Data Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 383 402
Rank change year-on-year +73 +19 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 87 217 294
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.64% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.67% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57 184 233
10th Percentile £56,085 £52,325 £63,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% +4.48%
75th Percentile £98,474 £103,125 £105,000
90th Percentile £116,500 £110,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £94,637 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +14.71% -8.33% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Data Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Architect.

Data Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Architect salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 50 (57.47%) Data Architecture
2 38 (43.68%) Data Modelling
3 36 (41.38%) Data Strategy
4 32 (36.78%) Azure
5 27 (31.03%) DevOps
6 26 (29.89%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (28.74%) SQL
7 25 (28.74%) Analytics
8 24 (27.59%) Data Governance
9 23 (26.44%) Databricks
9 23 (26.44%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (24.14%) ETL
11 20 (22.99%) Migration
11 20 (22.99%) Roadmaps
12 19 (21.84%) Social Skills
12 19 (21.84%) Agile
12 19 (21.84%) Data Management
13 18 (20.69%) AWS
14 17 (19.54%) Python
14 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
15 16 (18.39%) Data Quality
16 15 (17.24%) Power BI
16 15 (17.24%) Data Migration
16 15 (17.24%) Power Platform
17 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
17 14 (16.09%) Snowflake
17 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
17 14 (16.09%) Finance
17 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
18 13 (14.94%) Apache Spark

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (14.94%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.60%) Apache
4 2 (2.30%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.15%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.15%) Odoo
3 1 (1.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.78%) Azure
2 18 (20.69%) AWS
3 15 (17.24%) Power Platform
4 14 (16.09%) Snowflake
5 11 (12.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (11.49%) GCP
7 9 (10.34%) PaaS
8 7 (8.05%) SaaS
9 5 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.75%) dbt
9 5 (5.75%) IaaS
9 5 (5.75%) OCI
10 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.30%) Azure AI
11 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.30%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (17.24%) Power BI
3 12 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 11 (12.64%) Big Data
4 11 (12.64%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.49%) RDBMS
5 10 (11.49%) Relational Database
6 9 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
8 7 (8.05%) BigQuery
9 6 (6.90%) Apache Hive
9 6 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (6.90%) Hadoop
9 6 (6.90%) Metadata
10 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (5.75%) Oracle ODI
10 5 (5.75%) SAP BW
11 4 (4.60%) Tableau
12 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) ERwin
2 2 (2.30%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.09%) Finance
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Banking
4 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.75%) Law
5 4 (4.60%) Marketing
6 3 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Advertising
7 2 (2.30%) Automotive
7 2 (2.30%) Back Office
7 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.15%) .NET
2 1 (1.15%) HTML
2 1 (1.15%) Middleware
2 1 (1.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.20%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.05%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.15%) Clustering
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (57.47%) Data Architecture
2 38 (43.68%) Data Modelling
3 36 (41.38%) Data Strategy
4 27 (31.03%) DevOps
5 25 (28.74%) Analytics
6 24 (27.59%) Data Governance
7 23 (26.44%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (24.14%) ETL
9 20 (22.99%) Migration
9 20 (22.99%) Roadmaps
10 19 (21.84%) Agile
10 19 (21.84%) Data Management
11 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
12 15 (17.24%) Data Migration
13 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
14 13 (14.94%) Data Integration
14 13 (14.94%) Data Science
14 13 (14.94%) Logical Data Model
14 13 (14.94%) TOGAF
15 12 (13.79%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.74%) SQL
2 17 (19.54%) Python
3 5 (5.75%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.60%) Scala
5 3 (3.45%) Java
6 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) Bicep
7 1 (1.15%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) PHP
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Degree
2 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.30%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.39%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.75%) GDPR
4 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (26.44%) Databricks
2 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.49%) Oracle
4 9 (10.34%) SAP
5 7 (8.05%) Google
6 4 (4.60%) Teradata
7 3 (3.45%) Informatica
8 2 (2.30%) Avaloq
8 2 (2.30%) Talend
9 1 (1.15%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.15%) IBM
9 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.15%) Zoho