Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 447 575
Rank change year-on-year +65 +128 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 690 680 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.67% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.73% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 427 451 457
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,695 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +15.11% -4.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 18 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 9 May 2024. 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 +105 626 £82,500 -10.81% 96
UK excluding London +139 419 £72,500 -9.38% 51
London +13 228 £87,500 -12.50% 50
Work from Home +17 212 £82,500 -8.33% 62
North of England +150 141 £75,000 -21.05% 16
South East +52 116 £85,000 +3.03% 12
North West +68 69 £70,000 -26.32% 10
Midlands +30 63 £59,300 -18.21% 7
West Midlands +53 51 £59,300 -28.12% 3
Yorkshire +113 50 £80,000 -11.11% 5
South West -7 43 £75,000 +5.63% 5
Scotland -63 30 £72,500 +9.85% 4
North East +17 22 £77,500 - 1
East of England +12 19 £50,000 -37.50% 1
East Midlands -17 12 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Wales -3 5 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Data Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 419 (60.72%) Data Architecture
2 404 (58.55%) Data Modelling
3 333 (48.26%) Azure
4 268 (38.84%) Data Warehouse
5 237 (34.35%) AWS
6 215 (31.16%) ETL
7 213 (30.87%) Data Governance
8 194 (28.12%) Data Quality
9 192 (27.83%) Analytics
10 188 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
11 181 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
12 175 (25.36%) Data Integration
13 169 (24.49%) GCP
14 153 (22.17%) Data Engineering
14 153 (22.17%) Metadata
15 149 (21.59%) Finance
16 147 (21.30%) GDPR
16 147 (21.30%) Data Strategy
17 145 (21.01%) Data Security
18 130 (18.84%) SQL
19 129 (18.70%) Mentoring
20 126 (18.26%) Innovative Thinking
21 122 (17.68%) Roadmaps
21 122 (17.68%) BigQuery
22 120 (17.39%) Google
23 117 (16.96%) Data Management
24 115 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
25 113 (16.38%) Self-Motivation
26 112 (16.23%) Looker
26 112 (16.23%) ERD

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.45%) Apache
3 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 333 (48.26%) Azure
2 237 (34.35%) AWS
3 169 (24.49%) GCP
4 56 (8.12%) Power Platform
5 50 (7.25%) Snowflake
6 33 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.78%) Serverless
7 24 (3.48%) Matillion
8 20 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 20 (2.90%) PaaS
9 19 (2.75%) SaaS
10 18 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (1.74%) IaaS
12 8 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (0.72%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.72%) Azure Storage
16 4 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.74%) Wireless
2 6 (0.87%) DNS
2 6 (0.87%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Extranet
3 2 (0.29%) LAN
3 2 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.29%) WAN
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (38.84%) Data Warehouse
2 153 (22.17%) Metadata
3 122 (17.68%) BigQuery
4 112 (16.23%) Looker
5 109 (15.80%) Data Lake
6 53 (7.68%) Power BI
7 40 (5.80%) Big Data
8 36 (5.22%) NoSQL
9 24 (3.48%) Data Vault
10 22 (3.19%) SQL Server
11 16 (2.32%) MongoDB
12 15 (2.17%) Tableau
13 12 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.45%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.16%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.01%) OLAP
16 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.01%) Git
2 5 (0.72%) ERwin
3 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 188 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
2 149 (21.59%) Finance
3 79 (11.45%) Social Skills
4 56 (8.12%) Banking
5 55 (7.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
7 36 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 32 (4.64%) Retail
9 28 (4.06%) Marketing
10 27 (3.91%) Retail Banking
11 21 (3.04%) Financial Institution
12 18 (2.61%) Law
13 12 (1.74%) Legal
14 7 (1.01%) Billing
15 6 (0.87%) Automotive
15 6 (0.87%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.58%) Games
17 4 (0.58%) Wearables
18 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.90%) Kafka
2 8 (1.16%) XML
3 7 (1.01%) Middleware
4 5 (0.72%) HTML
4 5 (0.72%) Itk
4 5 (0.72%) PySpark
4 5 (0.72%) Web Services
5 4 (0.58%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.58%) REST
6 3 (0.43%) .NET
6 3 (0.43%) J2EE
6 3 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.43%) SOAP
6 3 (0.43%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.29%) JWT
7 2 (0.29%) RESTful
7 2 (0.29%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.29%) Spring
7 2 (0.29%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.38%) Self-Motivation
2 53 (7.68%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.32%) Taxonomies
6 10 (1.45%) IoT
6 10 (1.45%) Reinsurance
7 9 (1.30%) Blog
7 9 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.01%) PMI
8 7 (1.01%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.87%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.58%) NHS
10 4 (0.58%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.58%) Replication
11 3 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.30%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
2 2 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Solaris
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (60.72%) Data Architecture
2 404 (58.55%) Data Modelling
3 215 (31.16%) ETL
4 213 (30.87%) Data Governance
5 192 (27.83%) Analytics
6 181 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (25.36%) Data Integration
8 153 (22.17%) Data Engineering
9 147 (21.30%) Data Strategy
10 145 (21.01%) Data Security
11 129 (18.70%) Mentoring
12 126 (18.26%) Innovative Thinking
13 122 (17.68%) Roadmaps
14 117 (16.96%) Data Management
15 115 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
16 112 (16.23%) ERD
17 104 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
18 96 (13.91%) Agile
19 80 (11.59%) Metadata Management
20 77 (11.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 130 (18.84%) SQL
2 48 (6.96%) Python
3 26 (3.77%) T-SQL
4 23 (3.33%) Java
5 12 (1.74%) Scala
6 8 (1.16%) R
7 7 (1.01%) Kotlin
8 6 (0.87%) C++
9 5 (0.72%) C
9 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.14%) Haskell
11 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.96%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.36%) Degree
4 18 (2.61%) AWS Certification
4 18 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.72%) MCAD
11 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (28.12%) Data Quality
2 147 (21.30%) GDPR
3 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.43%) QA
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
2 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 10 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 120 (17.39%) Google
2 105 (15.22%) Databricks
3 71 (10.29%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.46%) Oracle
5 14 (2.03%) Informatica
6 13 (1.88%) SAP
7 5 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.43%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.43%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.43%) Sparx
8 3 (0.43%) Teradata
9 2 (0.29%) Cisco
9 2 (0.29%) IBM
9 2 (0.29%) NEC
9 2 (0.29%) Okta
9 2 (0.29%) Splunk
10 1 (0.14%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.14%) Confluent
10 1 (0.14%) ESRI
10 1 (0.14%) SnapLogic