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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 471 395
Rank change year-on-year +237 -76 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 784 210 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.49% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 584 117 435
10th Percentile £61,275 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £98,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £109,500
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 90,996 42,434 99,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 89.80% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62,462 24,678 72,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 3 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 3 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 +231 712 £85,000 -12.82% 173
UK excluding London +183 414 £82,500 -2.94% 100
London +114 307 £90,000 -14.29% 94
Work from Home +139 221 £85,000 -10.18% 89
North of England +93 154 £80,000 -15.47% 23
Midlands +33 76 £80,000 -1.84% 19
North West +56 70 £80,000 -5.88% 16
West Midlands +26 68 £80,000 -3.03% 13
South West -2 68 £84,000 -1.18% 20
South East +27 67 £85,000 -5.56% 28
Yorkshire +7 52 £80,000 -15.47% 6
North East -21 32 £70,466 -29.53% 1
Scotland +26 27 £95,000 +2.70% 9
East of England +9 21 £71,000 +30.42%
East Midlands -8 8 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 353 (45.03%) Data Architecture
2 254 (32.40%) Data Modelling
3 241 (30.74%) Data Governance
4 230 (29.34%) Data Strategy
5 225 (28.70%) Azure
6 213 (27.17%) Analytics
7 157 (20.03%) Databricks
8 150 (19.13%) AI
9 145 (18.49%) AWS
10 141 (17.98%) Data Quality
11 115 (14.67%) Roadmaps
12 108 (13.78%) Metadata
13 107 (13.65%) SQL
14 95 (12.12%) GCP
15 91 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
16 86 (10.97%) Data Engineering
17 85 (10.84%) Machine Learning
18 82 (10.46%) Microsoft
19 77 (9.82%) Decision-Making
19 77 (9.82%) Security Cleared
19 77 (9.82%) Snowflake
20 75 (9.57%) Migration
21 74 (9.44%) Data Management
22 73 (9.31%) Agile
23 72 (9.18%) Data Lake
24 70 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
25 68 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
26 66 (8.42%) Logical Data Model
27 64 (8.16%) ETL
28 62 (7.91%) Physical Data Model

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 13 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.40%) Apache
3 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.17%) 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 (0.26%) 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
1 225 (28.70%) Azure
2 145 (18.49%) AWS
3 95 (12.12%) GCP
4 77 (9.82%) Snowflake
5 68 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 52 (6.63%) Power Platform
7 35 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.19%) Amazon S3
9 23 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (2.17%) dbt
11 15 (1.91%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 7 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.77%) SaaS
15 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.64%) Collibra
16 4 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.51%) Intacct
16 4 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) MQTT
1 2 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (13.78%) Metadata
2 72 (9.18%) Data Lake
3 70 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (5.99%) Power BI
5 35 (4.46%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.55%) Delta Lake
8 17 (2.17%) Tableau
9 16 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.79%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.79%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (1.28%) Star Schema
14 8 (1.02%) Big Data
14 8 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Git
1 5 (0.64%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 139 (17.73%) Finance
2 105 (13.39%) Public Sector
3 99 (12.63%) Social Skills
4 48 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (2.68%) Retail
7 19 (2.42%) Law
8 16 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.91%) Legal
10 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.02%) Banking
12 6 (0.77%) Local Government
12 6 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.64%) Advertising
14 4 (0.51%) Marketing
14 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.26%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.26%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.53%) PySpark
2 10 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.77%) Middleware
4 4 (0.51%) Kafka
5 3 (0.38%) REST
5 3 (0.38%) SOAP
6 2 (0.26%) .NET
6 2 (0.26%) pgvector
6 2 (0.26%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.13%) JSON
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.13%) XBRL
7 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.55%) Data Structures
2 20 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 13 (1.66%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.02%) Data Fabric
6 8 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
7 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
8 5 (0.64%) NHS
8 5 (0.64%) Taxonomies
9 4 (0.51%) IoT
9 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (45.03%) Data Architecture
2 254 (32.40%) Data Modelling
3 241 (30.74%) Data Governance
4 230 (29.34%) Data Strategy
5 213 (27.17%) Analytics
6 150 (19.13%) AI
7 115 (14.67%) Roadmaps
8 91 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
9 86 (10.97%) Data Engineering
10 85 (10.84%) Machine Learning
11 77 (9.82%) Decision-Making
12 75 (9.57%) Migration
13 74 (9.44%) Data Management
14 73 (9.31%) Agile
15 66 (8.42%) Logical Data Model
16 64 (8.16%) ETL
17 62 (7.91%) Physical Data Model
18 58 (7.40%) Data Integration
18 58 (7.40%) Metadata Management
19 56 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 107 (13.65%) SQL
2 62 (7.91%) Python
3 13 (1.66%) Scala
4 9 (1.15%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.26%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.25%) Degree
3 34 (4.34%) DV Cleared
3 34 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.15%) CIPD
8 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.15%) SnowPro
9 8 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.44%) GDPR
3 11 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.51%) QA
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (1.91%) Terraform
2 6 (0.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 157 (20.03%) Databricks
2 82 (10.46%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.21%) SAP
4 29 (3.70%) Google
5 25 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.93%) Oracle
7 10 (1.28%) Palantir
8 7 (0.89%) Informatica
9 6 (0.77%) Foundry
10 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 4 (0.51%) Workday
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.26%) Meraki
12 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.13%) Alteryx