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 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 384 405
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 309 435 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.63% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.67% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 168 248 260
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £61,125
25th Percentile £79,375 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.59% -8.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £101,563
90th Percentile £115,750 £120,000 £116,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +13.33% -5.82% +3.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 47,918 64,978 49,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.53% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30,233 36,784 38,479
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,536 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,242 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.30% -2.40% -

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 23 November 2025.

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 IT jobs citing Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 November 2025. 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 +34 293 £85,000 - 84
London +36 153 £96,250 +5.48% 40
UK excluding London +20 145 £85,000 +13.33% 69
Work from Home +20 105 £85,000 - 47
South East +36 60 £90,000 - 31
Midlands +64 22 £71,193 +1.70% 6
North of England -38 19 £86,250 +15.00% 4
East of England +46 18 £90,000 - 7
South West +28 17 £69,000 +25.45% 13
West Midlands +62 14 £71,193 +0.22% 6
Yorkshire +14 11 £79,000 +4.49% 2
East Midlands +28 8 £65,000 -7.14%
Scotland +9 7 £100,000 - 7
North East +14 5 £100,000 +42.86% 1
North West -24 3 - - 1
Wales +13 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, 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.

1 226 (73.14%) Data Architecture
2 217 (70.23%) Data Modelling
3 184 (59.55%) Azure
4 142 (45.95%) Data Strategy
5 139 (44.98%) Data Governance
6 122 (39.48%) Analytics
7 121 (39.16%) Data Warehouse
8 105 (33.98%) Data Integration
9 99 (32.04%) Data Management
10 97 (31.39%) Microsoft
11 92 (29.77%) AWS
12 79 (25.57%) Roadmaps
13 77 (24.92%) Data Engineering
13 77 (24.92%) Metadata
14 73 (23.62%) Data Lake
14 73 (23.62%) GCP
15 68 (22.01%) AI
15 68 (22.01%) ETL
16 62 (20.06%) Databricks
17 55 (17.80%) SQL
18 52 (16.83%) Machine Learning
18 52 (16.83%) Metadata Management
19 48 (15.53%) Data Quality
19 48 (15.53%) Snowflake
20 46 (14.89%) Agile
21 45 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
21 45 (14.56%) Mentoring
21 45 (14.56%) Migration
22 43 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
22 43 (13.92%) GDPR

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 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.62%) Apache
3 3 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.32%) Luigi
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Maximo
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 184 (59.55%) Azure
2 92 (29.77%) AWS
3 73 (23.62%) GCP
4 48 (15.53%) Snowflake
5 32 (10.36%) Power Platform
6 25 (8.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (7.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (5.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (5.18%) SaaS
10 8 (2.59%) GitHub
10 8 (2.59%) Serverless
11 7 (2.27%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.27%) dbt
12 6 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.94%) PaaS
13 5 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.62%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (1.29%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (39.16%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (24.92%) Metadata
3 73 (23.62%) Data Lake
4 31 (10.03%) Power BI
5 19 (6.15%) Data Vault
6 18 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.53%) Big Data
8 11 (3.56%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.56%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.24%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.59%) Data Mining
11 7 (2.27%) Delta Lake
11 7 (2.27%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.94%) Tableau
13 5 (1.62%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (1.62%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (5.50%) ERwin
2 6 (1.94%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.29%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 91 (29.45%) Finance
2 71 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 44 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 37 (11.97%) Law
5 35 (11.33%) Banking
6 29 (9.39%) Retail Banking
7 25 (8.09%) Financial Institution
8 21 (6.80%) Retail
9 20 (6.47%) Marketing
10 16 (5.18%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.94%) Legal
12 4 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.65%) Back Office
13 2 (0.65%) Front Office
13 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.65%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.32%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.88%) Kafka
2 7 (2.27%) PySpark
3 6 (1.94%) EDI
4 5 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.97%) REST
6 2 (0.65%) JDBC
6 2 (0.65%) LDAP
6 2 (0.65%) Middleware
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.65%) ODBC
6 2 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.85%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.85%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.27%) Reference Data
4 7 (2.27%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.97%) e-Learning
6 3 (0.97%) IoT
6 3 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.65%) Equities
7 2 (0.65%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.65%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.65%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.94%) Unix
2 2 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (73.14%) Data Architecture
2 217 (70.23%) Data Modelling
3 142 (45.95%) Data Strategy
4 139 (44.98%) Data Governance
5 122 (39.48%) Analytics
6 105 (33.98%) Data Integration
7 99 (32.04%) Data Management
8 79 (25.57%) Roadmaps
9 77 (24.92%) Data Engineering
10 68 (22.01%) AI
10 68 (22.01%) ETL
11 52 (16.83%) Machine Learning
11 52 (16.83%) Metadata Management
12 46 (14.89%) Agile
13 45 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (14.56%) Mentoring
13 45 (14.56%) Migration
14 43 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (13.27%) Data Science
16 37 (11.97%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.80%) SQL
2 33 (10.68%) Python
3 5 (1.62%) Java
4 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.65%) Scala
6 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 35 (11.33%) Degree
2 33 (10.68%) Azure Certification
3 27 (8.74%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.18%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.56%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.65%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 43 (13.92%) GDPR
3 38 (12.30%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.97%) QA
5 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.32%) IFRS
5 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.59%) Terraform
2 7 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 97 (31.39%) Microsoft
2 62 (20.06%) Databricks
3 16 (5.18%) Google
4 14 (4.53%) Oracle
5 6 (1.94%) Informatica
6 5 (1.62%) IBM
6 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.29%) Dell
7 4 (1.29%) Sparx
8 3 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.32%) ESRI
9 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.32%) Palantir
9 1 (0.32%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) Talend
9 1 (0.32%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.32%) Workday