Senior Data Architect Job Trends

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 678 649
Rank change year-on-year +63 -29 +311
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 34 33 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.062% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.066% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25 29 42
10th Percentile £64,439 - £55,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £56,809 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year - +47.04% -23.49%
75th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £180,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £61,206 £61,206
% change year-on-year +30.71% - -23.49%

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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Data Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Top 10 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 15 January 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 +60 32 £90,000 +1.41% 17
UK excluding London +43 23 £80,000 +30.71% 16
Work from Home +67 18 £80,000 +22.60% 15
North of England +11 10 £80,000 +30.71% 9
London +59 9 £110,000 -10.20% 4
East of England - 7 £90,000 -
South East +32 6 - - 4
Yorkshire -8 5 £75,466 +23.30% 3
North West +21 3 £80,000 +30.71% 3
North East +8 2 £75,466 +7.81% 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 22 (64.71%) Azure
2 21 (61.76%) Data Strategy
3 20 (58.82%) Data Modelling
4 15 (44.12%) AWS
4 15 (44.12%) Data Governance
4 15 (44.12%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (38.24%) Data Architecture
5 13 (38.24%) GCP
6 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
7 10 (29.41%) Architectural Design
8 9 (26.47%) Data Design
8 9 (26.47%) SQL
8 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (23.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (23.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 8 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (23.53%) Data Lake
9 8 (23.53%) Data Mining
9 8 (23.53%) Data Vault
9 8 (23.53%) Databricks
9 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
9 8 (23.53%) Kimball Methodology
9 8 (23.53%) Roadmaps
9 8 (23.53%) SaaS
10 7 (20.59%) AI
10 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (20.59%) Data Integration
10 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
10 7 (20.59%) Data Science

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) AWS
3 13 (38.24%) GCP
4 8 (23.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (23.53%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (23.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 8 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (23.53%) Data Lake
2 8 (23.53%) Data Mining
2 8 (23.53%) Data Vault
3 7 (20.59%) Metadata
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Big Data
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Redis
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (23.53%) Retail
2 7 (20.59%) Law
3 6 (17.65%) Marketing
4 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Data Strategy
2 20 (58.82%) Data Modelling
3 15 (44.12%) Data Governance
4 13 (38.24%) Data Architecture
5 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
6 10 (29.41%) Architectural Design
7 9 (26.47%) Data Design
7 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
8 8 (23.53%) Kimball Methodology
8 8 (23.53%) Roadmaps
9 7 (20.59%) AI
9 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (20.59%) Data Integration
9 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (20.59%) Data Science
9 7 (20.59%) ETL
9 7 (20.59%) Generative AI
9 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
10 6 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Databricks
2 5 (14.71%) Google
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle