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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 453 417
Rank change year-on-year +205 -36 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 777 233 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.53% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 571 127 401
10th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
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 93,088 44,174 95,628
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.90% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 63,779 26,115 68,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +199 707 £85,000 -12.82% 133
UK excluding London +149 398 £82,500 -2.94% 73
London +102 319 £90,000 -13.04% 76
Work from Home +115 210 £85,000 -10.18% 59
North of England +86 144 £80,000 -15.47% 11
Midlands +35 74 £80,000 -1.84% 12
South West +11 73 £84,000 -1.18% 13
North West +65 72 £80,000 -5.88% 9
West Midlands +19 66 £80,000 -4.48% 9
South East +21 61 £85,000 -5.56% 28
Yorkshire -2 45 £80,000 -15.47% 2
Scotland +27 28 £95,000 +2.70% 5
North East -33 27 £70,000 -30.00%
East of England +3 17 £71,000 +18.89% 4
East Midlands -30 8 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 355 (45.69%) Data Architecture
2 255 (32.82%) Data Modelling
3 230 (29.60%) Data Governance
4 229 (29.47%) Data Strategy
5 221 (28.44%) Analytics
6 215 (27.67%) Azure
7 163 (20.98%) AI
8 156 (20.08%) Databricks
9 143 (18.40%) AWS
10 142 (18.28%) Data Quality
11 120 (15.44%) Roadmaps
12 112 (14.41%) SQL
13 103 (13.26%) Metadata
14 94 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
15 90 (11.58%) Data Engineering
16 89 (11.45%) Machine Learning
17 87 (11.20%) GCP
18 83 (10.68%) Security Cleared
18 83 (10.68%) Snowflake
19 81 (10.42%) Decision-Making
20 76 (9.78%) Microsoft
21 75 (9.65%) Data Lake
22 74 (9.52%) Migration
23 69 (8.88%) Agile
24 68 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
24 68 (8.75%) Logical Data Model
25 67 (8.62%) Python
26 66 (8.49%) Data Management
27 65 (8.37%) ETL
28 64 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics

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 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.42%) 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 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.39%) 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
1 215 (27.67%) Azure
2 143 (18.40%) AWS
3 87 (11.20%) GCP
4 83 (10.68%) Snowflake
5 64 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 55 (7.08%) Power Platform
7 37 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.35%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.32%) dbt
11 16 (2.06%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.77%) SaaS
15 5 (0.64%) GitHub
15 5 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.51%) Collibra
16 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) Internet
1 2 (0.26%) MQTT
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (13.26%) Metadata
2 75 (9.65%) Data Lake
3 68 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (6.44%) Power BI
5 38 (4.89%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.22%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.83%) Delta Lake
8 19 (2.45%) Tableau
9 16 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.80%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (1.42%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.16%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.03%) Big Data
16 8 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Git
1 5 (0.64%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.39%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 136 (17.50%) Finance
2 99 (12.74%) Social Skills
3 90 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (2.57%) Law
6 20 (2.57%) Retail
7 16 (2.06%) Legal
8 14 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.77%) Local Government
12 5 (0.64%) Advertising
12 5 (0.64%) Banking
13 4 (0.51%) Marketing
13 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.26%) Police
14 2 (0.26%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.80%) PySpark
2 10 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.77%) Middleware
4 3 (0.39%) Kafka
4 3 (0.39%) REST
4 3 (0.39%) SOAP
5 2 (0.26%) .NET
5 2 (0.26%) pgvector
5 2 (0.26%) 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 51 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.83%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.16%) Data Fabric
7 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.90%) e-Learning
9 6 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.77%) 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 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.39%) Blockchain
12 3 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.39%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.39%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (45.69%) Data Architecture
2 255 (32.82%) Data Modelling
3 230 (29.60%) Data Governance
4 229 (29.47%) Data Strategy
5 221 (28.44%) Analytics
6 163 (20.98%) AI
7 120 (15.44%) Roadmaps
8 94 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
9 90 (11.58%) Data Engineering
10 89 (11.45%) Machine Learning
11 81 (10.42%) Decision-Making
12 74 (9.52%) Migration
13 69 (8.88%) Agile
14 68 (8.75%) Logical Data Model
15 66 (8.49%) Data Management
16 65 (8.37%) ETL
17 64 (8.24%) Physical Data Model
18 58 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
19 56 (7.21%) Data Integration
20 53 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 112 (14.41%) SQL
2 67 (8.62%) Python
3 15 (1.93%) Scala
4 10 (1.29%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.26%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 52 (6.69%) Degree
3 39 (5.02%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 24 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.29%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.16%) CIPD
10 9 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (18.28%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.60%) GDPR
3 13 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.39%) 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%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.06%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (20.08%) Databricks
2 76 (9.78%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.99%) SAP
4 26 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.96%) Oracle
6 22 (2.83%) Google
7 10 (1.29%) Palantir
8 6 (0.77%) Foundry
8 6 (0.77%) Informatica
9 4 (0.51%) Sage
9 4 (0.51%) Workday
10 3 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.39%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.39%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.26%) Meraki
11 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.13%) Alteryx