Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 381 431
Rank change year-on-year -70 +50 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 228 496 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.64% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 108 296 288
10th Percentile £67,227 £55,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £66,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -4.23% +4.41%
75th Percentile £107,813 £97,500 £104,063
90th Percentile £118,250 £112,615 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +21.43% -12.10% +9.84%

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 44,026 73,874 58,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,758 44,964 44,983
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 September 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 September 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 -58 211 £92,500 +8.82% 136
London +45 135 £100,000 +11.11% 75
UK excluding London -102 83 £85,000 +21.43% 99
Work from Home -23 58 £95,000 +12.20% 82
South East -28 30 £86,250 -1.43% 44
North of England -66 18 £100,000 +42.86% 22
Midlands +41 16 £71,193 +1.70% 12
West Midlands +54 11 £71,193 +18.65% 8
Scotland +43 11 £92,500 +2.78% 3
Yorkshire +16 10 £87,500 -2.78% 11
North East +13 6 £100,000 +53.85% 2
South West +48 5 £85,000 +54.55% 16
East Midlands +16 5 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North West -76 4 - - 10
East of England -8 2 £59,721 -33.64% 1
Northern Ireland +16 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, 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.

1 179 (78.51%) Data Architecture
2 159 (69.74%) Data Modelling
3 142 (62.28%) Azure
4 130 (57.02%) Data Strategy
5 120 (52.63%) Data Governance
6 88 (38.60%) AWS
7 87 (38.16%) Finance
8 82 (35.96%) Analytics
9 74 (32.46%) GCP
9 74 (32.46%) Roadmaps
10 70 (30.70%) Data Warehouse
11 67 (29.39%) Data Integration
12 65 (28.51%) ETL
12 65 (28.51%) Social Skills
13 62 (27.19%) Microsoft
14 60 (26.32%) SQL
15 57 (25.00%) Data Management
16 55 (24.12%) Agile
17 54 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
17 54 (23.68%) Data Lake
17 54 (23.68%) Metadata
18 46 (20.18%) Databricks
19 43 (18.86%) Metadata Management
20 42 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
21 40 (17.54%) Data Quality
21 40 (17.54%) Machine Learning
21 40 (17.54%) Data Science
22 39 (17.11%) GDPR
22 39 (17.11%) Mentoring
22 39 (17.11%) Data Engineering

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 20 (8.77%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.70%) Apache
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.44%) Confluence
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
1 142 (62.28%) Azure
2 88 (38.60%) AWS
3 74 (32.46%) GCP
4 33 (14.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (10.96%) Power Platform
6 19 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.07%) Serverless
9 6 (2.63%) SaaS
10 5 (2.19%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.75%) GitHub
12 3 (1.32%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.32%) Collibra
12 3 (1.32%) dbt
13 2 (0.88%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (30.70%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (23.68%) Data Lake
2 54 (23.68%) Metadata
3 24 (10.53%) Power BI
4 18 (7.89%) Big Data
5 17 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (7.02%) BigQuery
7 14 (6.14%) NoSQL
8 12 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 10 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (4.39%) Data Vault
10 8 (3.51%) Hadoop
11 7 (3.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.63%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.63%) Tableau
13 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (2.19%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.75%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 15 (6.58%) ERwin
2 3 (1.32%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 87 (38.16%) Finance
2 65 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 42 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (17.11%) Law
5 32 (14.04%) Banking
6 27 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.65%) Financial Institution
7 22 (9.65%) Retail Banking
8 20 (8.77%) Marketing
9 15 (6.58%) Retail
10 11 (4.82%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.75%) Back Office
11 4 (1.75%) Legal
11 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Front Office
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.95%) Kafka
2 4 (1.75%) PySpark
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.44%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 17 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (6.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.63%) Taxonomies
5 5 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.88%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.88%) IoT
7 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.88%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.44%) Equities
8 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (78.51%) Data Architecture
2 159 (69.74%) Data Modelling
3 130 (57.02%) Data Strategy
4 120 (52.63%) Data Governance
5 82 (35.96%) Analytics
6 74 (32.46%) Roadmaps
7 67 (29.39%) Data Integration
8 65 (28.51%) ETL
9 57 (25.00%) Data Management
10 55 (24.12%) Agile
11 54 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
12 43 (18.86%) Metadata Management
13 40 (17.54%) Data Science
13 40 (17.54%) Machine Learning
14 39 (17.11%) Data Engineering
14 39 (17.11%) Mentoring
14 39 (17.11%) Migration
15 38 (16.67%) Data Migration
16 34 (14.91%) Business Intelligence
16 34 (14.91%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 60 (26.32%) SQL
2 30 (13.16%) Python
3 6 (2.63%) Java
3 6 (2.63%) Scala
4 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.44%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (14.47%) Degree
2 30 (13.16%) Azure Certification
3 25 (10.96%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.46%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.82%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.19%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.54%) Data Quality
2 39 (17.11%) GDPR
3 10 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.88%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (1.75%) HDFS
2 2 (0.88%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.44%) Ansible
2 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 62 (27.19%) Microsoft
2 46 (20.18%) Databricks
3 21 (9.21%) Google
4 16 (7.02%) Oracle
5 6 (2.63%) Informatica
6 5 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.19%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.75%) Teradata
8 3 (1.32%) Talend
9 2 (0.88%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.44%) ESRI
10 1 (0.44%) IBM
10 1 (0.44%) IFS
10 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.44%) Workday