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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 469 380
Rank change year-on-year +231 -89 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 758 206 712
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.46% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.51% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 564 114 458
10th Percentile £61,275 £67,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +20.00% -9.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.94% +17.24% -9.38%

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 89,062 40,399 103,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.44% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,111 23,040 74,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,567
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +237 688 £85,000 -12.82% 111
UK excluding London +188 413 £82,500 -2.94% 68
London +94 289 £90,000 -14.29% 66
Work from Home +142 214 £85,000 -10.18% 60
North of England +103 160 £80,000 -15.47% 13
Midlands +14 71 £80,000 -3.03% 11
South East +29 68 £85,000 -5.56% 27
North West +66 63 £81,250 -4.41% 11
West Midlands +23 63 £80,000 -5.88% 7
Yorkshire +19 63 £80,000 -15.47% 2
South West +1 62 £84,000 -1.18% 12
North East -19 34 £70,000 -
Scotland +27 29 £95,000 +2.70% 4
East of England +2 21 £71,000 -1.69% 2
East Midlands -17 8 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Wales - 2 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 337 (44.46%) Data Architecture
2 248 (32.72%) Data Modelling
3 239 (31.53%) Data Governance
4 222 (29.29%) Azure
5 215 (28.36%) Data Strategy
6 201 (26.52%) Analytics
7 154 (20.32%) Databricks
8 150 (19.79%) AWS
9 140 (18.47%) Data Quality
10 134 (17.68%) AI
11 112 (14.78%) Metadata
12 101 (13.32%) Roadmaps
12 101 (13.32%) SQL
13 91 (12.01%) GCP
14 85 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
15 82 (10.82%) Data Engineering
16 78 (10.29%) Microsoft
17 77 (10.16%) Agile
17 77 (10.16%) Migration
18 76 (10.03%) Machine Learning
18 76 (10.03%) Security Cleared
19 75 (9.89%) Logical Data Model
20 71 (9.37%) Physical Data Model
20 71 (9.37%) Snowflake
21 70 (9.23%) Data Management
22 67 (8.84%) Data Lake
22 67 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
22 67 (8.84%) Decision-Making
23 66 (8.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 65 (8.58%) ETL

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 13 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.45%) Apache
3 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 222 (29.29%) Azure
2 150 (19.79%) AWS
3 91 (12.01%) GCP
4 71 (9.37%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 50 (6.60%) Power Platform
7 32 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.11%) dbt
11 15 (1.98%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.58%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.66%) SaaS
15 4 (0.53%) Collibra
15 4 (0.53%) GitHub
15 4 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (0.40%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) MQTT
1 2 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (14.78%) Metadata
2 67 (8.84%) Data Lake
2 67 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (5.94%) Power BI
4 31 (4.09%) Data Vault
5 26 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.37%) Delta Lake
8 15 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.98%) Tableau
9 14 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.72%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.32%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.32%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.19%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Toad
2 4 (0.53%) Git
2 4 (0.53%) MLflow
3 3 (0.40%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 134 (17.68%) Finance
2 101 (13.32%) Public Sector
3 98 (12.93%) Social Skills
4 53 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (2.90%) Retail
8 18 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.24%) Law
10 13 (1.72%) Legal
11 10 (1.32%) Banking
12 9 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.79%) Local Government
13 6 (0.79%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.66%) Advertising
14 5 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.26%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.26%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.45%) PySpark
2 10 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.79%) Middleware
4 4 (0.53%) Kafka
5 3 (0.40%) REST
5 3 (0.40%) SOAP
6 2 (0.26%) .NET
6 2 (0.26%) pgvector
6 2 (0.26%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.13%) JSON
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.13%) XBRL
7 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.67%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.69%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.58%) Onboarding
4 12 (1.58%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 7 (0.92%) e-Learning
7 7 (0.92%) Reference Data
8 6 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.66%) NHS
9 5 (0.66%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.53%) IoT
10 4 (0.53%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.40%) Replication
12 2 (0.26%) Clustering
12 2 (0.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (44.46%) Data Architecture
2 248 (32.72%) Data Modelling
3 239 (31.53%) Data Governance
4 215 (28.36%) Data Strategy
5 201 (26.52%) Analytics
6 134 (17.68%) AI
7 101 (13.32%) Roadmaps
8 85 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
9 82 (10.82%) Data Engineering
10 77 (10.16%) Agile
10 77 (10.16%) Migration
11 76 (10.03%) Machine Learning
12 75 (9.89%) Logical Data Model
13 71 (9.37%) Physical Data Model
14 70 (9.23%) Data Management
15 67 (8.84%) Decision-Making
16 65 (8.58%) ETL
17 64 (8.44%) Data Integration
18 57 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
19 55 (7.26%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (13.32%) SQL
2 58 (7.65%) Python
3 12 (1.58%) Scala
4 8 (1.06%) Bicep
5 4 (0.53%) R
6 1 (0.13%) Java
6 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (10.03%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.46%) Degree
3 35 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.96%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.19%) SnowPro
9 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.79%) CIPD
11 5 (0.66%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (18.47%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.30%) GDPR
3 8 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.53%) QA
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (1.85%) Terraform
2 5 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 154 (20.32%) Databricks
2 78 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.62%) SAP
4 27 (3.56%) Google
5 24 (3.17%) Oracle
6 23 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.32%) Palantir
8 6 (0.79%) Foundry
8 6 (0.79%) Informatica
9 3 (0.40%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.40%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.40%) Sage
9 3 (0.40%) Workday
10 2 (0.26%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.26%) Meraki
10 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.13%) Alteryx