Principal Data Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Data Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 729 747
Rank change year-on-year +141 +18 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 3 28 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.039% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.041% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £89,000 - £104,000
25th Percentile £89,375 £68,750 £106,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £72,500 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -38.30% +51.61%
75th Percentile £98,125 £76,250 £126,250
90th Percentile £99,250 - -
UK median annual salary £115,000 £72,500 £117,500
% change year-on-year +58.62% -38.30% +51.61%

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 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
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% -

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Principal 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 Principal Data Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Yorkshire +72 2 £95,000 - 2
North of England +47 2 £95,000 +31.03% 2
South East +89 1 £92,500 - 1
Principal Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Flink
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (33.33%) DAMA
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling

Principal 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Flink
General
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Business Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) DAMA
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification