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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 471 379
Rank change year-on-year +229 -92 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 764 205 694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.51% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 569 114 443
10th Percentile £62,150 £67,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -6.25%

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 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +222 692 £85,000 -12.82% 117
UK excluding London +189 414 £82,500 -2.94% 71
London +88 291 £90,000 -14.29% 71
Work from Home +131 215 £85,000 -10.18% 62
North of England +93 157 £80,000 -15.47% 13
Midlands +33 74 £80,000 -2.44% 12
South East +24 68 £85,000 -5.56% 29
West Midlands +31 66 £80,000 -4.48% 8
North West +55 64 £80,000 -5.88% 10
South West +1 63 £84,000 -1.18% 12
Yorkshire +16 59 £80,000 -15.47% 3
North East -14 34 £70,000 -
Scotland +21 29 £95,000 +2.70% 4
East of England +6 21 £71,000 -1.69% 2
East Midlands -25 8 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Wales - 2 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 339 (44.37%) Data Architecture
2 247 (32.33%) Data Modelling
3 238 (31.15%) Data Governance
4 223 (29.19%) Azure
5 217 (28.40%) Data Strategy
6 203 (26.57%) Analytics
7 155 (20.29%) Databricks
8 147 (19.24%) AWS
9 140 (18.32%) Data Quality
10 136 (17.80%) AI
11 110 (14.40%) Metadata
12 105 (13.74%) Roadmaps
13 102 (13.35%) SQL
14 92 (12.04%) GCP
15 86 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
16 82 (10.73%) Data Engineering
17 79 (10.34%) Microsoft
18 77 (10.08%) Machine Learning
18 77 (10.08%) Migration
19 75 (9.82%) Agile
19 75 (9.82%) Security Cleared
20 72 (9.42%) Snowflake
21 71 (9.29%) Data Management
21 71 (9.29%) Logical Data Model
22 69 (9.03%) Data Lake
22 69 (9.03%) Decision-Making
23 67 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
23 67 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
23 67 (8.77%) Physical Data Model
24 65 (8.51%) ETL

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 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.44%) Apache
3 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 223 (29.19%) Azure
2 147 (19.24%) AWS
3 92 (12.04%) GCP
4 72 (9.42%) Snowflake
5 67 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 51 (6.68%) Power Platform
7 32 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 20 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.09%) dbt
11 15 (1.96%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.57%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.65%) Collibra
14 5 (0.65%) SaaS
15 4 (0.52%) GitHub
15 4 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) MQTT
1 2 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (14.40%) Metadata
2 69 (9.03%) Data Lake
3 67 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.02%) Power BI
5 31 (4.06%) Data Vault
6 26 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.36%) Delta Lake
9 15 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.96%) Tableau
10 14 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.70%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.31%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.18%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.05%) Big Data
15 8 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
15 8 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Toad
2 4 (0.52%) Git
2 4 (0.52%) MLflow
3 3 (0.39%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 135 (17.67%) Finance
2 103 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 97 (12.70%) Social Skills
4 51 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (2.75%) Retail
8 18 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.23%) Law
10 13 (1.70%) Legal
11 10 (1.31%) Banking
12 9 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.79%) Local Government
13 6 (0.79%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.65%) Advertising
14 5 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.39%) Marketing
15 3 (0.39%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.26%) Back Office
16 2 (0.26%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.44%) PySpark
2 10 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.79%) Middleware
4 4 (0.52%) Kafka
5 3 (0.39%) REST
5 3 (0.39%) SOAP
6 2 (0.26%) .NET
6 2 (0.26%) pgvector
6 2 (0.26%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.13%) JSON
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.13%) XBRL
7 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.14%) Data Structures
3 19 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (1.70%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.05%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.92%) Data Fabric
8 7 (0.92%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.65%) NHS
9 5 (0.65%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.52%) IoT
10 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.39%) Replication
12 2 (0.26%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.26%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (44.37%) Data Architecture
2 247 (32.33%) Data Modelling
3 238 (31.15%) Data Governance
4 217 (28.40%) Data Strategy
5 203 (26.57%) Analytics
6 136 (17.80%) AI
7 105 (13.74%) Roadmaps
8 86 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
9 82 (10.73%) Data Engineering
10 77 (10.08%) Machine Learning
10 77 (10.08%) Migration
11 75 (9.82%) Agile
12 71 (9.29%) Data Management
12 71 (9.29%) Logical Data Model
13 69 (9.03%) Decision-Making
14 67 (8.77%) Physical Data Model
15 65 (8.51%) ETL
16 60 (7.85%) Data Integration
17 57 (7.46%) Metadata Management
18 54 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 102 (13.35%) SQL
2 58 (7.59%) Python
3 12 (1.57%) Scala
4 8 (1.05%) Bicep
5 4 (0.52%) R
6 1 (0.13%) Java
6 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.41%) Degree
3 34 (4.45%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.19%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.18%) SnowPro
8 9 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.92%) CIPD
11 5 (0.65%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (18.32%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.27%) GDPR
3 8 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.52%) QA
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (1.83%) Terraform
2 5 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 155 (20.29%) Databricks
2 79 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.45%) SAP
4 27 (3.53%) Google
5 24 (3.14%) Oracle
6 23 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.31%) Palantir
8 7 (0.92%) Informatica
9 6 (0.79%) Foundry
10 3 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.39%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.39%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.39%) Sage
10 3 (0.39%) Workday
11 2 (0.26%) Meraki
11 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.13%) Alteryx