Data Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 541 557
Rank change year-on-year +165 +16 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 470 198 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.39% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 271 140 150
10th Percentile £52,325 £53,689 £49,950
25th Percentile £59,300 £68,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,125 £93,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
North of England +143 154 £75,000 -14.29% 21
South East +76 133 £85,000 - 12
North West +63 80 £75,000 -28.57% 15
Midlands +38 70 £59,300 -18.21% 8
West Midlands +32 53 £59,300 -30.24% 4
Yorkshire +87 52 £80,000 -5.88% 4
South West -1 49 £68,750 -8.64% 5
Scotland -58 34 £72,500 +16.47% 6
North East +11 22 £77,500 - 2
East of England -9 19 £50,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -13 17 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Wales +4 7 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 302 (64.26%) Data Architecture
2 275 (58.51%) Data Modelling
3 223 (47.45%) Azure
4 200 (42.55%) Data Warehouse
5 165 (35.11%) AWS
6 164 (34.89%) Problem-Solving
7 152 (32.34%) Data Governance
8 151 (32.13%) ETL
9 144 (30.64%) Data Quality
10 140 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
11 133 (28.30%) Analytics
12 127 (27.02%) Data Engineering
13 125 (26.60%) GDPR
14 121 (25.74%) Data Security
15 117 (24.89%) Data Integration
16 116 (24.68%) GCP
17 111 (23.62%) Mentoring
18 102 (21.70%) BigQuery
19 100 (21.28%) Google
20 97 (20.64%) Platform Engineering
21 96 (20.43%) Self-Motivation
21 96 (20.43%) ERD
21 96 (20.43%) Looker
21 96 (20.43%) Innovative Thinking
22 91 (19.36%) Data Strategy
23 87 (18.51%) Metadata
24 83 (17.66%) Business Intelligence
25 80 (17.02%) Finance
26 78 (16.60%) SQL
26 78 (16.60%) Data Science

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 223 (47.45%) Azure
2 165 (35.11%) AWS
3 116 (24.68%) GCP
4 62 (13.19%) Power Platform
5 37 (7.87%) Snowflake
6 22 (4.68%) Matillion
7 20 (4.26%) Serverless
8 10 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (2.13%) SaaS
9 9 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.06%) Azure Stack
11 3 (0.64%) PaaS
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.21%) Azure API Management
13 1 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.21%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Extranet
1 2 (0.43%) LAN
1 2 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.43%) WAN
1 2 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (42.55%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (21.70%) BigQuery
3 96 (20.43%) Looker
4 87 (18.51%) Metadata
5 62 (13.19%) Power BI
6 39 (8.30%) Data Lake
7 36 (7.66%) Data Vault
8 30 (6.38%) Tableau
9 26 (5.53%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.13%) Big Data
11 8 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.49%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.49%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.64%) MySQL
14 3 (0.64%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Git
2 2 (0.43%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.43%) ERwin
2 2 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 140 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (17.02%) Finance
3 40 (8.51%) Social Skills
4 39 (8.30%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.26%) Retail
7 18 (3.83%) Marketing
7 18 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.62%) Law
9 12 (2.55%) Legal
10 9 (1.91%) Banking
11 6 (1.28%) Automotive
11 6 (1.28%) Billing
11 6 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.06%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.85%) Wearables
14 3 (0.64%) Advertising
14 3 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.77%) Middleware
2 9 (1.91%) Kafka
3 3 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (0.64%) REST
3 3 (0.64%) SOAP
4 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.21%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 96 (20.43%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (9.57%) Management Information System
3 27 (5.74%) Cloud Native
4 9 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.70%) Blog
5 8 (1.70%) Taxonomies
6 7 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.28%) IoT
8 5 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.85%) NHS
9 4 (0.85%) PMI
9 4 (0.85%) Replication
10 3 (0.64%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.43%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.21%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.21%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.98%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Unix
2 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (64.26%) Data Architecture
2 275 (58.51%) Data Modelling
3 164 (34.89%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (32.34%) Data Governance
5 151 (32.13%) ETL
6 133 (28.30%) Analytics
7 127 (27.02%) Data Engineering
8 121 (25.74%) Data Security
9 117 (24.89%) Data Integration
10 111 (23.62%) Mentoring
11 97 (20.64%) Platform Engineering
12 96 (20.43%) ERD
12 96 (20.43%) Innovative Thinking
13 91 (19.36%) Data Strategy
14 83 (17.66%) Business Intelligence
15 78 (16.60%) Data Science
16 76 (16.17%) Data Management
17 70 (14.89%) Roadmaps
18 67 (14.26%) Data Design
19 61 (12.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 78 (16.60%) SQL
2 26 (5.53%) T-SQL
3 22 (4.68%) Python
4 15 (3.19%) Java
5 13 (2.77%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.06%) Scala
7 1 (0.21%) C++
7 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 36 (7.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.96%) Degree
4 15 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.06%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.21%) PMP
10 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (30.64%) Data Quality
2 125 (26.60%) GDPR
3 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (0.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 100 (21.28%) Google
2 39 (8.30%) Databricks
3 19 (4.04%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.70%) Oracle
5 4 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (0.85%) NEC
6 3 (0.64%) SAP
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco
7 2 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.21%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.21%) ESRI
8 1 (0.21%) Sparx
8 1 (0.21%) Talend
8 1 (0.21%) Teradata