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 29 October 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 443 385
Rank change year-on-year +211 -58 +53
Permanent Data Architect jobs 973 242 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.54% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 644 128 236
10th Percentile £63,335 £64,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,938 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.93% +7.67% -5.82%

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
29 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 112,351 44,727 64,938
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.02% 90.11% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 75,241 26,876 36,920
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,974 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.63% -8.05% -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 29 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 29 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 +186 895 £85,000 -2.86% 86
UK excluding London +129 491 £80,000 -0.93% 57
London +116 427 £97,500 -2.50% 46
Work from Home +141 308 £85,000 -12.82% 47
North of England +97 201 £75,000 -13.04% 8
Midlands +3 85 £79,999 +12.37% 8
North West +46 84 £75,000 - 2
South East -14 82 £85,000 - 18
Yorkshire +28 76 £75,000 -8.54% 3
South West -6 76 £90,000 +34.98% 10
West Midlands +7 67 £80,000 +12.37% 8
North East -36 41 £69,362 -30.64% 3
Scotland +30 30 £105,000 +5.00% 6
East Midlands -25 18 £55,000 -15.38%
East of England -37 16 £71,000 +9.23% 4
Wales - 7 £130,446 - 3
Northern Ireland -79 2 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Architecture45.8%446
2Data Modelling33.5%326
3Analytics26.4%257
4Azure23.6%230
5Data Strategy23.1%225
6Data Governance22.7%221
7AI21.0%204
8Data Quality15.9%155
9Metadata15.8%154
10Roadmaps15.2%148
11Databricks14.8%144
12AWS14.3%139
13Business Intelligence13.8%134
14Lakehouse13.3%129
14SQL13.3%129
16Security Cleared11.7%114
17Data Engineering10.6%103
18Microsoft10.3%100
19Decision-Making9.8%95
20Metadata Management8.9%87
21ETL8.6%84
22Agile8.4%82
22GCP8.4%82
24Machine Learning8.3%81
25Data Lake8.2%80
26Technical Leadership8.0%78
27Data Warehouse7.9%77
28Data Transformation7.8%76
29Python7.7%75
30CI/CD7.6%74

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 Architect23.6%230
2Lead Data Architect7.1%69
3Artificial Intelligence Architect6.0%58
4Enterprise Data Architect3.6%35
5Solutions Architect3.4%33
6Azure Data Architect2.8%27
7AWS Data Architect2.3%22
7Data Engineer2.3%22
7Databricks Architect2.3%22
10Principal Data Architect2.1%20
10Snowflake Architect2.1%20
12Information Architect1.6%16
13Data Manager1.4%14
14Data Analytics Architect1.3%13
14Domain Architect1.3%13
16GCP Data Architect1.1%11
17Platform Architect0.9%9
18Senior Data Engineer0.7%7
18Senior Information Architect0.7%7
20ERP Architect0.6%6
110 Data Architect jobs Nationwide