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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 476 399
Rank change year-on-year +233 -77 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 780 207 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.49% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 580 115 436
10th Percentile £60,736 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £109,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -6.25%

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 90,787 41,821 99,953
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.76% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 62,361 24,209 72,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.87%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +233 707 £85,000 -12.82% 167
UK excluding London +185 416 £82,500 -2.94% 95
London +102 301 £90,000 -14.29% 102
Work from Home +138 218 £84,500 -10.71% 89
North of England +88 156 £80,000 -15.47% 21
Midlands +16 75 £80,000 -1.84% 17
North West +59 70 £80,000 -5.88% 16
South West +6 68 £84,000 -1.18% 16
South East +25 67 £85,000 -5.56% 25
West Midlands +19 67 £80,000 -3.03% 11
Yorkshire +7 53 £80,000 -15.47% 5
North East -24 33 £70,000 -30.00%
Scotland +30 28 £95,000 +2.70% 10
East of England +6 21 £71,000 +30.42%
East Midlands -19 8 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Wales - 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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.

1 348 (44.62%) Data Architecture
2 250 (32.05%) Data Modelling
3 240 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 226 (28.97%) Data Strategy
5 223 (28.59%) Azure
6 207 (26.54%) Analytics
7 156 (20.00%) Databricks
8 143 (18.33%) AI
8 143 (18.33%) AWS
9 139 (17.82%) Data Quality
10 111 (14.23%) Roadmaps
11 107 (13.72%) Metadata
12 104 (13.33%) SQL
13 93 (11.92%) GCP
14 88 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
15 84 (10.77%) Data Engineering
16 81 (10.38%) Microsoft
17 79 (10.13%) Machine Learning
18 76 (9.74%) Migration
18 76 (9.74%) Security Cleared
19 75 (9.62%) Decision-Making
20 74 (9.49%) Agile
20 74 (9.49%) Data Management
20 74 (9.49%) Snowflake
21 70 (8.97%) Data Lake
22 67 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
23 66 (8.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 65 (8.33%) Logical Data Model
25 64 (8.21%) ETL
26 61 (7.82%) Physical Data Model

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 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.41%) Apache
3 5 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 223 (28.59%) Azure
2 143 (18.33%) AWS
3 93 (11.92%) GCP
4 74 (9.49%) Snowflake
5 66 (8.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 52 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (2.95%) Amazon S3
9 21 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.05%) dbt
11 15 (1.92%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.77%) SaaS
14 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.64%) Collibra
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub
15 4 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) MQTT
1 2 (0.26%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (13.72%) Metadata
2 70 (8.97%) Data Lake
3 67 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.03%) Power BI
5 31 (3.97%) Data Vault
6 25 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.31%) Delta Lake
8 17 (2.18%) Tableau
9 15 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.79%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.28%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.03%) Big Data
15 8 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
15 8 (1.03%) Star Schema
16 6 (0.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Git
1 5 (0.64%) Toad
2 4 (0.51%) MLflow
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.13%) JIRA
General
1 138 (17.69%) Finance
2 104 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 97 (12.44%) Social Skills
4 48 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (2.69%) Retail
8 18 (2.31%) Law
9 17 (2.18%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.79%) Legal
11 9 (1.15%) Banking
11 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.77%) Local Government
12 6 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.64%) Advertising
13 5 (0.64%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Marketing
15 3 (0.38%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.26%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.26%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.41%) PySpark
2 10 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.77%) Middleware
4 4 (0.51%) Kafka
5 3 (0.38%) REST
5 3 (0.38%) SOAP
6 2 (0.26%) .NET
6 2 (0.26%) pgvector
6 2 (0.26%) 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 44 (5.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.18%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 7 (0.90%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.64%) NHS
9 5 (0.64%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.51%) IoT
10 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.51%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.38%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.38%) Replication
12 2 (0.26%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (44.62%) Data Architecture
2 250 (32.05%) Data Modelling
3 240 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 226 (28.97%) Data Strategy
5 207 (26.54%) Analytics
6 143 (18.33%) AI
7 111 (14.23%) Roadmaps
8 88 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
9 84 (10.77%) Data Engineering
10 79 (10.13%) Machine Learning
11 76 (9.74%) Migration
12 75 (9.62%) Decision-Making
13 74 (9.49%) Agile
13 74 (9.49%) Data Management
14 65 (8.33%) Logical Data Model
15 64 (8.21%) ETL
16 61 (7.82%) Physical Data Model
17 59 (7.56%) Metadata Management
18 57 (7.31%) Data Integration
19 56 (7.18%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 104 (13.33%) SQL
2 60 (7.69%) Python
3 12 (1.54%) Scala
4 8 (1.03%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.13%) Java
6 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (9.74%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.28%) Degree
3 34 (4.36%) DV Cleared
4 33 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 28 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.15%) CIPD
10 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.03%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (17.82%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.21%) GDPR
3 11 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.51%) QA
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS
5 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) COBIT
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (1.79%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (20.00%) Databricks
2 81 (10.38%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.36%) SAP
4 28 (3.59%) Google
5 25 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.95%) Oracle
7 10 (1.28%) Palantir
8 7 (0.90%) Informatica
9 6 (0.77%) Foundry
10 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 4 (0.51%) Workday
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.26%) Meraki
12 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.13%) Alteryx