Data Architect Jobs

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £94,637 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 378 459
Rank change year-on-year -125 +81 +126
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 236 685 657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.69% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.72% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 143 425 438
10th Percentile £64,000 £55,000 £63,636
25th Percentile £78,125 £62,500 £75,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% -9.38% +15.94%

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 50,837 94,491 90,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.69% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,317 67,546 57,366
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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 -130 211 £94,637 +14.71% 279
London +38 131 £100,000 +11.11% 127
UK excluding London -98 95 £82,500 +13.79% 212
Work from Home +10 82 £85,000 +3.03% 119
Midlands +25 27 £78,750 +32.80% 34
West Midlands +20 25 £80,750 +36.17% 19
North of England -67 25 £87,500 +16.67% 50
South East -10 18 £82,500 -2.94% 62
Scotland +99 17 £97,500 +34.48% 22
Yorkshire +31 15 £94,637 +18.30% 20
North West -62 9 £80,000 +14.29% 21
East of England +24 4 £65,000 +30.00% 13
South West +69 3 £70,000 -6.67% 24
North East +17 3 £61,206 -21.02% 9
East Midlands +12 2 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Wales +32 1 £72,931 +32.60% 5

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 180 (76.27%) Data Architecture
2 124 (52.54%) Azure
3 118 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 109 (46.19%) Data Strategy
5 104 (44.07%) Finance
6 86 (36.44%) Data Governance
7 77 (32.63%) Data Management
8 72 (30.51%) Analytics
9 70 (29.66%) Microsoft
9 70 (29.66%) Roadmaps
10 69 (29.24%) AWS
11 68 (28.81%) Agile
12 66 (27.97%) SQL
13 58 (24.58%) GCP
14 52 (22.03%) Migration
14 52 (22.03%) Data Lake
15 48 (20.34%) Social Skills
15 48 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
16 47 (19.92%) Data Migration
17 46 (19.49%) Degree
17 46 (19.49%) Metadata
18 45 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
19 44 (18.64%) Logical Data Model
20 41 (17.37%) Physical Data Model
21 40 (16.95%) Databricks
22 38 (16.10%) Banking
22 38 (16.10%) TOGAF
23 37 (15.68%) ETL
23 37 (15.68%) Metadata Management
24 36 (15.25%) Business Intelligence

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (7.20%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.81%) Apache
3 7 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.69%) SAS
5 2 (0.85%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.42%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Odoo
2 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 124 (52.54%) Azure
2 69 (29.24%) AWS
3 58 (24.58%) GCP
4 34 (14.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 31 (13.14%) Power Platform
6 24 (10.17%) Snowflake
7 21 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (5.08%) PaaS
9 11 (4.66%) SaaS
10 9 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (3.39%) IaaS
12 7 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.54%) dbt
14 5 (2.12%) Amazon S3
14 5 (2.12%) Serverless
15 4 (1.69%) Azure Stack
15 4 (1.69%) OCI
15 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
16 3 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (22.03%) Data Lake
2 48 (20.34%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (19.49%) Metadata
4 27 (11.44%) Power BI
5 22 (9.32%) NoSQL
6 18 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (7.63%) SQL Server
7 16 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (6.36%) Big Data
8 15 (6.36%) BigQuery
9 14 (5.93%) Relational Database
10 10 (4.24%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.97%) Hadoop
12 6 (2.54%) Apache Hive
12 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.54%) Tableau
13 5 (2.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.12%) SAP BW
13 5 (2.12%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.54%) ERwin
2 3 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
4 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (44.07%) Finance
2 48 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 45 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (16.10%) Banking
5 31 (13.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (9.75%) Financial Institution
6 23 (9.75%) Retail Banking
7 20 (8.47%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.08%) Retail
9 9 (3.81%) Law
10 7 (2.97%) Legal
11 4 (1.69%) Advertising
11 4 (1.69%) Back Office
11 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.69%) Marketing
12 2 (0.85%) Local Government
12 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Front Office
13 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.39%) PySpark
2 6 (2.54%) Kafka
3 1 (0.42%) .NET
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.42%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.42%) HTML
3 1 (0.42%) Middleware
3 1 (0.42%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.66%) Taxonomies
3 10 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.69%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.42%) Clustering
10 1 (0.42%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) NHS
10 1 (0.42%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (76.27%) Data Architecture
2 118 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 109 (46.19%) Data Strategy
4 86 (36.44%) Data Governance
5 77 (32.63%) Data Management
6 72 (30.51%) Analytics
7 70 (29.66%) Roadmaps
8 68 (28.81%) Agile
9 52 (22.03%) Migration
10 47 (19.92%) Data Migration
11 44 (18.64%) Logical Data Model
12 41 (17.37%) Physical Data Model
13 38 (16.10%) TOGAF
14 37 (15.68%) ETL
14 37 (15.68%) Metadata Management
15 36 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (13.14%) Business Development
16 31 (13.14%) DevOps
17 28 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
17 28 (11.86%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.97%) SQL
2 27 (11.44%) Python
3 9 (3.81%) Java
4 7 (2.97%) Scala
5 6 (2.54%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.42%) Bicep
8 1 (0.42%) C#
8 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (19.49%) Degree
2 34 (14.41%) Azure Certification
3 26 (11.02%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.05%) Security Cleared
5 15 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.42%) CFA
11 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.05%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.51%) GDPR
4 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.27%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.12%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) HDFS
3 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.54%) Terraform
2 5 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 70 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 40 (16.95%) Databricks
3 19 (8.05%) Google
4 12 (5.08%) Oracle
4 12 (5.08%) SAP
5 11 (4.66%) Informatica
6 7 (2.97%) Teradata
7 3 (1.27%) Talend
8 2 (0.85%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.42%) IBM
9 1 (0.42%) IFS
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.42%) Zoho