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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 440 373
Rank change year-on-year +181 -67 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 638 232 674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.53% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 451 143 424
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £74,000 £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 £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.29% +12.41% -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 84,582 38,850 91,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.47% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,708 22,832 66,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 14 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 14 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 +172 568 £85,000 -10.18% 137
UK excluding London +140 349 £85,000 +4.29% 95
London +73 237 £85,000 -15.00% 72
Work from Home +80 160 £83,086 -2.25% 68
North of England +62 111 £82,500 -2.94% 24
South East +37 70 £90,000 +22.89% 30
Midlands +10 70 £77,000 -2.22% 17
West Midlands +14 64 £80,000 -0.93% 11
Yorkshire -28 48 £82,500 -12.82% 11
South West -3 45 £80,000 +14.29% 9
North West +34 40 £90,000 +12.50% 8
Scotland +11 28 £95,000 -2.56% 5
East of England +3 23 £90,000 +38.46% 4
North East -15 23 £70,000 +14.37% 5
East Midlands -21 6 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Wales -28 2 £70,000 -4.02% 4

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 295 (46.24%) Data Architecture
2 211 (33.07%) Data Governance
2 211 (33.07%) Data Modelling
3 208 (32.60%) Azure
4 165 (25.86%) Analytics
5 161 (25.24%) Data Strategy
6 133 (20.85%) AWS
7 130 (20.38%) Databricks
8 110 (17.24%) Data Quality
9 91 (14.26%) Metadata
10 87 (13.64%) GCP
11 86 (13.48%) AI
12 80 (12.54%) Data Engineering
12 80 (12.54%) SQL
13 79 (12.38%) Data Management
13 79 (12.38%) Migration
14 73 (11.44%) Roadmaps
15 71 (11.13%) Logical Data Model
15 71 (11.13%) Microsoft
16 70 (10.97%) Agile
17 67 (10.50%) Physical Data Model
18 66 (10.34%) Snowflake
19 62 (9.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 58 (9.09%) Data Lake
20 58 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
20 58 (9.09%) Security Cleared
21 56 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
22 55 (8.62%) Data Integration
23 52 (8.15%) ETL
23 52 (8.15%) Machine Learning

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 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.25%) Apache
2 8 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.98%) 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
1 208 (32.60%) Azure
2 133 (20.85%) AWS
3 87 (13.64%) GCP
4 66 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 62 (9.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 42 (6.58%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.04%) Azure AI
9 12 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
10 11 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.72%) dbt
11 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.63%) Collibra
14 3 (0.47%) GitHub
14 3 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.47%) PaaS
14 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 91 (14.26%) Metadata
2 58 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 58 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (5.80%) Power BI
4 29 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.82%) Data Vault
7 14 (2.19%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.41%) Big Data
10 9 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.25%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.10%) Tableau
13 5 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.63%) DB2
14 4 (0.63%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (0.47%) 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
1 132 (20.69%) Finance
2 87 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 63 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (2.98%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.66%) Retail
9 16 (2.51%) Banking
10 14 (2.19%) Law
11 11 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.10%) Legal
14 4 (0.63%) Advertising
14 4 (0.63%) Local Government
15 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.31%) Automotive
16 2 (0.31%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.25%) EDI
3 5 (0.78%) Kafka
3 5 (0.78%) Middleware
4 4 (0.63%) PySpark
5 3 (0.47%) REST
5 3 (0.47%) SOAP
6 2 (0.31%) .NET
6 2 (0.31%) pgvector
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.39%) Cloud Native
2 22 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.25%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
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%) Data Protection Act
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%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (46.24%) Data Architecture
2 211 (33.07%) Data Governance
2 211 (33.07%) Data Modelling
3 165 (25.86%) Analytics
4 161 (25.24%) Data Strategy
5 86 (13.48%) AI
6 80 (12.54%) Data Engineering
7 79 (12.38%) Data Management
7 79 (12.38%) Migration
8 73 (11.44%) Roadmaps
9 71 (11.13%) Logical Data Model
10 70 (10.97%) Agile
11 67 (10.50%) Physical Data Model
12 56 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
13 55 (8.62%) Data Integration
14 52 (8.15%) ETL
14 52 (8.15%) Machine Learning
15 51 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (7.52%) Architectural Patterns
16 48 (7.52%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (12.54%) SQL
2 45 (7.05%) Python
3 4 (0.63%) Scala
4 3 (0.47%) Java
4 3 (0.47%) R
5 2 (0.31%) Bicep
6 1 (0.16%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.05%) Degree
3 29 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.39%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.78%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.16%) CCA
11 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.45%) GDPR
3 11 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.47%) QA
5 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) 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
1 130 (20.38%) Databricks
2 71 (11.13%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.70%) SAP
4 24 (3.76%) Google
5 18 (2.82%) Oracle
6 17 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.57%) Palantir
8 6 (0.94%) Foundry
8 6 (0.94%) Sparx
9 3 (0.47%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.47%) Informatica
9 3 (0.47%) OpenAI
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