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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 473 399
Rank change year-on-year +222 -74 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 819 228 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.46% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.51% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 580 117 334
10th Percentile £60,000 £67,136 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -12.50%

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 99,002 44,694 78,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.02% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,676 26,534 53,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £72,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -6.79%

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 8 August 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 8 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 +196 747 £85,000 -10.53% 302
UK excluding London +153 404 £80,000 -5.88% 155
London +118 349 £95,000 -7.32% 188
Work from Home +114 219 £85,000 -10.53% 132
North of England +81 147 £78,500 -17.05% 35
South West +1 76 £85,000 - 17
Midlands +25 75 £80,000 -1.84% 32
North West +62 69 £78,750 - 16
West Midlands +27 66 £80,000 -5.88% 23
South East -5 63 £85,000 -5.56% 30
Yorkshire +4 50 £80,000 -8.57% 14
North East -29 28 £67,500 -32.50% 5
Scotland +22 23 £100,000 +8.11% 18
East of England -9 18 £71,000 +18.89% 8
East Midlands -19 9 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Northern Ireland -71 1 - - 15
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 393 (47.99%) Data Architecture
2 291 (35.53%) Data Modelling
3 243 (29.67%) Analytics
4 237 (28.94%) Data Governance
5 235 (28.69%) Data Strategy
6 226 (27.59%) Azure
7 195 (23.81%) AI
8 173 (21.12%) Databricks
9 149 (18.19%) Data Quality
10 143 (17.46%) Roadmaps
11 141 (17.22%) AWS
12 124 (15.14%) SQL
13 123 (15.02%) Metadata
14 114 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
15 100 (12.21%) Machine Learning
16 97 (11.84%) Security Cleared
17 96 (11.72%) Data Engineering
18 90 (10.99%) Microsoft
19 89 (10.87%) GCP
20 88 (10.74%) Decision-Making
21 87 (10.62%) Snowflake
22 84 (10.26%) Data Lake
23 82 (10.01%) Python
24 79 (9.65%) Agile
25 75 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
25 75 (9.16%) Logical Data Model
26 73 (8.91%) Migration
27 71 (8.67%) Data Management
27 71 (8.67%) Physical Data Model
28 69 (8.42%) 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 13 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.22%) Apache
3 6 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.24%) 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
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 226 (27.59%) Azure
2 141 (17.22%) AWS
3 89 (10.87%) GCP
4 87 (10.62%) Snowflake
5 67 (8.18%) Power Platform
6 65 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.32%) dbt
11 16 (1.95%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (1.10%) GitHub
14 7 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.73%) SaaS
15 6 (0.73%) Serverless
16 5 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) Internet
1 2 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (15.02%) Metadata
2 84 (10.26%) Data Lake
3 75 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (7.57%) Power BI
5 44 (5.37%) Data Vault
6 32 (3.91%) Delta Lake
7 27 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.05%) Tableau
9 16 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.83%) BigQuery
10 15 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
10 15 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (1.83%) Star Schema
11 14 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (1.47%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.10%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.85%) Big Data
16 6 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (0.98%) MLflow
2 5 (0.61%) Git
2 5 (0.61%) Toad
3 4 (0.49%) ERwin
3 4 (0.49%) GitLab
4 3 (0.37%) JIRA
5 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.24%) rollup.js
General
1 142 (17.34%) Finance
2 107 (13.06%) Social Skills
3 91 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 59 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.30%) Law
7 23 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.81%) Legal
8 21 (2.56%) Retail
9 11 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.85%) Local Government
11 7 (0.85%) Marketing
12 5 (0.61%) Advertising
12 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.49%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.37%) Banking
14 3 (0.37%) Military
14 3 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.56%) PySpark
2 10 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.73%) Middleware
4 4 (0.49%) Kafka
5 3 (0.37%) JSON
5 3 (0.37%) REST
5 3 (0.37%) SOAP
5 3 (0.37%) XML
6 2 (0.24%) .NET
6 2 (0.24%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.24%) pgvector
6 2 (0.24%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.12%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.12%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.12%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.12%) RESTful
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.12%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 24 (2.93%) Data Structures
2 24 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.10%) Data Fabric
6 8 (0.98%) Reference Data
7 7 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.73%) Blockchain
8 6 (0.73%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.73%) IoT
8 6 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (0.73%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.61%) NHS
9 5 (0.61%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.49%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.37%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (47.99%) Data Architecture
2 291 (35.53%) Data Modelling
3 243 (29.67%) Analytics
4 237 (28.94%) Data Governance
5 235 (28.69%) Data Strategy
6 195 (23.81%) AI
7 143 (17.46%) Roadmaps
8 114 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
9 100 (12.21%) Machine Learning
10 96 (11.72%) Data Engineering
11 88 (10.74%) Decision-Making
12 79 (9.65%) Agile
13 75 (9.16%) Logical Data Model
14 73 (8.91%) Migration
15 71 (8.67%) Data Management
15 71 (8.67%) Physical Data Model
16 69 (8.42%) ETL
17 63 (7.69%) Data Integration
18 60 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
19 58 (7.08%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 124 (15.14%) SQL
2 82 (10.01%) Python
3 25 (3.05%) Scala
4 15 (1.83%) Bicep
5 7 (0.85%) R
6 4 (0.49%) Java
7 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.59%) Degree
3 47 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.83%) SnowPro
8 13 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.10%) CIPD
11 5 (0.61%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.12%) CCA
13 1 (0.12%) OCP
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (18.19%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.79%) GDPR
3 17 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.37%) QA
5 2 (0.24%) IFRS
5 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.24%) SLA
5 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.49%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (2.81%) Terraform
2 6 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 173 (21.12%) Databricks
2 90 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.79%) SAP
4 29 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.81%) Oracle
6 21 (2.56%) Google
7 10 (1.22%) Palantir
8 7 (0.85%) Workday
9 6 (0.73%) Foundry
9 6 (0.73%) Informatica
10 4 (0.49%) Sage
11 3 (0.37%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.37%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.37%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.24%) Meraki
12 2 (0.24%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.12%) Denodo
13 1 (0.12%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.12%) Sparx