Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 442 396
Rank change year-on-year +187 -46 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 796 237 534
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.53% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 568 123 355
10th Percentile £60,484 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £94,637 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +11.34% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,375 £98,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 95,905 44,405 83,583
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 90.07% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,604 26,372 57,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.87%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 July 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
England +213 729 £85,000 -10.18% 202
UK excluding London +151 392 £82,500 -2.94% 103
London +121 343 £90,000 -13.04% 127
Work from Home +103 208 £85,000 -10.18% 97
North of England +78 141 £80,000 -15.47% 28
South West +11 75 £85,000 - 7
Midlands +16 73 £80,000 -1.84% 21
North West +65 68 £80,000 -5.88% 11
West Midlands +34 65 £80,000 -5.88% 19
South East +15 60 £85,000 -5.56% 27
Yorkshire -5 47 £80,000 -15.47% 10
North East -26 26 £70,000 -30.00% 7
Scotland +25 24 £95,000 +2.70% 8
East of England +1 18 £71,000 +18.89% 3
East Midlands -21 8 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Wales - 1 - - 1

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, 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 featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 377 (47.36%) Data Architecture
2 278 (34.92%) Data Modelling
3 235 (29.52%) Data Governance
4 233 (29.27%) Analytics
5 230 (28.89%) Data Strategy
6 223 (28.02%) Azure
7 183 (22.99%) AI
8 166 (20.85%) Databricks
9 149 (18.72%) Data Quality
10 142 (17.84%) AWS
11 133 (16.71%) Roadmaps
12 120 (15.08%) SQL
13 113 (14.20%) Metadata
14 109 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
15 95 (11.93%) Data Engineering
16 93 (11.68%) Machine Learning
16 93 (11.68%) Security Cleared
17 89 (11.18%) GCP
18 87 (10.93%) Microsoft
19 84 (10.55%) Data Lake
19 84 (10.55%) Decision-Making
19 84 (10.55%) Snowflake
20 75 (9.42%) Python
21 74 (9.30%) Agile
22 73 (9.17%) Logical Data Model
22 73 (9.17%) Migration
23 69 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
23 69 (8.67%) Physical Data Model
24 68 (8.54%) ETL
25 67 (8.42%) Data Management

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.38%) Apache
3 6 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.63%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 223 (28.02%) Azure
2 142 (17.84%) AWS
3 89 (11.18%) GCP
4 84 (10.55%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.29%) Power Platform
6 65 (8.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.39%) dbt
11 16 (2.01%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.51%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (0.88%) GitHub
15 6 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.75%) SaaS
16 5 (0.63%) PaaS
16 5 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (14.20%) Metadata
2 84 (10.55%) Data Lake
3 69 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.66%) Power BI
5 41 (5.15%) Data Vault
6 29 (3.64%) Delta Lake
7 26 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.89%) Tableau
9 17 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.88%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
11 13 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.51%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.51%) Star Schema
13 10 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.13%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.88%) Big Data
16 6 (0.75%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 8 (1.01%) MLflow
2 5 (0.63%) Git
2 5 (0.63%) Toad
3 4 (0.50%) GitLab
4 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 3 (0.38%) JIRA
5 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
6 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
General
1 145 (18.22%) Finance
2 105 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 87 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.14%) Law
7 24 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (2.89%) Legal
9 20 (2.51%) Retail
10 13 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.75%) Local Government
12 6 (0.75%) Marketing
13 5 (0.63%) Advertising
13 5 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.50%) Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.14%) PySpark
2 10 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.75%) Middleware
4 3 (0.38%) JSON
4 3 (0.38%) Kafka
4 3 (0.38%) REST
4 3 (0.38%) SOAP
4 3 (0.38%) XML
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.13%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 23 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (2.89%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.76%) Data Structures
4 10 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.13%) Data Fabric
6 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
7 7 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.88%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.75%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.63%) Blockchain
9 5 (0.63%) IoT
9 5 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (0.63%) NHS
9 5 (0.63%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.50%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.38%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (47.36%) Data Architecture
2 278 (34.92%) Data Modelling
3 235 (29.52%) Data Governance
4 233 (29.27%) Analytics
5 230 (28.89%) Data Strategy
6 183 (22.99%) AI
7 133 (16.71%) Roadmaps
8 109 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (11.93%) Data Engineering
10 93 (11.68%) Machine Learning
11 84 (10.55%) Decision-Making
12 74 (9.30%) Agile
13 73 (9.17%) Logical Data Model
13 73 (9.17%) Migration
14 69 (8.67%) Physical Data Model
15 68 (8.54%) ETL
16 67 (8.42%) Data Management
17 59 (7.41%) Data Integration
18 56 (7.04%) Architectural Patterns
19 55 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 120 (15.08%) SQL
2 75 (9.42%) Python
3 19 (2.39%) Scala
4 12 (1.51%) Bicep
5 4 (0.50%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.78%) Degree
3 44 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.51%) SnowPro
7 11 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.13%) CIPD
10 5 (0.63%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (18.72%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.77%) GDPR
3 17 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.38%) QA
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (2.39%) Terraform
2 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 166 (20.85%) Databricks
2 87 (10.93%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.89%) SAP
4 29 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.76%) Oracle
6 21 (2.64%) Google
7 10 (1.26%) Palantir
8 6 (0.75%) Foundry
8 6 (0.75%) Informatica
8 6 (0.75%) Workday
9 4 (0.50%) Sage
10 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.25%) Meraki
11 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.13%) Alteryx