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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 443 364
Rank change year-on-year +197 -79 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 888 228 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.46% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.52% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 626 112 284
10th Percentile £62,250 £65,159 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,925 £113,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +17.86% -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 109,377 44,042 71,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.72% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,715 25,470 41,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +189 821 £85,000 -2.86% 499
UK excluding London +143 446 £80,000 -3.03% 217
London +102 377 £95,000 -2.56% 299
Work from Home +132 261 £82,500 -9.59% 202
North of England +89 191 £75,000 -20.00% 58
Midlands +11 80 £77,500 +13.81% 55
Yorkshire +33 76 £75,000 -11.76% 19
North West +46 75 £75,000 - 29
South West -16 75 £90,000 +28.57% 21
West Midlands +14 68 £80,000 +12.37% 37
South East -12 66 £85,000 +3.03% 30
North East -34 40 £70,000 -30.00% 10
Scotland +20 18 £105,000 +13.51% 36
East of England -15 18 £71,000 +18.89% 10
East Midlands -37 12 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Northern Ireland -84 2 £100,000 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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.

1 437 (49.21%) Data Architecture
2 309 (34.80%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.72%) Analytics
4 225 (25.34%) Data Governance
5 224 (25.23%) Data Strategy
6 223 (25.11%) Azure
7 202 (22.75%) AI
8 150 (16.89%) Data Quality
9 148 (16.67%) Metadata
10 147 (16.55%) Databricks
11 146 (16.44%) Roadmaps
12 130 (14.64%) AWS
13 126 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
14 123 (13.85%) SQL
15 113 (12.73%) Lakehouse
16 107 (12.05%) Security Cleared
17 96 (10.81%) Data Engineering
17 96 (10.81%) Microsoft
18 94 (10.59%) Decision-Making
19 91 (10.25%) Machine Learning
20 81 (9.12%) Data Lake
20 81 (9.12%) GCP
20 81 (9.12%) Metadata Management
21 80 (9.01%) Agile
22 77 (8.67%) Python
23 75 (8.45%) CI/CD
23 75 (8.45%) Logical Data Model
24 74 (8.33%) Snowflake
25 73 (8.22%) ETL
26 72 (8.11%) Data Management

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 11 (1.24%) Apache
1 11 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.11%) Confluence
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 223 (25.11%) Azure
2 130 (14.64%) AWS
3 81 (9.12%) GCP
4 74 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 65 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 51 (5.74%) Azure Databricks
6 51 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 42 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 33 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.36%) dbt
11 11 (1.24%) SaaS
11 11 (1.24%) Serverless
12 9 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (1.01%) GitHub
13 8 (0.90%) Azure AI
13 8 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (0.79%) Collibra
14 7 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (16.67%) Metadata
2 81 (9.12%) Data Lake
3 71 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (7.09%) Power BI
5 47 (5.29%) Data Vault
6 36 (4.05%) Delta Lake
7 25 (2.82%) Tableau
8 23 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (2.59%) Semantic Layer
8 23 (2.59%) Star Schema
9 21 (2.36%) SQL Server
10 18 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.58%) Metadata Repository
12 13 (1.46%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (0.90%) MLflow
2 6 (0.68%) ERwin
2 6 (0.68%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Toad
4 4 (0.45%) GitLab
4 4 (0.45%) JIRA
5 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.23%) rollup.js
General
1 136 (15.32%) Finance
2 95 (10.70%) Public Sector
3 93 (10.47%) Social Skills
4 61 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.27%) Legal
6 26 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (2.59%) Retail
9 22 (2.48%) Law
10 14 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.01%) Local Government
11 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.01%) Marketing
12 8 (0.90%) Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.56%) Advertising
15 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.34%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.34%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.27%) Terraform
2 27 (3.04%) PySpark
3 7 (0.79%) Middleware
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.45%) Kafka
6 3 (0.34%) JSON
6 3 (0.34%) XML
7 2 (0.23%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.23%) REST
7 2 (0.23%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.11%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.11%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.11%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.11%) pgvector
8 1 (0.11%) RESTful
8 1 (0.11%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.11%) SOAP
8 1 (0.11%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.93%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (1.24%) Data Fabric
6 10 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.13%) Reference Data
7 8 (0.90%) Taxonomies
8 7 (0.79%) Blockchain
8 7 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.56%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.45%) IoT
11 4 (0.45%) NHS
11 4 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (49.21%) Data Architecture
2 309 (34.80%) Data Modelling
3 255 (28.72%) Analytics
4 225 (25.34%) Data Governance
5 224 (25.23%) Data Strategy
6 202 (22.75%) AI
7 146 (16.44%) Roadmaps
8 126 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
9 113 (12.73%) Lakehouse
10 96 (10.81%) Data Engineering
11 94 (10.59%) Decision-Making
12 91 (10.25%) Machine Learning
13 81 (9.12%) Metadata Management
14 80 (9.01%) Agile
15 75 (8.45%) CI/CD
15 75 (8.45%) Logical Data Model
16 73 (8.22%) ETL
17 72 (8.11%) Data Management
18 71 (8.00%) Physical Data Model
19 70 (7.88%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 123 (13.85%) SQL
2 77 (8.67%) Python
3 29 (3.27%) Scala
4 19 (2.14%) Bicep
5 6 (0.68%) R
6 4 (0.45%) Java
7 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.11%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 107 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 50 (5.63%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.52%) Degree
4 47 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.03%) SnowPro
9 14 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.01%) CIPD
12 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.56%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.11%) MCITP
16 1 (0.11%) OCP
16 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (16.89%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.38%) GDPR
3 26 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.23%) IFRS
4 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.23%) QA
4 2 (0.23%) SLA
4 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.34%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (0.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 147 (16.55%) Databricks
2 96 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 25 (2.82%) SAP
4 23 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.25%) Oracle
6 16 (1.80%) Google
7 10 (1.13%) Informatica
8 8 (0.90%) Workday
9 7 (0.79%) Palantir
10 5 (0.56%) Sage
11 4 (0.45%) Foundry
12 3 (0.34%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.34%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.11%) Denodo
13 1 (0.11%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.11%) Meraki
13 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.11%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.11%) Sparx
13 1 (0.11%) Thales