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 7 November 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 410 381
Rank change year-on-year +168 -29 +49
Permanent Data Architect jobs 981 273 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.53% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.59% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 638 144 233
10th Percentile £63,744 £62,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +1.19%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £119,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.93% +7.67% -5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
7 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 112,511 46,073 64,285
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.83% 90.13% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 74,727 28,672 36,354
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,152 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

Data Architect Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Data Architect job postings 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 Data Architect jobs over the 6 months to 7 November 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 Data Architect jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +146 894 £90,000 +5.88% 106
UK excluding London +101 483 £80,000 -0.93% 72
London +93 441 £100,000 +2.56% 66
Work from Home +102 315 £85,000 -10.53% 60
North of England +85 194 £75,000 -13.04% 5
Midlands -13 83 £79,999 +23.08% 11
South East -41 82 £85,000 -2.86% 28
North West +27 81 £75,000 - 2
South West -19 76 £91,000 +30.94% 13
Yorkshire +23 74 £75,000 -5.06% 2
West Midlands +10 68 £80,000 +12.37% 11
North East -39 39 £68,724 -31.28% 1
Scotland +25 33 £105,000 +5.00% 5
East Midlands -49 15 £55,000 -15.38%
East of England -62 12 £71,000 -18.86% 3
Wales -69 10 £98,973 - 4
Northern Ireland -86 2 £100,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, Data Architect job ads cited 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 Data Architect job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Architecture46.0%451
2Data Modelling33.1%325
3Analytics25.4%249
4Azure23.5%231
5Data Strategy22.6%222
6Data Governance22.3%219
7AI20.1%197
8Metadata16.2%159
9Data Quality15.7%154
10Roadmaps15.5%152
11AWS14.3%140
12Databricks14.1%138
13Business Intelligence13.7%134
14SQL13.5%132
15Lakehouse13.3%130
16Security Cleared12.0%118
17Data Engineering10.9%107
18Microsoft10.4%102
19Decision-Making9.7%95
20Metadata Management9.1%89
21ETL8.9%87
22Technical Leadership8.4%82
23Data Lake8.3%81
23Data Warehouse8.3%81
25GCP8.2%80
25Machine Learning8.2%80
27Agile8.0%78
28Data Management7.7%76
29Logical Data Model7.6%75
30CI/CD7.5%74

Data Architect Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Data Architect24.8%243
2Lead Data Architect6.7%66
3Artificial Intelligence Architect6.0%59
4Enterprise Data Architect4.5%44
5Solutions Architect3.4%33
6Azure Data Architect2.9%28
7AWS Data Architect2.4%24
8Databricks Architect2.3%23
9Data Engineer2.0%20
9Snowflake Architect2.0%20
11Principal Data Architect1.8%18
12Information Architect1.6%16
13Data Manager1.4%14
13Domain Architect1.4%14
15Data Analytics Architect1.3%13
16GCP Data Architect1.0%10
17Platform Architect0.8%8
18Senior Information Architect0.7%7
19ERP Architect0.6%6
19Lead Enterprise Architect0.6%6
136 Data Architect jobs Nationwide