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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 452 378
Rank change year-on-year +203 -74 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 877 231 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.53% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 626 116 284
10th Percentile £62,000 £65,794 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +4.41% -4.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,750 £113,160
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -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 108,680 43,895 71,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 89.63% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,405 25,767 42,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 23 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 23 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 +196 807 £85,000 -4.23% 577
UK excluding London +140 443 £80,000 -3.03% 251
London +96 367 £95,000 -5.00% 355
Work from Home +115 253 £80,000 -15.79% 234
North of England +95 185 £75,000 -20.00% 65
Midlands +7 81 £80,000 +12.37% 64
Yorkshire +27 76 £77,500 -8.82% 27
South West -13 75 £90,000 +28.57% 23
North West +36 71 £75,000 - 29
West Midlands +19 69 £80,000 +12.37% 45
South East -11 66 £85,000 +3.03% 47
North East -37 38 £70,000 -30.00% 9
Scotland +20 19 £105,000 +13.51% 37
East of England -22 18 £71,000 +18.89% 8
East Midlands -28 12 £55,000 -15.38% 19
Northern Ireland -82 2 £100,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 442 (50.40%) Data Architecture
2 310 (35.35%) Data Modelling
3 252 (28.73%) Analytics
4 232 (26.45%) Data Governance
5 231 (26.34%) Azure
6 228 (26.00%) Data Strategy
7 207 (23.60%) AI
8 158 (18.02%) Databricks
9 150 (17.10%) Data Quality
10 148 (16.88%) Roadmaps
11 146 (16.65%) Metadata
12 134 (15.28%) AWS
13 129 (14.71%) SQL
14 123 (14.03%) Business Intelligence
15 112 (12.77%) Lakehouse
16 106 (12.09%) Security Cleared
17 100 (11.40%) Microsoft
18 98 (11.17%) Data Engineering
18 98 (11.17%) Machine Learning
19 96 (10.95%) Decision-Making
20 83 (9.46%) Agile
20 83 (9.46%) GCP
21 82 (9.35%) Python
22 80 (9.12%) Data Lake
23 77 (8.78%) Metadata Management
23 77 (8.78%) Snowflake
24 75 (8.55%) CI/CD
24 75 (8.55%) Data Management
24 75 (8.55%) Logical Data Model
25 71 (8.10%) 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 13 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.37%) Apache
3 5 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.46%) 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
1 231 (26.34%) Azure
2 134 (15.28%) AWS
3 83 (9.46%) GCP
4 77 (8.78%) Snowflake
5 67 (7.64%) Power Platform
6 56 (6.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 50 (5.70%) Azure Databricks
8 48 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 33 (3.76%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.28%) dbt
12 12 (1.37%) Azure AI
13 11 (1.25%) SaaS
13 11 (1.25%) Serverless
14 10 (1.14%) GitHub
15 9 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.91%) Azure Machine Learning
17 7 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (0.80%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Internet
1 2 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (16.65%) Metadata
2 80 (9.12%) Data Lake
3 69 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (7.18%) Power BI
5 48 (5.47%) Data Vault
6 38 (4.33%) Delta Lake
7 25 (2.85%) SQL Server
7 25 (2.85%) Tableau
8 23 (2.62%) Semantic Layer
9 22 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.51%) Star Schema
10 18 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (1.48%) Metadata Repository
14 12 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.25%) NoSQL
16 10 (1.14%) BigQuery
17 9 (1.03%) 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 (0.46%) GitLab
4 4 (0.46%) JIRA
5 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.23%) rollup.js
General
1 137 (15.62%) Finance
2 100 (11.40%) Social Skills
3 95 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 65 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.31%) Legal
6 25 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.62%) Law
7 23 (2.62%) Retail
8 15 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 8 (0.91%) Local Government
10 8 (0.91%) Marketing
11 6 (0.68%) Banking
11 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.57%) Advertising
12 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.46%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.31%) Terraform
2 27 (3.08%) PySpark
3 7 (0.80%) Middleware
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.46%) 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 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.62%) Data Structures
4 22 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.14%) Data Fabric
5 10 (1.14%) Reference Data
6 9 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
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 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.46%) NHS
12 3 (0.34%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (50.40%) Data Architecture
2 310 (35.35%) Data Modelling
3 252 (28.73%) Analytics
4 232 (26.45%) Data Governance
5 228 (26.00%) Data Strategy
6 207 (23.60%) AI
7 148 (16.88%) Roadmaps
8 123 (14.03%) Business Intelligence
9 112 (12.77%) Lakehouse
10 98 (11.17%) Data Engineering
10 98 (11.17%) Machine Learning
11 96 (10.95%) Decision-Making
12 83 (9.46%) Agile
13 77 (8.78%) Metadata Management
14 75 (8.55%) CI/CD
14 75 (8.55%) Data Management
14 75 (8.55%) Logical Data Model
15 71 (8.10%) Physical Data Model
16 70 (7.98%) Data Integration
17 69 (7.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 129 (14.71%) SQL
2 82 (9.35%) Python
3 30 (3.42%) Scala
4 19 (2.17%) Bicep
5 6 (0.68%) R
6 4 (0.46%) 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 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 52 (5.93%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.82%) Degree
4 44 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.05%) SnowPro
9 15 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.03%) CIPD
12 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.57%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.46%) 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
1 150 (17.10%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.19%) GDPR
3 26 (2.96%) 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
1 158 (18.02%) Databricks
2 100 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.08%) SAP
4 23 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.28%) 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