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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 461 406
Rank change year-on-year +204 -55 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 816 228 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.51% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 579 117 335
10th Percentile £60,000 £67,136 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £65,000
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -12.50%

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 98,814 44,648 79,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.01% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,613 26,525 53,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -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 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 17 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 7 August 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 +210 745 £85,000 -10.53% 299
UK excluding London +161 402 £80,000 -5.88% 151
London +117 349 £95,000 -7.32% 186
Work from Home +118 216 £85,000 -10.53% 127
North of England +79 147 £78,500 -17.05% 37
Midlands +19 75 £80,000 -1.84% 32
South West +5 75 £85,000 - 15
North West +56 69 £78,750 - 16
West Midlands +17 66 £80,000 -5.88% 23
South East +7 62 £85,000 -5.56% 30
Yorkshire +16 49 £80,000 -8.57% 16
North East -29 29 £67,500 -32.50% 5
Scotland +26 23 £100,000 +8.11% 16
East of England -11 18 £71,000 +18.89% 8
East Midlands -24 9 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Northern Ireland -73 1 - - 13
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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.

1 392 (48.04%) Data Architecture
2 289 (35.42%) Data Modelling
3 242 (29.66%) Analytics
4 236 (28.92%) Data Governance
5 234 (28.68%) Data Strategy
6 226 (27.70%) Azure
7 195 (23.90%) AI
8 173 (21.20%) Databricks
9 150 (18.38%) Data Quality
10 143 (17.52%) Roadmaps
11 141 (17.28%) AWS
12 125 (15.32%) SQL
13 121 (14.83%) Metadata
14 114 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
15 100 (12.25%) Machine Learning
16 96 (11.76%) Data Engineering
16 96 (11.76%) Security Cleared
17 90 (11.03%) Microsoft
18 89 (10.91%) GCP
19 87 (10.66%) Decision-Making
19 87 (10.66%) Snowflake
20 85 (10.42%) Data Lake
21 82 (10.05%) Python
22 77 (9.44%) Agile
23 74 (9.07%) Data Warehouse
24 73 (8.95%) Logical Data Model
24 73 (8.95%) Migration
25 70 (8.58%) Data Management
26 69 (8.46%) ETL
26 69 (8.46%) Physical Data Model

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 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.23%) Apache
3 6 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.12%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 226 (27.70%) Azure
2 141 (17.28%) AWS
3 89 (10.91%) GCP
4 87 (10.66%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.09%) Power Platform
6 65 (7.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (5.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.33%) dbt
11 16 (1.96%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (1.10%) GitHub
14 7 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.74%) SaaS
16 5 (0.61%) PaaS
16 5 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.83%) Metadata
2 85 (10.42%) Data Lake
3 74 (9.07%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.48%) Power BI
5 45 (5.51%) Data Vault
6 33 (4.04%) Delta Lake
7 27 (3.31%) SQL Server
8 24 (2.94%) Tableau
9 17 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.84%) BigQuery
10 15 (1.84%) Semantic Layer
10 15 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (1.84%) Star Schema
11 14 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (1.47%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.10%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.86%) Big Data
17 6 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 8 (0.98%) MLflow
2 5 (0.61%) Git
2 5 (0.61%) Toad
3 4 (0.49%) GitLab
4 3 (0.37%) ERwin
4 3 (0.37%) JIRA
5 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
6 1 (0.12%) ER Studio
General
1 142 (17.40%) Finance
2 106 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 90 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.19%) Law
7 23 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.82%) Legal
8 21 (2.57%) Retail
9 11 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.86%) Local Government
11 7 (0.86%) Marketing
12 5 (0.61%) Advertising
12 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.49%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.37%) Banking
14 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.25%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.57%) PySpark
2 10 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.74%) Middleware
4 3 (0.37%) JSON
4 3 (0.37%) Kafka
4 3 (0.37%) REST
4 3 (0.37%) SOAP
4 3 (0.37%) XML
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.12%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.12%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.12%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 25 (3.06%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.10%) Data Fabric
7 8 (0.98%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.74%) Blockchain
9 6 (0.74%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.74%) IoT
9 6 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.74%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.61%) NHS
10 5 (0.61%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.49%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.37%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (48.04%) Data Architecture
2 289 (35.42%) Data Modelling
3 242 (29.66%) Analytics
4 236 (28.92%) Data Governance
5 234 (28.68%) Data Strategy
6 195 (23.90%) AI
7 143 (17.52%) Roadmaps
8 114 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
9 100 (12.25%) Machine Learning
10 96 (11.76%) Data Engineering
11 87 (10.66%) Decision-Making
12 77 (9.44%) Agile
13 73 (8.95%) Logical Data Model
13 73 (8.95%) Migration
14 70 (8.58%) Data Management
15 69 (8.46%) ETL
15 69 (8.46%) Physical Data Model
16 63 (7.72%) Data Integration
17 59 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
18 57 (6.99%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 125 (15.32%) SQL
2 82 (10.05%) Python
3 25 (3.06%) Scala
4 15 (1.84%) Bicep
5 7 (0.86%) R
6 4 (0.49%) Java
7 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 53 (6.50%) Degree
3 46 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.84%) SnowPro
8 13 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.10%) CIPD
11 5 (0.61%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.12%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (18.38%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.68%) GDPR
3 17 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (2.70%) Terraform
2 5 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 173 (21.20%) Databricks
2 90 (11.03%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.80%) SAP
4 29 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.82%) Oracle
6 21 (2.57%) Google
7 10 (1.23%) Palantir
8 7 (0.86%) Workday
9 6 (0.74%) Foundry
9 6 (0.74%) Informatica
10 4 (0.49%) Sage
11 3 (0.37%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.37%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.37%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.25%) Meraki
12 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.12%) Denodo