Data Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Data Architect salary in the West Midlands is £81,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 200 257
Rank change year-on-year +25 +57 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 22 53 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.53% 0.68% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.72% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17 35 7
10th Percentile £64,350 - £74,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,325 £76,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £59,300 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.44% -30.24% +11.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £61,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £70,000 £88,000
England median annual salary £96,250 £81,250 £92,500
% change year-on-year +18.46% -12.16% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,728 7,381 5,467
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.45% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,640 5,486 3,231
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,365 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Solihull - 8 £85,000 - 2
Birmingham +2 7 £75,000 +26.48% 3
Warwickshire +10 4 £77,500 -8.82% 3
Wolverhampton - 2 £82,000 - 1
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 18 (81.82%) Data Architecture
2 15 (68.18%) Azure
3 14 (63.64%) Data Modelling
4 13 (59.09%) Analytics
5 12 (54.55%) SQL
6 11 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (40.91%) Migration
7 9 (40.91%) Data Migration
8 8 (36.36%) ETL
8 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (36.36%) Logical Data Model
8 8 (36.36%) Physical Data Model
9 7 (31.82%) Presales
9 7 (31.82%) Finance
9 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
10 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
10 6 (27.27%) AWS
10 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (27.27%) Google
10 6 (27.27%) SAP
10 6 (27.27%) GCP
10 6 (27.27%) Databricks
10 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
10 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
11 5 (22.73%) Snowflake
11 5 (22.73%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (22.73%) Intelligent Automation
11 5 (22.73%) Collaborative Working

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) Snowflake
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (13.64%) Boomi
5 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (22.73%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (22.73%) BigQuery
1 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
1 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) ER Studio
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Structures
1 5 (22.73%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Data Architecture
2 14 (63.64%) Data Modelling
3 13 (59.09%) Analytics
4 9 (40.91%) Data Migration
4 9 (40.91%) Migration
5 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (36.36%) ETL
5 8 (36.36%) Logical Data Model
5 8 (36.36%) Physical Data Model
6 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
6 7 (31.82%) Presales
7 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (22.73%) Business Development
8 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
8 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
8 5 (22.73%) Data Strategy
8 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Databricks
1 6 (27.27%) Google
1 6 (27.27%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Informatica