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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 376 438
Rank change year-on-year -35 +62 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 269 423 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 142 233 253
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £60,400
25th Percentile £78,125 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,796 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,750 £75,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +7.67% -5.82% +6.18%

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 45,700 64,689 50,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.04% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,478 36,679 39,389
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,219 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 6 months to 7 November 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 7 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 -8 256 £85,000 - 332
London +27 145 £97,500 +8.33% 162
UK excluding London -45 117 £80,750 +7.67% 252
Work from Home -24 86 £95,000 +11.76% 159
South East -9 45 £87,500 -2.78% 143
North of England -51 19 £86,250 +15.00% 18
Midlands +48 18 £65,000 -7.14% 27
South West +31 14 £69,500 +26.36% 32
East of England +42 12 £87,500 -2.78% 5
Yorkshire +21 11 £79,000 -12.22% 3
West Midlands +48 10 £71,193 +18.65% 17
East Midlands +22 8 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Scotland -12 8 £100,000 +8.11% 20
North East +9 5 £100,000 +42.86% 5
North West -47 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 206 (76.58%) Data Architecture
2 198 (73.61%) Data Modelling
3 164 (60.97%) Azure
4 140 (52.04%) Data Strategy
5 136 (50.56%) Data Governance
6 110 (40.89%) Analytics
7 103 (38.29%) Data Warehouse
8 93 (34.57%) Data Integration
9 87 (32.34%) AWS
10 84 (31.23%) Data Management
11 83 (30.86%) Microsoft
12 81 (30.11%) Roadmaps
13 74 (27.51%) Metadata
14 68 (25.28%) Data Lake
14 68 (25.28%) GCP
15 66 (24.54%) ETL
16 64 (23.79%) AI
17 62 (23.05%) Data Engineering
18 59 (21.93%) Databricks
19 56 (20.82%) SQL
20 50 (18.59%) Metadata Management
21 49 (18.22%) Machine Learning
22 46 (17.10%) Agile
22 46 (17.10%) Data Quality
23 43 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
23 43 (15.99%) GDPR
24 42 (15.61%) Mentoring
24 42 (15.61%) Migration
25 40 (14.87%) Data Science
26 39 (14.50%) 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 14 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.86%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.37%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.37%) Maximo
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 164 (60.97%) Azure
2 87 (32.34%) AWS
3 68 (25.28%) GCP
4 33 (12.27%) Snowflake
5 29 (10.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (10.41%) Power Platform
7 26 (9.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (6.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (5.95%) SaaS
11 8 (2.97%) GitHub
11 8 (2.97%) Serverless
12 7 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.23%) dbt
14 5 (1.86%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (1.86%) PaaS
15 4 (1.49%) Azure Stack
15 4 (1.49%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (38.29%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (27.51%) Metadata
3 68 (25.28%) Data Lake
4 27 (10.04%) Power BI
5 19 (7.06%) Data Vault
6 17 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (5.58%) Big Data
8 10 (3.72%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.72%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.35%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.35%) Data Mining
10 8 (2.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.97%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.60%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.23%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (2.23%) Tableau
13 5 (1.86%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.43%) ERwin
2 6 (2.23%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.49%) PowerDesigner
General
1 91 (33.83%) Finance
2 70 (26.02%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.38%) Banking
5 34 (12.64%) Law
6 32 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (10.04%) Retail Banking
8 25 (9.29%) Retail
9 23 (8.55%) Financial Institution
10 20 (7.43%) Marketing
11 16 (5.95%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.12%) Back Office
13 3 (1.12%) Legal
14 2 (0.74%) Front Office
14 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.74%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.83%) Kafka
2 7 (2.60%) PySpark
3 5 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.12%) REST
5 2 (0.74%) EDI
5 2 (0.74%) JDBC
5 2 (0.74%) LDAP
5 2 (0.74%) Middleware
5 2 (0.74%) OAuth
5 2 (0.74%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.74%) ODBC
5 2 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (5.58%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.58%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.60%) Reference Data
4 7 (2.60%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.12%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.74%) Equities
7 2 (0.74%) IoT
7 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.74%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.23%) Unix
2 2 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (76.58%) Data Architecture
2 198 (73.61%) Data Modelling
3 140 (52.04%) Data Strategy
4 136 (50.56%) Data Governance
5 110 (40.89%) Analytics
6 93 (34.57%) Data Integration
7 84 (31.23%) Data Management
8 81 (30.11%) Roadmaps
9 66 (24.54%) ETL
10 64 (23.79%) AI
11 62 (23.05%) Data Engineering
12 50 (18.59%) Metadata Management
13 49 (18.22%) Machine Learning
14 46 (17.10%) Agile
15 43 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (15.61%) Mentoring
16 42 (15.61%) Migration
17 40 (14.87%) Data Science
18 39 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
19 34 (12.64%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 56 (20.82%) SQL
2 34 (12.64%) Python
3 6 (2.23%) Java
4 3 (1.12%) Scala
4 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 35 (13.01%) Degree
2 30 (11.15%) Azure Certification
3 24 (8.92%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.83%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.46%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.60%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (17.10%) Data Quality
2 43 (15.99%) GDPR
3 29 (10.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) QA
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.97%) Terraform
2 6 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 83 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 59 (21.93%) Databricks
3 15 (5.58%) Google
3 15 (5.58%) Oracle
4 10 (3.72%) Informatica
5 5 (1.86%) IBM
5 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.49%) Dell
6 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) Talend
8 1 (0.37%) ESRI
8 1 (0.37%) IFS
8 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) Sparx
8 1 (0.37%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.37%) Workday