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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 183 107
Rank change year-on-year +32 -76 +111
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 42 74 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.02% 0.95% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.17% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 35 50 68
10th Percentile £57,600 £49,875 -
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% -36.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,598 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £83,775
England median annual salary £81,500 £80,000 £80,500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -0.62% +7.33%

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 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 28 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 28 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 15 £65,000 +9.61% 20
Solihull - 8 £85,000 - 2
Warwickshire +6 6 £77,500 +23.02% 9
Wolverhampton - 5 £82,500 - 14
Staffordshire +20 3 £97,500 +105.26% 17
Shropshire - 2 £76,250 - 29
Worcestershire - 1 £55,000 - 14
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 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.38%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (57.14%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) AWS
3 15 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (19.05%) GCP
6 7 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (7.14%) Boomi
8 2 (4.76%) Lucidchart
9 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (21.43%) Power BI
3 8 (19.05%) Data Lake
3 8 (19.05%) NoSQL
4 6 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (14.29%) Metadata
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
6 4 (9.52%) Tableau
7 3 (7.14%) Big Data
7 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.76%) Looker
8 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.38%) DataStage
9 1 (2.38%) DB2
9 1 (2.38%) Pentaho
9 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) ERwin
2 6 (14.29%) ER Studio
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) LSMW
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.90%) Advertising
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Architect
2 18 (42.86%) Data Architect
3 8 (19.05%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Lead Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Lead Data Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Data Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Data Modeller
6 3 (7.14%) Platform Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Head of Data Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
8 1 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) EDI
1 3 (7.14%) MACH
2 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 5 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Data Modelling
2 21 (50.00%) Analytics
3 17 (40.48%) ETL
4 16 (38.10%) Data Governance
5 15 (35.71%) Logical Data Model
6 12 (28.57%) Data Integration
6 12 (28.57%) Migration
7 11 (26.19%) Data Migration
7 11 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (26.19%) Roadmaps
8 10 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (23.81%) Physical Data Model
8 10 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (21.43%) TOGAF
10 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
10 8 (19.05%) Data Engineering
10 8 (19.05%) Data Strategy
10 8 (19.05%) Data Transformation
10 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.14%) CITP
4 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Databricks
2 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.29%) Google
3 6 (14.29%) Informatica
4 4 (9.52%) SAP
5 3 (7.14%) Sparx
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) IBM