Senior Data Architect Jobs

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 802 934 1140
Rank change year-on-year +132 +206 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 109 65 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.063% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.069% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 50
10th Percentile £55,695 £61,777 £58,876
25th Percentile £57,394 £63,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.67% +20.97%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £116,250
90th Percentile - £110,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +55.00%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
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 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +126 91 £70,000 -17.65% 8
UK excluding London +34 58 £70,000 -12.50% 3
London +125 48 £85,000 -5.56% 5
Work from Home +67 25 £61,206 -23.49% 3
North of England +59 25 £100,000 +17.65% 1
North West - 19 £100,000 - 1
Scotland -48 18 - - 1
Midlands +26 10 £57,150 -32.76%
West Midlands +25 10 £57,150 -32.76%
South East +17 5 £60,000 -5.91% 1
Yorkshire +93 4 £65,603 -22.82%
North East - 2 £65,603 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 70 (64.22%) Data Modelling
2 66 (60.55%) Data Architecture
3 50 (45.87%) Metadata
4 49 (44.95%) Finance
5 45 (41.28%) Data Strategy
6 39 (35.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (34.86%) Roadmaps
8 36 (33.03%) Agile
9 33 (30.28%) Analytics
10 32 (29.36%) Metadata Management
11 29 (26.61%) AWS
12 25 (22.94%) Azure
12 25 (22.94%) Data Management
12 25 (22.94%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (21.10%) GCP
13 23 (21.10%) Logical Data Model
13 23 (21.10%) Physical Data Model
14 21 (19.27%) Management Information System
14 21 (19.27%) Information Management
14 21 (19.27%) Marketing
15 20 (18.35%) Data Quality
15 20 (18.35%) DevOps
16 19 (17.43%) SDLC
16 19 (17.43%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (17.43%) Strategic Roadmap
17 18 (16.51%) Migration
17 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
17 18 (16.51%) Banking
17 18 (16.51%) Data Governance
18 17 (15.60%) Cloud Native

Senior 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 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.61%) AWS
2 25 (22.94%) Azure
3 23 (21.10%) GCP
4 6 (5.50%) PaaS
4 6 (5.50%) Serverless
5 5 (4.59%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.67%) Stackdriver
7 1 (0.92%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (45.87%) Metadata
2 25 (22.94%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (11.93%) Data Lake
4 11 (10.09%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.50%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.50%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.59%) Big Data
9 4 (3.67%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.67%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.92%) NewSQL
11 1 (0.92%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.92%) ERwin
2 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 49 (44.95%) Finance
2 39 (35.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (19.27%) Marketing
4 18 (16.51%) Banking
5 17 (15.60%) Law
6 13 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (11.93%) Financial Institution
6 13 (11.93%) Retail Banking
7 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.59%) Social Skills
9 4 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) Kafka
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.92%) EDI
3 1 (0.92%) FHIR
3 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.27%) Management Information System
2 17 (15.60%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.42%) Reinsurance
4 6 (5.50%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.75%) PMI
6 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.75%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.92%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (64.22%) Data Modelling
2 66 (60.55%) Data Architecture
3 45 (41.28%) Data Strategy
4 38 (34.86%) Roadmaps
5 36 (33.03%) Agile
6 33 (30.28%) Analytics
7 32 (29.36%) Metadata Management
8 25 (22.94%) Data Management
9 23 (21.10%) Logical Data Model
9 23 (21.10%) Physical Data Model
10 21 (19.27%) Information Management
11 20 (18.35%) DevOps
12 19 (17.43%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (17.43%) SDLC
12 19 (17.43%) Strategic Roadmap
13 18 (16.51%) Data Governance
13 18 (16.51%) Migration
14 17 (15.60%) Architecture Governance
14 17 (15.60%) ETL
14 17 (15.60%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.76%) SQL
2 8 (7.34%) Python
3 3 (2.75%) Java
4 2 (1.83%) Scala
5 1 (0.92%) C++
5 1 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) AWS Certification
1 13 (11.93%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) Degree
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.92%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.09%) Databricks
3 9 (8.26%) Informatica
4 7 (6.42%) Oracle
5 3 (2.75%) Teradata
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