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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 459 370
Rank change year-on-year +215 -89 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 721 215 718
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.48% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.54% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 533 119 464
10th Percentile £60,484 £69,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £61,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +20.00% -9.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £109,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £83,250 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
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 £98,501 £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 16 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 16 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 +199 652 £85,000 -12.82% 281
UK excluding London +183 395 £83,250 -2.06% 157
London +94 273 £90,000 -13.25% 147
Work from Home +117 198 £85,000 -10.18% 143
North of England +93 149 £80,000 -15.47% 38
South East +35 68 £85,000 -5.56% 35
Midlands +34 68 £80,000 -1.84% 21
West Midlands +19 60 £80,000 -3.03% 16
Yorkshire +11 60 £80,000 -15.47% 9
South West -1 58 £84,000 -1.18% 38
North West +56 57 £85,000 - 23
North East -14 32 £70,000 - 6
Scotland +13 29 £95,000 -2.56% 12
East of England +1 21 £71,000 -1.69% 6
East Midlands -16 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Wales - 2 £70,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 317 (43.97%) Data Architecture
2 233 (32.32%) Data Modelling
3 227 (31.48%) Data Governance
4 211 (29.26%) Azure
5 200 (27.74%) Data Strategy
6 187 (25.94%) Analytics
7 144 (19.97%) AWS
7 144 (19.97%) Databricks
8 136 (18.86%) Data Quality
9 117 (16.23%) AI
10 106 (14.70%) Metadata
11 95 (13.18%) SQL
12 90 (12.48%) Roadmaps
13 88 (12.21%) GCP
14 79 (10.96%) Data Engineering
15 78 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
15 78 (10.82%) Migration
16 75 (10.40%) Logical Data Model
17 74 (10.26%) Agile
18 72 (9.99%) Microsoft
19 71 (9.85%) Physical Data Model
20 69 (9.57%) Security Cleared
21 68 (9.43%) Snowflake
22 67 (9.29%) Data Management
22 67 (9.29%) Machine Learning
23 64 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
23 64 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
23 64 (8.88%) ETL
24 63 (8.74%) Data Lake
25 60 (8.32%) Data Integration

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 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.39%) Apache
3 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.14%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 211 (29.26%) Azure
2 144 (19.97%) AWS
3 88 (12.21%) GCP
4 68 (9.43%) Snowflake
5 64 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 45 (6.24%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (3.05%) Amazon S3
9 16 (2.22%) dbt
10 15 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (1.94%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.66%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.69%) SaaS
15 4 (0.55%) Collibra
15 4 (0.55%) GitHub
15 4 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (0.42%) Anthropic Claude
16 3 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) MQTT
1 2 (0.28%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (14.70%) Metadata
2 64 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (8.74%) Data Lake
4 40 (5.55%) Power BI
5 27 (3.74%) Data Vault
5 27 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.08%) Delta Lake
8 14 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.94%) Tableau
9 13 (1.80%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.39%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.25%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.11%) Big Data
13 8 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Toad
2 4 (0.55%) Git
3 3 (0.42%) ERwin
3 3 (0.42%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 131 (18.17%) Finance
2 94 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 91 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (2.77%) Retail
8 18 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.36%) Law
10 12 (1.66%) Banking
11 11 (1.53%) Legal
12 8 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.83%) Local Government
15 5 (0.69%) Advertising
16 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
18 2 (0.28%) Health Technology
18 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (1.25%) PySpark
3 5 (0.69%) Middleware
4 4 (0.55%) Kafka
5 3 (0.42%) REST
5 3 (0.42%) SOAP
6 2 (0.28%) .NET
6 2 (0.28%) pgvector
6 2 (0.28%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.14%) JSON
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 18 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.97%) Data Fabric
7 7 (0.97%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.83%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.69%) NHS
9 5 (0.69%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.55%) IoT
10 4 (0.55%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.42%) Replication
12 2 (0.28%) Clustering
12 2 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (43.97%) Data Architecture
2 233 (32.32%) Data Modelling
3 227 (31.48%) Data Governance
4 200 (27.74%) Data Strategy
5 187 (25.94%) Analytics
6 117 (16.23%) AI
7 90 (12.48%) Roadmaps
8 79 (10.96%) Data Engineering
9 78 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
9 78 (10.82%) Migration
10 75 (10.40%) Logical Data Model
11 74 (10.26%) Agile
12 71 (9.85%) Physical Data Model
13 67 (9.29%) Data Management
13 67 (9.29%) Machine Learning
14 64 (8.88%) ETL
15 60 (8.32%) Data Integration
16 59 (8.18%) Decision-Making
17 58 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
18 50 (6.93%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (13.18%) SQL
2 56 (7.77%) Python
3 10 (1.39%) Scala
4 6 (0.83%) Bicep
5 4 (0.55%) R
6 2 (0.28%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 47 (6.52%) Degree
3 32 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.97%) SnowPro
9 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.69%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.42%) CIPD
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.14%) CCA
12 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (18.86%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.33%) GDPR
3 7 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.42%) QA
5 2 (0.28%) IFRS
5 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.69%) Docker
3 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.66%) Terraform
2 6 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 144 (19.97%) Databricks
2 72 (9.99%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.58%) SAP
4 25 (3.47%) Google
4 25 (3.47%) Oracle
5 22 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.39%) Palantir
7 6 (0.83%) Foundry
8 5 (0.69%) Informatica
9 3 (0.42%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.42%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.42%) Sage
9 3 (0.42%) Workday
10 2 (0.28%) Meraki
10 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco
11 1 (0.14%) HP
11 1 (0.14%) Juniper
11 1 (0.14%) VMware