Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 391 383
Rank change year-on-year +149 -8 +30
Permanent Data Architect jobs 999 286 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 649 149 236
10th Percentile £63,335 £65,771 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +1.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £118,750 £119,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% -2.68%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
14 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 113,211 47,633 64,486
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.78% 89.91% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 74,692 29,457 36,303
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,485 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +18.28% -7.10% -4.66%

Data Architect Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Data Architect job postings 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 Data Architect jobs over the 6 months to 14 November 2026.

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 Data Architect jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +142 904 £90,000 +2.86% 440
UK excluding London +91 482 £80,000 -5.88% 213
London +108 454 £100,000 +2.56% 252
Work from Home +97 315 £85,000 -10.53% 179
North of England +55 191 £75,000 -13.04% 64
South East -39 85 £85,000 -2.86% 60
Midlands -8 83 £80,000 +23.08% 31
North West 0 80 £75,000 - 36
South West -22 75 £95,500 +30.38% 19
Yorkshire +26 72 £75,000 -5.06% 14
West Midlands +2 68 £80,000 +12.37% 26
North East -34 39 £71,862 -28.14% 14
Scotland +30 33 £105,000 +5.00% 24
East Midlands -41 15 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Wales -61 12 £67,500 - 5
East of England -57 11 £71,000 -21.11% 14
Northern Ireland -78 2 £100,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, Data Architect job ads cited 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 Data Architect job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Architecture45.9%459
2Data Modelling33.3%333
3Analytics25.1%251
4Azure24.2%242
5Data Strategy23.5%235
6Data Governance22.9%229
7AI19.6%196
8Metadata16.7%167
9Roadmaps16.2%162
10Data Quality16.0%160
11AWS14.6%146
12SQL14.3%143
13Business Intelligence14.0%140
14Lakehouse13.8%138
15Databricks13.7%137
16Security Cleared12.6%126
17Data Engineering11.1%111
17Microsoft11.1%111
19Decision-Making9.7%97
20Metadata Management9.4%94
21ETL9.3%93
22Data Lake8.7%87
23Data Management8.6%86
24Data Warehouse8.4%84
24GCP8.4%84
26Agile8.3%83
26Technical Leadership8.3%83
28Machine Learning7.8%78
28Mentoring7.8%78
30CI/CD7.7%77

Data Architect Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Data Architect24.9%249
2Lead Data Architect6.4%64
3Artificial Intelligence Architect6.0%60
4Enterprise Data Architect4.9%49
5Solutions Architect3.5%35
6Azure Data Architect3.0%30
7AWS Data Architect2.5%25
8Databricks Architect2.4%24
9Data Engineer2.0%20
10Snowflake Architect1.9%19
11Principal Data Architect1.7%17
12Information Architect1.6%16
13Domain Architect1.5%15
14Data Analytics Architect1.4%14
14Data Manager1.4%14
16GCP Data Architect1.0%10
17Platform Architect0.9%9
18Senior Information Architect0.7%7
19ERP Architect0.6%6
19Lead Enterprise Architect0.6%6
531 Data Architect jobs Nationwide