Data Architecture Jobs

Data Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Architecture over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 181 323
Rank change year-on-year -87 +142 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,105 1,872 2,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 2.01% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.10% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 611 897 939
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,570 £46,335
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £138,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England -95 922 £80,000 -0.31% 155
UK excluding London -40 690 £75,000 +15.38% 73
Work from Home -69 435 £79,932 -3.11% 74
London -95 371 £90,000 -2.70% 93
North of England -31 226 £79,932 -0.09% 27
South East -5 122 £85,000 +44.68% 9
North West -41 115 £75,000 +7.14% 17
Scotland -30 110 £68,750 -23.61% 10
Midlands -97 108 £59,300 +21.09% 11
West Midlands -78 76 £59,300 +22.08% 8
Yorkshire +15 71 £79,932 -0.09% 6
South West -16 71 £55,250 -15.97% 4
North East +20 40 £79,932 +3.14% 4
East Midlands -21 32 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Wales +20 28 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 6
East of England -63 11 £110,000 +37.50% 3
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.26%) Apache
3 21 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.54%) Confluence
6 4 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.36%) SAS
7 3 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.090%) Appian
9 1 (0.090%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.54%) Trello
4 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.27%) Primavera
5 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.090%) Maximo
7 1 (0.090%) Odoo
7 1 (0.090%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 468 (42.35%) Azure
2 369 (33.39%) AWS
3 216 (19.55%) GCP
4 210 (19.00%) Power Platform
5 60 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 54 (4.89%) Snowflake
7 34 (3.08%) Serverless
8 33 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (2.99%) dbt
9 32 (2.90%) PowerApps
10 30 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (2.53%) SaaS
12 25 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (1.63%) Matillion
15 17 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.45%) GitHub
17 14 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
18 11 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.27%) Firewall
3 2 (0.18%) Broadband
3 2 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.18%) LAN
3 2 (0.18%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) WAN
3 2 (0.18%) Wireless
4 1 (0.090%) HTTP
4 1 (0.090%) Intranet
4 1 (0.090%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (34.66%) Data Warehouse
2 184 (16.65%) Power BI
3 156 (14.12%) Data Lake
4 147 (13.30%) Metadata
5 137 (12.40%) BigQuery
6 121 (10.95%) Tableau
7 118 (10.68%) Looker
8 59 (5.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 46 (4.16%) SQL Server
10 44 (3.98%) Data Vault
11 35 (3.17%) Big Data
12 33 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (2.26%) NoSQL
15 19 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 18 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 15 (1.36%) MongoDB
18 15 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
19 12 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 31 (2.81%) Git
2 15 (1.36%) JIRA
3 12 (1.09%) GitLab
4 8 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.36%) ERwin
5 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.27%) MLflow
7 2 (0.18%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.090%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.090%) Vagrant
General
1 405 (36.65%) Finance
2 303 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
3 275 (24.89%) Social Skills
4 125 (11.31%) Marketing
5 100 (9.05%) Presentation Skills
6 99 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (6.33%) Public Sector
8 68 (6.15%) Banking
9 61 (5.52%) Law
10 48 (4.34%) Retail
11 33 (2.99%) Retail Banking
12 32 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (2.35%) Financial Institution
13 26 (2.35%) Legal
14 17 (1.54%) Games
14 17 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.36%) Front Office
16 11 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
17 10 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 602 (54.48%) Architect
2 441 (39.91%) Data Architect
3 173 (15.66%) Senior
4 122 (11.04%) Consultant
5 117 (10.59%) Lead
6 116 (10.50%) Solutions Architect
7 107 (9.68%) Data Engineer
8 88 (7.96%) Principal Architect
9 79 (7.15%) Senior Architect
10 67 (6.06%) Senior Data Architect
11 60 (5.43%) Data Consultant
12 54 (4.89%) Principal Data Architect
13 50 (4.52%) Senior Consultant
14 49 (4.43%) Analyst
15 47 (4.25%) Senior Technology Consultant
15 47 (4.25%) Technology Consultant
16 44 (3.98%) Enterprise Architect
17 43 (3.89%) Developer
18 33 (2.99%) Data Analyst
19 30 (2.71%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.17%) PySpark
2 19 (1.72%) HTML
3 18 (1.63%) .NET
4 17 (1.54%) Kafka
4 17 (1.54%) Pandas
5 13 (1.18%) NumPy
6 12 (1.09%) gRPC
6 12 (1.09%) Protocol Buffers
6 12 (1.09%) SciPy
7 10 (0.90%) Middleware
8 5 (0.45%) Apache Beam
8 5 (0.45%) CSS
8 5 (0.45%) J2EE
9 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.27%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.27%) JSON
10 3 (0.27%) RESTful
10 3 (0.27%) Web Services
10 3 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.31%) Self-Motivation
2 85 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 72 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.79%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.62%) Credit Risk
5 29 (2.62%) Reference Data
6 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.45%) Taxonomies
8 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.27%) Cyberattack
9 14 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.09%) Client/Server
10 12 (1.09%) Derivative
10 12 (1.09%) Equities
10 12 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 11 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.27%) Unix
1 3 (0.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.090%) Android
2 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.090%) Linux
2 1 (0.090%) Solaris
2 1 (0.090%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (49.59%) Data Modelling
2 373 (33.76%) Data Governance
3 338 (30.59%) Analytics
4 297 (26.88%) ETL
5 290 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
6 281 (25.43%) Roadmaps
7 273 (24.71%) Data Engineering
8 264 (23.89%) Business Intelligence
9 245 (22.17%) Mentoring
10 234 (21.18%) Data Management
11 233 (21.09%) Agile
12 223 (20.18%) Data Integration
13 177 (16.02%) Data Strategy
14 170 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
15 164 (14.84%) Data Analysis
16 157 (14.21%) Data Security
17 152 (13.76%) Data Science
18 151 (13.67%) Decision-Making
19 142 (12.85%) DevOps
20 133 (12.04%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 306 (27.69%) SQL
2 164 (14.84%) Python
3 68 (6.15%) Java
4 38 (3.44%) T-SQL
5 30 (2.71%) Scala
6 23 (2.08%) R
7 20 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.18%) C#
10 12 (1.09%) Ruby
11 11 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.27%) VB
15 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.18%) Bicep
15 2 (0.18%) VBA
16 1 (0.090%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 108 (9.77%) Degree
2 81 (7.33%) Azure Certification
3 74 (6.70%) Security Cleared
4 69 (6.24%) AWS Certification
5 57 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 36 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.35%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.36%) CISSP
10 10 (0.90%) PhD
11 9 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.81%) MBA
12 6 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.54%) IIBA
13 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.36%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.18%) CIMA
15 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.090%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (26.79%) Data Quality
2 163 (14.75%) GDPR
3 23 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.72%) QA
5 12 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.54%) SLA
7 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.27%) PMO
8 3 (0.27%) PSD2
8 3 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.090%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (1.18%) Docker
2 6 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) HDFS
4 1 (0.090%) LXC
4 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (1.45%) Terraform
2 10 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.090%) Argo
5 1 (0.090%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 148 (13.39%) Google
2 131 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 79 (7.15%) Databricks
4 25 (2.26%) Oracle
5 15 (1.36%) SAP
6 14 (1.27%) Sparx
7 12 (1.09%) Informatica
8 7 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.63%) Teradata
9 5 (0.45%) Talend
10 4 (0.36%) Dell
11 3 (0.27%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.27%) Facebook
11 3 (0.27%) Twitter
12 2 (0.18%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.18%) Aruba
12 2 (0.18%) Cognos
12 2 (0.18%) IBM
12 2 (0.18%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.18%) SnapLogic