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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 463 379
Rank change year-on-year +225 -84 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 753 206 721
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.51% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 558 114 467
10th Percentile £60,708 £67,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £61,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +21.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £107,810
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +214 683 £85,000 -12.82% 109
UK excluding London +186 411 £82,500 -2.94% 75
London +101 287 £90,000 -14.29% 61
Work from Home +138 209 £85,000 -10.18% 54
North of England +105 158 £80,000 -15.47% 13
Midlands +32 71 £80,000 -3.03% 9
South East +29 69 £85,000 -5.56% 30
North West +61 63 £82,500 -2.94% 11
West Midlands +23 63 £80,000 -5.88% 7
Yorkshire +12 62 £80,000 -15.47% 2
South West -2 61 £84,000 -1.18% 15
North East -16 33 £70,000 -
Scotland +16 29 £95,000 +2.70% 4
East of England +5 21 £71,000 -1.69% 2
East Midlands -19 8 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Wales - 2 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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.

1 334 (44.36%) Data Architecture
2 246 (32.67%) Data Modelling
3 239 (31.74%) Data Governance
4 220 (29.22%) Azure
5 212 (28.15%) Data Strategy
6 199 (26.43%) Analytics
7 154 (20.45%) Databricks
8 149 (19.79%) AWS
9 139 (18.46%) Data Quality
10 132 (17.53%) AI
11 109 (14.48%) Metadata
12 101 (13.41%) Roadmaps
13 100 (13.28%) SQL
14 90 (11.95%) GCP
15 83 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
16 82 (10.89%) Data Engineering
17 78 (10.36%) Migration
18 76 (10.09%) Agile
19 75 (9.96%) Microsoft
19 75 (9.96%) Security Cleared
20 74 (9.83%) Machine Learning
21 73 (9.69%) Logical Data Model
22 70 (9.30%) Data Management
22 70 (9.30%) Snowflake
23 69 (9.16%) Physical Data Model
24 67 (8.90%) Data Lake
24 67 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
25 66 (8.76%) ETL
26 65 (8.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
26 65 (8.63%) Decision-Making

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 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.46%) Apache
3 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
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
1 220 (29.22%) Azure
2 149 (19.79%) AWS
3 90 (11.95%) GCP
4 70 (9.30%) Snowflake
5 65 (8.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 50 (6.64%) Power Platform
7 30 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (3.05%) Amazon S3
9 17 (2.26%) dbt
9 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (1.99%) Azure AI
11 12 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.66%) SaaS
14 4 (0.53%) Collibra
14 4 (0.53%) GitHub
14 4 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.27%) MQTT
1 2 (0.27%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (14.48%) Metadata
2 67 (8.90%) Data Lake
2 67 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (5.98%) Power BI
4 29 (3.85%) Data Vault
5 27 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.19%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.12%) Delta Lake
8 15 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.99%) Tableau
9 14 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.73%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.46%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.33%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.20%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
14 8 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Toad
2 4 (0.53%) Git
2 4 (0.53%) MLflow
3 3 (0.40%) ERwin
4 2 (0.27%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 136 (18.06%) Finance
2 99 (13.15%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 54 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (2.92%) Retail
8 18 (2.39%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.26%) Law
10 13 (1.73%) Legal
11 11 (1.46%) Banking
12 9 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.80%) Local Government
13 6 (0.80%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.66%) Advertising
14 5 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.27%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.27%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (1.20%) PySpark
3 6 (0.80%) Middleware
4 4 (0.53%) Kafka
5 3 (0.40%) REST
5 3 (0.40%) SOAP
6 2 (0.27%) .NET
6 2 (0.27%) pgvector
6 2 (0.27%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.13%) JSON
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.13%) XBRL
7 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 11 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (1.46%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 7 (0.93%) e-Learning
7 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
8 6 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.66%) NHS
9 5 (0.66%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.53%) IoT
10 4 (0.53%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.40%) Replication
12 2 (0.27%) Clustering
12 2 (0.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (44.36%) Data Architecture
2 246 (32.67%) Data Modelling
3 239 (31.74%) Data Governance
4 212 (28.15%) Data Strategy
5 199 (26.43%) Analytics
6 132 (17.53%) AI
7 101 (13.41%) Roadmaps
8 83 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
9 82 (10.89%) Data Engineering
10 78 (10.36%) Migration
11 76 (10.09%) Agile
12 74 (9.83%) Machine Learning
13 73 (9.69%) Logical Data Model
14 70 (9.30%) Data Management
15 69 (9.16%) Physical Data Model
16 66 (8.76%) ETL
17 65 (8.63%) Decision-Making
18 64 (8.50%) Data Integration
19 58 (7.70%) Problem-Solving
20 54 (7.17%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (13.28%) SQL
2 57 (7.57%) Python
3 10 (1.33%) Scala
4 6 (0.80%) Bicep
5 4 (0.53%) R
6 2 (0.27%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (9.96%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.64%) Degree
3 34 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (0.93%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.80%) CIPD
11 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.66%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (18.46%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.32%) GDPR
3 8 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.53%) QA
5 2 (0.27%) IFRS
5 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.27%) SLA
5 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (1.59%) Terraform
2 6 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 154 (20.45%) Databricks
2 75 (9.96%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.65%) SAP
4 26 (3.45%) Google
5 25 (3.32%) Oracle
6 23 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.33%) Palantir
8 6 (0.80%) Foundry
8 6 (0.80%) Informatica
9 3 (0.40%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.40%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.40%) Sage
9 3 (0.40%) Workday
10 2 (0.27%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.27%) Meraki
10 2 (0.27%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.13%) Alteryx