Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 454 571
Rank change year-on-year +79 +117 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 708 638 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.65% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.71% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 425 428 463
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,733 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.94% +14.29% -3.45%

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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
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 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +107 635 £82,500 -10.81% 98
UK excluding London +186 450 £71,250 -10.94% 61
London +21 218 £90,000 -10.00% 49
Work from Home +10 208 £82,500 -8.33% 59
North of England +145 149 £75,000 -20.00% 17
South East +79 124 £85,000 - 13
North West +64 75 £70,000 -33.33% 10
Midlands +40 68 £59,300 -18.21% 7
West Midlands +55 53 £59,300 -30.24% 4
Yorkshire +107 52 £80,000 -5.88% 4
South West +3 45 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Scotland -50 34 £72,500 +16.47% 7
North East +15 22 £77,500 - 3
East of England 0 19 £50,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -4 15 £70,000 -3.45% 3
Wales +4 7 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 428 (60.45%) Data Architecture
2 412 (58.19%) Data Modelling
3 359 (50.71%) Azure
4 295 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
5 257 (36.30%) AWS
6 217 (30.65%) Analytics
7 215 (30.37%) ETL
8 212 (29.94%) Data Governance
9 203 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
10 194 (27.40%) Data Quality
11 182 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
12 174 (24.58%) GCP
13 173 (24.44%) Data Integration
14 152 (21.47%) Data Engineering
14 152 (21.47%) Metadata
15 149 (21.05%) Finance
16 147 (20.76%) Data Strategy
17 145 (20.48%) GDPR
18 143 (20.20%) Data Security
19 135 (19.07%) SQL
20 129 (18.22%) Mentoring
21 128 (18.08%) Business Intelligence
22 127 (17.94%) Innovative Thinking
23 123 (17.37%) BigQuery
24 121 (17.09%) Roadmaps
24 121 (17.09%) Google
25 116 (16.38%) Data Management
26 115 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
27 113 (15.96%) Self-Motivation
27 113 (15.96%) Looker

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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.41%) Apache
3 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 359 (50.71%) Azure
2 257 (36.30%) AWS
3 174 (24.58%) GCP
4 81 (11.44%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 32 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 31 (4.38%) Serverless
8 23 (3.25%) Matillion
9 20 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (2.54%) PaaS
11 17 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (2.40%) SaaS
12 10 (1.41%) IaaS
13 7 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (0.71%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.71%) Azure Storage
16 4 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.41%) Wireless
2 6 (0.85%) Network Security
3 5 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.28%) Extranet
4 2 (0.28%) LAN
4 2 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (21.47%) Metadata
3 123 (17.37%) BigQuery
4 113 (15.96%) Looker
5 105 (14.83%) Data Lake
6 78 (11.02%) Power BI
7 47 (6.64%) Data Vault
8 41 (5.79%) NoSQL
9 39 (5.51%) Big Data
9 39 (5.51%) Tableau
10 24 (3.39%) SQL Server
11 14 (1.98%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.55%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.27%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.99%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 8 (1.13%) Git
2 5 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.56%) ERwin
4 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
5 1 (0.14%) Spinnaker
General
1 182 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
2 149 (21.05%) Finance
3 79 (11.16%) Social Skills
4 64 (9.04%) Presentation Skills
5 56 (7.91%) Banking
6 55 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.24%) Retail Banking
9 29 (4.10%) Retail
10 25 (3.53%) Marketing
11 22 (3.11%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.40%) Law
13 12 (1.69%) Legal
14 7 (0.99%) Billing
15 6 (0.85%) Automotive
15 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.56%) Wearables
18 3 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.68%) Kafka
2 11 (1.55%) Middleware
3 7 (0.99%) XML
4 5 (0.71%) HTML
4 5 (0.71%) Itk
4 5 (0.71%) PySpark
4 5 (0.71%) Web Services
5 4 (0.56%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.56%) REST
6 3 (0.42%) .NET
6 3 (0.42%) J2EE
6 3 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.42%) SOAP
7 2 (0.28%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.14%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.14%) FHIR
8 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.14%) JSON
8 1 (0.14%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 113 (15.96%) Self-Motivation
2 55 (7.77%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.41%) IoT
6 10 (1.41%) Taxonomies
7 9 (1.27%) Blog
7 9 (1.27%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.99%) PMI
9 7 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.85%) Replication
11 5 (0.71%) NHS
12 4 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.84%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Unix
2 2 (0.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Solaris
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (60.45%) Data Architecture
2 412 (58.19%) Data Modelling
3 217 (30.65%) Analytics
4 215 (30.37%) ETL
5 212 (29.94%) Data Governance
6 203 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (24.44%) Data Integration
8 152 (21.47%) Data Engineering
9 147 (20.76%) Data Strategy
10 143 (20.20%) Data Security
11 129 (18.22%) Mentoring
12 128 (18.08%) Business Intelligence
13 127 (17.94%) Innovative Thinking
14 121 (17.09%) Roadmaps
15 116 (16.38%) Data Management
16 115 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
17 111 (15.68%) ERD
18 101 (14.27%) Agile
19 92 (12.99%) Data Science
20 82 (11.58%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 135 (19.07%) SQL
2 52 (7.34%) Python
3 27 (3.81%) T-SQL
4 26 (3.67%) Java
5 13 (1.84%) Scala
6 11 (1.55%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.13%) R
8 6 (0.85%) C++
9 5 (0.71%) C
9 5 (0.71%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) Haskell
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.06%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.51%) Degree
4 21 (2.97%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.13%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.71%) MCAD
12 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (27.40%) Data Quality
2 145 (20.48%) GDPR
3 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.42%) QA
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.85%) Terraform
3 2 (0.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 121 (17.09%) Google
2 100 (14.12%) Databricks
3 69 (9.75%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.68%) Oracle
5 13 (1.84%) Informatica
6 12 (1.69%) SAP
7 5 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.56%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.56%) NEC
9 3 (0.42%) Sparx
9 3 (0.42%) Teradata
10 2 (0.28%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.28%) Cisco
10 2 (0.28%) Splunk
11 1 (0.14%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.14%) ESRI
11 1 (0.14%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.14%) IBM
11 1 (0.14%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.14%) Talend