Data Architect Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £87,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 437 386
Rank change year-on-year +199 -51 +50
Permanent Data Architect jobs 964 239 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.54% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 644 124 239
10th Percentile £63,335 £65,477 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £80,938 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £88,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +4.41% -4.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.93% +7.67% -5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 111,484 44,535 65,120
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.18% 90.18% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,957 26,457 37,048
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,515 £52,500 £56,988
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% -7.88% -5.02%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%

Data Architect Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Data Architect job postings 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 Data Architect jobs over the 6 months to 26 October 2026.

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 Data Architect jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 26 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +194 891 £85,000 -4.23% 97
UK excluding London +160 486 £80,000 -0.93% 63
London +100 425 £97,500 -2.50% 50
Work from Home +125 306 £84,500 -13.33% 61
North of England +86 199 £75,000 -13.04% 12
Midlands +7 85 £79,999 +12.37% 12
North West +38 84 £75,000 - 4
South East -4 80 £85,000 -1.45% 19
South West -11 76 £90,000 +30.43% 9
Yorkshire +32 74 £75,000 -8.54% 4
West Midlands +12 67 £80,000 +12.37% 12
North East -36 41 £70,000 -30.00% 4
Scotland +28 28 £105,000 +5.00% 6
East Midlands -25 18 £55,000 -15.38%
East of England -32 17 £71,000 +9.23% 4
Wales - 6 £130,446 - 1
Northern Ireland -76 2 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2026, Data Architect job ads cited 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 Data Architect job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Architecture46.0%443
2Data Modelling33.7%325
3Analytics26.7%257
4Azure24.0%231
5Data Strategy23.3%225
6Data Governance22.8%220
7AI21.4%206
8Data Quality16.2%156
9Metadata16.0%154
10Roadmaps15.2%147
11Databricks14.8%143
12AWS14.5%140
13Business Intelligence13.9%134
14SQL13.4%129
15Lakehouse13.3%128
16Security Cleared11.6%112
17Data Engineering10.6%102
18Microsoft10.4%100
19Decision-Making10.1%97
20Metadata Management9.0%87
21ETL8.8%85
21GCP8.8%85
23Agile8.6%83
23Data Lake8.6%83
23Machine Learning8.6%83
26Data Warehouse8.3%80
27Technical Leadership8.2%79
28Data Transformation7.9%76
29Python7.8%75
30CI/CD7.7%74

Data Architect Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Data Architect23.5%227
2Lead Data Architect7.2%69
3Artificial Intelligence Architect5.9%57
4Enterprise Data Architect3.5%34
5Solutions Architect3.3%32
6Azure Data Architect2.7%26
7AWS Data Architect2.3%22
7Data Engineer2.3%22
9Databricks Architect2.2%21
10Principal Data Architect2.1%20
10Snowflake Architect2.1%20
12Information Architect1.7%16
13Data Analytics Architect1.5%14
14Data Manager1.3%13
14Domain Architect1.3%13
16GCP Data Architect1.2%12
17Platform Architect1.0%10
18Lead Enterprise Architect0.7%7
18Senior Data Engineer0.7%7
18Senior Information Architect0.7%7
118 Data Architect jobs Nationwide