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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 446 378
Rank change year-on-year +169 -68 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 639 230 675
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.59% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 458 137 427
10th Percentile £59,797 £64,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,813 £77,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £94,637 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +14.71% -8.33%
75th Percentile £93,875 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £84,500 £82,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.05% +13.10% -9.38%

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 86,124 39,293 92,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 89.47% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56,991 22,669 67,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,729 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% +3.46% -5.66%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +167 571 £85,000 -10.18% 128
UK excluding London +146 350 £84,500 +3.05% 86
London +63 237 £85,000 -15.00% 72
Work from Home +107 160 £83,250 -2.06% 54
North of England +61 120 £80,000 -5.88% 23
Midlands +15 69 £74,000 -6.03% 11
South East +25 64 £85,000 +3.03% 30
West Midlands -3 62 £80,000 -0.93% 8
Yorkshire -1 53 £82,500 -12.82% 8
South West -11 48 £80,000 +14.29% 11
North West +41 42 £90,000 +12.50% 8
Scotland +7 26 £95,000 -2.56% 7
North East -17 25 £70,000 +14.37% 7
East of England +5 21 £90,000 +38.46% 3
East Midlands -17 7 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Wales -30 2 £70,000 -4.02% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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.

1 286 (44.76%) Data Architecture
2 212 (33.18%) Data Governance
3 204 (31.92%) Data Modelling
4 199 (31.14%) Azure
5 163 (25.51%) Analytics
5 163 (25.51%) Data Strategy
6 134 (20.97%) AWS
7 132 (20.66%) Databricks
8 112 (17.53%) Data Quality
9 89 (13.93%) GCP
9 89 (13.93%) Metadata
10 88 (13.77%) AI
11 79 (12.36%) Migration
11 79 (12.36%) SQL
12 75 (11.74%) Data Engineering
13 72 (11.27%) Roadmaps
14 71 (11.11%) Agile
14 71 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
15 67 (10.49%) Data Management
15 67 (10.49%) Physical Data Model
16 64 (10.02%) Microsoft
17 61 (9.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 61 (9.55%) Security Cleared
17 61 (9.55%) Snowflake
18 58 (9.08%) Data Lake
19 55 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
19 55 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
20 54 (8.45%) ETL
21 53 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
22 52 (8.14%) Data Integration

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 12 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.41%) Apache
3 8 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.63%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.47%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.31%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.16%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 199 (31.14%) Azure
2 134 (20.97%) AWS
3 89 (13.93%) GCP
4 61 (9.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 61 (9.55%) Snowflake
5 39 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 18 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (2.03%) Amazon S3
7 13 (2.03%) Azure AI
8 12 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 11 (1.72%) dbt
10 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.63%) Collibra
13 3 (0.47%) GitHub
13 3 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.47%) PaaS
13 3 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.31%) MQTT
1 2 (0.31%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.16%) DNS
2 1 (0.16%) Firewall
2 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.93%) Metadata
2 58 (9.08%) Data Lake
3 55 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.32%) Power BI
5 28 (4.38%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.82%) Data Vault
8 16 (2.50%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.56%) Big Data
11 9 (1.41%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.25%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (1.25%) Tableau
13 6 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.63%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Toad
2 2 (0.31%) ERwin
2 2 (0.31%) Git
2 2 (0.31%) MLflow
2 2 (0.31%) rollup.js
3 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.16%) JIRA
General
1 127 (19.87%) Finance
2 88 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 69 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.82%) Retail
8 15 (2.35%) Banking
9 14 (2.19%) Law
10 10 (1.56%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.10%) Legal
13 5 (0.78%) Advertising
14 4 (0.63%) Local Government
15 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.31%) Back Office
16 2 (0.31%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.78%) Kafka
2 5 (0.78%) Middleware
3 4 (0.63%) EDI
3 4 (0.63%) PySpark
4 3 (0.47%) REST
4 3 (0.47%) SOAP
5 2 (0.31%) .NET
5 2 (0.31%) pgvector
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.54%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.60%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.10%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.94%) IoT
8 6 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.78%) NHS
10 4 (0.63%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.47%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.47%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.47%) Replication
11 3 (0.47%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.31%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.31%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (44.76%) Data Architecture
2 212 (33.18%) Data Governance
3 204 (31.92%) Data Modelling
4 163 (25.51%) Analytics
4 163 (25.51%) Data Strategy
5 88 (13.77%) AI
6 79 (12.36%) Migration
7 75 (11.74%) Data Engineering
8 72 (11.27%) Roadmaps
9 71 (11.11%) Agile
9 71 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
10 67 (10.49%) Data Management
10 67 (10.49%) Physical Data Model
11 55 (8.61%) Business Intelligence
12 54 (8.45%) ETL
13 53 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (8.14%) Data Integration
14 52 (8.14%) Machine Learning
15 45 (7.04%) Metadata Management
16 44 (6.89%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 79 (12.36%) SQL
2 47 (7.36%) Python
3 5 (0.78%) Scala
4 4 (0.63%) R
5 3 (0.47%) Java
6 2 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.16%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.04%) Degree
3 28 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.78%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CCA
10 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.29%) GDPR
3 6 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.47%) QA
5 2 (0.31%) IFRS
5 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.31%) NIST
5 2 (0.31%) SLA
5 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.78%) Docker
3 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.25%) Terraform
2 6 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 132 (20.66%) Databricks
2 64 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.85%) SAP
4 26 (4.07%) Google
5 19 (2.97%) Oracle
6 18 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.56%) Palantir
8 6 (0.94%) Foundry
9 3 (0.47%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.47%) Informatica
9 3 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.47%) Sparx
10 2 (0.31%) Meraki
11 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco
11 1 (0.16%) HP
11 1 (0.16%) Juniper
11 1 (0.16%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.16%) Sage
11 1 (0.16%) VMware