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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 460 368
Rank change year-on-year +212 -92 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 880 230 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.52% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 628 115 286
10th Percentile £62,000 £65,636 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -4.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £119,000 £113,865
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -12.30%

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 109,088 44,314 73,256
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.71% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,631 25,938 43,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,641 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 25 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 25 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 +196 810 £85,000 -5.56% 571
UK excluding London +137 442 £80,000 -3.03% 254
London +106 372 £95,000 -5.00% 346
Work from Home +128 256 £81,250 -14.47% 229
North of England +93 186 £75,000 -20.00% 66
Midlands +18 78 £77,500 +8.86% 64
Yorkshire +29 75 £75,000 -11.76% 28
South West -11 75 £90,000 +28.57% 23
North West +41 73 £75,000 - 29
West Midlands +11 66 £80,000 +12.37% 44
South East -15 66 £85,000 +3.03% 42
North East -38 38 £70,000 -30.00% 9
Scotland +19 20 £105,000 +13.51% 41
East of England -5 18 £71,000 +18.89% 11
East Midlands -27 12 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Northern Ireland -88 2 £100,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 441 (50.11%) Data Architecture
2 307 (34.89%) Data Modelling
3 249 (28.30%) Analytics
4 230 (26.14%) Data Governance
5 227 (25.80%) Data Strategy
6 223 (25.34%) Azure
7 203 (23.07%) AI
8 151 (17.16%) Databricks
9 149 (16.93%) Data Quality
10 147 (16.70%) Roadmaps
11 144 (16.36%) Metadata
12 130 (14.77%) AWS
13 124 (14.09%) SQL
14 121 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
15 110 (12.50%) Lakehouse
16 106 (12.05%) Security Cleared
17 98 (11.14%) Microsoft
18 96 (10.91%) Data Engineering
19 95 (10.80%) Decision-Making
20 94 (10.68%) Machine Learning
21 82 (9.32%) Agile
22 79 (8.98%) Data Lake
22 79 (8.98%) GCP
22 79 (8.98%) Python
23 77 (8.75%) Metadata Management
24 76 (8.64%) Snowflake
25 74 (8.41%) CI/CD
25 74 (8.41%) Data Management
25 74 (8.41%) Logical Data Model
26 70 (7.95%) 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 11 (1.25%) Apache
1 11 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.11%) Confluence
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 223 (25.34%) Azure
2 130 (14.77%) AWS
3 79 (8.98%) GCP
4 76 (8.64%) Snowflake
5 64 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 55 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 49 (5.57%) Azure Databricks
8 47 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (4.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 33 (3.75%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.27%) dbt
12 12 (1.36%) Azure AI
13 11 (1.25%) SaaS
13 11 (1.25%) Serverless
14 9 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (1.02%) GitHub
15 8 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.91%) Azure Machine Learning
16 7 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (0.80%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Internet
1 2 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (16.36%) Metadata
2 79 (8.98%) Data Lake
3 69 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (6.93%) Power BI
5 47 (5.34%) Data Vault
6 36 (4.09%) Delta Lake
7 25 (2.84%) SQL Server
8 24 (2.73%) Tableau
9 23 (2.61%) Semantic Layer
10 22 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (2.50%) Star Schema
11 18 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (1.48%) Metadata Repository
15 12 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (1.36%) NoSQL
16 10 (1.14%) BigQuery
17 9 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
18 8 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (0.91%) MLflow
2 6 (0.68%) ERwin
2 6 (0.68%) Git
3 5 (0.57%) Toad
4 4 (0.45%) GitLab
4 4 (0.45%) JIRA
5 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.23%) rollup.js
General
1 135 (15.34%) Finance
2 98 (11.14%) Social Skills
3 95 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 63 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.30%) Legal
6 25 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.61%) Law
8 22 (2.50%) Retail
9 15 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.91%) Local Government
11 8 (0.91%) Marketing
12 7 (0.80%) Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.57%) Advertising
15 4 (0.45%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.45%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.30%) Terraform
2 27 (3.07%) PySpark
3 7 (0.80%) Middleware
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.45%) Kafka
6 3 (0.34%) JSON
6 3 (0.34%) XML
7 2 (0.23%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.23%) pgvector
7 2 (0.23%) REST
7 2 (0.23%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.11%) .NET
8 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.11%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.11%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.11%) RESTful
8 1 (0.11%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.11%) SOAP
8 1 (0.11%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.07%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.61%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (1.25%) Data Fabric
6 9 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.02%) Reference Data
7 8 (0.91%) Taxonomies
8 7 (0.80%) Blockchain
8 7 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.57%) IoT
10 5 (0.57%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.45%) NHS
12 3 (0.34%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (50.11%) Data Architecture
2 307 (34.89%) Data Modelling
3 249 (28.30%) Analytics
4 230 (26.14%) Data Governance
5 227 (25.80%) Data Strategy
6 203 (23.07%) AI
7 147 (16.70%) Roadmaps
8 121 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
9 110 (12.50%) Lakehouse
10 96 (10.91%) Data Engineering
11 95 (10.80%) Decision-Making
12 94 (10.68%) Machine Learning
13 82 (9.32%) Agile
14 77 (8.75%) Metadata Management
15 74 (8.41%) CI/CD
15 74 (8.41%) Data Management
15 74 (8.41%) Logical Data Model
16 70 (7.95%) Physical Data Model
17 69 (7.84%) Data Integration
18 68 (7.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 124 (14.09%) SQL
2 79 (8.98%) Python
3 29 (3.30%) Scala
4 19 (2.16%) Bicep
5 6 (0.68%) R
6 4 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 106 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 52 (5.91%) Degree
3 51 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.05%) SnowPro
9 15 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.02%) CIPD
12 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.57%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
17 1 (0.11%) MCITP
17 1 (0.11%) OCP
17 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (16.93%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.18%) GDPR
3 26 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.23%) IFRS
4 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.23%) QA
4 2 (0.23%) SLA
4 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 151 (17.16%) Databricks
2 98 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 26 (2.95%) SAP
4 23 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.27%) Oracle
6 16 (1.82%) Google
7 10 (1.14%) Informatica
8 8 (0.91%) Palantir
8 8 (0.91%) Workday
9 5 (0.57%) Foundry
9 5 (0.57%) Sage
10 3 (0.34%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.34%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.23%) Meraki
12 1 (0.11%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.11%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.11%) Interwoven
12 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.11%) Thales