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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 446 361
Rank change year-on-year +202 -85 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 900 230 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.52% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 632 115 283
10th Percentile £62,550 £65,636 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,700 £113,933
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £71,035
% change year-on-year -3.03% +16.14% -10.80%

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 109,727 44,495 71,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 89.76% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 74,858 25,632 41,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,554
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,349 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +215 833 £85,000 -2.86% 541
UK excluding London +144 454 £80,000 -3.03% 250
London +93 382 £95,000 -5.00% 315
Work from Home +137 268 £82,500 -5.71% 217
North of England +102 195 £75,000 -20.00% 63
Midlands +21 84 £80,000 +12.37% 63
Yorkshire +28 79 £80,000 -5.88% 18
North West +40 77 £75,000 - 31
South West -12 75 £90,000 +30.43% 23
West Midlands +22 71 £80,000 +12.37% 46
South East -10 67 £85,000 +3.03% 50
North East -29 39 £70,000 -30.00% 14
Scotland +13 19 £105,000 +5.00% 29
East of England -25 17 £71,000 +18.89% 13
East Midlands -32 13 £55,000 -15.38% 17
Northern Ireland -82 2 £100,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 443 (49.22%) Data Architecture
2 314 (34.89%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.33%) Analytics
4 228 (25.33%) Azure
5 227 (25.22%) Data Strategy
6 226 (25.11%) Data Governance
7 200 (22.22%) AI
8 152 (16.89%) Data Quality
8 152 (16.89%) Metadata
9 150 (16.67%) Databricks
10 144 (16.00%) Roadmaps
11 132 (14.67%) AWS
12 126 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
13 124 (13.78%) SQL
14 115 (12.78%) Lakehouse
15 109 (12.11%) Security Cleared
16 97 (10.78%) Data Engineering
17 95 (10.56%) Decision-Making
17 95 (10.56%) Microsoft
18 91 (10.11%) Machine Learning
19 84 (9.33%) Agile
19 84 (9.33%) Metadata Management
20 83 (9.22%) GCP
21 81 (9.00%) Data Lake
22 78 (8.67%) Python
23 77 (8.56%) CI/CD
23 77 (8.56%) Logical Data Model
24 75 (8.33%) ETL
24 75 (8.33%) Snowflake
25 74 (8.22%) 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 12 (1.33%) Apache
2 11 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
5 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.33%) Notion
3 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 228 (25.33%) Azure
2 132 (14.67%) AWS
3 83 (9.22%) GCP
4 75 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 65 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 53 (5.89%) Azure Databricks
7 50 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 45 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (4.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 33 (3.67%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.44%) dbt
12 12 (1.33%) Serverless
13 11 (1.22%) SaaS
14 9 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (1.00%) GitHub
15 8 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.89%) Azure AI
15 8 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.78%) Collibra
16 7 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (16.89%) Metadata
2 81 (9.00%) Data Lake
3 72 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (7.11%) Power BI
5 46 (5.11%) Data Vault
6 36 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 25 (2.78%) Star Schema
7 25 (2.78%) Tableau
8 24 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
9 23 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (2.33%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
13 14 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.44%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.11%) BigQuery
18 9 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
18 9 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (0.89%) MLflow
2 6 (0.67%) ERwin
2 6 (0.67%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Toad
4 4 (0.44%) GitLab
4 4 (0.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.22%) rollup.js
General
1 137 (15.22%) Finance
2 95 (10.56%) Public Sector
3 94 (10.44%) Social Skills
4 64 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.56%) Legal
6 28 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.67%) Retail
9 22 (2.44%) Law
10 14 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.11%) Local Government
11 10 (1.11%) Marketing
12 9 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.89%) Banking
14 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.56%) Advertising
16 4 (0.44%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.33%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.22%) Terraform
2 27 (3.00%) PySpark
3 7 (0.78%) Middleware
4 6 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.44%) Kafka
6 3 (0.33%) JSON
6 3 (0.33%) XML
7 2 (0.22%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.22%) REST
7 2 (0.22%) Snowpark
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%) pgvector
8 1 (0.11%) RESTful
8 1 (0.11%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.11%) SOAP
8 1 (0.11%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.89%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 11 (1.22%) Data Fabric
7 10 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.89%) Taxonomies
9 7 (0.78%) Blockchain
9 7 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.78%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.56%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.44%) IoT
12 4 (0.44%) NHS
12 4 (0.44%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (49.22%) Data Architecture
2 314 (34.89%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.33%) Analytics
4 227 (25.22%) Data Strategy
5 226 (25.11%) Data Governance
6 200 (22.22%) AI
7 144 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 126 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
9 115 (12.78%) Lakehouse
10 97 (10.78%) Data Engineering
11 95 (10.56%) Decision-Making
12 91 (10.11%) Machine Learning
13 84 (9.33%) Agile
13 84 (9.33%) Metadata Management
14 77 (8.56%) CI/CD
14 77 (8.56%) Logical Data Model
15 75 (8.33%) ETL
16 74 (8.22%) Physical Data Model
17 73 (8.11%) Data Management
18 71 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 124 (13.78%) SQL
2 78 (8.67%) Python
3 30 (3.33%) Scala
4 19 (2.11%) Bicep
5 6 (0.67%) R
6 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.44%) Java
8 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 109 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 52 (5.78%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.44%) DV Cleared
4 47 (5.22%) Degree
5 31 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.00%) SnowPro
9 14 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.00%) CIPD
12 7 (0.78%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.56%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.11%) HND
17 1 (0.11%) MCITP
17 1 (0.11%) OCP
17 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (16.89%) Data Quality
2 33 (3.67%) GDPR
3 28 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.22%) IFRS
4 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.22%) QA
4 2 (0.22%) SLA
4 2 (0.22%) 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 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 150 (16.67%) Databricks
2 95 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 25 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 25 (2.78%) SAP
4 20 (2.22%) Oracle
5 17 (1.89%) Google
6 10 (1.11%) Informatica
7 8 (0.89%) Workday
8 6 (0.67%) Palantir
9 5 (0.56%) Sage
10 3 (0.33%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.33%) Foundry
11 2 (0.22%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.11%) Denodo
12 1 (0.11%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.11%) Meraki
12 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.11%) Sparx
12 1 (0.11%) Thales