Principal Data Architect Jobs

Principal Data Architect
UK

The median Principal Data Architect salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 961 1173
Rank change year-on-year +93 +212 -267
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 30 19 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.019% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.021% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 1 18 12
10th Percentile - £95,075 £73,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £106,250 £73,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £117,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.30% +51.61% -18.42%
75th Percentile £76,250 £133,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £145,000 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £117,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -38.30% +51.61% -

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £81,000 £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%

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Architect in the UK

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal Data Architect in the UK

Principal Data Architect
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
UK excluding London +11 28 £72,500 -38.30% 1
Scotland - 19 - -
England +87 8 £72,500 -38.30% 2
North of England +44 4 £72,500 -38.30% 1
North West - 2 - -
London +106 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +81 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £72,500 - 1
South East - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Data Architecture
2 17 (56.67%) Marketing
2 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 17 (56.67%) Law
2 17 (56.67%) Cloud Native
2 17 (56.67%) Operational Stability
2 17 (56.67%) Architecture Governance
2 17 (56.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (56.67%) Business Strategy
2 17 (56.67%) Roadmaps
3 13 (43.33%) Data Vault
3 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (43.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 13 (43.33%) Analytics
3 13 (43.33%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (43.33%) Data Modelling
3 13 (43.33%) Azure
3 13 (43.33%) AWS
4 12 (40.00%) Business Development
4 12 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 12 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 12 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 12 (40.00%) Tableau
4 12 (40.00%) User Experience
4 12 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
4 12 (40.00%) Power BI
4 12 (40.00%) DevOps
4 12 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (40.00%) Data Science
4 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) Data Vault
1 13 (43.33%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (40.00%) Power BI
2 12 (40.00%) Tableau
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
1 17 (56.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 17 (56.67%) Law
1 17 (56.67%) Marketing
2 12 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Data Architecture
2 17 (56.67%) Architecture Governance
2 17 (56.67%) Business Strategy
2 17 (56.67%) Operational Stability
2 17 (56.67%) Roadmaps
3 13 (43.33%) Analytics
3 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (43.33%) Data Modelling
3 13 (43.33%) Kimball Methodology
4 12 (40.00%) Business Development
4 12 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
4 12 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 12 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 12 (40.00%) Data Science
4 12 (40.00%) DevOps
4 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
4 12 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 12 (40.00%) User Experience
4 12 (40.00%) Value Proposition
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality