Hybrid/Remote Data Architecture Job Trends

Data Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 260 214
Rank change year-on-year +64 -46 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 187 189 289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 1.09% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.18% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 95 106 217
10th Percentile £58,000 £55,905 £55,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,168 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -0.18%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,569 £118,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,584 16,079 18,719
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.80% 92.89% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,677 9,729 15,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.88% -2.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.84%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Architecture and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Architecture
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Data Architecture salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Luigi
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 123 (65.78%) Azure
2 80 (42.78%) Snowflake
3 38 (20.32%) AWS
4 31 (16.58%) Power Platform
5 23 (12.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (9.09%) dbt
8 16 (8.56%) GCP
9 12 (6.42%) GitHub
10 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (3.74%) Serverless
12 6 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.67%) SaaS
14 4 (2.14%) Alation
14 4 (2.14%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (2.14%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (40.64%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (20.86%) Metadata
3 27 (14.44%) Power BI
4 24 (12.83%) Data Lake
5 14 (7.49%) Tableau
6 11 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.81%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.67%) Data Vault
10 5 (2.67%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (2.67%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (2.14%) Big Data
11 4 (2.14%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.14%) MySQL
11 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) ER Studio
1 18 (9.63%) ERwin
2 10 (5.35%) Git
3 4 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.14%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.60%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.60%) Finance
3 42 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.35%) Law
7 7 (3.74%) Legal
8 6 (3.21%) Banking
9 4 (2.14%) Retail
9 4 (2.14%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.60%) Military
11 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.53%) Advertising
12 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.53%) Front Office
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (51.34%) Architect
2 86 (45.99%) Data Architect
3 27 (14.44%) Data Engineer
4 25 (13.37%) Lead
5 14 (7.49%) Data Modeller
6 11 (5.88%) Senior
7 10 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.81%) Lead Architect
9 8 (4.28%) Lead Data Architect
10 7 (3.74%) Data Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Developer
12 5 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.14%) Azure Data Architect
13 4 (2.14%) Data Governance Manager
13 4 (2.14%) GCP Architect
13 4 (2.14%) GCP Data Architect
13 4 (2.14%) Governance Manager
13 4 (2.14%) Lead Data Engineer
13 4 (2.14%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.88%) Kafka
2 5 (2.67%) PySpark
3 4 (2.14%) XML
4 2 (1.07%) JSON
4 2 (1.07%) Middleware
4 2 (1.07%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.07%) REST
4 2 (1.07%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.53%) CSS
5 1 (0.53%) EDI
5 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.53%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.53%) HTML
5 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.95%) Reference Data
3 12 (6.42%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.67%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.60%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.60%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.07%) IoT
8 2 (1.07%) Smart Home
9 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.53%) CMDB
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (69.52%) Data Modelling
2 106 (56.68%) Analytics
3 86 (45.99%) Data Governance
4 82 (43.85%) Data Engineering
5 69 (36.90%) Data Management
6 65 (34.76%) Data Integration
7 57 (30.48%) Agile
8 53 (28.34%) DevOps
9 50 (26.74%) Data Strategy
10 45 (24.06%) AI
11 44 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
12 39 (20.86%) E-Commerce
13 36 (19.25%) ETL
13 36 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (18.18%) CI/CD
14 34 (18.18%) Digital Analytics
15 31 (16.58%) Coaching
16 29 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (15.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (35.83%) SQL
2 60 (32.09%) Python
3 10 (5.35%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.81%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.21%) Bash
5 6 (3.21%) Scala
6 4 (2.14%) C#
6 4 (2.14%) Fortran
6 4 (2.14%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.60%) Go
7 3 (1.60%) VBScript
8 2 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.53%) Bicep
9 1 (0.53%) Java
9 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.09%) Degree
4 13 (6.95%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.67%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.14%) CITP
7 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.60%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.60%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) MBA
10 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (21.39%) Data Quality
2 39 (20.86%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (9.63%) Terraform
2 6 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.60%) Ansible
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
4 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (39.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (19.79%) Databricks
3 8 (4.28%) Google
4 5 (2.67%) Informatica
5 4 (2.14%) IBM
5 4 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.07%) SAP
6 2 (1.07%) Workday
7 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.53%) Confluent
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle
7 1 (0.53%) Planon
7 1 (0.53%) Sage
7 1 (0.53%) Talend