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 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 391 426
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 302 417 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.66% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 162 230 256
10th Percentile £62,909 £55,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £78,125 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £104,563 £100,000 £101,563
90th Percentile £117,250 £120,000 £116,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.68% -2.68% +4.78%

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 47,639 63,412 49,716
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 94.54% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 29,798 35,443 38,501
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,242 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.30% -2.40% -

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 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 17 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 19 November 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 +25 286 £85,000 -2.86% 165
London +33 149 £97,500 +5.41% 94
UK excluding London +9 141 £85,000 +9.68% 88
Work from Home +14 100 £87,500 +2.94% 77
South East +19 59 £87,500 -2.78% 36
Midlands +61 22 £71,193 +1.70% 11
North of England -16 18 £86,250 +15.00% 7
East of England +33 17 £90,000 - 4
South West +26 16 £73,250 +33.18% 21
West Midlands +53 14 £71,193 +1.70% 9
Yorkshire +12 11 £79,000 -14.43% 1
East Midlands +23 8 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland -9 7 £100,000 +8.11% 9
North East +3 5 £100,000 +42.86% 2
North West -41 2 - - 4
Northern Ireland +3 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 November 2025, 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.

1 223 (73.84%) Data Architecture
2 218 (72.19%) Data Modelling
3 181 (59.93%) Azure
4 142 (47.02%) Data Governance
4 142 (47.02%) Data Strategy
5 121 (40.07%) Analytics
6 120 (39.74%) Data Warehouse
7 104 (34.44%) Data Integration
8 98 (32.45%) Data Management
9 95 (31.46%) Microsoft
10 91 (30.13%) AWS
11 81 (26.82%) Roadmaps
12 78 (25.83%) Metadata
13 76 (25.17%) Data Engineering
14 72 (23.84%) Data Lake
14 72 (23.84%) GCP
15 68 (22.52%) AI
15 68 (22.52%) ETL
16 61 (20.20%) Databricks
17 53 (17.55%) SQL
18 52 (17.22%) Metadata Management
19 51 (16.89%) Machine Learning
20 48 (15.89%) Data Quality
21 45 (14.90%) Agile
21 45 (14.90%) Mentoring
21 45 (14.90%) Snowflake
22 44 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
22 44 (14.57%) GDPR
23 42 (13.91%) Migration
24 41 (13.58%) Business Intelligence

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 13 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.66%) Apache
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.33%) Luigi
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Maximo
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 181 (59.93%) Azure
2 91 (30.13%) AWS
3 72 (23.84%) GCP
4 45 (14.90%) Snowflake
5 30 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 25 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (6.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (5.63%) SaaS
10 16 (5.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.65%) GitHub
11 8 (2.65%) Serverless
12 7 (2.32%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.99%) dbt
13 6 (1.99%) PaaS
14 5 (1.66%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (1.66%) Cloud Composer
15 4 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (39.74%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (25.83%) Metadata
3 72 (23.84%) Data Lake
4 29 (9.60%) Power BI
5 18 (5.96%) Data Vault
6 17 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.64%) Big Data
8 12 (3.97%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.31%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.31%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.65%) Data Mining
12 7 (2.32%) Delta Lake
12 7 (2.32%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.99%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (1.99%) Tableau
14 5 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.96%) ERwin
2 6 (1.99%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.32%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (30.46%) Finance
2 72 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.25%) Law
5 36 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (11.26%) Banking
7 28 (9.27%) Retail Banking
8 24 (7.95%) Financial Institution
9 21 (6.95%) Retail
10 20 (6.62%) Marketing
11 17 (5.63%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.99%) Legal
13 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.99%) Back Office
15 2 (0.66%) Front Office
15 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Music Industry
16 1 (0.33%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.97%) Kafka
2 7 (2.32%) PySpark
3 6 (1.99%) EDI
4 5 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.99%) REST
6 2 (0.66%) JDBC
6 2 (0.66%) LDAP
6 2 (0.66%) Middleware
6 2 (0.66%) OAuth
6 2 (0.66%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.66%) ODBC
6 2 (0.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.97%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.97%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.32%) Reference Data
4 7 (2.32%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.99%) e-Learning
6 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.66%) Equities
7 2 (0.66%) IoT
7 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.66%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.99%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (73.84%) Data Architecture
2 218 (72.19%) Data Modelling
3 142 (47.02%) Data Governance
3 142 (47.02%) Data Strategy
4 121 (40.07%) Analytics
5 104 (34.44%) Data Integration
6 98 (32.45%) Data Management
7 81 (26.82%) Roadmaps
8 76 (25.17%) Data Engineering
9 68 (22.52%) AI
9 68 (22.52%) ETL
10 52 (17.22%) Metadata Management
11 51 (16.89%) Machine Learning
12 45 (14.90%) Agile
12 45 (14.90%) Mentoring
13 44 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (13.91%) Migration
15 41 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (13.58%) Data Science
16 35 (11.59%) Digital Analytics
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.55%) SQL
2 33 (10.93%) Python
3 5 (1.66%) Java
4 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.66%) Scala
6 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 36 (11.92%) Degree
2 32 (10.60%) Azure Certification
3 26 (8.61%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.63%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (3.64%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.66%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.89%) Data Quality
2 44 (14.57%) GDPR
3 38 (12.58%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.99%) QA
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) IFRS
5 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.65%) Terraform
2 7 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 95 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 61 (20.20%) Databricks
3 16 (5.30%) Google
4 15 (4.97%) Oracle
5 7 (2.32%) Informatica
6 5 (1.66%) IBM
6 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.32%) Dell
7 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.32%) Sparx
8 1 (0.33%) ESRI
8 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.33%) Palantir
8 1 (0.33%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) Talend
8 1 (0.33%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.33%) Workday