Data Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Data Architect salary in the West Midlands is £59,300 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 267 269
Rank change year-on-year +69 +2 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 52 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.72% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.16% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 33 10 13
10th Percentile - £74,150 -
25th Percentile £52,325 £76,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.12% +10.00% +5.63%
75th Percentile £65,603 £87,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £90,400 -
England median annual salary £81,250 £91,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year -10.96% +7.35% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,800 6,065 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.05% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,375 4,753
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
Birmingham +43 49 £55,000 -33.33% 3
Warwickshire - 2 £85,000 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 43 (82.69%) Data Modelling
1 43 (82.69%) Data Architecture
2 30 (57.69%) Metadata
2 30 (57.69%) Data Design
3 26 (50.00%) Data Management
4 25 (48.08%) Analytics
5 23 (44.23%) Information Management
5 23 (44.23%) Management Information System
6 18 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 16 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
7 16 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (26.92%) Azure
9 11 (21.15%) AWS
9 11 (21.15%) GCP
10 10 (19.23%) Data Integration
10 10 (19.23%) Data Governance
10 10 (19.23%) ETL
11 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
11 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (17.31%) BigQuery
11 9 (17.31%) Information Assurance
11 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (15.38%) GDPR
12 8 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
12 8 (15.38%) Looker
12 8 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (15.38%) ERD
12 8 (15.38%) Data Security
12 8 (15.38%) Data Quality

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) AWS
2 11 (21.15%) GCP
3 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.92%) Alation
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.92%) Collibra
4 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (57.69%) Metadata
2 16 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (17.31%) BigQuery
4 8 (15.38%) Looker
5 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.92%) Ataccama
6 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.92%) Power BI
6 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) EDI
1 1 (1.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (44.23%) Management Information System
2 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (82.69%) Data Architecture
1 43 (82.69%) Data Modelling
2 30 (57.69%) Data Design
3 26 (50.00%) Data Management
4 25 (48.08%) Analytics
5 23 (44.23%) Information Management
6 18 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 16 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (19.23%) Data Governance
8 10 (19.23%) Data Integration
8 10 (19.23%) ETL
9 9 (17.31%) Information Assurance
9 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.38%) Data Security
10 8 (15.38%) ERD
10 8 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
10 8 (15.38%) Logistics
10 8 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (7.69%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.85%) SQL
2 1 (1.92%) Python
2 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 8 (15.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (3.85%) Informatica
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Databricks
3 1 (1.92%) IBM
3 1 (1.92%) NEC
3 1 (1.92%) SAP