Data Architecture Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 174 106
Rank change year-on-year +19 -68 +105
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 45 74 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.03% 0.99% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.20% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 37 50 67
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,350 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,325 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,300 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.48% +24.84% -28.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,983 6,154 6,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.27% 82.50% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 4,565 3,148
10th Percentile £28,964 £26,250 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Birmingham -3 16 £67,500 +13.83% 5
Solihull +14 8 £85,000 +39.96% 3
Warwickshire -7 7 £77,500 +6.16% 2
Wolverhampton - 5 £82,500 - 1
Staffordshire +13 3 £97,500 +105.26% 2
Shropshire - 2 £76,250 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £55,000 -
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) SAP EWM
1 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) AWS
3 16 (35.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (15.56%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.67%) Boomi
7 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) Lucidchart
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.44%) SaaS
8 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.22%) IaaS
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) ADSL2
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 9 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (20.00%) Power BI
4 7 (15.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (11.11%) BigQuery
6 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
6 4 (8.89%) Metadata
6 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
6 4 (8.89%) Tableau
7 3 (6.67%) Big Data
7 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.44%) Looker
8 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.22%) DB2
9 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) ER Studio
2 5 (11.11%) ERwin
3 2 (4.44%) LSMW
3 2 (4.44%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 15 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.11%) Advertising
6 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.44%) Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Local Government
8 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Architect
2 20 (44.44%) Data Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Lead Data Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Data Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Data Modeller
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Platform Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Data Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) MACH
2 1 (2.22%) EDI
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Data Structures
2 5 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Analytics
1 24 (53.33%) Data Modelling
2 17 (37.78%) Data Governance
2 17 (37.78%) ETL
3 14 (31.11%) Logical Data Model
3 14 (31.11%) Roadmaps
4 13 (28.89%) Data Integration
4 13 (28.89%) Migration
5 11 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (24.44%) Data Migration
5 11 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (24.44%) Data Strategy
5 11 (24.44%) Physical Data Model
6 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.78%) Data Engineering
7 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) Data Analysis
8 7 (15.56%) Data Transformation
8 7 (15.56%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) SQL
2 5 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) CITP
5 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Databricks
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Google
3 6 (13.33%) Informatica
4 5 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) Sparx