Data Architecture Jobs

Data Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 272 168
Rank change year-on-year +16 -104 +148
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 603 1,041 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.06% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.23% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 321 619 940
10th Percentile £56,809 £52,325 £46,225
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £79,932 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -0.09% +10.34%
75th Percentile £102,750 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,200 £132,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,870 £75,000 £64,385
% change year-on-year -0.17% +16.49% +5.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +3 530 £82,500 +3.13% 401
UK excluding London +31 356 £74,870 -0.17% 213
London -3 215 £100,000 +11.11% 271
Work from Home +49 191 £75,000 -6.17% 224
South East +132 148 £82,500 -2.94% 108
North of England -42 68 £75,000 -6.17% 27
Midlands +44 64 £65,000 +13.74% 25
West Midlands +24 48 £75,000 +26.48% 16
Scotland +77 37 £74,935 +6.18% 15
Yorkshire +40 35 £75,000 -6.17% 10
North West -36 32 £75,000 - 14
South West +67 25 £60,000 +0.61% 23
East Midlands +39 16 £64,750 +43.89% 7
Northern Ireland +35 6 - - 9
Wales +31 5 £80,000 +45.45% 2
North East +17 5 £62,779 -21.46% 3
East of England +49 3 £100,000 -9.09% 7

Data Architecture
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 37 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 29 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.99%) Apache
4 6 (1.00%) Luigi
5 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) SAS
7 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.33%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 9 (1.49%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Raiser’s Edge
2 4 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 259 (42.95%) Azure
2 166 (27.53%) AWS
3 105 (17.41%) GCP
4 91 (15.09%) Power Platform
5 72 (11.94%) Snowflake
6 66 (10.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 46 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 16 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.32%) SaaS
13 12 (1.99%) dbt
14 11 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.66%) PaaS
15 10 (1.66%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.66%) Serverless
16 9 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.66%) 5G
1 4 (0.66%) DNS
2 2 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (26.37%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (22.55%) Data Lake
3 86 (14.26%) Metadata
4 83 (13.76%) Power BI
5 58 (9.62%) NoSQL
6 48 (7.96%) Tableau
7 30 (4.98%) SQL Server
8 25 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (3.98%) Big Data
10 23 (3.81%) Hadoop
11 22 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.65%) BigQuery
12 20 (3.32%) Relational Database
13 14 (2.32%) Data Vault
14 13 (2.16%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.82%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.49%) Apache Hudi
16 9 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (2.16%) Git
2 12 (1.99%) ERwin
3 9 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 9 (1.49%) JIRA
4 8 (1.33%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.33%) LSMW
6 2 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.17%) GitLab
7 1 (0.17%) kappa
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 217 (35.99%) Finance
2 167 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 109 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (16.25%) Law
5 52 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (8.13%) Banking
7 38 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (5.97%) Public Sector
9 24 (3.98%) Financial Institution
10 23 (3.81%) Retail Banking
11 20 (3.32%) Retail
12 13 (2.16%) Legal
13 11 (1.82%) Marketing
14 10 (1.66%) Advertising
15 9 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.66%) Back Office
18 3 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 263 (43.62%) Architect
2 176 (29.19%) Data Architect
3 167 (27.69%) Lead
4 100 (16.58%) Senior
5 78 (12.94%) Data Engineer
6 50 (8.29%) Solutions Architect
7 39 (6.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 38 (6.30%) Enterprise Architect
8 38 (6.30%) Lead Architect
9 26 (4.31%) Data Manager
10 24 (3.98%) Senior Architect
11 19 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (2.65%) Lead Data Engineer
12 16 (2.65%) Lead Enterprise Architect
13 15 (2.49%) Head of Architecture
14 14 (2.32%) Python Engineer
15 13 (2.16%) Azure Architect
15 13 (2.16%) Senior Data Architect
16 12 (1.99%) Azure Data Architect
16 12 (1.99%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.97%) Kafka
2 28 (4.64%) PySpark
3 15 (2.49%) Middleware
4 14 (2.32%) REST
5 11 (1.82%) SOAP
6 9 (1.49%) PyArrow
7 8 (1.33%) ADO
7 8 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.33%) MERN Stack
7 8 (1.33%) WebSockets
8 6 (1.00%) .NET
8 6 (1.00%) Visualforce
9 5 (0.83%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.83%) HTML
10 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (0.66%) CSS
10 4 (0.66%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.66%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (0.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.15%) Data Structures
3 23 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 22 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.82%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.33%) Private Cloud
9 5 (0.83%) Data Fabric
9 5 (0.83%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.83%) NHS
9 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.66%) Biopharmaceutical
10 4 (0.66%) IoT
10 4 (0.66%) Life Science
10 4 (0.66%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.66%) Self-Driving Car
10 4 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.49%) Unix
2 7 (1.16%) Windows
3 3 (0.50%) Linux
3 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (47.93%) Data Modelling
2 257 (42.62%) Analytics
3 232 (38.47%) Data Strategy
4 222 (36.82%) Roadmaps
5 206 (34.16%) Data Governance
6 202 (33.50%) Data Management
7 179 (29.68%) Business Intelligence
8 167 (27.69%) Agile
9 124 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
10 120 (19.90%) ETL
11 118 (19.57%) Data Engineering
12 110 (18.24%) Data Pipeline
13 91 (15.09%) Decision-Making
14 88 (14.59%) Mentoring
15 76 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
16 73 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (11.94%) DevOps
17 72 (11.94%) Metadata Management
18 70 (11.61%) Artificial Intelligence
19 69 (11.44%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 178 (29.52%) SQL
2 121 (20.07%) Python
3 22 (3.65%) Java
4 19 (3.15%) Scala
5 17 (2.82%) R
6 14 (2.32%) C#
7 9 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.49%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.33%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.50%) VB
12 2 (0.33%) Bicep
12 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.17%) Go
13 1 (0.17%) JCL
13 1 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 94 (15.59%) Degree
2 40 (6.63%) Azure Certification
3 28 (4.64%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.15%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.49%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CFA
11 1 (0.17%) IIBA
11 1 (0.17%) MBA
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (23.71%) Data Quality
2 55 (9.12%) Accessibility
3 43 (7.13%) GDPR
4 25 (4.15%) QA
5 17 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 17 (2.82%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (3.48%) Docker
2 13 (2.16%) HDFS
3 6 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.17%) Ansible
3 1 (0.17%) Matomo
3 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 132 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 94 (15.59%) Databricks
3 66 (10.95%) SAP
4 37 (6.14%) Google
5 28 (4.64%) Informatica
6 24 (3.98%) IBM
6 24 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.49%) Oracle
9 6 (1.00%) Avaloq
10 5 (0.83%) Teradata
11 4 (0.66%) StreamSets
12 3 (0.50%) Talend
13 2 (0.33%) Fiserv
13 2 (0.33%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.33%) iManage
13 2 (0.33%) Sparx
13 2 (0.33%) TSYS
14 1 (0.17%) Confluent
14 1 (0.17%) dotdigital