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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 376 550
Rank change year-on-year -118 +174 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 85 465 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.62% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.65% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 50 266 142
10th Percentile £57,475 £52,325 £53,198
25th Percentile £70,467 £57,950 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £96,250 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 31 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 31 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
Midlands +19 23 £79,500 +34.06% 13
West Midlands +24 21 £82,000 +38.28% 13
South East -35 19 £82,500 -2.94% 26
North of England -89 19 £94,637 +26.18% 16
Scotland +106 18 £97,500 +34.48% 13
Yorkshire +17 13 £94,637 +18.30% 7
North West -68 6 £85,000 +17.24% 6
South West +66 3 £70,000 +1.82% 10
East of England +34 3 £72,221 +44.44% 1
North East +30 2 - - 3
East Midlands +29 2 £62,500 -10.71%
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 70 (82.35%) Data Architecture
2 48 (56.47%) Data Modelling
3 42 (49.41%) Azure
4 37 (43.53%) Finance
4 37 (43.53%) Analytics
5 27 (31.76%) SQL
6 26 (30.59%) Data Management
7 23 (27.06%) TOGAF
7 23 (27.06%) Agile
7 23 (27.06%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (25.88%) Data Governance
9 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
10 20 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
10 20 (23.53%) Data Strategy
11 18 (21.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (17.65%) AWS
12 15 (17.65%) Roadmaps
13 14 (16.47%) Databricks
13 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
13 14 (16.47%) Data Engineering
14 13 (15.29%) Logical Data Model
14 13 (15.29%) Data Lake
14 13 (15.29%) Decision-Making
15 12 (14.12%) GCP
15 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
15 12 (14.12%) Data Integration
15 12 (14.12%) Artificial Intelligence
16 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering

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 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) Apache
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.35%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Maximo
2 1 (1.18%) Odoo
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (49.41%) Azure
2 18 (21.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 15 (17.65%) AWS
3 15 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (14.12%) GCP
5 11 (12.94%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.76%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (4.71%) Collibra
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.53%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.53%) Boomi
9 3 (3.53%) dbt
9 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.06%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (15.29%) Data Lake
3 10 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 9 (10.59%) Metadata
4 9 (10.59%) Power BI
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.71%) Big Data
7 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.53%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.35%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.35%) Flink
9 2 (2.35%) Spark SQL
9 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) ERwin
2 2 (2.35%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.18%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (43.53%) Finance
2 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.94%) Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.24%) Retail
7 3 (3.53%) Advertising
8 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Local Government
9 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) PySpark
2 2 (2.35%) Kafka
3 1 (1.18%) .NET
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (82.35%) Data Architecture
2 48 (56.47%) Data Modelling
3 37 (43.53%) Analytics
4 26 (30.59%) Data Management
5 23 (27.06%) Agile
5 23 (27.06%) TOGAF
6 22 (25.88%) Data Governance
7 20 (23.53%) Data Strategy
7 20 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 14 (16.47%) Data Engineering
10 13 (15.29%) Decision-Making
10 13 (15.29%) Logical Data Model
11 12 (14.12%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (14.12%) Data Integration
12 11 (12.94%) ETL
12 11 (12.94%) Migration
12 11 (12.94%) Risk Management
12 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.76%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) Python
3 4 (4.71%) Java
4 3 (3.53%) Scala
5 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.18%) PHP
6 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.35%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) CFA
5 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.88%) GDPR
4 3 (3.53%) QA
5 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Terraform
2 1 (1.18%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.47%) Databricks
3 8 (9.41%) Google
4 7 (8.24%) Informatica
5 6 (7.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.35%) IBM
6 2 (2.35%) Oracle
6 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.18%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.18%) ESRI
7 1 (1.18%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.18%) IFS
7 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Talend
7 1 (1.18%) Zoho