Principal Data Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Principal Data Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Principal Data Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £135,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 - 661
Rank change year-on-year - - +162
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 4 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.027% - 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% - 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £93,500 - £106,250
25th Percentile £106,250 - £108,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 - £117,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.56%
75th Percentile £151,250 - £127,188
90th Percentile £156,500 - £130,500
UK median annual salary £115,000 £72,500 £117,500
% change year-on-year +58.62% -38.30% +40.30%

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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Principal Data Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Principal Data Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Principal Data Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Principal Data Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Principal Data Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Principal Data Architect salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SFIA
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle