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 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 458 373
Rank change year-on-year +211 -85 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 896 229 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.46% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.51% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 630 114 285
10th Percentile £62,500 £65,477 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,775 £113,888
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -12.10%

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 109,690 44,526 71,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.77% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,912 25,656 41,522
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,825 £36,250 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,775 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +193 829 £85,000 -2.86% 568
UK excluding London +146 450 £80,000 -3.03% 266
London +104 381 £95,000 -5.00% 339
Work from Home +137 266 £81,250 -7.14% 232
North of England +99 194 £75,000 -20.00% 61
Midlands +16 82 £80,000 +12.37% 65
Yorkshire +36 78 £77,500 -8.82% 17
North West +39 76 £75,000 - 32
South West -8 74 £90,000 +30.43% 27
West Midlands +19 70 £80,000 +12.37% 46
South East -12 66 £85,000 +3.03% 48
North East -28 40 £70,000 -30.00% 12
Scotland +17 18 £105,000 +13.51% 37
East of England -24 18 £71,000 +18.89% 13
East Midlands -34 12 £55,000 -15.38% 19
Northern Ireland -85 2 £100,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 440 (49.11%) Data Architecture
2 312 (34.82%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.46%) Analytics
4 225 (25.11%) Azure
4 225 (25.11%) Data Governance
4 225 (25.11%) Data Strategy
5 201 (22.43%) AI
6 151 (16.85%) Data Quality
7 149 (16.63%) Metadata
8 148 (16.52%) Databricks
9 145 (16.18%) Roadmaps
10 131 (14.62%) AWS
11 126 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
12 123 (13.73%) SQL
13 113 (12.61%) Lakehouse
14 110 (12.28%) Security Cleared
15 96 (10.71%) Data Engineering
16 95 (10.60%) Decision-Making
16 95 (10.60%) Microsoft
17 90 (10.04%) Machine Learning
18 82 (9.15%) GCP
19 81 (9.04%) Agile
19 81 (9.04%) Data Lake
19 81 (9.04%) Metadata Management
20 77 (8.59%) Python
21 76 (8.48%) CI/CD
22 75 (8.37%) ETL
22 75 (8.37%) Logical Data Model
23 74 (8.26%) Snowflake
24 72 (8.04%) 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 (1.34%) Apache
2 11 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.22%) Notion
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 225 (25.11%) Azure
2 131 (14.62%) AWS
3 82 (9.15%) GCP
4 74 (8.26%) Snowflake
5 65 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 51 (5.69%) Azure Databricks
7 50 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 45 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (4.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 34 (3.79%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.34%) dbt
12 12 (1.34%) Serverless
13 11 (1.23%) SaaS
14 9 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (1.00%) GitHub
15 8 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.89%) Azure AI
15 8 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.78%) Collibra
16 7 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (16.63%) Metadata
2 81 (9.04%) Data Lake
3 72 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (7.03%) Power BI
5 47 (5.25%) Data Vault
6 36 (4.02%) Delta Lake
7 25 (2.79%) Tableau
8 24 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (2.57%) Semantic Layer
9 23 (2.57%) Star Schema
10 21 (2.34%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.56%) Metadata Repository
13 13 (1.45%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (1.12%) BigQuery
16 9 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (0.89%) MLflow
2 6 (0.67%) ERwin
2 6 (0.67%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Toad
4 4 (0.45%) GitLab
4 4 (0.45%) JIRA
5 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.22%) rollup.js
General
1 136 (15.18%) Finance
2 94 (10.49%) Public Sector
3 93 (10.38%) Social Skills
4 61 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.24%) Legal
6 26 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.57%) Retail
8 22 (2.46%) Law
9 14 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.00%) Local Government
10 9 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.00%) Marketing
11 8 (0.89%) Banking
12 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.56%) Advertising
14 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.33%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.24%) Terraform
2 27 (3.01%) PySpark
3 7 (0.78%) Middleware
4 6 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.45%) Kafka
6 3 (0.33%) JSON
6 3 (0.33%) XML
7 2 (0.22%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.22%) REST
7 2 (0.22%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.11%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.11%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.11%) pgvector
8 1 (0.11%) RESTful
8 1 (0.11%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.11%) SOAP
8 1 (0.11%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (1.23%) Data Fabric
5 11 (1.23%) Reference Data
6 10 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.89%) Taxonomies
8 7 (0.78%) Blockchain
8 7 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.56%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.45%) IoT
11 4 (0.45%) NHS
11 4 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (49.11%) Data Architecture
2 312 (34.82%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.46%) Analytics
4 225 (25.11%) Data Governance
4 225 (25.11%) Data Strategy
5 201 (22.43%) AI
6 145 (16.18%) Roadmaps
7 126 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
8 113 (12.61%) Lakehouse
9 96 (10.71%) Data Engineering
10 95 (10.60%) Decision-Making
11 90 (10.04%) Machine Learning
12 81 (9.04%) Agile
12 81 (9.04%) Metadata Management
13 76 (8.48%) CI/CD
14 75 (8.37%) ETL
14 75 (8.37%) Logical Data Model
15 72 (8.04%) Data Management
16 71 (7.92%) Physical Data Model
17 69 (7.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 123 (13.73%) SQL
2 77 (8.59%) Python
3 30 (3.35%) Scala
4 19 (2.12%) Bicep
5 6 (0.67%) R
6 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.45%) Java
7 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 110 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 52 (5.80%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.47%) DV Cleared
4 48 (5.36%) Degree
5 31 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.01%) SnowPro
9 14 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.00%) CIPD
12 7 (0.78%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.56%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
17 1 (0.11%) MCITP
17 1 (0.11%) OCP
17 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (16.85%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.46%) GDPR
3 27 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.22%) IFRS
4 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.22%) QA
4 2 (0.22%) SLA
4 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 148 (16.52%) Databricks
2 95 (10.60%) Microsoft
3 25 (2.79%) SAP
4 24 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.23%) Oracle
6 17 (1.90%) Google
7 10 (1.12%) Informatica
8 8 (0.89%) Workday
9 6 (0.67%) Palantir
10 5 (0.56%) Sage
11 3 (0.33%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.33%) Foundry
11 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.11%) Denodo
12 1 (0.11%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.11%) Interwoven
12 1 (0.11%) Meraki
12 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.11%) Thales