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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 463 400
Rank change year-on-year +213 -63 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 807 234 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.52% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 574 122 347
10th Percentile £60,145 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £94,819 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +11.55% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -9.38%

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 97,516 44,723 79,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.09% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 66,672 26,642 54,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +200 737 £85,000 -10.36% 245
UK excluding London +156 397 £80,000 -5.88% 134
London +114 346 £95,000 -8.87% 151
Work from Home +111 211 £85,000 -10.18% 105
North of England +81 144 £80,000 -15.47% 38
Midlands +23 74 £80,000 -1.84% 28
South West +3 74 £85,000 - 7
North West +60 69 £80,000 -5.88% 17
West Midlands +11 65 £80,000 -5.88% 24
South East +4 62 £85,000 -5.56% 29
Yorkshire 0 48 £81,250 -11.99% 15
North East -32 27 £67,500 -32.50% 6
Scotland +18 24 £97,500 +5.41% 14
East of England -7 18 £71,000 +18.89% 5
East Midlands -26 9 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Wales - 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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.

1 388 (48.08%) Data Architecture
2 283 (35.07%) Data Modelling
3 239 (29.62%) Analytics
3 239 (29.62%) Data Governance
4 233 (28.87%) Data Strategy
5 225 (27.88%) Azure
6 190 (23.54%) AI
7 168 (20.82%) Databricks
8 151 (18.71%) Data Quality
9 142 (17.60%) AWS
10 139 (17.22%) Roadmaps
11 121 (14.99%) SQL
12 118 (14.62%) Metadata
13 111 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
14 98 (12.14%) Data Engineering
15 97 (12.02%) Machine Learning
16 93 (11.52%) Security Cleared
17 89 (11.03%) GCP
18 88 (10.90%) Microsoft
19 87 (10.78%) Snowflake
20 85 (10.53%) Data Lake
20 85 (10.53%) Decision-Making
21 76 (9.42%) Python
22 74 (9.17%) Agile
23 73 (9.05%) Logical Data Model
24 72 (8.92%) Migration
25 70 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
26 69 (8.55%) Data Management
26 69 (8.55%) Physical Data Model
27 66 (8.18%) ETL

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 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.36%) Apache
3 6 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.12%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 225 (27.88%) Azure
2 142 (17.60%) AWS
3 89 (11.03%) GCP
4 87 (10.78%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.18%) Power Platform
6 64 (7.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.48%) dbt
11 16 (1.98%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (0.99%) GitHub
15 6 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.74%) SaaS
16 5 (0.62%) PaaS
16 5 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (14.62%) Metadata
2 85 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 70 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (7.56%) Power BI
5 43 (5.33%) Data Vault
6 30 (3.72%) Delta Lake
7 26 (3.22%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.85%) Tableau
9 17 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.86%) BigQuery
10 15 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
11 14 (1.73%) Star Schema
12 13 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (1.49%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.12%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.87%) Big Data
17 6 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 8 (0.99%) MLflow
2 5 (0.62%) Git
2 5 (0.62%) Toad
3 4 (0.50%) GitLab
4 3 (0.37%) ERwin
4 3 (0.37%) JIRA
5 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
6 1 (0.12%) ER Studio
General
1 145 (17.97%) Finance
2 105 (13.01%) Social Skills
3 88 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.22%) Law
7 24 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (2.85%) Legal
9 21 (2.60%) Retail
10 12 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.87%) Marketing
14 6 (0.74%) Local Government
15 5 (0.62%) Advertising
15 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.50%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.37%) Banking
17 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.25%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.23%) PySpark
2 10 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.74%) Middleware
4 3 (0.37%) JSON
4 3 (0.37%) Kafka
4 3 (0.37%) REST
4 3 (0.37%) SOAP
4 3 (0.37%) XML
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.12%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.12%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.12%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 25 (3.10%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.12%) Data Fabric
7 8 (0.99%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.87%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.74%) Blockchain
9 6 (0.74%) IoT
9 6 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.74%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.62%) NHS
10 5 (0.62%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.50%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.37%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.37%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (48.08%) Data Architecture
2 283 (35.07%) Data Modelling
3 239 (29.62%) Analytics
3 239 (29.62%) Data Governance
4 233 (28.87%) Data Strategy
5 190 (23.54%) AI
6 139 (17.22%) Roadmaps
7 111 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
8 98 (12.14%) Data Engineering
9 97 (12.02%) Machine Learning
10 85 (10.53%) Decision-Making
11 74 (9.17%) Agile
12 73 (9.05%) Logical Data Model
13 72 (8.92%) Migration
14 69 (8.55%) Data Management
14 69 (8.55%) Physical Data Model
15 66 (8.18%) ETL
16 61 (7.56%) Data Integration
17 56 (6.94%) Architectural Patterns
17 56 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 121 (14.99%) SQL
2 76 (9.42%) Python
3 20 (2.48%) Scala
4 13 (1.61%) Bicep
5 5 (0.62%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.69%) Degree
3 44 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.61%) SnowPro
8 12 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.12%) CIPD
12 5 (0.62%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.12%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (18.71%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.72%) GDPR
3 17 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.37%) QA
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (2.48%) Terraform
2 5 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 168 (20.82%) Databricks
2 88 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.84%) SAP
4 29 (3.59%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.73%) Oracle
6 21 (2.60%) Google
7 10 (1.24%) Palantir
8 6 (0.74%) Foundry
8 6 (0.74%) Informatica
8 6 (0.74%) Workday
9 4 (0.50%) Sage
10 3 (0.37%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.37%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.37%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.25%) Meraki
11 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.12%) Alteryx