Data Architecture Job Trends in Wales

Data Architecture
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 73 85
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 2 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.19% 0.77% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.93% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £50,881 £48,750
25th Percentile £92,500 £65,091 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £74,317
90th Percentile - £97,500 £74,923
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 826 753 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.62% 82.75% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 568 375 589
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -1.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales -7 1 £95,000 +18.75% 3
Dyfed - 1 - -
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft