Data Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 453 356
Rank change year-on-year +153 -97 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 449 87 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.25% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.28% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 309 35 156
10th Percentile £59,250 £59,825 -
25th Percentile £70,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -6.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,159 30,989 48,952
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 89.62% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 55,290 17,375 26,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -8.33%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
North of England +111 195 £75,000 -20.00% 64
North West +53 79 £75,000 - 30
Midlands +21 78 £75,000 +5.35% 46
Yorkshire +37 76 £77,500 -8.82% 19
South West -10 76 £90,000 +30.43% 15
South East -16 69 £85,000 -1.45% 49
West Midlands +11 64 £80,000 +12.37% 37
North East -35 40 £70,000 -30.00% 15
Scotland +19 18 £105,000 +5.00% 49
East of England -23 16 £71,000 +18.89% 14
East Midlands -29 14 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Northern Ireland -77 2 £100,000 - 9
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 211 (46.99%) Data Architecture
2 147 (32.74%) Data Modelling
3 110 (24.50%) Data Strategy
4 100 (22.27%) Azure
5 94 (20.94%) Data Governance
6 88 (19.60%) Analytics
7 69 (15.37%) Metadata
8 68 (15.14%) Data Quality
9 62 (13.81%) AI
10 60 (13.36%) Databricks
11 58 (12.92%) Decision-Making
12 56 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
13 50 (11.14%) Roadmaps
14 48 (10.69%) Agile
14 48 (10.69%) Metadata Management
15 42 (9.35%) AWS
16 39 (8.69%) Data Engineering
16 39 (8.69%) Data Integration
17 36 (8.02%) ETL
17 36 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (7.35%) Data Management
18 33 (7.35%) Mentoring
18 33 (7.35%) Power BI
18 33 (7.35%) Power Platform
18 33 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
19 32 (7.13%) Degree
20 31 (6.90%) Logical Data Model
20 31 (6.90%) Master Data Management
20 31 (6.90%) Microsoft
20 31 (6.90%) Physical Data Model

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (2.00%) Apache
2 7 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.89%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.89%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.67%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (22.27%) Azure
2 42 (9.35%) AWS
3 33 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.46%) GCP
5 28 (6.24%) Azure Databricks
6 12 (2.67%) Snowflake
7 11 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.56%) Serverless
11 6 (1.34%) SaaS
12 5 (1.11%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.89%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (0.89%) GitHub
14 3 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.37%) Metadata
2 33 (7.35%) Power BI
3 25 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (4.68%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.67%) Metadata Repository
6 10 (2.23%) Semantic Layer
6 10 (2.23%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.78%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.78%) Tableau
9 7 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.56%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.34%) Big Data
11 5 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.11%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.11%) Flink
11 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.11%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.11%) MLflow
1 5 (1.11%) Toad
2 2 (0.45%) GitLab
2 2 (0.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.22%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.22%) ERwin
3 1 (0.22%) Git
General
1 58 (12.92%) Public Sector
2 51 (11.36%) Finance
3 39 (8.69%) Social Skills
4 33 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (2.90%) Legal
6 13 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.00%) Retail
8 8 (1.78%) Local Government
9 7 (1.56%) Law
10 6 (1.34%) Banking
10 6 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.11%) Advertising
12 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.00%) Terraform
2 3 (0.67%) Middleware
2 3 (0.67%) PySpark
3 2 (0.45%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.45%) JSON
3 2 (0.45%) Kafka
3 2 (0.45%) XML
4 1 (0.22%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.22%) REST
4 1 (0.22%) RESTful
4 1 (0.22%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.45%) Data Fabric
2 11 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
4 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 7 (1.56%) Taxonomies
5 6 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.34%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.11%) Blockchain
7 4 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.45%) PMI
9 2 (0.45%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.45%) SystemC
10 1 (0.22%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.22%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (46.99%) Data Architecture
2 147 (32.74%) Data Modelling
3 110 (24.50%) Data Strategy
4 94 (20.94%) Data Governance
5 88 (19.60%) Analytics
6 62 (13.81%) AI
7 58 (12.92%) Decision-Making
8 56 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (11.14%) Roadmaps
10 48 (10.69%) Agile
10 48 (10.69%) Metadata Management
11 39 (8.69%) Data Engineering
11 39 (8.69%) Data Integration
12 36 (8.02%) ETL
12 36 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (7.35%) Data Management
13 33 (7.35%) Mentoring
13 33 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (6.90%) Logical Data Model
14 31 (6.90%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.01%) SQL
2 20 (4.45%) Python
3 10 (2.23%) Scala
4 6 (1.34%) R
5 5 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.67%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (7.13%) Degree
2 29 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.90%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.67%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.34%) CIPD
9 4 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.67%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CCA
12 1 (0.22%) CCNP
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.22%) HND
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) OCP
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.14%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.57%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.45%) IFRS
4 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.45%) SLA
4 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (13.36%) Databricks
2 31 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.34%) SAP
4 9 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.78%) Oracle
6 6 (1.34%) Google
7 4 (0.89%) Workday
8 3 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.67%) Informatica
9 2 (0.45%) Foundry
9 2 (0.45%) Palantir
10 1 (0.22%) Denodo
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.22%) Sparx
10 1 (0.22%) Thales