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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 520 576
Rank change year-on-year +125 +56 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 422 215 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.41% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 244 147 149
10th Percentile £52,325 £52,000 £49,950
25th Percentile £59,300 £67,500 £55,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +15.94% -5.48%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £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 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
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 15 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 15 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 +137 142 £75,000 -21.05% 19
South East +63 117 £85,000 - 15
North West +59 70 £70,000 -26.32% 12
Midlands +40 64 £59,300 -18.21% 9
West Midlands +64 52 £59,300 -30.24% 4
Yorkshire +112 50 £80,000 -11.11% 5
South West -11 43 £75,000 +10.29% 6
Scotland -52 30 £72,500 +9.85% 8
North East +18 22 £77,500 - 2
East of England -3 19 £50,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -18 12 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Wales +4 5 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 (66.35%) Data Architecture
2 260 (61.61%) Data Modelling
3 194 (45.97%) Azure
4 172 (40.76%) Data Warehouse
5 151 (35.78%) Data Governance
6 147 (34.83%) ETL
7 145 (34.36%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (33.89%) AWS
9 142 (33.65%) Data Quality
9 142 (33.65%) Analytical Skills
10 126 (29.86%) Data Engineering
10 126 (29.86%) GDPR
11 121 (28.67%) Data Security
12 117 (27.73%) Data Integration
13 111 (26.30%) GCP
13 111 (26.30%) Mentoring
14 109 (25.83%) Analytics
15 102 (24.17%) BigQuery
16 100 (23.70%) Google
17 97 (22.99%) Platform Engineering
18 96 (22.75%) ERD
18 96 (22.75%) Looker
18 96 (22.75%) Innovative Thinking
18 96 (22.75%) Self-Motivation
19 86 (20.38%) Metadata
20 82 (19.43%) Data Strategy
21 77 (18.25%) Finance
22 75 (17.77%) Data Management
23 69 (16.35%) SQL
24 68 (16.11%) 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 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.47%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 194 (45.97%) Azure
2 143 (33.89%) AWS
3 111 (26.30%) GCP
4 38 (9.00%) Power Platform
4 38 (9.00%) Snowflake
5 23 (5.45%) Matillion
6 22 (5.21%) Serverless
7 9 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.13%) SaaS
8 5 (1.18%) Azure Stack
8 5 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.47%) PaaS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Extranet
1 2 (0.47%) LAN
1 2 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.47%) WAN
1 2 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (40.76%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (24.17%) BigQuery
3 96 (22.75%) Looker
4 86 (20.38%) Metadata
5 39 (9.24%) Data Lake
6 38 (9.00%) Power BI
7 21 (4.98%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.79%) Data Vault
9 10 (2.37%) Big Data
9 10 (2.37%) 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 (1.42%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Git
2 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.47%) ERwin
2 2 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 142 (33.65%) Analytical Skills
2 77 (18.25%) Finance
3 40 (9.48%) Social Skills
4 21 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (4.98%) Retail
5 20 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.50%) Marketing
7 17 (4.03%) Law
8 15 (3.55%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.84%) Legal
10 9 (2.13%) Banking
11 6 (1.42%) Automotive
11 6 (1.42%) Billing
11 6 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.18%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.95%) Wearables
14 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.47%) Advertising
15 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.13%) Kafka
2 8 (1.90%) 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 (22.75%) Self-Motivation
2 43 (10.19%) Management Information System
3 27 (6.40%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.84%) Taxonomies
5 9 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.90%) Blog
7 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.42%) IoT
9 4 (0.95%) PMI
10 3 (0.71%) Replication
11 2 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.47%) NHS
11 2 (0.47%) 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 9 (2.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (66.35%) Data Architecture
2 260 (61.61%) Data Modelling
3 151 (35.78%) Data Governance
4 147 (34.83%) ETL
5 145 (34.36%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (29.86%) Data Engineering
7 121 (28.67%) Data Security
8 117 (27.73%) Data Integration
9 111 (26.30%) Mentoring
10 109 (25.83%) Analytics
11 97 (22.99%) Platform Engineering
12 96 (22.75%) ERD
12 96 (22.75%) Innovative Thinking
13 82 (19.43%) Data Strategy
14 75 (17.77%) Data Management
15 68 (16.11%) Data Design
16 64 (15.17%) Roadmaps
17 62 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
18 60 (14.22%) Data Science
19 45 (10.66%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.35%) SQL
2 26 (6.16%) T-SQL
3 18 (4.27%) Python
4 10 (2.37%) Java
5 8 (1.90%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.18%) Scala
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.69%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.98%) Degree
4 11 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.18%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.47%) 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
1 142 (33.65%) Data Quality
2 126 (29.86%) 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 (23.70%) Google
2 41 (9.72%) Databricks
3 19 (4.50%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.90%) Oracle
5 4 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (0.71%) NEC
6 3 (0.71%) SAP
7 2 (0.47%) Cisco
7 2 (0.47%) 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