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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 447 400
Rank change year-on-year +207 -47 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 853 225 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.50% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 601 114 329
10th Percentile £60,484 £66,862 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,688 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,250
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 102,340 44,909 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,155 26,648 51,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £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 £75,000 £74,775 £72,429
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
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 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 17 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 26 August 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 +213 781 £85,000 -8.11% 81
UK excluding London +161 435 £80,000 -5.88% 41
London +105 353 £92,500 -7.50% 46
Work from Home +149 241 £85,000 -2.86% 41
North of England +95 173 £75,000 -21.05% 13
Midlands +24 79 £80,000 +12.37% 13
South West -2 76 £85,000 - 8
North West +61 73 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands +24 66 £80,000 -3.03% 12
Yorkshire +16 64 £75,000 -13.04% 7
South East +1 63 £85,000 -1.45% 5
North East -32 36 £69,362 -30.64% 3
Scotland +17 23 £100,000 +8.11% 1
East of England -8 18 £71,000 +18.89% 1
East Midlands -14 13 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Northern Ireland -80 2 £100,000 - 1
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 417 (48.89%) Data Architecture
2 299 (35.05%) Data Modelling
3 241 (28.25%) Analytics
4 232 (27.20%) Data Strategy
5 229 (26.85%) Data Governance
6 225 (26.38%) Azure
7 203 (23.80%) AI
8 168 (19.70%) Databricks
9 148 (17.35%) Roadmaps
10 146 (17.12%) Data Quality
11 137 (16.06%) AWS
12 133 (15.59%) Metadata
13 128 (15.01%) SQL
14 115 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
15 103 (12.08%) Security Cleared
16 100 (11.72%) Machine Learning
17 99 (11.61%) Data Engineering
18 98 (11.49%) Microsoft
19 94 (11.02%) Decision-Making
20 90 (10.55%) GCP
21 88 (10.32%) Data Lake
22 83 (9.73%) Agile
22 83 (9.73%) Snowflake
23 82 (9.61%) Python
24 74 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
25 71 (8.32%) Data Management
25 71 (8.32%) Logical Data Model
26 69 (8.09%) ETL
27 68 (7.97%) Migration
28 67 (7.85%) CI/CD

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 (1.52%) Apache
1 13 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
2 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 225 (26.38%) Azure
2 137 (16.06%) AWS
3 90 (10.55%) GCP
4 83 (9.73%) Snowflake
5 66 (7.74%) Power Platform
6 63 (7.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 48 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 41 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 31 (3.63%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.11%) dbt
11 16 (1.88%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (1.06%) GitHub
13 9 (1.06%) Serverless
14 8 (0.94%) SaaS
15 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Internet
1 2 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (15.59%) Metadata
2 88 (10.32%) Data Lake
3 74 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.15%) Power BI
5 44 (5.16%) Data Vault
6 35 (4.10%) Delta Lake
7 27 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 25 (2.93%) Tableau
9 19 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.23%) Semantic Layer
10 17 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.76%) Star Schema
12 14 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.17%) NoSQL
15 9 (1.06%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
16 7 (0.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (0.94%) MLflow
2 5 (0.59%) Git
2 5 (0.59%) Toad
3 4 (0.47%) ERwin
3 4 (0.47%) GitLab
4 3 (0.35%) JIRA
5 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.23%) rollup.js
General
1 147 (17.23%) Finance
2 103 (12.08%) Social Skills
3 96 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 60 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (2.93%) Law
7 23 (2.70%) Legal
8 21 (2.46%) Retail
9 18 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.82%) Banking
12 7 (0.82%) Local Government
12 7 (0.82%) Marketing
13 5 (0.59%) Advertising
13 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.35%) Military
15 3 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.28%) Terraform
2 25 (2.93%) PySpark
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.70%) Middleware
5 4 (0.47%) Kafka
6 3 (0.35%) JSON
6 3 (0.35%) XML
7 2 (0.23%) .NET
7 2 (0.23%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.23%) pgvector
7 2 (0.23%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.12%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.12%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.12%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.12%) REST
8 1 (0.12%) RESTful
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.12%) SOAP
8 1 (0.12%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 24 (2.81%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.06%) Reference Data
6 8 (0.94%) Data Fabric
7 7 (0.82%) Blockchain
7 7 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.70%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.59%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.47%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.47%) IoT
10 4 (0.47%) NHS
10 4 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (48.89%) Data Architecture
2 299 (35.05%) Data Modelling
3 241 (28.25%) Analytics
4 232 (27.20%) Data Strategy
5 229 (26.85%) Data Governance
6 203 (23.80%) AI
7 148 (17.35%) Roadmaps
8 115 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
9 100 (11.72%) Machine Learning
10 99 (11.61%) Data Engineering
11 94 (11.02%) Decision-Making
12 83 (9.73%) Agile
13 71 (8.32%) Data Management
13 71 (8.32%) Logical Data Model
14 69 (8.09%) ETL
15 68 (7.97%) Migration
16 67 (7.85%) CI/CD
16 67 (7.85%) Physical Data Model
17 66 (7.74%) Data Integration
18 65 (7.62%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (15.01%) SQL
2 82 (9.61%) Python
3 29 (3.40%) Scala
4 17 (1.99%) Bicep
5 6 (0.70%) R
6 4 (0.47%) 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
1 103 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 55 (6.45%) Degree
3 46 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (1.99%) SnowPro
8 16 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.06%) CIPD
11 5 (0.59%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.12%) CCA
14 1 (0.12%) OCP
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (17.12%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.52%) GDPR
3 22 (2.58%) 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 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.47%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 168 (19.70%) Databricks
2 98 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.40%) SAP
4 22 (2.58%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.46%) Google
6 20 (2.34%) Oracle
7 9 (1.06%) Palantir
8 8 (0.94%) Informatica
8 8 (0.94%) Workday
9 5 (0.59%) Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Sage
11 3 (0.35%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.35%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.23%) Meraki
13 1 (0.12%) Denodo
13 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.12%) Sparx