Data Architect Jobs

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 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 457 572
Rank change year-on-year +86 +115 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 731 615 937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.65% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.71% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 444 419 482
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 June 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 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 +126 659 £82,500 -10.81% 101
UK excluding London +156 469 £70,000 -12.50% 63
London +20 224 £90,000 -10.00% 47
Work from Home +14 212 £82,500 -8.33% 61
North of England +142 154 £75,000 -14.29% 21
South East +72 133 £85,000 - 13
North West +55 80 £75,000 -28.57% 15
Midlands +40 70 £59,300 -18.21% 10
West Midlands +36 53 £59,300 -30.24% 4
Yorkshire +85 52 £80,000 -5.88% 4
South West -4 48 £68,750 -8.64% 5
Scotland -60 34 £72,500 +16.47% 7
North East +10 22 £77,500 - 2
East of England -13 19 £50,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -10 17 £70,000 -3.45% 6
Wales 0 7 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 434 (59.37%) Data Architecture
2 410 (56.09%) Data Modelling
3 365 (49.93%) Azure
4 304 (41.59%) Data Warehouse
5 260 (35.57%) AWS
6 223 (30.51%) Analytics
7 218 (29.82%) ETL
8 213 (29.14%) Data Governance
9 205 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
10 198 (27.09%) Data Quality
11 187 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
12 181 (24.76%) GCP
13 177 (24.21%) Data Integration
14 155 (21.20%) Data Strategy
15 154 (21.07%) Finance
16 153 (20.93%) Data Engineering
17 150 (20.52%) Metadata
18 145 (19.84%) GDPR
18 145 (19.84%) Data Security
19 139 (19.02%) SQL
20 133 (18.19%) Mentoring
21 129 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
22 128 (17.51%) Innovative Thinking
23 126 (17.24%) Roadmaps
24 124 (16.96%) BigQuery
25 123 (16.83%) Google
26 117 (16.01%) Data Management
27 115 (15.73%) Platform Engineering
28 114 (15.60%) Looker
29 113 (15.46%) Self-Motivation

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 25 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.37%) Apache
3 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.41%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (0.68%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 365 (49.93%) Azure
2 260 (35.57%) AWS
3 181 (24.76%) GCP
4 83 (11.35%) Power Platform
5 49 (6.70%) Snowflake
6 33 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (4.38%) Serverless
8 23 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (3.01%) Matillion
10 17 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (2.33%) PaaS
10 17 (2.33%) SaaS
11 8 (1.09%) IaaS
12 7 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.68%) Azure Stack
14 5 (0.68%) Azure Storage
15 4 (0.55%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (0.55%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.23%) Wireless
2 6 (0.82%) Network Security
3 4 (0.55%) DNS
4 2 (0.27%) Extranet
4 2 (0.27%) LAN
4 2 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.27%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (41.59%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (20.52%) Metadata
3 124 (16.96%) BigQuery
4 114 (15.60%) Looker
5 104 (14.23%) Data Lake
6 80 (10.94%) Power BI
7 48 (6.57%) Data Vault
8 44 (6.02%) NoSQL
9 39 (5.34%) Big Data
9 39 (5.34%) Tableau
10 24 (3.28%) SQL Server
11 16 (2.19%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.64%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (1.23%) Relational Database
16 9 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Git
2 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.55%) ERwin
4 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.27%) MLflow
4 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 187 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
2 154 (21.07%) Finance
3 80 (10.94%) Social Skills
4 60 (8.21%) Banking
5 58 (7.93%) Presentation Skills
6 53 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 32 (4.38%) Retail Banking
8 29 (3.97%) Retail
9 23 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 21 (2.87%) Marketing
11 18 (2.46%) Law
12 13 (1.78%) Legal
13 7 (0.96%) Billing
14 6 (0.82%) Automotive
14 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.55%) Wearables
17 3 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.87%) Kafka
2 13 (1.78%) Middleware
3 9 (1.23%) XML
4 5 (0.68%) HTML
4 5 (0.68%) Itk
4 5 (0.68%) PySpark
4 5 (0.68%) Web Services
5 4 (0.55%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.55%) REST
6 3 (0.41%) .NET
6 3 (0.41%) J2EE
6 3 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.41%) SOAP
7 2 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.27%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.14%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.14%) EDI
8 1 (0.14%) FHIR
8 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 113 (15.46%) Self-Motivation
2 56 (7.66%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.37%) IoT
7 9 (1.23%) Blog
7 9 (1.23%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.09%) Taxonomies
9 7 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.96%) PMI
9 7 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.82%) NHS
10 6 (0.82%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.82%) Replication
11 4 (0.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.05%) Linux
2 2 (0.27%) Unix
2 2 (0.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Solaris
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (59.37%) Data Architecture
2 410 (56.09%) Data Modelling
3 223 (30.51%) Analytics
4 218 (29.82%) ETL
5 213 (29.14%) Data Governance
6 205 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
7 177 (24.21%) Data Integration
8 155 (21.20%) Data Strategy
9 153 (20.93%) Data Engineering
10 145 (19.84%) Data Security
11 133 (18.19%) Mentoring
12 129 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
13 128 (17.51%) Innovative Thinking
14 126 (17.24%) Roadmaps
15 117 (16.01%) Data Management
16 115 (15.73%) Platform Engineering
17 111 (15.18%) ERD
18 106 (14.50%) Agile
19 92 (12.59%) Data Science
20 83 (11.35%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (19.02%) SQL
2 55 (7.52%) Python
3 29 (3.97%) Java
4 26 (3.56%) T-SQL
5 14 (1.92%) Scala
6 13 (1.78%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.09%) R
8 6 (0.82%) C++
9 5 (0.68%) C
9 5 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) Haskell
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 58 (7.93%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.43%) Degree
4 24 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.68%) MCAD
11 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (27.09%) Data Quality
2 145 (19.84%) GDPR
3 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.27%) QA
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (1.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.96%) Terraform
3 2 (0.27%) Ansible
3 2 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 123 (16.83%) Google
2 97 (13.27%) Databricks
3 66 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.60%) Oracle
5 14 (1.92%) Informatica
6 11 (1.50%) SAP
7 5 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (0.68%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.55%) NEC
9 3 (0.41%) Sparx
9 3 (0.41%) Teradata
10 2 (0.27%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.27%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco
10 2 (0.27%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.27%) Splunk
11 1 (0.14%) ESRI
11 1 (0.14%) IBM
11 1 (0.14%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.14%) Talend