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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 377 402
Rank change year-on-year +46 +25 +157
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 86 216 291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.64% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.67% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 56 184 230
10th Percentile £55,905 £52,325 £63,750
25th Percentile £63,438 £60,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £98,474 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
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 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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 3 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 3 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 51 (59.30%) Data Architecture
2 39 (45.35%) Data Modelling
3 35 (40.70%) Data Strategy
4 32 (37.21%) Azure
5 26 (30.23%) DevOps
6 25 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (29.07%) SQL
7 24 (27.91%) Data Governance
7 24 (27.91%) Analytics
8 23 (26.74%) Databricks
9 22 (25.58%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (24.42%) Agile
10 21 (24.42%) Roadmaps
11 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
11 20 (23.26%) ETL
11 20 (23.26%) Data Management
12 19 (22.09%) Migration
13 18 (20.93%) AWS
14 17 (19.77%) Python
15 16 (18.60%) Finance
15 16 (18.60%) Data Quality
15 16 (18.60%) CI/CD
16 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
16 15 (17.44%) Power BI
16 15 (17.44%) TOGAF
17 14 (16.28%) Data Migration
17 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
17 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
17 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
17 14 (16.28%) Snowflake

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 (15.12%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.65%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.33%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.16%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Odoo
2 1 (1.16%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.21%) Azure
2 18 (20.93%) AWS
3 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
4 14 (16.28%) Snowflake
5 11 (12.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (11.63%) GCP
7 8 (9.30%) PaaS
8 6 (6.98%) SaaS
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.81%) dbt
10 4 (4.65%) IaaS
10 4 (4.65%) OCI
11 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.33%) Azure AI
12 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (2.33%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (17.44%) Power BI
3 12 (13.95%) Data Lake
4 11 (12.79%) Big Data
4 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.63%) RDBMS
5 10 (11.63%) Relational Database
6 9 (10.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (9.30%) Metadata
7 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
8 7 (8.14%) BigQuery
9 6 (6.98%) Apache Hive
9 6 (6.98%) Hadoop
10 5 (5.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (5.81%) SAP BW
11 4 (4.65%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (4.65%) Tableau
12 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) ERwin
1 2 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Finance
3 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.95%) Banking
5 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.81%) Law
6 4 (4.65%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Advertising
8 2 (2.33%) Automotive
8 2 (2.33%) Back Office
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) Kafka
2 1 (1.16%) .NET
2 1 (1.16%) HTML
2 1 (1.16%) Middleware
2 1 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.14%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.33%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.33%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Clustering
5 1 (1.16%) NHS
5 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.16%) Replication
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (59.30%) Data Architecture
2 39 (45.35%) Data Modelling
3 35 (40.70%) Data Strategy
4 26 (30.23%) DevOps
5 24 (27.91%) Analytics
5 24 (27.91%) Data Governance
6 22 (25.58%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (24.42%) Agile
7 21 (24.42%) Roadmaps
8 20 (23.26%) Data Management
8 20 (23.26%) ETL
9 19 (22.09%) Migration
10 16 (18.60%) CI/CD
11 15 (17.44%) TOGAF
12 14 (16.28%) Data Migration
12 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
13 13 (15.12%) Data Integration
13 13 (15.12%) Data Science
14 12 (13.95%) Logical Data Model
14 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) SQL
2 17 (19.77%) Python
3 5 (5.81%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.65%) Scala
5 3 (3.49%) Java
6 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.16%) Bicep
7 1 (1.16%) C#
7 1 (1.16%) PHP
7 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.63%) Degree
2 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.81%) GDPR
4 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.33%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (26.74%) Databricks
2 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.47%) Oracle
3 9 (10.47%) SAP
4 7 (8.14%) Google
5 4 (4.65%) Teradata
6 3 (3.49%) Informatica
7 2 (2.33%) Avaloq
7 2 (2.33%) Talend
8 1 (1.16%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.16%) IBM
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.16%) Zoho