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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 450 419
Rank change year-on-year +209 -31 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 786 233 594
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.53% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 577 126 405
10th Percentile £60,694 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,563 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £96,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +13.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 93,080 44,133 95,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 89.80% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 63,762 26,055 68,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 15 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 15 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 +210 716 £85,000 -11.69% 155
UK excluding London +172 403 £80,000 -5.88% 86
London +104 322 £90,000 -13.67% 86
Work from Home +114 214 £85,000 -10.18% 81
North of England +86 146 £80,000 -15.47% 18
Midlands +25 75 £80,000 -1.84% 18
South West +2 74 £84,000 -1.18% 15
North West +58 71 £80,000 -5.88% 9
West Midlands +23 67 £80,000 -4.48% 13
South East +11 62 £85,000 -5.56% 24
Yorkshire 0 47 £80,000 -15.47% 8
Scotland +29 28 £95,000 +2.70% 5
North East -35 28 £70,000 -30.00% 1
East of England -5 17 £71,000 +18.89% 6
East Midlands -19 8 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 362 (46.06%) Data Architecture
2 262 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 237 (30.15%) Data Governance
4 233 (29.64%) Data Strategy
5 221 (28.12%) Azure
6 220 (27.99%) Analytics
7 162 (20.61%) AI
8 156 (19.85%) Databricks
9 148 (18.83%) AWS
10 144 (18.32%) Data Quality
11 121 (15.39%) Roadmaps
12 112 (14.25%) SQL
13 108 (13.74%) Metadata
14 94 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
15 91 (11.58%) GCP
16 89 (11.32%) Data Engineering
16 89 (11.32%) Machine Learning
17 84 (10.69%) Security Cleared
18 83 (10.56%) Snowflake
19 81 (10.31%) Microsoft
20 80 (10.18%) Decision-Making
21 76 (9.67%) Data Lake
21 76 (9.67%) Migration
22 74 (9.41%) Agile
23 73 (9.29%) Data Management
24 69 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
24 69 (8.78%) Logical Data Model
25 67 (8.52%) Python
26 66 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
26 66 (8.40%) 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 (1.53%) 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 15 (1.91%) 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 (0.25%) 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
1 221 (28.12%) Azure
2 148 (18.83%) AWS
3 91 (11.58%) GCP
4 83 (10.56%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 54 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 38 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.31%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (2.29%) dbt
10 16 (2.04%) Azure AI
11 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.76%) SaaS
14 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.51%) Collibra
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
2 1 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (13.74%) Metadata
2 76 (9.67%) Data Lake
3 69 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.23%) Power BI
5 37 (4.71%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.67%) Delta Lake
8 18 (2.29%) Tableau
9 16 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.78%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (1.40%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.15%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.02%) Big Data
16 8 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Git
1 5 (0.64%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 140 (17.81%) Finance
2 102 (12.98%) Social Skills
3 94 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (2.54%) Law
7 20 (2.54%) Retail
8 16 (2.04%) Legal
9 15 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.76%) Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Local Government
13 5 (0.64%) Advertising
14 4 (0.51%) Marketing
14 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.25%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.65%) PySpark
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 3 (0.38%) Kafka
4 3 (0.38%) REST
4 3 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.13%) JSON
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.13%) XBRL
6 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.15%) Data Fabric
7 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.76%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.64%) NHS
11 4 (0.51%) IoT
11 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.38%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (46.06%) Data Architecture
2 262 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 237 (30.15%) Data Governance
4 233 (29.64%) Data Strategy
5 220 (27.99%) Analytics
6 162 (20.61%) AI
7 121 (15.39%) Roadmaps
8 94 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
9 89 (11.32%) Data Engineering
9 89 (11.32%) Machine Learning
10 80 (10.18%) Decision-Making
11 76 (9.67%) Migration
12 74 (9.41%) Agile
13 73 (9.29%) Data Management
14 69 (8.78%) Logical Data Model
15 66 (8.40%) ETL
16 65 (8.27%) Physical Data Model
17 57 (7.25%) Architectural Patterns
17 57 (7.25%) Data Integration
18 55 (7.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (14.25%) SQL
2 67 (8.52%) Python
3 14 (1.78%) Scala
4 10 (1.27%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 52 (6.62%) Degree
3 39 (4.96%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.78%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.27%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.15%) CIPD
10 9 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (18.32%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.56%) GDPR
3 13 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.38%) QA
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) 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 4 (0.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.04%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (19.85%) Databricks
2 81 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.94%) SAP
4 26 (3.31%) Google
4 26 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.93%) Oracle
6 10 (1.27%) Palantir
7 6 (0.76%) Foundry
7 6 (0.76%) Informatica
8 4 (0.51%) Sage
8 4 (0.51%) Workday
9 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.25%) Meraki
10 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.13%) Alteryx