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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 448 404
Rank change year-on-year +203 -44 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 785 235 568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.53% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 571 127 382
10th Percentile £60,610 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,625 £81,875 £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 £98,750 £110,000 £99,688
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +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 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £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 20 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 20 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 +206 716 £85,000 -12.82% 128
UK excluding London +152 401 £82,500 -2.94% 65
London +111 324 £90,000 -13.04% 77
Work from Home +113 206 £85,000 -10.18% 56
North of England +91 146 £80,000 -15.47% 14
South West +9 76 £84,500 -0.59% 7
North West +62 74 £80,000 -5.88% 5
Midlands +24 73 £80,000 -1.84% 13
West Midlands +30 65 £80,000 -4.48% 8
South East +12 61 £85,000 -5.56% 25
Yorkshire +7 45 £80,000 -15.47% 5
Scotland +26 27 £95,000 +2.70% 4
North East -24 27 £70,000 -30.00% 4
East of England -2 17 £71,000 +18.89% 3
East Midlands -15 8 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 363 (46.24%) Data Architecture
2 263 (33.50%) Data Modelling
3 231 (29.43%) Data Governance
4 229 (29.17%) Data Strategy
5 223 (28.41%) Analytics
6 216 (27.52%) Azure
7 168 (21.40%) AI
8 157 (20.00%) Databricks
9 147 (18.73%) Data Quality
10 144 (18.34%) AWS
11 123 (15.67%) Roadmaps
12 115 (14.65%) SQL
13 106 (13.50%) Metadata
14 97 (12.36%) Business Intelligence
15 94 (11.97%) Data Engineering
16 89 (11.34%) Machine Learning
17 88 (11.21%) GCP
18 85 (10.83%) Security Cleared
18 85 (10.83%) Snowflake
19 81 (10.32%) Data Lake
20 80 (10.19%) Decision-Making
21 77 (9.81%) Microsoft
22 74 (9.43%) Migration
23 71 (9.04%) Agile
24 70 (8.92%) Python
25 69 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
26 68 (8.66%) Data Management
26 68 (8.66%) Logical Data Model
27 67 (8.54%) ETL
28 64 (8.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics

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 12 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.40%) Apache
3 6 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.91%) 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
1 216 (27.52%) Azure
2 144 (18.34%) AWS
3 88 (11.21%) GCP
4 85 (10.83%) Snowflake
5 64 (8.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 58 (7.39%) Power Platform
7 39 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.55%) dbt
11 16 (2.04%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.76%) SaaS
15 5 (0.64%) GitHub
15 5 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.51%) Collibra
16 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (13.50%) Metadata
2 81 (10.32%) Data Lake
3 69 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.75%) Power BI
5 39 (4.97%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.06%) Delta Lake
8 20 (2.55%) Tableau
9 16 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.53%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (1.53%) Star Schema
13 10 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
14 9 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.02%) Big Data
16 6 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MLflow
2 5 (0.64%) Git
2 5 (0.64%) Toad
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 139 (17.71%) Finance
2 101 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 88 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 50 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (2.55%) Law
7 19 (2.42%) Retail
8 18 (2.29%) Legal
9 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.76%) Local Government
13 5 (0.64%) Advertising
13 5 (0.64%) Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Marketing
14 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.25%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.25%) Police
15 2 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.78%) PySpark
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 3 (0.38%) Kafka
4 3 (0.38%) REST
4 3 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) JSON
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
5 2 (0.25%) XML
6 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.13%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.80%) Data Structures
2 22 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 20 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.15%) Data Fabric
6 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
7 7 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.76%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.64%) NHS
10 4 (0.51%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.51%) IoT
10 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (46.24%) Data Architecture
2 263 (33.50%) Data Modelling
3 231 (29.43%) Data Governance
4 229 (29.17%) Data Strategy
5 223 (28.41%) Analytics
6 168 (21.40%) AI
7 123 (15.67%) Roadmaps
8 97 (12.36%) Business Intelligence
9 94 (11.97%) Data Engineering
10 89 (11.34%) Machine Learning
11 80 (10.19%) Decision-Making
12 74 (9.43%) Migration
13 71 (9.04%) Agile
14 68 (8.66%) Data Management
14 68 (8.66%) Logical Data Model
15 67 (8.54%) ETL
16 64 (8.15%) Physical Data Model
17 58 (7.39%) Architectural Patterns
17 58 (7.39%) Data Integration
18 53 (6.75%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 115 (14.65%) SQL
2 70 (8.92%) Python
3 15 (1.91%) Scala
4 10 (1.27%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (10.83%) Security Cleared
2 53 (6.75%) Degree
3 39 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.27%) SnowPro
8 10 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.15%) CIPD
10 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
12 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (18.73%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.57%) GDPR
3 14 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.38%) 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%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (2.17%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 157 (20.00%) Databricks
2 77 (9.81%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.95%) SAP
4 26 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.93%) Google
5 23 (2.93%) Oracle
6 10 (1.27%) Palantir
7 6 (0.76%) Foundry
7 6 (0.76%) Informatica
8 4 (0.51%) Sage
8 4 (0.51%) Workday
9 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.25%) Meraki
10 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.13%) Alteryx