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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 457 374
Rank change year-on-year +215 -83 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 713 217 720
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.49% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.55% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 524 120 465
10th Percentile £60,484 £69,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,188 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 87,136 39,736 101,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 89.46% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,740 22,466 73,347
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,849 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 13 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 13 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 +200 643 £85,000 -11.69% 108
UK excluding London +170 388 £85,000 - 77
London +99 270 £90,000 -13.25% 46
Work from Home +120 190 £85,000 -10.18% 57
North of England +78 143 £80,000 -15.47% 27
South East +39 68 £85,000 -5.56% 20
Midlands +28 68 £80,000 -1.84% 12
West Midlands +18 60 £80,000 -3.03% 12
Yorkshire +8 59 £80,000 -15.47% 6
South West -2 57 £84,000 -1.18% 14
North West +53 53 £90,000 +5.88% 18
North East -10 31 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +26 29 £95,000 -2.56% 2
East of England +3 21 £71,000 -1.69% 2
East Midlands -15 8 £55,000 -12.00%
Wales - 2 £70,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 316 (44.32%) Data Architecture
2 233 (32.68%) Data Modelling
3 230 (32.26%) Data Governance
4 214 (30.01%) Azure
5 196 (27.49%) Data Strategy
6 186 (26.09%) Analytics
7 145 (20.34%) AWS
7 145 (20.34%) Databricks
8 134 (18.79%) Data Quality
9 114 (15.99%) AI
10 104 (14.59%) Metadata
11 94 (13.18%) SQL
12 89 (12.48%) Roadmaps
13 88 (12.34%) GCP
14 79 (11.08%) Data Engineering
15 78 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
16 77 (10.80%) Migration
17 75 (10.52%) Logical Data Model
18 74 (10.38%) Agile
19 71 (9.96%) Microsoft
19 71 (9.96%) Physical Data Model
20 69 (9.68%) Data Management
21 68 (9.54%) Security Cleared
21 68 (9.54%) Snowflake
22 65 (9.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
22 65 (9.12%) Machine Learning
23 64 (8.98%) ETL
24 63 (8.84%) Data Lake
24 63 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
25 59 (8.27%) Problem-Solving

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 11 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.40%) Apache
3 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.14%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 214 (30.01%) Azure
2 145 (20.34%) AWS
3 88 (12.34%) GCP
4 68 (9.54%) Snowflake
5 65 (9.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 45 (6.31%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (3.09%) Amazon S3
9 16 (2.24%) dbt
10 14 (1.96%) Azure AI
10 14 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.70%) SaaS
14 4 (0.56%) Collibra
14 4 (0.56%) GitHub
14 4 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) MQTT
1 2 (0.28%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (14.59%) Metadata
2 63 (8.84%) Data Lake
2 63 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (5.61%) Power BI
4 27 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.65%) Data Vault
6 24 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (1.96%) Delta Lake
8 14 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.96%) Tableau
9 13 (1.82%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.40%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.26%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.12%) Big Data
13 8 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Toad
2 4 (0.56%) Git
3 3 (0.42%) ERwin
3 3 (0.42%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 134 (18.79%) Finance
2 95 (13.32%) Social Skills
3 84 (11.78%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (2.81%) Retail
8 18 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.38%) Law
10 12 (1.68%) Banking
11 11 (1.54%) Legal
12 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.98%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.84%) Local Government
15 5 (0.70%) Advertising
16 3 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.28%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.12%) PySpark
3 5 (0.70%) Middleware
4 4 (0.56%) Kafka
5 3 (0.42%) REST
5 3 (0.42%) SOAP
6 2 (0.28%) .NET
6 2 (0.28%) pgvector
6 2 (0.28%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.14%) EDI
7 1 (0.14%) JSON
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 18 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.40%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.98%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.84%) Data Fabric
8 6 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.84%) NHS
8 6 (0.84%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.70%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.56%) IoT
10 4 (0.56%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.42%) Replication
12 2 (0.28%) Clustering
12 2 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (44.32%) Data Architecture
2 233 (32.68%) Data Modelling
3 230 (32.26%) Data Governance
4 196 (27.49%) Data Strategy
5 186 (26.09%) Analytics
6 114 (15.99%) AI
7 89 (12.48%) Roadmaps
8 79 (11.08%) Data Engineering
9 78 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
10 77 (10.80%) Migration
11 75 (10.52%) Logical Data Model
12 74 (10.38%) Agile
13 71 (9.96%) Physical Data Model
14 69 (9.68%) Data Management
15 65 (9.12%) Machine Learning
16 64 (8.98%) ETL
17 59 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
18 58 (8.13%) Data Integration
18 58 (8.13%) Decision-Making
19 50 (7.01%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 94 (13.18%) SQL
2 55 (7.71%) Python
3 9 (1.26%) Scala
4 5 (0.70%) Bicep
5 4 (0.56%) R
6 2 (0.28%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (9.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (6.59%) Degree
3 30 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.84%) SnowPro
8 6 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.70%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.42%) CIPD
11 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.14%) CCA
11 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (18.79%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.37%) GDPR
3 6 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.42%) QA
5 2 (0.28%) IFRS
5 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.70%) Docker
3 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.40%) Terraform
2 6 (0.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 145 (20.34%) Databricks
2 71 (9.96%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.63%) SAP
4 25 (3.51%) Google
4 25 (3.51%) Oracle
5 22 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.54%) Palantir
7 6 (0.84%) Foundry
8 5 (0.70%) Informatica
9 3 (0.42%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.42%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.42%) Sage
9 3 (0.42%) Workday
10 2 (0.28%) Meraki
10 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco
11 1 (0.14%) HP
11 1 (0.14%) Juniper
11 1 (0.14%) VMware