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 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 378 404
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 328 386 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.70% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 184 211 242
10th Percentile £60,263 £62,500 £60,125
25th Percentile £76,250 £73,341 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.15% -8.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.25% +0.46% +6.18%

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 52,344 54,757 47,045
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 93.89% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,163 29,820 36,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 +42 312 £85,000 -5.56% 123
London +51 158 £85,000 -9.33% 22
UK excluding London +24 156 £85,000 +6.25% 116
Work from Home +30 112 £83,672 -1.56% 39
South East +38 64 £87,500 - 34
Midlands +43 28 £68,096 -8.94% 22
East of England +41 20 £90,000 - 24
West Midlands +40 20 £71,193 -1.22% 15
South West +19 20 £64,675 +17.59% 14
North of England -36 18 £86,250 +23.21% 16
Yorkshire +1 11 £79,000 +29.07% 7
East Midlands +4 8 £65,000 -23.53% 6
North East 0 5 £100,000 +42.86% 2
Scotland +1 4 £102,500 +2.50% 6
North West -27 2 - - 7
Wales +5 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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.

1 231 (70.43%) Data Architecture
2 224 (68.29%) Data Modelling
3 185 (56.40%) Azure
4 146 (44.51%) Data Governance
5 145 (44.21%) Data Strategy
6 123 (37.50%) Analytics
7 118 (35.98%) Data Warehouse
8 105 (32.01%) Data Integration
9 102 (31.10%) Data Management
10 94 (28.66%) AWS
11 91 (27.74%) Microsoft
12 79 (24.09%) Data Engineering
12 79 (24.09%) Roadmaps
13 78 (23.78%) GCP
14 77 (23.48%) Metadata
15 74 (22.56%) Data Lake
16 69 (21.04%) AI
16 69 (21.04%) ETL
17 66 (20.12%) Databricks
18 54 (16.46%) Machine Learning
19 53 (16.16%) SQL
20 51 (15.55%) Snowflake
21 50 (15.24%) Metadata Management
22 49 (14.94%) Data Quality
22 49 (14.94%) Migration
23 47 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
24 46 (14.02%) Mentoring
25 44 (13.41%) Agile
26 42 (12.80%) Data Science
27 41 (12.50%) Business Intelligence

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 11 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.30%) Luigi
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 185 (56.40%) Azure
2 94 (28.66%) AWS
3 78 (23.78%) GCP
4 51 (15.55%) Snowflake
5 32 (9.76%) Power Platform
6 28 (8.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 21 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (5.49%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (4.57%) SaaS
11 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.74%) Serverless
12 8 (2.44%) dbt
12 8 (2.44%) GitHub
13 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.83%) PaaS
15 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (1.52%) Cloud Composer
15 5 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
16 4 (1.22%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (35.98%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (23.48%) Metadata
3 74 (22.56%) Data Lake
4 31 (9.45%) Power BI
5 21 (6.40%) Data Vault
6 19 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.27%) Big Data
8 13 (3.96%) BigQuery
8 13 (3.96%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.35%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.74%) Data Mining
10 9 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.83%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.83%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (1.52%) Tableau
14 4 (1.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 17 (5.18%) ERwin
2 6 (1.83%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.22%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (26.83%) Finance
2 78 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 48 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (11.28%) Law
6 33 (10.06%) Banking
7 30 (9.15%) Retail Banking
8 26 (7.93%) Financial Institution
9 19 (5.79%) Marketing
10 18 (5.49%) Retail
11 17 (5.18%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.13%) Legal
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.61%) Advertising
14 2 (0.61%) Front Office
14 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.61%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.35%) Kafka
2 9 (2.74%) EDI
3 7 (2.13%) PySpark
4 5 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.91%) REST
6 2 (0.61%) JDBC
6 2 (0.61%) LDAP
6 2 (0.61%) Middleware
6 2 (0.61%) OAuth
6 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.61%) ODBC
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 16 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.44%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.44%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.22%) IoT
6 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.91%) e-Learning
6 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.61%) Equities
7 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.61%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.30%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.30%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.83%) Unix
2 2 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (70.43%) Data Architecture
2 224 (68.29%) Data Modelling
3 146 (44.51%) Data Governance
4 145 (44.21%) Data Strategy
5 123 (37.50%) Analytics
6 105 (32.01%) Data Integration
7 102 (31.10%) Data Management
8 79 (24.09%) Data Engineering
8 79 (24.09%) Roadmaps
9 69 (21.04%) AI
9 69 (21.04%) ETL
10 54 (16.46%) Machine Learning
11 50 (15.24%) Metadata Management
12 49 (14.94%) Migration
13 47 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
14 46 (14.02%) Mentoring
15 44 (13.41%) Agile
16 42 (12.80%) Data Science
17 41 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (10.98%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 53 (16.16%) SQL
2 35 (10.67%) Python
3 6 (1.83%) Java
4 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.61%) Scala
6 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 36 (10.98%) Degree
2 34 (10.37%) Azure Certification
3 28 (8.54%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 13 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 41 (12.50%) GDPR
3 37 (11.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) QA
5 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.61%) Docker
1 2 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.05%) Terraform
2 7 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 91 (27.74%) Microsoft
2 66 (20.12%) Databricks
3 17 (5.18%) Google
4 11 (3.35%) Oracle
5 6 (1.83%) Informatica
5 6 (1.83%) Sparx
6 4 (1.22%) Dell
6 4 (1.22%) IBM
7 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.61%) Palantir
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) TIBCO