Data Architecture Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 286 203
Rank change year-on-year -9 -83 +156
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 326 677 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.92% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.11% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 157 306 305
10th Percentile £54,776 £47,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,238 £75,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +18.11% +1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £79,932 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.09% -0.09% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +107 144 £73,238 -13.84% 451
Midlands +17 62 £65,000 +9.61% 248
North of England -105 45 £75,000 -6.17% 316
West Midlands +32 42 £75,000 +26.48% 135
Scotland +54 37 £74,870 +15.18% 102
Yorkshire +19 28 £75,000 -6.17% 124
South West +72 26 £60,000 +8.11% 154
East Midlands +27 20 £63,500 +41.11% 95
North West -90 19 £75,000 - 146
Northern Ireland +36 6 - - 18
East of England +36 4 £80,000 -27.27% 181
Wales +22 2 £80,000 +45.45% 29
North East +11 2 - - 46
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 23 (7.06%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.76%) Apache
4 3 (0.92%) Luigi
5 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.61%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 150 (46.01%) Azure
2 91 (27.91%) AWS
3 62 (19.02%) GCP
4 52 (15.95%) Snowflake
5 44 (13.50%) Power Platform
6 36 (11.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (4.29%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.84%) Serverless
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.53%) Collibra
11 5 (1.53%) dbt
11 5 (1.53%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.53%) SaaS
12 4 (1.23%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (32.52%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (23.31%) Data Lake
3 42 (12.88%) Metadata
3 42 (12.88%) Power BI
4 28 (8.59%) NoSQL
5 21 (6.44%) Hadoop
5 21 (6.44%) Tableau
6 19 (5.83%) Big Data
7 16 (4.91%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.84%) Apache Hudi
11 6 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (1.84%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.53%) Looker
13 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
14 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.37%) ERwin
2 9 (2.76%) ER Studio
3 6 (1.84%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.53%) JIRA
5 3 (0.92%) Git
6 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.31%) LSMW
7 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (31.90%) Finance
2 102 (31.29%) Law
3 75 (23.01%) Social Skills
4 37 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.59%) Banking
6 19 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.76%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.45%) Advertising
10 7 (2.15%) Retail
11 5 (1.53%) Marketing
12 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.23%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Legal
14 2 (0.61%) Local Government
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.31%) Electronics
15 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 121 (37.12%) Lead
2 115 (35.28%) Architect
3 71 (21.78%) Data Architect
4 57 (17.48%) Senior
5 45 (13.80%) Data Engineer
6 28 (8.59%) Enterprise Architect
7 26 (7.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.29%) Lead Architect
10 11 (3.37%) Data Manager
10 11 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (2.76%) Data Analytics Director
11 9 (2.76%) Lead Data Architect
12 7 (2.15%) Analyst
12 7 (2.15%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (1.84%) Head of Architecture
13 6 (1.84%) Lead Enterprise Architect
14 5 (1.53%) Azure Architect
14 5 (1.53%) Head of Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.83%) Kafka
2 16 (4.91%) PySpark
3 6 (1.84%) PyArrow
4 5 (1.53%) EDI
5 3 (0.92%) MACH
5 3 (0.92%) REST
6 2 (0.61%) Node.js
6 2 (0.61%) Pyramid
7 1 (0.31%) .NET
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.31%) MDX
7 1 (0.31%) NumPy
7 1 (0.31%) OAuth
7 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.31%) OpenID
7 1 (0.31%) Pandas
7 1 (0.31%) SAML
7 1 (0.31%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.60%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.45%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.92%) Life Science
7 3 (0.92%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.61%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.61%) FMCG
8 2 (0.61%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.31%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.31%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.31%) IoT
9 1 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (57.98%) Data Modelling
2 169 (51.84%) Analytics
3 113 (34.66%) Roadmaps
4 110 (33.74%) Business Intelligence
5 106 (32.52%) Data Management
6 104 (31.90%) Data Strategy
7 100 (30.67%) Data Governance
8 94 (28.83%) Data Engineering
9 90 (27.61%) ETL
10 77 (23.62%) Data Pipeline
11 65 (19.94%) Decision-Making
12 63 (19.33%) Agile
13 62 (19.02%) Business Transformation
14 61 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (18.40%) Technical Leadership
16 55 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (16.56%) Matrix Organization
18 46 (14.11%) Enterprise Architecture
19 39 (11.96%) Data Transformation
20 37 (11.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 108 (33.13%) SQL
2 70 (21.47%) Python
3 15 (4.60%) Java
4 10 (3.07%) Scala
5 8 (2.45%) C#
6 7 (2.15%) R
7 4 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.61%) VB
9 1 (0.31%) Go
9 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (17.18%) Degree
2 16 (4.91%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.68%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.07%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.45%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.92%) CITP
9 3 (0.92%) MBA
10 2 (0.61%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CFA
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (23.01%) Data Quality
2 51 (15.64%) Accessibility
3 28 (8.59%) QA
4 24 (7.36%) GDPR
5 14 (4.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (2.45%) Docker
2 6 (1.84%) HDFS
3 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 57 (17.48%) SAP
3 29 (8.90%) Databricks
3 29 (8.90%) Google
4 22 (6.75%) IBM
5 15 (4.60%) Informatica
6 13 (3.99%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.53%) Sparx
9 3 (0.92%) Oracle
10 2 (0.61%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.61%) Fiserv
10 2 (0.61%) IFS
10 2 (0.61%) iManage
10 2 (0.61%) TSYS
11 1 (0.31%) Ariba
11 1 (0.31%) dotdigital
11 1 (0.31%) Facebook
11 1 (0.31%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.31%) StreamSets