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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 182 324
Rank change year-on-year -95 +142 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,097 1,883 2,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.99% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.08% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 603 892 915
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,570 £46,284
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 £114,500 £139,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
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 1 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 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
England -92 917 £80,000 -3.03% 200
UK excluding London -45 684 £75,000 +15.38% 91
Work from Home -61 431 £79,932 -5.96% 99
London -77 369 £90,000 -3.23% 118
North of England -13 225 £79,932 -0.09% 26
South East -8 119 £85,000 +47.83% 13
North West -39 114 £75,000 +25.00% 17
Scotland -38 108 £65,000 -27.78% 11
Midlands -77 107 £59,300 +22.08% 16
West Midlands -81 75 £59,300 +23.45% 14
South West -9 73 £55,250 -16.92% 13
Yorkshire +9 71 £79,932 -0.40% 5
North East +26 40 £79,932 +3.14% 4
East Midlands -7 32 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Wales +20 27 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 6
East of England -55 11 £110,000 +37.50% 2
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 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.28%) Apache
3 20 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.091%) Appian
9 1 (0.091%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.55%) Trello
4 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.27%) Primavera
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.091%) Maximo
6 1 (0.091%) Odoo
6 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 466 (42.48%) Azure
2 370 (33.73%) AWS
3 215 (19.60%) GCP
4 210 (19.14%) Power Platform
5 60 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 55 (5.01%) Snowflake
7 34 (3.10%) dbt
8 33 (3.01%) Serverless
9 32 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 31 (2.83%) PowerApps
11 28 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (2.55%) SaaS
12 24 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (1.64%) Matillion
14 17 (1.55%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.46%) GitHub
16 13 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
17 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 (0.091%) HTTP
4 1 (0.091%) Intranet
4 1 (0.091%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (34.64%) Data Warehouse
2 185 (16.86%) Power BI
3 154 (14.04%) Data Lake
4 147 (13.40%) Metadata
5 136 (12.40%) BigQuery
6 122 (11.12%) Tableau
7 118 (10.76%) Looker
8 60 (5.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 44 (4.01%) Data Vault
9 44 (4.01%) SQL Server
10 33 (3.01%) Big Data
11 32 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.28%) NoSQL
13 19 (1.73%) Relational Database
14 18 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (1.37%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
17 12 (1.09%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 32 (2.92%) Git
2 15 (1.37%) JIRA
3 12 (1.09%) GitLab
4 9 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.46%) ERwin
6 3 (0.27%) MLflow
7 2 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.091%) Vagrant
General
1 401 (36.55%) Finance
2 301 (27.44%) Analytical Skills
3 274 (24.98%) Social Skills
4 126 (11.49%) Marketing
5 102 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 68 (6.20%) Banking
9 61 (5.56%) Law
10 49 (4.47%) Retail
11 33 (3.01%) Retail Banking
12 30 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (2.37%) Financial Institution
13 26 (2.37%) Legal
14 17 (1.55%) Games
14 17 (1.55%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.37%) Front Office
16 11 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
16 11 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 598 (54.51%) Architect
2 437 (39.84%) Data Architect
3 172 (15.68%) Senior
4 122 (11.12%) Consultant
5 118 (10.76%) Lead
5 118 (10.76%) Solutions Architect
6 105 (9.57%) Data Engineer
7 88 (8.02%) Principal Architect
8 78 (7.11%) Senior Architect
9 66 (6.02%) Senior Data Architect
10 60 (5.47%) Data Consultant
11 54 (4.92%) Principal Data Architect
12 50 (4.56%) Senior Consultant
13 49 (4.47%) Analyst
14 47 (4.28%) Senior Technology Consultant
14 47 (4.28%) Technology Consultant
15 44 (4.01%) Developer
15 44 (4.01%) Enterprise Architect
16 33 (3.01%) Data Analyst
17 30 (2.73%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.10%) PySpark
2 19 (1.73%) HTML
3 18 (1.64%) Pandas
4 17 (1.55%) .NET
4 17 (1.55%) Kafka
5 13 (1.19%) NumPy
6 12 (1.09%) gRPC
6 12 (1.09%) Protocol Buffers
6 12 (1.09%) SciPy
7 10 (0.91%) Middleware
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Beam
8 5 (0.46%) CSS
8 5 (0.46%) J2EE
9 4 (0.36%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.36%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.36%) RESTful
10 3 (0.27%) HTML5
10 3 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.27%) JSON
10 3 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (11.30%) Self-Motivation
2 84 (7.66%) Management Information System
3 71 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 64 (5.83%) Cloud Native
5 29 (2.64%) Credit Risk
6 28 (2.55%) Reference Data
7 19 (1.73%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.73%) Taxonomies
8 15 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.28%) Cyberattack
9 14 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.19%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.09%) Derivative
11 12 (1.09%) Equities
11 12 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.09%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.00%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.27%) Unix
1 3 (0.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.091%) Android
2 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.091%) Linux
2 1 (0.091%) Solaris
2 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (49.41%) Data Modelling
2 371 (33.82%) Data Governance
3 333 (30.36%) Analytics
4 294 (26.80%) ETL
5 288 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (25.71%) Roadmaps
7 271 (24.70%) Data Engineering
8 262 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
9 245 (22.33%) Mentoring
10 233 (21.24%) Agile
11 227 (20.69%) Data Management
12 221 (20.15%) Data Integration
13 173 (15.77%) Data Strategy
14 169 (15.41%) Strategic Roadmap
15 162 (14.77%) Data Analysis
16 155 (14.13%) Data Security
17 151 (13.76%) Data Science
18 149 (13.58%) Decision-Making
19 141 (12.85%) DevOps
20 133 (12.12%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 303 (27.62%) SQL
2 164 (14.95%) Python
3 68 (6.20%) Java
4 37 (3.37%) T-SQL
5 30 (2.73%) Scala
6 23 (2.10%) R
7 19 (1.73%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.55%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.09%) C#
9 12 (1.09%) Ruby
10 11 (1.00%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.27%) VB
14 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.091%) Bicep
15 1 (0.091%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (9.85%) Degree
2 81 (7.38%) Azure Certification
3 77 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 69 (6.29%) AWS Certification
5 57 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (4.01%) Master's Degree
7 35 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.55%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.37%) CISSP
10 10 (0.91%) PhD
11 9 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.82%) MBA
12 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.55%) IIBA
13 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.36%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.18%) CIMA
15 2 (0.18%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (26.71%) Data Quality
2 163 (14.86%) GDPR
3 22 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.64%) QA
5 12 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.091%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (1.19%) Docker
2 6 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) HDFS
4 1 (0.091%) LXC
4 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (1.46%) Terraform
2 10 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.091%) Argo
5 1 (0.091%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 148 (13.49%) Google
2 131 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 79 (7.20%) Databricks
4 24 (2.19%) Oracle
5 14 (1.28%) SAP
5 14 (1.28%) Sparx
6 12 (1.09%) Informatica
7 7 (0.64%) Teradata
8 6 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.46%) Talend
10 4 (0.36%) Dell
11 3 (0.27%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.18%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.18%) Aruba
12 2 (0.18%) Cognos
12 2 (0.18%) Facebook
12 2 (0.18%) IBM
12 2 (0.18%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.18%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.18%) Twitter