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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 458 592
Rank change year-on-year +71 +134 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 686 656 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.72% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 426 436 466
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,722 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,313 £75,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £83,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +4.06%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year -10.94% +15.94% -4.83%

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 18 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 18 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 +89 622 £82,500 -10.81% 118
UK excluding London +135 427 £71,250 -10.94% 73
London +14 218 £90,000 -10.00% 68
Work from Home +19 210 £82,500 -8.33% 65
North of England +148 142 £75,000 -21.05% 17
South East +61 119 £85,000 - 23
North West +61 70 £70,000 -26.32% 10
Midlands +38 66 £59,300 -18.21% 9
West Midlands +59 53 £59,300 -30.24% 5
Yorkshire +106 50 £80,000 -11.11% 4
South West -10 44 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Scotland -60 30 £72,500 +9.85% 7
North East +15 22 £77,500 - 3
East of England -3 19 £50,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -8 13 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Wales 0 5 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 410 (59.77%) Data Architecture
2 392 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 334 (48.69%) Azure
4 269 (39.21%) Data Warehouse
5 234 (34.11%) AWS
6 213 (31.05%) ETL
7 212 (30.90%) Data Governance
8 194 (28.28%) Data Quality
9 192 (27.99%) Analytics
10 184 (26.82%) Analytical Skills
11 179 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
12 173 (25.22%) Data Integration
13 172 (25.07%) GCP
14 153 (22.30%) Data Engineering
15 151 (22.01%) Metadata
16 148 (21.57%) Finance
17 147 (21.43%) Data Strategy
18 145 (21.14%) GDPR
19 144 (20.99%) Data Security
20 131 (19.10%) SQL
21 129 (18.80%) Mentoring
22 127 (18.51%) Innovative Thinking
23 122 (17.78%) BigQuery
24 121 (17.64%) Roadmaps
25 120 (17.49%) Google
26 117 (17.06%) Data Management
27 114 (16.62%) Platform Engineering
28 113 (16.47%) Self-Motivation
29 112 (16.33%) Looker
30 111 (16.18%) 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 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.46%) Apache
3 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.73%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 334 (48.69%) Azure
2 234 (34.11%) AWS
3 172 (25.07%) GCP
4 57 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 48 (7.00%) Snowflake
6 32 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 31 (4.52%) Serverless
8 23 (3.35%) Matillion
9 20 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (2.62%) PaaS
11 17 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (2.48%) SaaS
12 10 (1.46%) IaaS
13 7 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (0.73%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.73%) Azure Storage
16 4 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.60%) Wireless
2 6 (0.87%) Network Security
3 5 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.29%) Extranet
4 2 (0.29%) LAN
4 2 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.29%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (39.21%) Data Warehouse
2 151 (22.01%) Metadata
3 122 (17.78%) BigQuery
4 112 (16.33%) Looker
5 105 (15.31%) Data Lake
6 54 (7.87%) Power BI
7 39 (5.69%) Big Data
8 38 (5.54%) NoSQL
9 24 (3.50%) SQL Server
10 23 (3.35%) Data Vault
11 15 (2.19%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.19%) Tableau
12 11 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.60%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.31%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (1.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.02%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Git
2 4 (0.58%) ERwin
2 4 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 1 (0.15%) JIRA
General
1 184 (26.82%) Analytical Skills
2 148 (21.57%) Finance
3 78 (11.37%) Social Skills
4 56 (8.16%) Banking
5 54 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 29 (4.23%) Retail
8 29 (4.23%) Retail Banking
9 25 (3.64%) Marketing
10 21 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.48%) Law
12 12 (1.75%) Legal
13 7 (1.02%) Billing
14 6 (0.87%) Automotive
14 6 (0.87%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.58%) Wearables
17 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.77%) Kafka
2 9 (1.31%) Middleware
3 7 (1.02%) XML
4 5 (0.73%) HTML
4 5 (0.73%) Itk
4 5 (0.73%) PySpark
4 5 (0.73%) Web Services
5 4 (0.58%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.58%) REST
6 3 (0.44%) .NET
6 3 (0.44%) J2EE
6 3 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.44%) SOAP
7 2 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.29%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.15%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.15%) FHIR
8 1 (0.15%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.15%) JWT
8 1 (0.15%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.47%) Self-Motivation
2 54 (7.87%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.04%) Taxonomies
7 10 (1.46%) IoT
7 10 (1.46%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.31%) Blog
9 8 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.02%) PMI
10 7 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.87%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.87%) Replication
12 5 (0.73%) NHS
13 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.44%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Unix
2 2 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.15%) Solaris
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (59.77%) Data Architecture
2 392 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 213 (31.05%) ETL
4 212 (30.90%) Data Governance
5 192 (27.99%) Analytics
6 179 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (25.22%) Data Integration
8 153 (22.30%) Data Engineering
9 147 (21.43%) Data Strategy
10 144 (20.99%) Data Security
11 129 (18.80%) Mentoring
12 127 (18.51%) Innovative Thinking
13 121 (17.64%) Roadmaps
14 117 (17.06%) Data Management
15 114 (16.62%) Platform Engineering
16 111 (16.18%) ERD
17 104 (15.16%) Business Intelligence
18 98 (14.29%) Agile
19 81 (11.81%) Metadata Management
20 74 (10.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 131 (19.10%) SQL
2 49 (7.14%) Python
3 27 (3.94%) T-SQL
4 24 (3.50%) Java
5 12 (1.75%) Scala
6 9 (1.31%) Kotlin
7 8 (1.17%) R
8 6 (0.87%) C++
9 5 (0.73%) C
9 5 (0.73%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.15%) Go
10 1 (0.15%) Haskell
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.69%) Degree
4 20 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.17%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.73%) MCAD
11 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (28.28%) Data Quality
2 145 (21.14%) GDPR
3 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.44%) QA
5 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (1.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.73%) Terraform
3 2 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 120 (17.49%) Google
2 102 (14.87%) Databricks
3 69 (10.06%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.62%) Oracle
5 13 (1.90%) Informatica
6 12 (1.75%) SAP
7 5 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.58%) NEC
9 3 (0.44%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.44%) Sparx
9 3 (0.44%) Teradata
10 2 (0.29%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.29%) Cisco
10 2 (0.29%) Splunk
11 1 (0.15%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.15%) ESRI
11 1 (0.15%) IBM
11 1 (0.15%) Okta
11 1 (0.15%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.15%) Talend