Data Architecture Jobs in the South East

Data Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 281 248
Rank change year-on-year +107 -33 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 144 116 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.52% 0.67% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.80% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33 55 90
10th Percentile £61,500 £50,000 £43,175
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,125 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,238 £85,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.84% +44.68% -6.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £106,500 £97,300
England median annual salary £81,500 £80,000 £80,500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -0.62% +7.33%

All Process and 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 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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 +109 107 £73,238 +8.50% 168
Berkshire +106 94 £67,000 +5.51% 108
Surrey +56 16 £76,250 +27.08% 36
Buckinghamshire +22 13 £73,238 -5.50% 36
Kent +37 8 £82,500 -2.94% 36
Middlesex - 8 £90,000 -
Hampshire +33 3 £85,000 -5.56% 52
East Sussex +22 1 - - 18
West Sussex - 1 - - 15
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 15 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.17%) Apache
4 2 (1.39%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.39%) Azure
2 41 (28.47%) AWS
3 36 (25.00%) GCP
4 26 (18.06%) Snowflake
5 9 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.08%) Alation
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.39%) dbt
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.39%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.69%) Collibra
9 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 31 (21.53%) Metadata
4 16 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 15 (10.42%) Hadoop
6 11 (7.64%) Big Data
7 7 (4.86%) Power BI
8 6 (4.17%) Apache Hudi
8 6 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (4.17%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.08%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.08%) Tableau
10 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.39%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.08%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.69%) ERwin
General
1 98 (68.06%) Law
2 39 (27.08%) Finance
3 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (65.97%) Lead
2 37 (25.69%) Senior
3 19 (13.19%) Architect
4 16 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 15 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 9 (6.25%) Data Analytics Director
7 8 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Data Manager
10 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Python Engineer
11 2 (1.39%) Big Data Engineer
11 2 (1.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 2 (1.39%) Head of Architecture
11 2 (1.39%) Head of Data Architecture
11 2 (1.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.42%) Kafka
2 10 (6.94%) PySpark
3 6 (4.17%) PyArrow
4 3 (2.08%) REST
5 1 (0.69%) MDX
5 1 (0.69%) NumPy
5 1 (0.69%) Pandas
5 1 (0.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.64%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.69%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (71.53%) Data Modelling
2 92 (63.89%) Analytics
3 59 (40.97%) Business Transformation
4 56 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (38.89%) Data Governance
4 56 (38.89%) Data Management
5 55 (38.19%) Data Strategy
6 54 (37.50%) Data Engineering
7 51 (35.42%) Roadmaps
8 44 (30.56%) Matrix Organization
9 41 (28.47%) ETL
10 36 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
11 34 (23.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (22.92%) Decision-Making
12 33 (22.92%) ERP
13 31 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (20.14%) Data Acquisition
14 29 (20.14%) Metadata Management
14 29 (20.14%) Product Management
15 28 (19.44%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (38.19%) SQL
2 42 (29.17%) Python
3 9 (6.25%) Java
4 7 (4.86%) Scala
5 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.69%) R
5 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (29.17%) Degree
2 11 (7.64%) Azure Certification
3 9 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.69%) CFA
5 1 (0.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (28.47%) Data Quality
2 34 (23.61%) Accessibility
3 24 (16.67%) QA
4 11 (7.64%) GDPR
5 9 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (4.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (36.11%) SAP
2 27 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.89%) IBM
4 11 (7.64%) Google
5 10 (6.94%) Salesforce
6 8 (5.56%) Databricks
7 7 (4.86%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.69%) dotdigital