Data Architect - Azure
UK

The median Data Architect - Azure salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 881 1185
Rank change year-on-year +23 +304 -365
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Data Architect 37 96 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.096% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.11% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 29 75 41
10th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £88,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £105,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £114,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% - -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,908 91,208 153,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,161 57,434 84,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Azure Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Architect in the UK

Azure Data Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Architect.

Salary trend for Azure Data Architect in the UK

Azure Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Architect over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Architect in the UK

Azure Data Architect
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England +10 33 £95,000 -5.00% 5
London +81 17 £102,500 +2.50% 4
Work from Home +31 15 £95,000 -5.00% 4
UK excluding London -42 12 £60,000 -17.24% 1
South East +6 6 £60,000 -40.00%
Midlands -9 4 £85,000 +17.24%
East Midlands -23 2 £70,000 -3.45%
West Midlands - 2 £102,500 -
North of England +36 1 - - 1
North West +2 1 - - 1
South West -27 1 £97,500 -

Azure Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Azure 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 featuring Azure Data Architect in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (70.27%) Databricks
3 21 (56.76%) Data Lake
4 20 (54.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (48.65%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (40.54%) SQL
7 13 (35.14%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
8 12 (32.43%) Data Governance
9 11 (29.73%) Analytics
9 11 (29.73%) Data Modelling
9 11 (29.73%) ETL
10 10 (27.03%) Data Integration
10 10 (27.03%) Data Architecture
10 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
11 9 (24.32%) Data Transformation
11 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
12 8 (21.62%) Python
12 8 (21.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
13 7 (18.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (18.92%) Power BI
13 7 (18.92%) Finance
14 6 (16.22%) Migration
14 6 (16.22%) AWS
14 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (16.22%) DevOps

Azure Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (54.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
5 6 (16.22%) AWS
5 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (13.51%) GCP
6 5 (13.51%) IaaS
6 5 (13.51%) PaaS
6 5 (13.51%) SaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (56.76%) Data Lake
2 18 (48.65%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
4 8 (21.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (18.92%) Power BI
6 4 (10.81%) Spark SQL
7 3 (8.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (8.11%) OLAP
8 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.70%) PolyBase
8 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) PySpark
2 3 (8.11%) REST
2 3 (8.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (32.43%) Data Governance
3 11 (29.73%) Analytics
3 11 (29.73%) Data Modelling
3 11 (29.73%) ETL
4 10 (27.03%) Data Architecture
4 10 (27.03%) Data Integration
5 9 (24.32%) Data Transformation
6 7 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.22%) DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (13.51%) Contract Negotiation
8 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Data Security
8 5 (13.51%) Load Balancing
8 5 (13.51%) Wealth Management
9 4 (10.81%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Scala
4 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
1 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Databricks
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (2.70%) Google