Data Architecture Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 158 170
Rank change year-on-year +65 +12 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 81 23 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.01% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 0.74% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 15
10th Percentile £48,600 £64,750 £50,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,467 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,238 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -8.45% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,502 £89,375
90th Percentile £111,250 £92,000 £99,000
South East median annual salary £76,250 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -15.28% +12.50% +3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,245 3,106 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.78% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 1,383 2,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Berkshire +29 44 £87,500 +34.62% 19
Buckinghamshire +22 28 £90,000 +22.89% 5
Oxfordshire - 9 £72,500 - 12
Data Architecture
South East

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 15 (18.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (61.73%) Azure
2 26 (32.10%) Snowflake
3 18 (22.22%) Collibra
4 10 (12.35%) AWS
5 8 (9.88%) GCP
5 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) dbt
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.23%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.23%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (40.74%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.75%) Metadata
3 13 (16.05%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.41%) SAP BW
5 5 (6.17%) Power BI
6 3 (3.70%) Data Hub
6 3 (3.70%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.70%) SAP HANA
6 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.47%) Airbyte
7 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.23%) Looker
8 1 (1.23%) MySQL
8 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) ERwin
1 3 (3.70%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (2.47%) Git
General
1 38 (46.91%) Social Skills
2 34 (41.98%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Law
4 7 (8.64%) Marketing
5 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) General Ledger
5 3 (3.70%) Publishing
6 2 (2.47%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (40.74%) Architect
1 33 (40.74%) Data Architect
2 28 (34.57%) Senior
3 18 (22.22%) Data Model Manager
4 15 (18.52%) Lead
4 15 (18.52%) Senior Manager
5 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Architect
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Data Architect
6 3 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 3 (3.70%) Data Manager
6 3 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (3.70%) SAP Data Manager
6 3 (3.70%) SAP Delivery Manager
6 3 (3.70%) SAP Manager
6 3 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Architect
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (2.47%) E-Commerce Architect
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) FHIR
2 2 (2.47%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Algorithms
1 10 (12.35%) Life Science
1 10 (12.35%) Omics
2 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.23%) PropTech
4 1 (1.23%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) Data Modelling
2 45 (55.56%) Analytics
3 37 (45.68%) Data Strategy
4 33 (40.74%) Data Engineering
5 31 (38.27%) Data Integration
6 29 (35.80%) Data Management
7 26 (32.10%) AI
7 26 (32.10%) Data Governance
8 24 (29.63%) E-Commerce
9 22 (27.16%) Digital Analytics
10 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (24.69%) Data Science
11 20 (24.69%) Machine Learning
12 18 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (22.22%) ERP
13 17 (20.99%) Decision-Making
13 17 (20.99%) Master Data Management
14 16 (19.75%) ETL
15 15 (18.52%) SAP Implementation
15 15 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) SQL
2 10 (12.35%) Python
3 1 (1.23%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (40.74%) Degree
2 10 (12.35%) PhD
3 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.70%) PMP
4 3 (3.70%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) MCSE
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.47%) OCP
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (44.44%) Accessibility
2 16 (19.75%) Data Quality
3 10 (12.35%) CDISC
3 10 (12.35%) GxP
3 10 (12.35%) HL7
4 3 (3.70%) GDPR
5 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.47%) SLA
6 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (25.93%) SAP
3 9 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) Informatica