Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £80,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 411 430 441
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 368 891 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.72% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.75% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 269 653 676
10th Percentile £61,850 £62,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £90,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £111,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,632 £75,940 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.86% +1.25% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

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 4 December 2023. 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 +42 334 £80,500 -8.00% 141
London +80 204 £90,000 -5.26% 69
Work from Home +73 168 £80,000 -11.11% 93
UK excluding London +84 135 £79,632 +4.86% 77
North of England +102 38 £79,632 +2.75% 31
South East +131 35 £80,000 +12.28% 16
South West +83 23 £79,632 +13.76% 10
Yorkshire +74 20 £79,632 +6.89% 10
Midlands +50 18 £77,500 +2.05% 14
North West +76 17 £79,632 -0.46% 16
West Midlands +72 15 £80,000 +5.35% 6
Scotland +57 14 £79,632 +0.80% 2
East of England +107 6 £107,500 +11.69% 2
East Midlands +29 3 £57,000 -18.57% 8
North East +48 1 £80,000 +3.23% 5
Wales +18 1 £72,085 - 3

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 199 (54.08%) Data Architecture
2 182 (49.46%) Azure
3 177 (48.10%) Data Modelling
4 134 (36.41%) Analytics
5 118 (32.07%) Data Lake
6 116 (31.52%) Agile
7 114 (30.98%) Finance
8 107 (29.08%) ETL
8 107 (29.08%) Data Governance
9 106 (28.80%) Roadmaps
10 101 (27.45%) AWS
11 99 (26.90%) Business Intelligence
11 99 (26.90%) Data Strategy
12 90 (24.46%) Data Management
12 90 (24.46%) Data Integration
13 83 (22.55%) Data Warehouse
14 82 (22.28%) GCP
15 81 (22.01%) Visualisation
16 79 (21.47%) Machine Learning
17 77 (20.92%) SQL
18 74 (20.11%) Big Data
18 74 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
19 73 (19.84%) Databricks
20 71 (19.29%) Migration
21 67 (18.21%) Power Platform
22 66 (17.93%) Power BI
23 64 (17.39%) Social Skills
24 63 (17.12%) Enterprise Architecture
25 62 (16.85%) Microsoft
26 61 (16.58%) Data Pipeline

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 60 (16.30%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.07%) Apache
3 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.09%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 182 (49.46%) Azure
2 101 (27.45%) AWS
3 82 (22.28%) GCP
4 67 (18.21%) Power Platform
5 37 (10.05%) Snowflake
6 31 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (7.61%) GitHub
8 22 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (5.71%) SaaS
10 20 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.43%) Vertex AI
11 18 (4.89%) PaaS
12 17 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (4.08%) IaaS
14 14 (3.80%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.99%) Serverless
16 10 (2.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
17 9 (2.45%) Matillion
18 5 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.35%) Wireless
2 8 (2.17%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) BGP
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (32.07%) Data Lake
2 83 (22.55%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (20.11%) Big Data
4 66 (17.93%) Power BI
5 43 (11.68%) NoSQL
6 40 (10.87%) Metadata
7 33 (8.97%) Relational Database
8 29 (7.88%) BigQuery
9 25 (6.79%) Hadoop
10 24 (6.52%) MySQL
11 23 (6.25%) SQL Server
12 22 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (5.71%) Data Mining
13 21 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (5.71%) Tableau
14 20 (5.43%) Amazon QuickSight
14 20 (5.43%) Bigtable
14 20 (5.43%) Looker
15 19 (5.16%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 29 (7.88%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.35%) ERwin
3 6 (1.63%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.54%) JIRA
4 2 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.27%) Subversion
5 1 (0.27%) Toad
5 1 (0.27%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 114 (30.98%) Finance
2 74 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 41 (11.14%) Banking
5 33 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (5.71%) Retail
8 16 (4.35%) Publishing
9 15 (4.08%) Marketing
10 14 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.53%) Law
12 3 (0.82%) Advertising
12 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.54%) Legal
13 2 (0.54%) Local Government
13 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.13%) Kafka
2 18 (4.89%) JSON
3 14 (3.80%) REST
4 10 (2.72%) Middleware
5 6 (1.63%) PySpark
6 5 (1.36%) XML
7 3 (0.82%) HTML
7 3 (0.82%) JWT
7 3 (0.82%) OAuth
7 3 (0.82%) React
7 3 (0.82%) RESTful
7 3 (0.82%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.82%) Spring
7 3 (0.82%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.82%) Zuul
8 2 (0.54%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.54%) EDI
8 2 (0.54%) Velocity
9 1 (0.27%) IBM Integration Bus
9 1 (0.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.60%) Public Cloud
2 22 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.53%) Renewable Energy
3 13 (3.53%) Taxonomies
4 12 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.45%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.45%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.09%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.09%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.82%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.54%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.09%) Unix
2 3 (0.82%) Windows
3 2 (0.54%) Linux
3 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (54.08%) Data Architecture
2 177 (48.10%) Data Modelling
3 134 (36.41%) Analytics
4 116 (31.52%) Agile
5 107 (29.08%) Data Governance
5 107 (29.08%) ETL
6 106 (28.80%) Roadmaps
7 99 (26.90%) Business Intelligence
7 99 (26.90%) Data Strategy
8 90 (24.46%) Data Integration
8 90 (24.46%) Data Management
9 81 (22.01%) Visualisation
10 79 (21.47%) Machine Learning
11 71 (19.29%) Migration
12 63 (17.12%) Enterprise Architecture
13 61 (16.58%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (16.03%) Data Visualisation
15 55 (14.95%) Artificial Intelligence
16 45 (12.23%) Data Analytics
17 44 (11.96%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (20.92%) SQL
2 30 (8.15%) Python
3 10 (2.72%) T-SQL
4 5 (1.36%) Java
4 5 (1.36%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.82%) Go
6 2 (0.54%) Bash
6 2 (0.54%) R
6 2 (0.54%) Scala
6 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.27%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (12.77%) Degree
2 33 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.72%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.45%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.27%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
9 1 (0.27%) CITP
9 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.13%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.35%) GDPR
3 7 (1.90%) NIST
4 6 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 11 (2.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 21 (5.71%) Terraform
2 13 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.82%) WebSphere Cast Iron
4 2 (0.54%) Nagios
4 2 (0.54%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (19.84%) Databricks
2 62 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 43 (11.68%) Google
4 31 (8.42%) SAP
5 15 (4.08%) Informatica
6 7 (1.90%) Oracle
7 6 (1.63%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.36%) IBM
8 5 (1.36%) Okta
9 4 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.09%) Confluent
9 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.09%) Teradata
9 4 (1.09%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.82%) Dell
10 3 (0.82%) Palantir
10 3 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.54%) Commvault
11 2 (0.54%) EMC