Data Architect Jobs

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 26 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 465 526
Rank change year-on-year +61 +61 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 445 323 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.57% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 237 254 571
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,300 £61,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,563 £71,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £86,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +2.06% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £79,816 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.03% +6.42% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 72,160 56,195 134,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 95.71% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,655 40,750 78,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% - +5.00%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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 +36 409 £85,000 -1.16% 102
UK excluding London +83 252 £75,000 -6.03% 63
London +17 178 £90,000 - 53
Work from Home +40 171 £85,000 +1.19% 80
North of England +58 93 £75,000 -5.82% 25
South East +21 83 £87,500 +9.38% 8
North West +41 81 £75,000 -5.82% 13
South West +21 25 £55,000 -30.93% 5
Midlands -26 23 £70,000 -9.68% 8
Scotland +1 21 £100,000 +25.58% 8
East Midlands -11 14 £70,000 +1.82% 1
Yorkshire +20 9 £90,000 +13.02% 6
West Midlands -34 9 £60,000 -22.58% 7
North East -28 3 £85,000 +6.25% 6
East of England -53 3 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales +34 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 October 2024, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 215 (48.31%) Azure
2 197 (44.27%) Data Architecture
3 179 (40.22%) Data Modelling
4 145 (32.58%) Analytics
5 137 (30.79%) AWS
6 130 (29.21%) Data Warehouse
7 119 (26.74%) Data Strategy
8 117 (26.29%) SQL
9 103 (23.15%) Agile
9 103 (23.15%) Security Cleared
10 99 (22.25%) Data Governance
10 99 (22.25%) ETL
10 99 (22.25%) Business Intelligence
11 98 (22.02%) GCP
12 92 (20.67%) Finance
13 91 (20.45%) Data Management
14 88 (19.78%) Degree
15 85 (19.10%) DevOps
16 84 (18.88%) Databricks
17 81 (18.20%) Data Science
18 80 (17.98%) SC Cleared
19 78 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
20 75 (16.85%) Migration
21 73 (16.40%) TOGAF
22 72 (16.18%) Data Quality
22 72 (16.18%) Roadmaps
23 69 (15.51%) Python
24 68 (15.28%) Power Platform
24 68 (15.28%) Power BI
25 67 (15.06%) Data Lake

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (8.54%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.60%) Apache
3 13 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.45%) Luigi
4 2 (0.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (3.15%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 215 (48.31%) Azure
2 137 (30.79%) AWS
3 98 (22.02%) GCP
4 68 (15.28%) Power Platform
5 62 (13.93%) Snowflake
6 45 (10.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (8.09%) SaaS
8 24 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (5.39%) Serverless
9 16 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
9 16 (3.60%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.60%) PaaS
10 15 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.15%) IaaS
11 14 (3.15%) OCI
12 11 (2.47%) Stackdriver
13 8 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.12%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.02%) Wireless
2 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (29.21%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (15.28%) Power BI
3 67 (15.06%) Data Lake
4 55 (12.36%) Metadata
5 52 (11.69%) NoSQL
6 47 (10.56%) Big Data
7 42 (9.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 42 (9.44%) Data Vault
8 31 (6.97%) Tableau
9 22 (4.94%) BigQuery
10 17 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (3.60%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (3.60%) MongoDB
11 16 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (3.15%) Oracle ODI
12 14 (3.15%) SQL Server
13 11 (2.47%) Data Mining
14 9 (2.02%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.57%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 21 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (0.45%) Spinnaker
3 2 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.22%) ERwin
4 1 (0.22%) JIRA
General
1 92 (20.67%) Finance
2 64 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 54 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
6 33 (7.42%) Banking
7 20 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.15%) Advertising
8 14 (3.15%) Retail Banking
9 11 (2.47%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.02%) Electronics
12 8 (1.80%) Marketing
13 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.12%) Brand Awareness
15 4 (0.90%) Legal
16 3 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.45%) Publishing
18 1 (0.22%) Military
18 1 (0.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.07%) Kafka
2 17 (3.82%) Middleware
3 11 (2.47%) Apache Beam
4 9 (2.02%) Pandas
4 9 (2.02%) pytest
5 7 (1.57%) XML
6 3 (0.67%) PySpark
7 2 (0.45%) FHIR
7 2 (0.45%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.45%) XBRL
8 1 (0.22%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 12 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.90%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.67%) NHS
10 3 (0.67%) Replication
10 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.45%) CMDB
11 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (44.27%) Data Architecture
2 179 (40.22%) Data Modelling
3 145 (32.58%) Analytics
4 119 (26.74%) Data Strategy
5 103 (23.15%) Agile
6 99 (22.25%) Business Intelligence
6 99 (22.25%) Data Governance
6 99 (22.25%) ETL
7 91 (20.45%) Data Management
8 85 (19.10%) DevOps
9 81 (18.20%) Data Science
10 78 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
11 75 (16.85%) Migration
12 73 (16.40%) TOGAF
13 72 (16.18%) Roadmaps
14 64 (14.38%) Data Integration
15 62 (13.93%) Machine Learning
16 60 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (13.03%) Software Engineering
18 57 (12.81%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 117 (26.29%) SQL
2 69 (15.51%) Python
3 27 (6.07%) Java
4 15 (3.37%) Kotlin
5 10 (2.25%) Scala
6 5 (1.12%) ABAP
6 5 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.67%) C#
9 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) Go
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 103 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 88 (19.78%) Degree
3 80 (17.98%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 28 (6.29%) TOGAF Certification
6 24 (5.39%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (3.15%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.80%) GDPR
4 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.45%) HL7
4 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (4.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.90%) HDFS
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 24 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 84 (18.88%) Databricks
2 45 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.84%) Google
4 24 (5.39%) Oracle
5 13 (2.92%) SAP
6 10 (2.25%) Informatica
7 4 (0.90%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.67%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.67%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.67%) Hortonworks
8 3 (0.67%) NEC
8 3 (0.67%) Talend
8 3 (0.67%) Teradata
9 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.22%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.22%) Pega
10 1 (0.22%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.22%) Sparx