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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 447 381
Rank change year-on-year +196 -66 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 705 218 716
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.49% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.55% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 519 121 463
10th Percentile £60,387 £70,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £74,375 £82,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +21.43% -12.50%

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 87,018 39,622 101,237
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.50% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,614 22,403 73,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +205 634 £85,000 -12.82% 105
UK excluding London +169 386 £85,000 - 74
London +88 264 £90,000 -12.20% 44
Work from Home +109 187 £85,000 -10.18% 55
North of England +86 143 £80,000 -15.47% 26
Midlands +25 68 £80,000 -1.84% 12
South East +25 67 £85,000 -5.56% 19
West Midlands +16 60 £80,000 -3.03% 12
Yorkshire +9 59 £80,000 -15.47% 6
South West -10 56 £84,000 -1.18% 14
North West +62 53 £90,000 +5.88% 17
North East -10 31 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +21 29 £95,000 -2.56% 2
East of England +1 21 £71,000 -1.69% 2
East Midlands -26 8 £55,000 -12.00%
Wales - 2 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 312 (44.26%) Data Architecture
2 230 (32.62%) Data Modelling
3 227 (32.20%) Data Governance
4 215 (30.50%) Azure
5 193 (27.38%) Data Strategy
6 184 (26.10%) Analytics
7 144 (20.43%) Databricks
8 142 (20.14%) AWS
9 132 (18.72%) Data Quality
10 112 (15.89%) AI
11 103 (14.61%) Metadata
12 92 (13.05%) SQL
13 88 (12.48%) GCP
14 87 (12.34%) Roadmaps
15 80 (11.35%) Data Engineering
16 78 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
17 77 (10.92%) Migration
18 73 (10.35%) Agile
18 73 (10.35%) Logical Data Model
19 72 (10.21%) Microsoft
20 69 (9.79%) Physical Data Model
21 68 (9.65%) Data Management
22 66 (9.36%) Security Cleared
22 66 (9.36%) Snowflake
23 65 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 63 (8.94%) Data Lake
24 63 (8.94%) ETL
24 63 (8.94%) Machine Learning
25 61 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
26 58 (8.23%) Problem-Solving

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 11 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.42%) Apache
3 5 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.43%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.14%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 215 (30.50%) Azure
2 142 (20.14%) AWS
3 88 (12.48%) GCP
4 66 (9.36%) Snowflake
5 65 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 45 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (2.84%) Amazon S3
9 14 (1.99%) Azure AI
9 14 (1.99%) dbt
9 14 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (1.70%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.71%) SaaS
13 4 (0.57%) Collibra
13 4 (0.57%) GitHub
13 4 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.43%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) MQTT
1 2 (0.28%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (14.61%) Metadata
2 63 (8.94%) Data Lake
3 61 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.67%) Power BI
5 27 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.69%) Data Vault
7 24 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (1.99%) Delta Lake
8 14 (1.99%) Tableau
9 13 (1.84%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.28%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.13%) Big Data
13 8 (1.13%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Toad
2 4 (0.57%) Git
3 3 (0.43%) ERwin
3 3 (0.43%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 131 (18.58%) Finance
2 94 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 83 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (2.84%) Retail
8 16 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.27%) Law
9 12 (1.70%) Banking
10 11 (1.56%) Legal
11 8 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.99%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.85%) Local Government
14 5 (0.71%) Advertising
15 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.28%) Back Office
16 2 (0.28%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.13%) PySpark
3 5 (0.71%) Middleware
4 4 (0.57%) Kafka
5 3 (0.43%) REST
5 3 (0.43%) SOAP
6 2 (0.28%) .NET
6 2 (0.28%) pgvector
7 1 (0.14%) EDI
7 1 (0.14%) JSON
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.14%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.11%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.97%) Data Structures
3 18 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.42%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.99%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.85%) Data Fabric
8 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.85%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.71%) NHS
9 5 (0.71%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.57%) IoT
10 4 (0.57%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.43%) Replication
12 2 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.28%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (44.26%) Data Architecture
2 230 (32.62%) Data Modelling
3 227 (32.20%) Data Governance
4 193 (27.38%) Data Strategy
5 184 (26.10%) Analytics
6 112 (15.89%) AI
7 87 (12.34%) Roadmaps
8 80 (11.35%) Data Engineering
9 78 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
10 77 (10.92%) Migration
11 73 (10.35%) Agile
11 73 (10.35%) Logical Data Model
12 69 (9.79%) Physical Data Model
13 68 (9.65%) Data Management
14 63 (8.94%) ETL
14 63 (8.94%) Machine Learning
15 58 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (8.09%) Decision-Making
17 55 (7.80%) Data Integration
18 49 (6.95%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (13.05%) SQL
2 55 (7.80%) Python
3 9 (1.28%) Scala
4 5 (0.71%) Bicep
5 4 (0.57%) R
6 2 (0.28%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (9.36%) Security Cleared
2 45 (6.38%) Degree
3 29 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.71%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.43%) CIPD
12 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.14%) CCA
12 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (18.72%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.26%) GDPR
3 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.43%) QA
5 2 (0.28%) IFRS
5 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.71%) Docker
3 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.42%) Terraform
2 6 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 144 (20.43%) Databricks
2 72 (10.21%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.54%) SAP
4 25 (3.55%) Google
5 23 (3.26%) Oracle
6 22 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.42%) Palantir
8 6 (0.85%) Foundry
9 5 (0.71%) Informatica
10 3 (0.43%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.43%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.43%) Sage
10 3 (0.43%) Workday
11 2 (0.28%) Meraki
11 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco
12 1 (0.14%) HP
12 1 (0.14%) Juniper
12 1 (0.14%) VMware