Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 380 434
Rank change year-on-year -20 +54 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 290 426 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.66% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 153 237 256
10th Percentile £63,318 £55,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £83,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +1.80% -3.75%
75th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £118,500 £120,000 £116,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.68% -2.68% +3.42%

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 47,609 64,478 50,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.87% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 29,568 36,288 39,151
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
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 £46,750 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -3.81% -

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 15 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 15 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 +2 274 £87,500 +2.94% 168
London +35 148 £97,500 +6.85% 101
UK excluding London -10 130 £85,000 +9.68% 84
Work from Home -4 95 £95,000 +11.76% 94
South East +3 53 £90,000 +1.41% 32
North of England -26 19 £86,250 +15.00% 8
Midlands +53 18 £65,000 -7.14% 16
South West +23 16 £73,250 +33.18% 16
East of England +39 15 £90,000 - 3
Yorkshire +13 11 £79,000 -14.43% 2
West Midlands +45 10 £71,193 +9.53% 13
East Midlands +21 8 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Scotland -6 7 £100,000 +8.11% 9
North East +7 5 £100,000 +42.86% 2
North West -26 3 - - 4
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 215 (74.14%) Data Architecture
2 207 (71.38%) Data Modelling
3 176 (60.69%) Azure
4 140 (48.28%) Data Strategy
5 139 (47.93%) Data Governance
6 118 (40.69%) Analytics
7 113 (38.97%) Data Warehouse
8 100 (34.48%) Data Integration
9 94 (32.41%) Microsoft
10 92 (31.72%) AWS
11 88 (30.34%) Data Management
12 80 (27.59%) Roadmaps
13 75 (25.86%) Metadata
14 73 (25.17%) Data Lake
14 73 (25.17%) GCP
15 71 (24.48%) Data Engineering
16 69 (23.79%) AI
17 67 (23.10%) ETL
18 62 (21.38%) Databricks
19 57 (19.66%) SQL
20 52 (17.93%) Machine Learning
21 50 (17.24%) Metadata Management
22 47 (16.21%) Data Quality
23 46 (15.86%) Mentoring
24 45 (15.52%) GDPR
25 44 (15.17%) Agile
25 44 (15.17%) Data Pipeline
26 42 (14.48%) Migration
27 41 (14.14%) Data Science
27 41 (14.14%) Snowflake

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 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.72%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.34%) Luigi
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Maximo
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 176 (60.69%) Azure
2 92 (31.72%) AWS
3 73 (25.17%) GCP
4 41 (14.14%) Snowflake
5 29 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (9.66%) Power Platform
7 27 (9.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (6.55%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (5.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 17 (5.86%) SaaS
10 8 (2.76%) GitHub
10 8 (2.76%) Serverless
11 7 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.07%) dbt
12 6 (2.07%) PaaS
13 5 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.72%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (38.97%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (25.86%) Metadata
3 73 (25.17%) Data Lake
4 27 (9.31%) Power BI
5 18 (6.21%) Data Vault
6 17 (5.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (5.17%) Big Data
8 12 (4.14%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.76%) Data Mining
11 8 (2.76%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.41%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.07%) Metadata Repository
13 6 (2.07%) Tableau
14 5 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.21%) ERwin
2 6 (2.07%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.38%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (31.72%) Finance
2 71 (24.48%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.76%) Banking
4 37 (12.76%) Law
5 33 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (9.66%) Retail Banking
7 24 (8.28%) Financial Institution
7 24 (8.28%) Retail
8 20 (6.90%) Marketing
9 17 (5.86%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.07%) Legal
11 4 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.03%) Back Office
13 2 (0.69%) Front Office
13 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.34%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.48%) Kafka
2 7 (2.41%) PySpark
3 5 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.03%) REST
5 2 (0.69%) EDI
5 2 (0.69%) JDBC
5 2 (0.69%) LDAP
5 2 (0.69%) Middleware
5 2 (0.69%) OAuth
5 2 (0.69%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.69%) ODBC
5 2 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.55%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.41%) Reference Data
5 7 (2.41%) Reinsurance
6 5 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.69%) Equities
8 2 (0.69%) IoT
8 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.69%) Smart Home
9 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.07%) Unix
2 2 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (74.14%) Data Architecture
2 207 (71.38%) Data Modelling
3 140 (48.28%) Data Strategy
4 139 (47.93%) Data Governance
5 118 (40.69%) Analytics
6 100 (34.48%) Data Integration
7 88 (30.34%) Data Management
8 80 (27.59%) Roadmaps
9 71 (24.48%) Data Engineering
10 69 (23.79%) AI
11 67 (23.10%) ETL
12 52 (17.93%) Machine Learning
13 50 (17.24%) Metadata Management
14 46 (15.86%) Mentoring
15 44 (15.17%) Agile
15 44 (15.17%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (14.48%) Migration
17 41 (14.14%) Data Science
18 39 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
19 34 (11.72%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 57 (19.66%) SQL
2 34 (11.72%) Python
3 6 (2.07%) Java
4 3 (1.03%) Scala
4 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.07%) Degree
2 32 (11.03%) Azure Certification
3 26 (8.97%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.21%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.21%) Data Quality
2 45 (15.52%) GDPR
3 33 (11.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.03%) QA
5 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (3.10%) Terraform
2 7 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 94 (32.41%) Microsoft
2 62 (21.38%) Databricks
3 17 (5.86%) Google
4 15 (5.17%) Oracle
5 8 (2.76%) Informatica
6 5 (1.72%) IBM
6 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.38%) Dell
7 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.69%) Talend
9 1 (0.34%) ESRI
9 1 (0.34%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.34%) Palantir
9 1 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Sparx
9 1 (0.34%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.34%) Workday