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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 450 384
Rank change year-on-year +204 -66 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 907 227 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.52% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 636 117 265
10th Percentile £63,335 £65,953 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,750 £113,888
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -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 109,503 44,040 68,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,366 25,685 38,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -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 13 October 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 IT jobs citing Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 October 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 +184 848 £85,000 -5.56% 489
UK excluding London +143 458 £80,000 -3.03% 241
London +109 394 £95,000 -5.00% 290
Work from Home +130 285 £82,500 -13.16% 191
North of England +102 197 £75,000 -20.00% 65
Midlands +14 82 £75,000 +5.35% 43
North West +45 81 £75,000 - 31
Yorkshire +33 76 £77,500 -8.82% 20
South West -11 75 £90,000 +30.43% 15
South East 0 72 £85,000 -1.45% 47
West Midlands +19 67 £80,000 +12.37% 35
North East -33 40 £70,000 -30.00% 14
Scotland +14 18 £105,000 +5.00% 48
East of England -23 16 £71,000 +18.89% 12
East Midlands -25 15 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Northern Ireland -74 2 £100,000 - 8
Wales - 2 £130,446 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 443 (48.84%) Data Architecture
2 320 (35.28%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.11%) Analytics
4 230 (25.36%) Azure
5 227 (25.03%) Data Strategy
6 226 (24.92%) Data Governance
7 201 (22.16%) AI
8 155 (17.09%) Data Quality
8 155 (17.09%) Metadata
9 144 (15.88%) Roadmaps
10 141 (15.55%) Databricks
11 134 (14.77%) AWS
12 131 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
13 123 (13.56%) SQL
14 120 (13.23%) Lakehouse
15 112 (12.35%) Security Cleared
16 99 (10.92%) Data Engineering
16 99 (10.92%) Decision-Making
17 98 (10.80%) Microsoft
18 87 (9.59%) Metadata Management
19 85 (9.37%) Agile
19 85 (9.37%) GCP
20 84 (9.26%) Machine Learning
21 82 (9.04%) Data Lake
22 81 (8.93%) ETL
23 77 (8.49%) CI/CD
23 77 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
24 76 (8.38%) Logical Data Model
24 76 (8.38%) Python
25 75 (8.27%) Data Warehouse

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 (1.54%) Apache
2 13 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Notion
1 5 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 230 (25.36%) Azure
2 134 (14.77%) AWS
3 85 (9.37%) GCP
4 71 (7.83%) Snowflake
5 70 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 53 (5.84%) Azure Databricks
7 45 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 45 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 42 (4.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 35 (3.86%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.43%) dbt
11 14 (1.54%) Serverless
12 11 (1.21%) SaaS
13 10 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (0.99%) GitHub
15 8 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.77%) Collibra
16 7 (0.77%) Entra ID
16 7 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (17.09%) Metadata
2 82 (9.04%) Data Lake
3 75 (8.27%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (7.50%) Power BI
5 46 (5.07%) Data Vault
6 36 (3.97%) Delta Lake
7 27 (2.98%) Tableau
8 26 (2.87%) Star Schema
9 25 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (2.65%) Semantic Layer
11 18 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (1.87%) SQL Server
13 16 (1.76%) Metadata Repository
14 14 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.54%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (1.21%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.10%) Relational Database
18 9 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 8 (0.88%) MLflow
2 6 (0.66%) ERwin
2 6 (0.66%) Git
3 5 (0.55%) Toad
4 4 (0.44%) GitLab
4 4 (0.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.11%) rollup.js
General
1 131 (14.44%) Finance
2 98 (10.80%) Social Skills
3 88 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 62 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (3.64%) Legal
6 31 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.76%) Retail
9 24 (2.65%) Law
10 13 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.32%) Marketing
12 10 (1.10%) Banking
13 9 (0.99%) Local Government
14 7 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.55%) Advertising
17 4 (0.44%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.33%) Investment Banking
18 3 (0.33%) Military
18 3 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.20%) Terraform
2 26 (2.87%) PySpark
3 5 (0.55%) JSON
3 5 (0.55%) Middleware
4 4 (0.44%) Kafka
5 3 (0.33%) REST
5 3 (0.33%) XML
6 2 (0.22%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.22%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.11%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.11%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.11%) RESTful
7 1 (0.11%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.11%) SOAP
7 1 (0.11%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.76%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 17 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (1.54%) Reference Data
6 13 (1.43%) Data Fabric
7 12 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (0.99%) Taxonomies
9 7 (0.77%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.77%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.66%) Blockchain
10 6 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (0.66%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.44%) NHS
11 4 (0.44%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (48.84%) Data Architecture
2 320 (35.28%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.11%) Analytics
4 227 (25.03%) Data Strategy
5 226 (24.92%) Data Governance
6 201 (22.16%) AI
7 144 (15.88%) Roadmaps
8 131 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
9 120 (13.23%) Lakehouse
10 99 (10.92%) Data Engineering
10 99 (10.92%) Decision-Making
11 87 (9.59%) Metadata Management
12 85 (9.37%) Agile
13 84 (9.26%) Machine Learning
14 81 (8.93%) ETL
15 77 (8.49%) CI/CD
15 77 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
16 76 (8.38%) Logical Data Model
17 74 (8.16%) Data Transformation
18 73 (8.05%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (13.56%) SQL
2 76 (8.38%) Python
3 31 (3.42%) Scala
4 19 (2.09%) Bicep
5 7 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (0.66%) Java
6 6 (0.66%) R
7 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 54 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.40%) DV Cleared
4 47 (5.18%) Degree
5 31 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.98%) SnowPro
9 14 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (0.99%) CIPD
12 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.33%) SAP Certification
14 2 (0.22%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.11%) CCA
15 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.11%) OCP
15 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (17.09%) Data Quality
2 34 (3.75%) GDPR
3 30 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.22%) IFRS
4 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.22%) QA
4 2 (0.22%) SLA
4 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 141 (15.55%) Databricks
2 98 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.21%) SAP
5 18 (1.98%) Google
6 15 (1.65%) Oracle
7 10 (1.10%) Informatica
8 8 (0.88%) Workday
9 5 (0.55%) Palantir
9 5 (0.55%) Sage
10 3 (0.33%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.33%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.22%) Adobe
11 2 (0.22%) Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Denodo
12 1 (0.11%) Interwoven
12 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.11%) Sparx
12 1 (0.11%) Thales