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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 458 404
Rank change year-on-year +204 -54 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 786 237 536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.54% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 563 123 356
10th Percentile £60,509 £67,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,813
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £110,000
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 95,058 44,279 85,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 90.13% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,017 26,287 59,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 25 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 25 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 +200 719 £85,000 -10.53% 225
UK excluding London +147 391 £82,500 -2.94% 120
London +111 335 £90,000 -14.29% 127
Work from Home +111 204 £85,000 -10.18% 106
North of England +81 141 £80,000 -15.47% 35
South West +4 75 £85,000 - 10
Midlands +13 72 £80,000 -1.84% 22
North West +53 70 £80,000 -5.88% 14
West Midlands +25 64 £81,250 -4.41% 19
South East -13 60 £85,000 -5.56% 32
Yorkshire -6 46 £80,000 -15.47% 10
North East -30 25 £70,000 -30.00% 11
Scotland +28 24 £95,000 +2.70% 7
East of England +5 18 £71,000 +18.89% 5
East Midlands -29 8 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Wales - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 372 (47.33%) Data Architecture
2 271 (34.48%) Data Modelling
3 234 (29.77%) Data Governance
4 230 (29.26%) Data Strategy
5 227 (28.88%) Analytics
6 217 (27.61%) Azure
7 178 (22.65%) AI
8 159 (20.23%) Databricks
9 147 (18.70%) Data Quality
10 143 (18.19%) AWS
11 129 (16.41%) Roadmaps
12 117 (14.89%) SQL
13 110 (13.99%) Metadata
14 103 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
15 93 (11.83%) Data Engineering
16 92 (11.70%) Machine Learning
17 90 (11.45%) Security Cleared
18 88 (11.20%) GCP
19 86 (10.94%) Snowflake
20 81 (10.31%) Decision-Making
20 81 (10.31%) Microsoft
21 80 (10.18%) Data Lake
22 73 (9.29%) Agile
22 73 (9.29%) Logical Data Model
22 73 (9.29%) Migration
22 73 (9.29%) Python
23 69 (8.78%) Physical Data Model
24 68 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
25 67 (8.52%) Data Management
26 65 (8.27%) ETL

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 12 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.40%) Apache
3 6 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 217 (27.61%) Azure
2 143 (18.19%) AWS
3 88 (11.20%) GCP
4 86 (10.94%) Snowflake
5 64 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 60 (7.63%) Power Platform
7 41 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.42%) dbt
11 16 (2.04%) Azure AI
12 12 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.76%) GitHub
14 6 (0.76%) SaaS
15 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.64%) Serverless
16 4 (0.51%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
1 2 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (13.99%) Metadata
2 80 (10.18%) Data Lake
3 68 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (7.00%) Power BI
5 40 (5.09%) Data Vault
6 26 (3.31%) Delta Lake
7 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
8 21 (2.67%) Tableau
9 17 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (1.53%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.53%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
15 9 (1.15%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.89%) Big Data
17 6 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 6 (0.76%) MLflow
2 5 (0.64%) Git
2 5 (0.64%) Toad
3 3 (0.38%) ERwin
3 3 (0.38%) JIRA
4 2 (0.25%) GitLab
4 2 (0.25%) rollup.js
5 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
General
1 143 (18.19%) Finance
2 104 (13.23%) Social Skills
3 88 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 53 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (3.05%) Law
8 20 (2.54%) Retail
9 19 (2.42%) Legal
10 13 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.76%) Local Government
12 6 (0.76%) Marketing
13 5 (0.64%) Advertising
13 5 (0.64%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.51%) Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.25%) Police
16 2 (0.25%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.04%) PySpark
2 10 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.76%) Middleware
4 3 (0.38%) Kafka
4 3 (0.38%) REST
4 3 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.25%) .NET
5 2 (0.25%) JSON
5 2 (0.25%) pgvector
5 2 (0.25%) Snowpark
5 2 (0.25%) XML
6 1 (0.13%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.13%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (2.93%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.15%) Data Fabric
6 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
7 7 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.89%) e-Learning
8 6 (0.76%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.64%) IoT
9 5 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (0.64%) NHS
9 5 (0.64%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.51%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.38%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.38%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (47.33%) Data Architecture
2 271 (34.48%) Data Modelling
3 234 (29.77%) Data Governance
4 230 (29.26%) Data Strategy
5 227 (28.88%) Analytics
6 178 (22.65%) AI
7 129 (16.41%) Roadmaps
8 103 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (11.83%) Data Engineering
10 92 (11.70%) Machine Learning
11 81 (10.31%) Decision-Making
12 73 (9.29%) Agile
12 73 (9.29%) Logical Data Model
12 73 (9.29%) Migration
13 69 (8.78%) Physical Data Model
14 67 (8.52%) Data Management
15 65 (8.27%) ETL
16 57 (7.25%) Data Integration
17 56 (7.12%) Architectural Patterns
18 55 (7.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 117 (14.89%) SQL
2 73 (9.29%) Python
3 18 (2.29%) Scala
4 12 (1.53%) Bicep
5 4 (0.51%) R
6 2 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.87%) Degree
3 42 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.56%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.53%) SnowPro
7 11 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.15%) CIPD
10 5 (0.64%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) CCA
12 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.82%) GDPR
3 17 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.38%) QA
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (2.42%) Terraform
2 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 159 (20.23%) Databricks
2 81 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.94%) SAP
4 29 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.80%) Oracle
6 21 (2.67%) Google
7 10 (1.27%) Palantir
8 6 (0.76%) Foundry
8 6 (0.76%) Informatica
8 6 (0.76%) Workday
9 4 (0.51%) Sage
10 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.38%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.25%) Meraki
11 2 (0.25%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.13%) Alteryx