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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 456 379
Rank change year-on-year +211 -77 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 866 235 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.53% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 614 111 301
10th Percentile £61,695 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £66,250
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 £108,750 £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 106,082 44,571 74,889
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 89.73% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,120 26,247 45,923
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 September 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 September 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 +193 795 £85,000 -10.53% 329
UK excluding London +156 448 £80,000 -5.88% 138
London +84 350 £95,000 -5.00% 230
Work from Home +134 253 £80,000 -15.79% 141
North of England +113 185 £75,000 -25.00% 21
Midlands +21 84 £77,500 +8.86% 27
South West -5 76 £85,000 - 16
Yorkshire +18 75 £77,500 -11.43% 11
North West +46 72 £75,000 - 9
West Midlands +29 71 £80,000 +12.37% 17
South East -8 65 £85,000 -1.45% 38
North East -24 38 £70,000 -30.00% 1
Scotland +18 20 £100,000 +8.11% 21
East of England -13 18 £71,000 +18.89% 9
East Midlands -25 13 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Northern Ireland -75 2 £100,000 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 429 (49.54%) Data Architecture
2 301 (34.76%) Data Modelling
3 242 (27.94%) Analytics
4 231 (26.67%) Azure
5 229 (26.44%) Data Strategy
6 227 (26.21%) Data Governance
7 208 (24.02%) AI
8 167 (19.28%) Databricks
9 148 (17.09%) Roadmaps
10 147 (16.97%) Data Quality
11 141 (16.28%) Metadata
12 132 (15.24%) AWS
13 128 (14.78%) SQL
14 119 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
15 109 (12.59%) Lakehouse
16 104 (12.01%) Security Cleared
17 102 (11.78%) Machine Learning
17 102 (11.78%) Microsoft
18 98 (11.32%) Data Engineering
19 95 (10.97%) Decision-Making
20 85 (9.82%) Agile
21 83 (9.58%) Data Lake
21 83 (9.58%) GCP
22 82 (9.47%) Python
23 80 (9.24%) Snowflake
24 74 (8.55%) Logical Data Model
25 72 (8.31%) CI/CD
26 71 (8.20%) Metadata Management
27 70 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
27 70 (8.08%) 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 13 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.39%) Apache
3 5 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.46%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 231 (26.67%) Azure
2 132 (15.24%) AWS
3 83 (9.58%) GCP
4 80 (9.24%) Snowflake
5 65 (7.51%) Power Platform
6 61 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 50 (5.77%) Azure Databricks
8 49 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (4.97%) Microsoft Purview
10 33 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.19%) dbt
12 16 (1.85%) Azure AI
13 12 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
14 9 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (1.04%) GitHub
14 9 (1.04%) SaaS
14 9 (1.04%) Serverless
15 7 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Internet
1 2 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (16.28%) Metadata
2 83 (9.58%) Data Lake
3 70 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.04%) Power BI
5 47 (5.43%) Data Vault
6 37 (4.27%) Delta Lake
7 27 (3.12%) SQL Server
8 25 (2.89%) Tableau
9 20 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
10 18 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (2.08%) Star Schema
11 13 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.39%) Metadata Repository
12 12 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.27%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (0.92%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (0.92%) MLflow
2 6 (0.69%) Git
3 5 (0.58%) ERwin
3 5 (0.58%) Toad
4 4 (0.46%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) JIRA
6 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.23%) rollup.js
General
1 139 (16.05%) Finance
2 100 (11.55%) Social Skills
3 95 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 62 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (2.89%) Legal
6 24 (2.77%) Law
7 20 (2.31%) Retail
8 16 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.81%) Local Government
11 7 (0.81%) Marketing
12 6 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.58%) Advertising
13 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.46%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.46%) Banking
14 4 (0.46%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.23%) Terraform
2 26 (3.00%) PySpark
3 6 (0.69%) Middleware
3 6 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.46%) Kafka
5 3 (0.35%) JSON
5 3 (0.35%) XML
6 2 (0.23%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.23%) pgvector
6 2 (0.23%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.12%) .NET
7 1 (0.12%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.12%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.12%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.12%) REST
7 1 (0.12%) RESTful
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.12%) SOAP
7 1 (0.12%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.89%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (2.31%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.04%) Reference Data
6 8 (0.92%) Data Fabric
6 8 (0.92%) Taxonomies
7 7 (0.81%) Blockchain
8 6 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.58%) IoT
9 5 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.46%) NHS
10 4 (0.46%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (49.54%) Data Architecture
2 301 (34.76%) Data Modelling
3 242 (27.94%) Analytics
4 229 (26.44%) Data Strategy
5 227 (26.21%) Data Governance
6 208 (24.02%) AI
7 148 (17.09%) Roadmaps
8 119 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
9 109 (12.59%) Lakehouse
10 102 (11.78%) Machine Learning
11 98 (11.32%) Data Engineering
12 95 (10.97%) Decision-Making
13 85 (9.82%) Agile
14 74 (8.55%) Logical Data Model
15 72 (8.31%) CI/CD
16 71 (8.20%) Metadata Management
17 70 (8.08%) Physical Data Model
18 69 (7.97%) Data Integration
18 69 (7.97%) Data Management
18 69 (7.97%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 128 (14.78%) SQL
2 82 (9.47%) Python
3 30 (3.46%) Scala
4 18 (2.08%) Bicep
5 6 (0.69%) R
6 4 (0.46%) Java
7 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.12%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 104 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.24%) Degree
3 48 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 44 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.08%) SnowPro
9 16 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.04%) CIPD
12 5 (0.58%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.12%) MCITP
15 1 (0.12%) OCP
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (16.97%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.12%) GDPR
3 24 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.35%) QA
5 2 (0.23%) IFRS
5 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.23%) SLA
5 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (0.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 167 (19.28%) Databricks
2 102 (11.78%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.23%) SAP
4 21 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.19%) Oracle
6 17 (1.96%) Google
7 9 (1.04%) Palantir
8 8 (0.92%) Informatica
8 8 (0.92%) Workday
9 5 (0.58%) Foundry
9 5 (0.58%) Sage
10 3 (0.35%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.23%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.23%) Meraki
12 1 (0.12%) Denodo
12 1 (0.12%) Interwoven
12 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.12%) Thales