Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £87,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 445 369
Rank change year-on-year +203 -76 +67
Permanent Data Architect jobs 956 233 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 645 121 248
10th Percentile £63,335 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £67,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £118,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.93% +7.67% -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 adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 111,319 44,214 65,925
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.21% 89.77% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 75,105 26,119 37,592
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,128 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,592
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,497 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.89% -9.01% -4.76%

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 23 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 Data Architect jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +183 886 £85,000 -5.56% 477
UK excluding London +148 485 £80,000 -0.93% 241
London +89 418 £95,000 -5.00% 271
Work from Home +133 302 £84,000 -13.85% 198
North of England +94 202 £75,000 -14.29% 62
Midlands +9 87 £79,999 +12.37% 48
North West +51 86 £75,000 - 32
South East -18 79 £85,000 -1.45% 51
Yorkshire +28 75 £75,000 -11.76% 16
South West -11 74 £90,000 +30.43% 15
West Midlands +17 69 £80,000 +12.37% 40
North East -26 41 £70,000 -30.00% 14
Scotland +21 26 £105,000 +5.00% 42
East Midlands -30 18 £55,000 -15.38% 8
East of England -25 17 £71,000 +18.89% 13
Wales - 5 £130,446 - 4
Northern Ireland -80 2 £100,000 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 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 Architecture46.8%447
2Data Modelling34.0%325
3Analytics27.0%258
4Azure24.3%232
5Data Strategy23.7%227
6Data Governance23.2%222
7AI21.4%205
8Data Quality16.3%156
9Metadata16.2%155
10Roadmaps15.4%147
11AWS14.6%140
11Databricks14.6%140
13Business Intelligence13.9%133
14SQL13.4%128
15Lakehouse13.0%124
16Security Cleared11.6%111
17Data Engineering10.7%102
18Microsoft10.4%99
19Decision-Making10.1%97
20Metadata Management9.2%88
21GCP9.1%87
22Agile8.9%85
22ETL8.9%85
24Data Lake8.7%83
25Machine Learning8.6%82
26Data Warehouse8.4%80
27Technical Leadership8.2%78
28Data Transformation8.1%77
29CI/CD7.8%75
29Python7.8%75

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 Architect23.3%223
2Lead Data Architect7.3%70
3Artificial Intelligence Architect5.8%55
4Enterprise Data Architect3.5%33
4Solutions Architect3.5%33
6Azure Data Architect2.7%26
7Data Engineer2.3%22
7Principal Data Architect2.3%22
9AWS Data Architect2.2%21
9Databricks Architect2.2%21
11Snowflake Architect2.1%20
12Information Architect1.7%16
13Data Analytics Architect1.5%14
14Data Manager1.4%13
14Domain Architect1.4%13
16GCP Data Architect1.3%12
17Platform Architect1.2%11
18SAP Data Architect0.8%8
19Lead Enterprise Architect0.7%7
19Senior Data Engineer0.7%7
572 Data Architect jobs Nationwide