Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 379 445
Rank change year-on-year -58 +66 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 226 443 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.62% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.65% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 118 265 252
10th Percentile £66,112 £55,000 £62,100
25th Percentile £81,250 £66,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £109,688 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £113,888 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% +7.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,157 67,663 53,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 95.35% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,771 38,844 41,467
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025. 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 -41 214 £90,000 +5.88% 166
London +33 134 £100,000 +11.11% 80
UK excluding London -58 86 £82,500 +10.00% 120
Work from Home -50 65 £96,250 +13.24% 89
South East -36 30 £86,250 -4.17% 59
North of England -53 17 £87,500 +20.69% 29
Midlands +32 15 £71,193 +1.70% 16
South West +31 12 £69,000 +25.45% 8
Yorkshire +23 10 £85,000 -5.56% 7
East Midlands +13 8 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland -15 8 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands +41 7 £71,193 +18.65% 14
North East +13 4 £100,000 +53.85% 2
East of England +8 3 £59,721 -33.64% 5
North West -72 3 - - 20
Northern Ireland +6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 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.

1 177 (78.32%) Data Architecture
2 167 (73.89%) Data Modelling
3 137 (60.62%) Azure
4 133 (58.85%) Data Strategy
5 125 (55.31%) Data Governance
6 87 (38.50%) Finance
7 86 (38.05%) Analytics
8 84 (37.17%) AWS
9 78 (34.51%) Data Warehouse
10 77 (34.07%) Roadmaps
11 70 (30.97%) Data Integration
12 67 (29.65%) GCP
13 66 (29.20%) Metadata
14 65 (28.76%) Data Lake
15 63 (27.88%) Social Skills
16 62 (27.43%) Microsoft
17 60 (26.55%) Data Management
18 59 (26.11%) ETL
19 57 (25.22%) SQL
20 56 (24.78%) AI
21 52 (23.01%) Databricks
22 46 (20.35%) Agile
23 45 (19.91%) Metadata Management
24 43 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
25 42 (18.58%) Data Quality
25 42 (18.58%) Migration
26 41 (18.14%) Machine Learning
26 41 (18.14%) Mentoring
26 41 (18.14%) Data Engineering
26 41 (18.14%) Data Science

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 17 (7.52%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.44%) Maximo
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 137 (60.62%) Azure
2 84 (37.17%) AWS
3 67 (29.65%) GCP
4 26 (11.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (11.06%) Power Platform
6 24 (10.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (7.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 18 (7.96%) Snowflake
8 14 (6.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (6.19%) SaaS
9 7 (3.10%) GitHub
10 6 (2.65%) Serverless
11 5 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.77%) Azure Stack
12 4 (1.77%) Collibra
12 4 (1.77%) PaaS
13 3 (1.33%) Alation
13 3 (1.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (34.51%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (29.20%) Metadata
3 65 (28.76%) Data Lake
4 24 (10.62%) Power BI
5 18 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (7.96%) Big Data
6 17 (7.52%) Data Vault
7 12 (5.31%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.87%) BigQuery
9 10 (4.42%) Hadoop
9 10 (4.42%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.54%) Data Mining
12 7 (3.10%) Metadata Repository
12 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (2.65%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.65%) Tableau
14 5 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (1.77%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 17 (7.52%) ERwin
2 5 (2.21%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.33%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 87 (38.50%) Finance
2 63 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.49%) Banking
5 34 (15.04%) Law
6 27 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (11.06%) Retail Banking
8 23 (10.18%) Retail
9 22 (9.73%) Financial Institution
10 20 (8.85%) Marketing
11 15 (6.64%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.33%) Back Office
14 2 (0.88%) Front Office
14 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Legal
14 2 (0.88%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.75%) Kafka
2 6 (2.65%) PySpark
3 5 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.33%) REST
5 2 (0.88%) JDBC
5 2 (0.88%) LDAP
5 2 (0.88%) OAuth
5 2 (0.88%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.88%) ODBC
5 2 (0.88%) SOAP
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.29%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (6.64%) Data Structures
3 13 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.10%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.65%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Equities
7 2 (0.88%) IoT
7 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.88%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.65%) Unix
2 2 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (78.32%) Data Architecture
2 167 (73.89%) Data Modelling
3 133 (58.85%) Data Strategy
4 125 (55.31%) Data Governance
5 86 (38.05%) Analytics
6 77 (34.07%) Roadmaps
7 70 (30.97%) Data Integration
8 60 (26.55%) Data Management
9 59 (26.11%) ETL
10 56 (24.78%) AI
11 46 (20.35%) Agile
12 45 (19.91%) Metadata Management
13 42 (18.58%) Migration
14 41 (18.14%) Data Engineering
14 41 (18.14%) Data Science
14 41 (18.14%) Machine Learning
14 41 (18.14%) Mentoring
15 39 (17.26%) Data Pipeline
16 35 (15.49%) Business Intelligence
17 34 (15.04%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (25.22%) SQL
2 29 (12.83%) Python
3 7 (3.10%) Java
4 4 (1.77%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.33%) Scala
6 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 35 (15.49%) Degree
2 27 (11.95%) Azure Certification
3 22 (9.73%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.75%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (18.58%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.26%) GDPR
3 11 (4.87%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.77%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.44%) IFRS
5 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.88%) Firmware
2 2 (0.88%) HDFS
3 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.65%) Terraform
2 5 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 52 (23.01%) Databricks
3 17 (7.52%) Google
3 17 (7.52%) Oracle
4 8 (3.54%) Informatica
5 5 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.77%) Dell
6 4 (1.77%) IBM
6 4 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.33%) SAP
8 2 (0.88%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.88%) Talend
8 2 (0.88%) Teradata
9 1 (0.44%) ESRI
9 1 (0.44%) IFS
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) Workday