4 23 (76.67%) Data Governance
5 21 (70.00%) Data Quality
5 21 (70.00%) GCP
5 21 (70.00%) Data Engineering
5 21 (70.00%) ETL
5 21 (70.00%) Data Strategy
6 20 (66.67%) Architectural Design
6 20 (66.67%) Data Science
6 20 (66.67%) Roadmaps
6 20 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (66.67%) AI
6 20 (66.67%) Law
6 20 (66.67%) Mentoring
6 20 (66.67%) Machine Learning
6 20 (66.67%) AWS
7 19 (63.33%) Customer Insight
7 19 (63.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (63.33%) Marketing
7 19 (63.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 19 (63.33%) Generative AI
7 19 (63.33%) Strategic Roadmap
8 7 (23.33%) Analytics
9 6 (20.00%) SQL
10 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (13.33%) Microsoft

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 (3.33%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Maximo
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Azure
2 21 (70.00%) GCP
3 20 (66.67%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.33%) dbt
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.00%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.67%) Metadata
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
General
1 20 (66.67%) Law
2 19 (63.33%) Marketing
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Data Modelling
2 24 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 24 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 23 (76.67%) Data Governance
4 21 (70.00%) Data Engineering
4 21 (70.00%) Data Strategy
4 21 (70.00%) ETL
5 20 (66.67%) AI
5 20 (66.67%) Architectural Design
5 20 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (66.67%) Data Science
5 20 (66.67%) Machine Learning
5 20 (66.67%) Mentoring
5 20 (66.67%) Roadmaps
6 19 (63.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 19 (63.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (63.33%) Customer Insight
6 19 (63.33%) Generative AI
6 19 (63.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (23.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Databricks
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) ESRI
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Talend