Data Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 397 505
Rank change year-on-year -58 +108 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 102 422 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.60% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.63% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 71 240 156
10th Percentile £56,809 £52,325 £52,818
25th Percentile £70,000 £59,300 £66,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -7.81% +14.29%
75th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £91,563
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £111,875
UK median annual salary £94,637 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +14.71% -8.33% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Architect 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North of England -19 31 £85,000 +13.33% 13
Midlands +45 27 £78,750 +32.80% 12
West Midlands +23 25 £80,750 +36.17% 9
South East +16 25 £82,500 -2.94% 40
Yorkshire +42 17 £94,637 +18.30% 5
Scotland +115 13 £97,500 +34.48% 3
North West -23 11 £82,500 +17.86% 7
North East +33 5 £70,000 -9.68% 1
East of England +41 3 £77,500 +55.00% 2
South West +64 2 - - 6
East Midlands +40 2 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Wales +42 1 £72,931 +32.60% 1
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 75 (73.53%) Data Architecture
2 50 (49.02%) Data Modelling
3 44 (43.14%) Azure
4 38 (37.25%) Analytics
5 34 (33.33%) Data Strategy
6 30 (29.41%) Finance
7 27 (26.47%) SQL
8 24 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (22.55%) Agile
9 23 (22.55%) Data Management
9 23 (22.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (22.55%) Roadmaps
10 22 (21.57%) Data Governance
11 21 (20.59%) Enterprise Architecture
12 20 (19.61%) TOGAF
12 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
12 20 (19.61%) Logical Data Model
13 18 (17.65%) Physical Data Model
13 18 (17.65%) DevOps
13 18 (17.65%) Data Lake
13 18 (17.65%) Databricks
14 17 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (16.67%) AWS
14 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
15 16 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (15.69%) Public Sector
15 16 (15.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
15 16 (15.69%) NoSQL
16 15 (14.71%) GCP

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) Apache
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.96%) IBM Domino
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.98%) Luigi
4 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.98%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.14%) Azure
2 23 (22.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 17 (16.67%) AWS
4 16 (15.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (14.71%) GCP
6 11 (10.78%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.82%) Snowflake
8 6 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (5.88%) SaaS
9 5 (4.90%) IaaS
9 5 (4.90%) PaaS
10 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.94%) Azure Stack
11 3 (2.94%) Boomi
11 3 (2.94%) dbt
11 3 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 16 (15.69%) NoSQL
4 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
5 12 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (10.78%) RDBMS
6 11 (10.78%) Relational Database
7 9 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (8.82%) Power BI
8 5 (4.90%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.90%) Metadata
9 4 (3.92%) Big Data
10 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.96%) Flink
11 2 (1.96%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (1.96%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.96%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) ERwin
2 2 (1.96%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.98%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.98%) JIRA
3 1 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (29.41%) Finance
2 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.82%) Banking
6 5 (4.90%) Retail
7 3 (2.94%) Advertising
7 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.94%) Marketing
8 2 (1.96%) Automotive
8 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Local Government
8 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.98%) Law
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.88%) PySpark
2 2 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (0.98%) .NET
3 1 (0.98%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.98%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.96%) IoT
5 2 (1.96%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.96%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (73.53%) Data Architecture
2 50 (49.02%) Data Modelling
3 38 (37.25%) Analytics
4 34 (33.33%) Data Strategy
5 23 (22.55%) Agile
5 23 (22.55%) Data Management
5 23 (22.55%) Roadmaps
6 22 (21.57%) Data Governance
7 21 (20.59%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (19.61%) Logical Data Model
8 20 (19.61%) TOGAF
9 18 (17.65%) DevOps
9 18 (17.65%) Physical Data Model
10 17 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
12 15 (14.71%) Data Engineering
13 14 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (12.75%) Risk Management
14 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.47%) SQL
2 13 (12.75%) Python
3 5 (4.90%) Java
4 4 (3.92%) Scala
5 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.98%) C#
6 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.98%) PHP
6 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.92%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.98%) CFA
5 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) Accessibility
1 9 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.65%) Databricks
3 8 (7.84%) Google
4 6 (5.88%) SAP
5 4 (3.92%) Informatica
6 3 (2.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.98%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.98%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.98%) IBM
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) Zoho