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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 458 383
Rank change year-on-year +193 -75 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 665 217 701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.50% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.55% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 482 122 446
10th Percentile £60,000 £70,467 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £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 £93,125 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +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 86,877 39,175 97,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.43% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58,375 22,028 71,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -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 5 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 5 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 +193 595 £85,000 -11.69% 282
UK excluding London +154 365 £82,500 -2.94% 155
London +88 248 £88,750 -11.25% 144
Work from Home +103 167 £85,000 -10.18% 130
North of England +59 132 £80,000 -15.47% 40
Midlands +14 70 £74,000 -6.92% 24
South East +7 62 £85,000 +3.03% 36
West Midlands +6 62 £80,000 -2.44% 19
Yorkshire +3 57 £80,000 -15.47% 6
South West -4 50 £80,000 -5.88% 32
North West +34 46 £90,000 +5.88% 24
North East -20 29 £70,000 - 10
Scotland +17 28 £95,000 -2.56% 9
East of England -2 21 £71,000 -1.69% 6
East Midlands -20 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Wales - 2 £70,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 296 (44.51%) Data Architecture
2 216 (32.48%) Data Modelling
3 214 (32.18%) Data Governance
4 203 (30.53%) Azure
5 173 (26.02%) Analytics
6 172 (25.86%) Data Strategy
7 139 (20.90%) AWS
8 131 (19.70%) Databricks
9 119 (17.89%) Data Quality
10 98 (14.74%) AI
11 91 (13.68%) Metadata
12 87 (13.08%) GCP
13 86 (12.93%) SQL
14 80 (12.03%) Data Engineering
15 77 (11.58%) Roadmaps
16 76 (11.43%) Migration
17 71 (10.68%) Logical Data Model
18 69 (10.38%) Agile
19 68 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
20 67 (10.08%) Physical Data Model
21 66 (9.92%) Data Management
21 66 (9.92%) Microsoft
22 62 (9.32%) Security Cleared
22 62 (9.32%) Snowflake
23 61 (9.17%) Data Lake
24 60 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
25 58 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
26 57 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
27 56 (8.42%) ETL
27 56 (8.42%) Machine Learning

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 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.35%) Apache
3 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.45%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.15%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 203 (30.53%) Azure
2 139 (20.90%) AWS
3 87 (13.08%) GCP
4 62 (9.32%) Snowflake
5 60 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 41 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (2.71%) Amazon S3
9 13 (1.95%) Azure AI
9 13 (1.95%) dbt
10 12 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.60%) GitHub
14 4 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
15 3 (0.45%) Collibra
15 3 (0.45%) PaaS
15 3 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.30%) MQTT
1 2 (0.30%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.15%) DNS
2 1 (0.15%) Firewall
2 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (13.68%) Metadata
2 61 (9.17%) Data Lake
3 58 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (5.41%) Power BI
5 27 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.61%) Data Vault
7 23 (3.46%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.80%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.65%) Tableau
11 10 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (1.35%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.20%) Big Data
14 6 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Toad
2 3 (0.45%) MLflow
3 2 (0.30%) ERwin
3 2 (0.30%) Git
3 2 (0.30%) rollup.js
4 1 (0.15%) JIRA
General
1 128 (19.25%) Finance
2 91 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 75 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 50 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (2.71%) Retail
8 17 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.11%) Law
10 13 (1.95%) Banking
11 8 (1.20%) Legal
11 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.20%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.75%) Advertising
12 5 (0.75%) Local Government
13 3 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.90%) PySpark
3 5 (0.75%) Middleware
4 4 (0.60%) Kafka
5 3 (0.45%) EDI
5 3 (0.45%) REST
5 3 (0.45%) SOAP
6 2 (0.30%) .NET
6 2 (0.30%) pgvector
7 1 (0.15%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.15%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.06%) Data Structures
3 18 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.50%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.05%) e-Learning
7 6 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.90%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.75%) NHS
8 5 (0.75%) Taxonomies
9 4 (0.60%) IoT
9 4 (0.60%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.45%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.45%) Replication
11 2 (0.30%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.30%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (44.51%) Data Architecture
2 216 (32.48%) Data Modelling
3 214 (32.18%) Data Governance
4 173 (26.02%) Analytics
5 172 (25.86%) Data Strategy
6 98 (14.74%) AI
7 80 (12.03%) Data Engineering
8 77 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 76 (11.43%) Migration
10 71 (10.68%) Logical Data Model
11 69 (10.38%) Agile
12 68 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
13 67 (10.08%) Physical Data Model
14 66 (9.92%) Data Management
15 57 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (8.42%) ETL
16 56 (8.42%) Machine Learning
17 49 (7.37%) Data Integration
18 48 (7.22%) Decision-Making
19 45 (6.77%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 86 (12.93%) SQL
2 51 (7.67%) Python
3 6 (0.90%) Scala
4 4 (0.60%) R
5 3 (0.45%) Bicep
6 2 (0.30%) Java
7 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.47%) Degree
3 26 (3.91%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.75%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.15%) CCA
10 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (17.89%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.31%) GDPR
3 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.45%) QA
5 2 (0.30%) IFRS
5 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.30%) NIST
5 2 (0.30%) SLA
5 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.15%) COBIT
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.15%) NCSC
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.75%) Docker
3 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.20%) Terraform
2 6 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 131 (19.70%) Databricks
2 66 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.66%) SAP
4 24 (3.61%) Google
5 20 (3.01%) Oracle
6 18 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.50%) Palantir
8 6 (0.90%) Foundry
9 3 (0.45%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.45%) Informatica
9 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.45%) Sparx
10 2 (0.30%) Meraki
11 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco
11 1 (0.15%) HP
11 1 (0.15%) Juniper
11 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.15%) Sage
11 1 (0.15%) VMware