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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 431 569
Rank change year-on-year +60 +138 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 693 713 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.69% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.75% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 429 476 469
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £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 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

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 2 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 2 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 +83 628 £82,500 -10.81% 99
UK excluding London +123 418 £72,500 -9.38% 53
London +20 231 £87,500 -12.50% 48
Work from Home +25 216 £82,500 -8.33% 65
North of England +129 139 £75,000 -14.29% 14
South East +68 117 £85,000 +3.03% 16
North West +52 66 £70,000 -20.00% 9
Midlands +47 62 £59,300 -18.21% 9
Yorkshire +113 51 £80,000 -5.88% 4
West Midlands +66 51 £59,300 -28.12% 4
South West -12 44 £75,000 +5.63% 5
Scotland -54 30 £72,500 +9.85% 3
North East +14 22 £77,500 - 1
East of England +7 19 £50,000 -37.50% 3
East Midlands -17 11 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Wales +6 5 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 424 (61.18%) Data Architecture
2 414 (59.74%) Data Modelling
3 336 (48.48%) Azure
4 268 (38.67%) Data Warehouse
5 237 (34.20%) AWS
6 217 (31.31%) ETL
7 216 (31.17%) Data Governance
8 195 (28.14%) Analytics
9 193 (27.85%) Data Quality
10 190 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
11 181 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
12 177 (25.54%) Data Integration
13 169 (24.39%) GCP
14 156 (22.51%) Data Engineering
15 152 (21.93%) Metadata
16 150 (21.65%) GDPR
16 150 (21.65%) Data Strategy
17 145 (20.92%) Finance
18 144 (20.78%) Data Security
19 128 (18.47%) Mentoring
20 127 (18.33%) SQL
21 125 (18.04%) Roadmaps
21 125 (18.04%) Innovative Thinking
22 122 (17.60%) BigQuery
23 120 (17.32%) Google
24 119 (17.17%) Data Management
25 115 (16.59%) Platform Engineering
26 113 (16.31%) Self-Motivation
27 112 (16.16%) Looker
27 112 (16.16%) ERD

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 (3.46%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.30%) Apache
3 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 336 (48.48%) Azure
2 237 (34.20%) AWS
3 169 (24.39%) GCP
4 59 (8.51%) Power Platform
5 53 (7.65%) Snowflake
6 34 (4.91%) Serverless
7 33 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.61%) Matillion
9 22 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (2.89%) PaaS
11 19 (2.74%) SaaS
12 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.73%) IaaS
14 8 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 5 (0.72%) Amazon S3
17 5 (0.72%) Azure Stack
17 5 (0.72%) Azure Storage
18 4 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.73%) Wireless
2 6 (0.87%) DNS
2 6 (0.87%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) Extranet
3 2 (0.29%) LAN
3 2 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.29%) WAN
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (38.67%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (21.93%) Metadata
3 122 (17.60%) BigQuery
4 112 (16.16%) Looker
5 110 (15.87%) Data Lake
6 56 (8.08%) Power BI
7 40 (5.77%) Big Data
8 34 (4.91%) NoSQL
9 26 (3.75%) Data Vault
10 21 (3.03%) SQL Server
11 15 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.16%) Tableau
12 14 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.44%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.15%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.01%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.01%) OLAP
16 6 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (1.01%) ERwin
1 7 (1.01%) Git
2 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 190 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
2 145 (20.92%) Finance
3 78 (11.26%) Social Skills
4 54 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (7.65%) Banking
6 43 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (5.48%) Public Sector
8 34 (4.91%) Retail
9 28 (4.04%) Marketing
10 25 (3.61%) Retail Banking
11 20 (2.89%) Financial Institution
12 19 (2.74%) Law
13 12 (1.73%) Legal
14 7 (1.01%) Billing
15 6 (0.87%) Automotive
15 6 (0.87%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.58%) Games
17 4 (0.58%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.74%) Kafka
2 8 (1.15%) XML
3 5 (0.72%) HTML
3 5 (0.72%) Itk
3 5 (0.72%) Middleware
3 5 (0.72%) PySpark
3 5 (0.72%) Web Services
4 4 (0.58%) Apache Beam
4 4 (0.58%) REST
5 3 (0.43%) .NET
5 3 (0.43%) J2EE
5 3 (0.43%) JSON
5 3 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.43%) SOAP
5 3 (0.43%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.29%) JWT
6 2 (0.29%) OAuth
6 2 (0.29%) Spring
6 2 (0.29%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.31%) Self-Motivation
2 51 (7.36%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.45%) Taxonomies
6 16 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.44%) IoT
7 10 (1.44%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.30%) Blog
8 9 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.01%) PMI
9 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.58%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.43%) NHS
12 3 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.01%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
2 2 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Solaris
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (61.18%) Data Architecture
2 414 (59.74%) Data Modelling
3 217 (31.31%) ETL
4 216 (31.17%) Data Governance
5 195 (28.14%) Analytics
6 181 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 177 (25.54%) Data Integration
8 156 (22.51%) Data Engineering
9 150 (21.65%) Data Strategy
10 144 (20.78%) Data Security
11 128 (18.47%) Mentoring
12 125 (18.04%) Innovative Thinking
12 125 (18.04%) Roadmaps
13 119 (17.17%) Data Management
14 115 (16.59%) Platform Engineering
15 112 (16.16%) ERD
16 107 (15.44%) Business Intelligence
17 93 (13.42%) Agile
18 79 (11.40%) Metadata Management
19 78 (11.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 127 (18.33%) SQL
2 48 (6.93%) Python
3 26 (3.75%) T-SQL
4 20 (2.89%) Java
5 11 (1.59%) Scala
6 8 (1.15%) R
7 6 (0.87%) C++
8 5 (0.72%) C
8 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.29%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Haskell
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (9.81%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.91%) Degree
4 17 (2.45%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.72%) MCAD
11 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (27.85%) Data Quality
2 150 (21.65%) GDPR
3 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.43%) QA
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (1.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
2 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 10 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Kibana
3 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 120 (17.32%) Google
2 106 (15.30%) Databricks
3 70 (10.10%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.45%) Oracle
4 17 (2.45%) SAP
5 14 (2.02%) Informatica
6 5 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.58%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.58%) IBM
8 3 (0.43%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.43%) Sparx
8 3 (0.43%) Teradata
9 2 (0.29%) Cisco
9 2 (0.29%) Okta
9 2 (0.29%) Splunk
10 1 (0.14%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.14%) ESRI
10 1 (0.14%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.14%) NEC
10 1 (0.14%) Peregrine