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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 466 402
Rank change year-on-year +225 -64 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 785 218 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.45% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.50% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 581 124 415
10th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -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 92,213 43,991 96,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.88% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63,185 25,842 69,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +223 714 £85,000 -12.82% 155
UK excluding London +185 408 £80,000 -5.88% 88
London +120 316 £90,000 -14.29% 89
Work from Home +139 220 £85,000 -10.18% 75
North of England +89 156 £80,000 -15.47% 16
North West +67 74 £80,000 -5.88% 9
Midlands +24 74 £80,000 -1.84% 15
South West +7 70 £84,000 -1.18% 17
West Midlands +35 66 £80,000 -4.48% 7
South East +7 62 £85,000 -5.56% 28
Yorkshire +7 52 £80,000 -15.47% 6
North East -22 30 £70,000 -30.00% 1
Scotland +27 28 £95,000 +2.70% 10
East of England +6 17 £71,000 +30.42% 2
East Midlands -17 8 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 360 (45.86%) Data Architecture
2 260 (33.12%) Data Modelling
3 240 (30.57%) Data Governance
4 232 (29.55%) Data Strategy
5 223 (28.41%) Azure
6 218 (27.77%) Analytics
7 158 (20.13%) AI
8 155 (19.75%) Databricks
9 150 (19.11%) AWS
10 144 (18.34%) Data Quality
11 119 (15.16%) Roadmaps
12 110 (14.01%) Metadata
13 109 (13.89%) SQL
14 94 (11.97%) GCP
15 93 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
16 88 (11.21%) Data Engineering
16 88 (11.21%) Machine Learning
17 83 (10.57%) Microsoft
18 82 (10.45%) Security Cleared
19 81 (10.32%) Snowflake
20 78 (9.94%) Decision-Making
21 76 (9.68%) Migration
22 75 (9.55%) Data Management
23 74 (9.43%) Agile
24 73 (9.30%) Data Lake
25 70 (8.92%) Data Warehouse
26 68 (8.66%) Logical Data Model
27 66 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
28 65 (8.28%) ETL
29 64 (8.15%) 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 13 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.40%) Apache
3 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 223 (28.41%) Azure
2 150 (19.11%) AWS
3 94 (11.97%) GCP
4 81 (10.32%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 53 (6.75%) Power Platform
7 36 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.31%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
10 18 (2.29%) dbt
11 15 (1.91%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.76%) SaaS
15 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.64%) Collibra
16 4 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.51%) Intacct
16 4 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
1 2 (0.25%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
2 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (14.01%) Metadata
2 73 (9.30%) Data Lake
3 70 (8.92%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.11%) Power BI
5 37 (4.71%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.68%) Delta Lake
8 18 (2.29%) Tableau
9 16 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.78%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.66%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (1.40%) Star Schema
13 10 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.27%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.02%) Big Data
14 8 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Git
1 5 (0.64%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 141 (17.96%) Finance
2 101 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 97 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (2.68%) Retail
7 19 (2.42%) Law
8 15 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 15 (1.91%) Legal
9 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.89%) Banking
10 7 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.76%) Local Government
12 5 (0.64%) Advertising
13 4 (0.51%) Marketing
13 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.25%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.66%) PySpark
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 4 (0.51%) Kafka
5 3 (0.38%) REST
5 3 (0.38%) SOAP
6 2 (0.25%) .NET
6 2 (0.25%) pgvector
6 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.13%) JSON
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.13%) XBRL
7 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.68%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.66%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.02%) Data Fabric
7 8 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.76%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.64%) NHS
11 4 (0.51%) IoT
11 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.38%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (45.86%) Data Architecture
2 260 (33.12%) Data Modelling
3 240 (30.57%) Data Governance
4 232 (29.55%) Data Strategy
5 218 (27.77%) Analytics
6 158 (20.13%) AI
7 119 (15.16%) Roadmaps
8 93 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
9 88 (11.21%) Data Engineering
9 88 (11.21%) Machine Learning
10 78 (9.94%) Decision-Making
11 76 (9.68%) Migration
12 75 (9.55%) Data Management
13 74 (9.43%) Agile
14 68 (8.66%) Logical Data Model
15 65 (8.28%) ETL
16 64 (8.15%) Physical Data Model
17 59 (7.52%) Data Integration
17 59 (7.52%) Metadata Management
18 56 (7.13%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 109 (13.89%) SQL
2 64 (8.15%) Python
3 14 (1.78%) Scala
4 10 (1.27%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.37%) Degree
3 37 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.78%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.27%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.15%) CIPD
10 9 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (18.34%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.44%) GDPR
3 13 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.51%) QA
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.04%) Terraform
2 6 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 155 (19.75%) Databricks
2 83 (10.57%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.08%) SAP
4 29 (3.69%) Google
5 25 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.93%) Oracle
7 10 (1.27%) Palantir
8 7 (0.89%) Informatica
9 6 (0.76%) Foundry
10 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 4 (0.51%) Workday
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.25%) Meraki
12 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.13%) Alteryx