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 3 months leading to 25 April 2026.

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

3 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 348 388
Rank change year-on-year +74 +40 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 309 124 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 217 63 197
10th Percentile £59,282 £70,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £98,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +15.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,650 £124,500 £109,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -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 44,974 19,516 50,550
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.00% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 29,637 12,283 35,858
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,000
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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 months to 25 April 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 3 months to 25 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +60 263 £85,000 -14.36% 98
UK excluding London +40 144 £85,000 -2.86% 80
London +43 133 £100,000 -9.09% 33
Work from Home +8 58 £85,000 -10.18% 71
North of England -15 40 £90,000 -4.90% 21
Midlands -21 32 £82,500 -2.94% 18
West Midlands -10 29 £82,500 -2.94% 14
South East -10 27 £85,000 -5.56% 18
North West +2 21 £90,000 +5.88% 5
Scotland +2 19 £95,000 +11.76%
South West -31 19 £80,000 - 12
Yorkshire -32 16 £85,000 -10.18% 8
East of England - 6 - - 10
North East -34 3 £78,500 - 8
East Midlands -46 3 £54,150 -13.36% 4
Wales - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 302 (50.08%) Data Architecture
2 225 (37.31%) Data Modelling
3 222 (36.82%) Azure
4 206 (34.16%) Data Governance
5 160 (26.53%) Analytics
6 157 (26.04%) Data Strategy
7 131 (21.72%) AWS
8 116 (19.24%) Databricks
9 104 (17.25%) Data Management
10 101 (16.75%) Data Engineering
11 95 (15.75%) Data Quality
12 91 (15.09%) Metadata
12 91 (15.09%) Microsoft
13 85 (14.10%) GCP
14 84 (13.93%) Snowflake
15 82 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
16 76 (12.60%) SQL
17 72 (11.94%) Data Integration
17 72 (11.94%) Roadmaps
18 71 (11.77%) Agile
18 71 (11.77%) Migration
19 68 (11.28%) AI
20 63 (10.45%) Logical Data Model
21 62 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
22 59 (9.78%) Physical Data Model
23 58 (9.62%) Data Lake
24 54 (8.96%) ETL
25 53 (8.79%) Security Cleared
26 50 (8.29%) Architectural Patterns
26 50 (8.29%) Metadata Management

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 9 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.16%) Apache
4 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 15 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.33%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 222 (36.82%) Azure
2 131 (21.72%) AWS
3 85 (14.10%) GCP
4 84 (13.93%) Snowflake
5 62 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 36 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.16%) Azure AI
9 12 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (1.66%) dbt
11 9 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.66%) Fivetran
15 3 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.50%) Collibra
15 3 (0.50%) IaaS
15 3 (0.50%) PaaS
16 2 (0.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.33%) MQTT
1 2 (0.33%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.17%) DNS
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (15.09%) Metadata
2 82 (13.60%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (9.62%) Data Lake
4 30 (4.98%) Power BI
5 27 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.65%) Data Vault
8 13 (2.16%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.49%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.33%) Big Data
12 8 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.16%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.66%) DB2
15 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (0.33%) ERwin
1 2 (0.33%) rollup.js
2 1 (0.17%) Git
2 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.17%) MLflow
2 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 127 (21.06%) Finance
2 88 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 55 (9.12%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (3.65%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.15%) Banking
9 14 (2.32%) Law
9 14 (2.32%) Retail Banking
10 12 (1.99%) Retail
11 8 (1.33%) Legal
12 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.33%) Automotive
14 2 (0.33%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.33%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.33%) Local Government
14 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.66%) EDI
2 9 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.66%) Kafka
4 3 (0.50%) Middleware
5 2 (0.33%) .NET
5 2 (0.33%) pgvector
5 2 (0.33%) PySpark
5 2 (0.33%) REST
5 2 (0.33%) SOAP
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.48%) Data Structures
3 15 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 11 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.66%) e-Learning
6 9 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.00%) IoT
7 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.66%) NHS
9 4 (0.66%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.50%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.50%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.50%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.50%) Replication
10 3 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.33%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (50.08%) Data Architecture
2 225 (37.31%) Data Modelling
3 206 (34.16%) Data Governance
4 160 (26.53%) Analytics
5 157 (26.04%) Data Strategy
6 104 (17.25%) Data Management
7 101 (16.75%) Data Engineering
8 72 (11.94%) Data Integration
8 72 (11.94%) Roadmaps
9 71 (11.77%) Agile
9 71 (11.77%) Migration
10 68 (11.28%) AI
11 63 (10.45%) Logical Data Model
12 59 (9.78%) Physical Data Model
13 54 (8.96%) ETL
14 50 (8.29%) Architectural Patterns
14 50 (8.29%) Metadata Management
15 49 (8.13%) Machine Learning
16 45 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
16 45 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (12.60%) SQL
2 41 (6.80%) Python
3 3 (0.50%) Scala
4 2 (0.33%) Java
5 1 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (0.17%) Bicep
5 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 44 (7.30%) Degree
3 30 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.50%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.17%) CCA
11 1 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.75%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.47%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.32%) GDPR
4 3 (0.50%) QA
5 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.33%) NIST
5 2 (0.33%) SLA
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) IFRS
6 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.00%) Docker
3 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (1.33%) Terraform
2 7 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 116 (19.24%) Databricks
2 91 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.81%) Google
4 20 (3.32%) SAP
5 16 (2.65%) Oracle
6 14 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.49%) Palantir
8 7 (1.16%) Sparx
9 5 (0.83%) Foundry
10 3 (0.50%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.33%) Informatica
11 2 (0.33%) Meraki
11 2 (0.33%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.17%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.17%) Cisco
12 1 (0.17%) HP
12 1 (0.17%) Juniper
12 1 (0.17%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.17%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.17%) VMware