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 £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 536 579
Rank change year-on-year +136 +43 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 421 225 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.42% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 243 150 148
10th Percentile £52,325 £52,375 £49,950
25th Percentile £59,300 £67,500 £56,228
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +15.94% -4.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +147 141 £75,000 -21.05% 13
South East +62 117 £85,000 - 13
North West +58 69 £70,000 -26.32% 7
Midlands +38 64 £59,300 -18.21% 7
West Midlands +67 52 £59,300 -30.24% 3
Yorkshire +104 50 £80,000 -11.11% 4
South West -10 43 £75,000 +10.29% 5
Scotland -51 30 £72,500 +9.85% 4
North East +16 22 £77,500 - 2
East of England +7 19 £50,000 -37.50%
East Midlands -11 12 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Wales +8 5 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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.

1 280 (66.51%) Data Architecture
2 260 (61.76%) Data Modelling
3 195 (46.32%) Azure
4 171 (40.62%) Data Warehouse
5 150 (35.63%) Data Governance
6 148 (35.15%) ETL
7 145 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (33.97%) AWS
8 143 (33.97%) Analytical Skills
9 141 (33.49%) Data Quality
10 127 (30.17%) GDPR
11 126 (29.93%) Data Engineering
12 121 (28.74%) Data Security
13 117 (27.79%) Data Integration
14 111 (26.37%) GCP
14 111 (26.37%) Mentoring
15 109 (25.89%) Analytics
16 102 (24.23%) BigQuery
17 100 (23.75%) Google
18 97 (23.04%) Platform Engineering
19 96 (22.80%) ERD
19 96 (22.80%) Looker
19 96 (22.80%) Innovative Thinking
19 96 (22.80%) Self-Motivation
20 86 (20.43%) Metadata
21 82 (19.48%) Data Strategy
22 77 (18.29%) Finance
23 75 (17.81%) Data Management
24 69 (16.39%) SQL
24 69 (16.39%) Data Design

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 6 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.48%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 195 (46.32%) Azure
2 143 (33.97%) AWS
3 111 (26.37%) GCP
4 39 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 39 (9.26%) Snowflake
5 24 (5.70%) Matillion
6 23 (5.46%) Serverless
7 9 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.14%) SaaS
8 5 (1.19%) Azure Stack
8 5 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.48%) PaaS
11 1 (0.24%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.24%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Extranet
1 2 (0.48%) LAN
1 2 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.48%) WAN
1 2 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (40.62%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (24.23%) BigQuery
3 96 (22.80%) Looker
4 86 (20.43%) Metadata
5 40 (9.50%) Data Lake
6 39 (9.26%) Power BI
7 20 (4.75%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.80%) Data Vault
9 10 (2.38%) Big Data
9 10 (2.38%) Tableau
10 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.43%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.71%) Flink
13 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Git
2 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.48%) ERwin
2 2 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 143 (33.97%) Analytical Skills
2 77 (18.29%) Finance
3 40 (9.50%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (4.99%) Retail
5 20 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.51%) Marketing
7 17 (4.04%) Law
8 15 (3.56%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.85%) Legal
10 9 (2.14%) Banking
11 6 (1.43%) Automotive
11 6 (1.43%) Billing
11 6 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.19%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.95%) Wearables
14 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Advertising
15 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.14%) Kafka
2 7 (1.66%) Middleware
3 3 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (0.71%) REST
3 3 (0.71%) SOAP
4 1 (0.24%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.24%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 96 (22.80%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (9.98%) Management Information System
3 27 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.85%) Taxonomies
5 9 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.90%) Blog
7 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.43%) IoT
9 4 (0.95%) PMI
10 3 (0.71%) Replication
11 2 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.48%) NHS
11 2 (0.48%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.24%) Industry 4.0
12 1 (0.24%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.24%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (66.51%) Data Architecture
2 260 (61.76%) Data Modelling
3 150 (35.63%) Data Governance
4 148 (35.15%) ETL
5 145 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (29.93%) Data Engineering
7 121 (28.74%) Data Security
8 117 (27.79%) Data Integration
9 111 (26.37%) Mentoring
10 109 (25.89%) Analytics
11 97 (23.04%) Platform Engineering
12 96 (22.80%) ERD
12 96 (22.80%) Innovative Thinking
13 82 (19.48%) Data Strategy
14 75 (17.81%) Data Management
15 69 (16.39%) Data Design
16 63 (14.96%) Roadmaps
17 62 (14.73%) Business Intelligence
18 61 (14.49%) Data Science
19 45 (10.69%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.39%) SQL
2 27 (6.41%) T-SQL
3 17 (4.04%) Python
4 9 (2.14%) Java
5 7 (1.66%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.19%) Scala
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.46%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.99%) Degree
4 11 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.19%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.24%) PMP
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (33.49%) Data Quality
2 127 (30.17%) GDPR
3 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (0.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 100 (23.75%) Google
2 42 (9.98%) Databricks
3 19 (4.51%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.90%) Oracle
5 4 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (0.71%) NEC
6 3 (0.71%) SAP
7 2 (0.48%) Cisco
7 2 (0.48%) Informatica
8 1 (0.24%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.24%) ESRI
8 1 (0.24%) Sparx
8 1 (0.24%) Talend
8 1 (0.24%) Teradata