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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 457 406
Rank change year-on-year +206 -51 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 786 240 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.54% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 569 125 363
10th Percentile £60,585 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 94,649 44,285 87,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.20% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,854 26,220 61,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,082
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% - -5.66%

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 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 23 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 +190 718 £85,000 -10.53% 228
UK excluding London +149 390 £82,500 -2.94% 117
London +114 336 £90,000 -13.04% 134
Work from Home +109 206 £85,000 -10.18% 101
North of England +81 140 £80,000 -15.47% 35
South West +9 75 £84,500 -0.59% 14
Midlands +20 72 £80,000 -1.84% 19
North West +63 70 £80,000 -5.88% 14
West Midlands +18 64 £81,250 -4.41% 15
South East +5 59 £85,000 -5.56% 33
Yorkshire +1 45 £80,000 -15.47% 11
Scotland +31 25 £95,000 +2.70% 7
North East -34 25 £70,000 -30.00% 10
East of England +9 18 £71,000 +18.89% 7
East Midlands -25 8 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 366 (46.56%) Data Architecture
2 268 (34.10%) Data Modelling
3 233 (29.64%) Data Governance
4 228 (29.01%) Data Strategy
5 226 (28.75%) Analytics
6 215 (27.35%) Azure
7 176 (22.39%) AI
8 156 (19.85%) Databricks
9 147 (18.70%) Data Quality
10 142 (18.07%) AWS
11 128 (16.28%) Roadmaps
12 115 (14.63%) SQL
13 108 (13.74%) Metadata
14 102 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
15 93 (11.83%) Data Engineering
16 91 (11.58%) Machine Learning
17 88 (11.20%) GCP
17 88 (11.20%) Security Cleared
18 85 (10.81%) Snowflake
19 81 (10.31%) Decision-Making
20 80 (10.18%) Data Lake
21 79 (10.05%) Microsoft
22 73 (9.29%) Migration
23 72 (9.16%) Logical Data Model
24 71 (9.03%) Agile
25 70 (8.91%) Python
26 68 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
26 68 (8.65%) Physical Data Model
27 67 (8.52%) Data Management
27 67 (8.52%) 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 12 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.40%) Apache
3 6 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.25%) 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
Cloud Services
1 215 (27.35%) Azure
2 142 (18.07%) AWS
3 88 (11.20%) GCP
4 85 (10.81%) Snowflake
5 62 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 61 (7.76%) Power Platform
7 40 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.54%) dbt
11 16 (2.04%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.76%) GitHub
14 6 (0.76%) SaaS
15 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.51%) Collibra
16 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (13.74%) Metadata
2 80 (10.18%) Data Lake
3 68 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.12%) Power BI
5 40 (5.09%) Data Vault
6 26 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.18%) Delta Lake
8 21 (2.67%) Tableau
9 16 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (1.53%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.53%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
15 9 (1.15%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.89%) Big Data
17 6 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MLflow
2 5 (0.64%) Git
2 5 (0.64%) Toad
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) JIRA
4 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
General
1 142 (18.07%) Finance
2 103 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 90 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 53 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (3.05%) Law
8 20 (2.54%) Retail
9 19 (2.42%) Legal
10 13 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.76%) Local Government
14 5 (0.64%) Advertising
14 5 (0.64%) Marketing
14 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.51%) Banking
16 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.25%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.91%) PySpark
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 3 (0.38%) Kafka
4 3 (0.38%) REST
4 3 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) JSON
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
5 2 (0.25%) XML
6 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.13%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.80%) Data Structures
2 22 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (1.15%) Data Fabric
5 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
6 7 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
7 6 (0.76%) Taxonomies
8 5 (0.64%) IoT
8 5 (0.64%) NHS
8 5 (0.64%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.51%) Blockchain
9 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (46.56%) Data Architecture
2 268 (34.10%) Data Modelling
3 233 (29.64%) Data Governance
4 228 (29.01%) Data Strategy
5 226 (28.75%) Analytics
6 176 (22.39%) AI
7 128 (16.28%) Roadmaps
8 102 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (11.83%) Data Engineering
10 91 (11.58%) Machine Learning
11 81 (10.31%) Decision-Making
12 73 (9.29%) Migration
13 72 (9.16%) Logical Data Model
14 71 (9.03%) Agile
15 68 (8.65%) Physical Data Model
16 67 (8.52%) Data Management
16 67 (8.52%) ETL
17 57 (7.25%) Data Integration
18 56 (7.12%) Architectural Patterns
19 54 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 115 (14.63%) SQL
2 70 (8.91%) Python
3 16 (2.04%) Scala
4 11 (1.40%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (11.20%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.87%) Degree
3 42 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.40%) SnowPro
8 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.15%) CIPD
10 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
12 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.69%) GDPR
3 15 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.38%) QA
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (2.29%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (19.85%) Databricks
2 79 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.94%) SAP
4 27 (3.44%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.93%) Oracle
6 21 (2.67%) Google
7 10 (1.27%) Palantir
8 6 (0.76%) Foundry
8 6 (0.76%) Informatica
9 5 (0.64%) Workday
10 4 (0.51%) Sage
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.25%) Meraki
12 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.13%) Alteryx