Data Architecture Job Trends in Watford

Data Architecture
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 0.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £80,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 134 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 77.54% 94.37% 79.58%
Number of salaries quoted 180 77 168
10th Percentile £26,000 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,313 £39,821 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -8.63% -19.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,000 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -8.70%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Watford

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) IoT
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Debt
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform