Data Architecture Job Trends in the South East

Data Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 162 238
Rank change year-on-year -56 +76 -26
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 117 140 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.64% 1.56% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.77% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 89 22 43
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £59,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +1.56% +52.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,375 £97,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £79,932
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.17% +0.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,107 7,907 10,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.52% 88.04% 80.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,396 4,166 5,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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 -31 70 £75,000 +23.46% 47
Berkshire -45 29 £90,000 +12.50% 25
Oxfordshire - 21 £75,000 - 10
Buckinghamshire +14 20 £55,000 -6.78% 12
East Sussex - 13 £112,500 - 4
Surrey -23 12 £80,000 -31.18% 8
Kent -15 10 £112,500 +47.54% 5
Hampshire -37 10 £95,000 +5.56% 18
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 (0.85%) Confluence
1 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP HR
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.59%) Azure
2 29 (24.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 22 (18.80%) Azure AI
3 22 (18.80%) Azure Machine Learning
3 22 (18.80%) Power Platform
3 22 (18.80%) Snowflake
4 9 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.84%) Azure Databricks
6 7 (5.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.13%) GCP
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.85%) AWS
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Broadband
1 2 (1.71%) MVNO
1 2 (1.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (32.48%) SQL Server
2 22 (18.80%) Power BI
3 19 (16.24%) Metadata
4 15 (12.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (9.40%) Relational Database
6 10 (8.55%) Tableau
7 8 (6.84%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.98%) Amazon QuickSight
8 7 (5.98%) DynamoDB
8 7 (5.98%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.98%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (5.98%) Star Schema
9 6 (5.13%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.13%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) JIRA
General
1 52 (44.44%) Finance
2 15 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (9.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.69%) Law
6 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.98%) Marketing
8 6 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.42%) Banking
9 4 (3.42%) Italian Language
9 4 (3.42%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.71%) Legal
10 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (36.75%) Architect
2 39 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 23 (19.66%) Engineering Manager
4 22 (18.80%) Data Manager
5 18 (15.38%) Finance Manager
6 13 (11.11%) Analyst
7 12 (10.26%) Systems Analyst
8 11 (9.40%) Senior
9 10 (8.55%) Data Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.13%) Graduate
12 4 (3.42%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Head of AI
12 4 (3.42%) Head of Finance
12 4 (3.42%) Head of Operations
12 4 (3.42%) Lead
13 3 (2.56%) Lead Architect
13 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Engineer
13 3 (2.56%) Product Owner
13 3 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.42%) PySpark
2 3 (2.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.55%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.71%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.71%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.85%) Clustering
8 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.28%) AI
2 51 (43.59%) Agile
3 49 (41.88%) Roadmaps
4 46 (39.32%) Data Engineering
5 41 (35.04%) Data Governance
5 41 (35.04%) Regulatory Compliance
6 36 (30.77%) Data Modelling
7 32 (27.35%) Analytics
8 28 (23.93%) Computer Science
8 28 (23.93%) Decision-Making
9 25 (21.37%) Machine Learning
9 25 (21.37%) Migration
10 24 (20.51%) Data Strategy
10 24 (20.51%) Line Management
11 23 (19.66%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (18.80%) Data Development
13 20 (17.09%) Business Strategy
14 18 (15.38%) Data Management
14 18 (15.38%) ETL
15 17 (14.53%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.17%) SQL
2 15 (12.82%) Python
3 7 (5.98%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (29.91%) Degree
2 21 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 10 (8.55%) ACCA
4 10 (8.55%) CIMA
5 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CCA
6 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.37%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (5.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.42%) GRC
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 22 (18.80%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 46 (39.32%) Microsoft
2 38 (32.48%) Databricks
3 12 (10.26%) Oracle
3 12 (10.26%) SAP
4 10 (8.55%) Sage
5 9 (7.69%) Google
6 7 (5.98%) Informatica
6 7 (5.98%) Talend
7 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) Siebel
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe