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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 462 411
Rank change year-on-year +217 -51 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 790 226 615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.51% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 582 125 411
10th Percentile £60,875 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £65,000
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 £99,375
90th Percentile £107,250 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 92,640 44,062 96,051
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.87% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 63,517 25,939 68,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +220 719 £85,000 -12.82% 143
UK excluding London +185 410 £80,000 -5.88% 82
London +119 318 £90,000 -14.29% 82
Work from Home +120 221 £85,000 -10.18% 72
North of England +95 156 £80,000 -15.47% 14
North West +63 74 £80,000 -5.88% 8
Midlands +22 74 £80,000 -1.84% 12
South West +4 72 £84,000 -1.18% 16
West Midlands +31 66 £80,000 -4.48% 7
South East +11 62 £85,000 -5.56% 28
Yorkshire +12 52 £80,000 -15.47% 5
North East -25 30 £70,000 -30.00% 1
Scotland +19 28 £95,000 +2.70% 10
East of England +1 17 £71,000 +18.89% 4
East Midlands -24 8 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 363 (45.95%) Data Architecture
2 265 (33.54%) Data Modelling
3 244 (30.89%) Data Governance
4 234 (29.62%) Data Strategy
5 226 (28.61%) Azure
6 219 (27.72%) Analytics
7 160 (20.25%) AI
8 156 (19.75%) Databricks
9 152 (19.24%) AWS
10 145 (18.35%) Data Quality
11 120 (15.19%) Roadmaps
12 113 (14.30%) Metadata
13 110 (13.92%) SQL
14 96 (12.15%) GCP
15 95 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
16 89 (11.27%) Machine Learning
17 88 (11.14%) Data Engineering
18 85 (10.76%) Microsoft
19 83 (10.51%) Security Cleared
20 82 (10.38%) Snowflake
21 79 (10.00%) Decision-Making
22 78 (9.87%) Data Management
23 76 (9.62%) Agile
23 76 (9.62%) Migration
24 75 (9.49%) Data Lake
25 71 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
26 68 (8.61%) Logical Data Model
27 67 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
28 66 (8.35%) ETL
29 65 (8.23%) Python

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 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.39%) Apache
3 5 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.03%) 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 (0.25%) 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
1 226 (28.61%) Azure
2 152 (19.24%) AWS
3 96 (12.15%) GCP
4 82 (10.38%) Snowflake
5 67 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 54 (6.84%) Power Platform
7 37 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.29%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (2.28%) dbt
10 15 (1.90%) Azure AI
11 12 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.76%) SaaS
14 5 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.63%) Collibra
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub
15 4 (0.51%) Intacct
15 4 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
1 2 (0.25%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
2 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (14.30%) Metadata
2 75 (9.49%) Data Lake
3 71 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.20%) Power BI
5 37 (4.68%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.66%) Delta Lake
8 19 (2.41%) Tableau
9 16 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.77%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (1.39%) Star Schema
13 10 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.27%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.01%) Big Data
14 8 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Git
1 5 (0.63%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 143 (18.10%) Finance
2 102 (12.91%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 50 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
6 26 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.66%) Retail
8 20 (2.53%) Law
9 16 (2.03%) Legal
10 15 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.89%) Banking
12 7 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.76%) Local Government
14 5 (0.63%) Advertising
15 4 (0.51%) Marketing
15 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.25%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.65%) PySpark
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 4 (0.51%) Kafka
5 3 (0.38%) REST
5 3 (0.38%) SOAP
6 2 (0.25%) .NET
6 2 (0.25%) pgvector
6 2 (0.25%) 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 51 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.66%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.01%) Data Fabric
7 8 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.76%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.63%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.63%) NHS
11 4 (0.51%) IoT
11 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.38%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (45.95%) Data Architecture
2 265 (33.54%) Data Modelling
3 244 (30.89%) Data Governance
4 234 (29.62%) Data Strategy
5 219 (27.72%) Analytics
6 160 (20.25%) AI
7 120 (15.19%) Roadmaps
8 95 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
9 89 (11.27%) Machine Learning
10 88 (11.14%) Data Engineering
11 79 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 78 (9.87%) Data Management
13 76 (9.62%) Agile
13 76 (9.62%) Migration
14 68 (8.61%) Logical Data Model
15 66 (8.35%) ETL
16 64 (8.10%) Physical Data Model
17 61 (7.72%) Metadata Management
18 59 (7.47%) Data Integration
19 57 (7.22%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 110 (13.92%) SQL
2 65 (8.23%) Python
3 14 (1.77%) Scala
4 10 (1.27%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (10.51%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.33%) Degree
3 38 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.56%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.27%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.14%) CIPD
10 9 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.63%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (18.35%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.54%) GDPR
3 13 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.51%) 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%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.03%) Terraform
2 6 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (19.75%) Databricks
2 85 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.05%) SAP
4 30 (3.80%) Google
5 25 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.91%) Oracle
7 10 (1.27%) Palantir
8 7 (0.89%) Informatica
9 6 (0.76%) 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 (0.25%) Meraki
12 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.13%) Alteryx