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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 476 400
Rank change year-on-year +243 -76 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 782 206 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.50% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 580 114 436
10th Percentile £60,736 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £109,375
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 90,569 41,555 99,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.51% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 62,167 23,987 72,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -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 30 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 30 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 +231 708 £85,000 -12.82% 128
UK excluding London +199 420 £82,500 -2.94% 80
London +102 299 £90,000 -14.29% 76
Work from Home +128 219 £85,000 -10.18% 65
North of England +82 160 £80,000 -15.47% 15
Midlands +18 75 £80,000 -1.84% 15
North West +64 70 £80,000 -5.88% 11
South East +28 67 £85,000 -5.56% 26
West Midlands +25 67 £80,000 -3.03% 10
South West +2 67 £84,000 -1.18% 14
Yorkshire +14 57 £80,000 -15.47% 4
North East -19 33 £70,000 -30.00%
Scotland +28 29 £95,000 +2.70% 10
East of England +2 21 £71,000 +30.42%
East Midlands -21 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 349 (44.63%) Data Architecture
2 252 (32.23%) Data Modelling
3 242 (30.95%) Data Governance
4 224 (28.64%) Data Strategy
5 222 (28.39%) Azure
6 207 (26.47%) Analytics
7 155 (19.82%) Databricks
8 146 (18.67%) AWS
9 142 (18.16%) AI
10 141 (18.03%) Data Quality
11 111 (14.19%) Metadata
12 110 (14.07%) Roadmaps
13 102 (13.04%) SQL
14 92 (11.76%) GCP
15 87 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
16 84 (10.74%) Data Engineering
17 81 (10.36%) Microsoft
18 79 (10.10%) Machine Learning
19 78 (9.97%) Security Cleared
20 76 (9.72%) Agile
20 76 (9.72%) Migration
21 74 (9.46%) Decision-Making
22 73 (9.34%) Data Management
22 73 (9.34%) Snowflake
23 69 (8.82%) Data Lake
23 69 (8.82%) Logical Data Model
24 67 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
25 66 (8.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
26 65 (8.31%) Physical Data Model
27 63 (8.06%) 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 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.41%) Apache
3 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 222 (28.39%) Azure
2 146 (18.67%) AWS
3 92 (11.76%) GCP
4 73 (9.34%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 51 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 21 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.05%) dbt
11 15 (1.92%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.77%) SaaS
14 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.64%) Collibra
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) MQTT
1 2 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.19%) Metadata
2 69 (8.82%) Data Lake
3 67 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.88%) Power BI
5 31 (3.96%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.30%) Delta Lake
7 18 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.05%) Tableau
9 15 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.66%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (1.02%) Big Data
14 8 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
14 8 (1.02%) Star Schema
15 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Git
1 5 (0.64%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 137 (17.52%) Finance
2 105 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 97 (12.40%) Social Skills
4 51 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (2.69%) Retail
8 18 (2.30%) Law
9 17 (2.17%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.79%) Legal
11 9 (1.15%) Banking
11 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.77%) Local Government
12 6 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.64%) Advertising
13 5 (0.64%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Marketing
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.26%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.26%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.41%) PySpark
2 10 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.77%) Middleware
4 4 (0.51%) Kafka
5 3 (0.38%) REST
5 3 (0.38%) 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 44 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 23 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.66%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 7 (0.90%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.64%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.64%) NHS
9 5 (0.64%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.51%) IoT
10 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.38%) Replication
12 2 (0.26%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (44.63%) Data Architecture
2 252 (32.23%) Data Modelling
3 242 (30.95%) Data Governance
4 224 (28.64%) Data Strategy
5 207 (26.47%) Analytics
6 142 (18.16%) AI
7 110 (14.07%) Roadmaps
8 87 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
9 84 (10.74%) Data Engineering
10 79 (10.10%) Machine Learning
11 76 (9.72%) Agile
11 76 (9.72%) Migration
12 74 (9.46%) Decision-Making
13 73 (9.34%) Data Management
14 69 (8.82%) Logical Data Model
15 65 (8.31%) Physical Data Model
16 63 (8.06%) ETL
17 61 (7.80%) Data Integration
18 59 (7.54%) Metadata Management
19 56 (7.16%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 102 (13.04%) SQL
2 58 (7.42%) Python
3 12 (1.53%) Scala
4 8 (1.02%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.13%) Java
6 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (9.97%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.39%) Degree
3 35 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.15%) CIPD
9 9 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.02%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.20%) GDPR
3 11 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.51%) 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%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (1.79%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 155 (19.82%) Databricks
2 81 (10.36%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.35%) SAP
4 28 (3.58%) Google
5 24 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.94%) Oracle
7 10 (1.28%) Palantir
8 7 (0.90%) Informatica
9 6 (0.77%) Foundry
10 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 4 (0.51%) Workday
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.26%) Meraki
12 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.13%) Alteryx