Senior Data Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 550 532
Rank change year-on-year +75 -18 +229
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 27 17 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.046% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.050% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 21
10th Percentile £88,500 - -
25th Percentile - £56,809 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £61,206 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +47.04% - -14.86%
75th Percentile - £70,475 £70,000
90th Percentile - £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £110,000 £91,250 £61,206
% change year-on-year +20.55% +49.09% -21.02%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 37,803 34,118 30,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 92.97% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22,898 16,838 23,053
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Data Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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 +41 19 - - 1
East of England - 7 £90,000 -
North of England +10 1 - - 13
Yorkshire -6 1 - - 6
Senior Data Architect
UK

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 January 2026, Senior Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 21 (77.78%) AWS
1 21 (77.78%) Data Governance
2 20 (74.07%) Azure
2 20 (74.07%) Data Architecture
2 20 (74.07%) Data Integration
2 20 (74.07%) Data Modelling
2 20 (74.07%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (74.07%) Data Quality
2 20 (74.07%) Data Strategy
2 20 (74.07%) ETL
2 20 (74.07%) GCP
2 20 (74.07%) Generative AI
2 20 (74.07%) Mentoring
2 20 (74.07%) Roadmaps
3 19 (70.37%) AI
3 19 (70.37%) Architectural Design
3 19 (70.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 19 (70.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (70.37%) Customer Insight
3 19 (70.37%) Data Engineering
3 19 (70.37%) Data Science
3 19 (70.37%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (70.37%) Machine Learning
3 19 (70.37%) Strategic Roadmap
4 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.41%) Metadata
6 1 (3.70%) Agile
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (3.70%) Data Design
6 1 (3.70%) Data Lineage

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 20 (74.07%) Azure
2 20 (74.07%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
General
1 19 (70.37%) Law
1 19 (70.37%) Marketing
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Data Governance
2 20 (74.07%) Data Architecture
2 20 (74.07%) Data Integration
2 20 (74.07%) Data Modelling
2 20 (74.07%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (74.07%) Data Strategy
2 20 (74.07%) ETL
2 20 (74.07%) Generative AI
2 20 (74.07%) Mentoring
2 20 (74.07%) Roadmaps
3 19 (70.37%) AI
3 19 (70.37%) Architectural Design
3 19 (70.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 19 (70.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (70.37%) Customer Insight
3 19 (70.37%) Data Engineering
3 19 (70.37%) Data Science
3 19 (70.37%) Machine Learning
3 19 (70.37%) Strategic Roadmap
4 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (74.07%) Data Quality