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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 174 328
Rank change year-on-year -108 +154 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Architecture 1,063 2,160 2,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 2.18% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.28% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 599 908 904
10th Percentile £52,325 £46,335 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £80,000 £72,660
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +10.10% +3.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £90,313
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £63,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +18.11% +3.67% +2.08%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 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 -103 892 £80,000 -3.03% 182
UK excluding London -91 659 £75,000 +18.11% 108
Work from Home -93 436 £79,932 -5.96% 79
London -76 359 £90,000 -5.26% 113
North of England -28 219 £79,932 +3.14% 12
South East -37 114 £85,000 +44.68% 27
North West -55 111 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Scotland -52 104 £65,000 -27.78% 13
Midlands -88 104 £59,300 +24.84% 15
West Midlands -72 74 £59,300 +24.84% 13
South West -39 70 £63,773 -3.01% 16
Yorkshire +8 69 £79,932 -0.09% 1
North East +9 39 £79,932 +3.14% 3
East Midlands -12 30 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Wales +13 25 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Northern Ireland +31 11 - - 7
East of England -86 11 £110,000 +37.50% 9
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 39 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.45%) Apache
3 18 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.66%) Confluence
6 4 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.28%) IIS
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.094%) Appian
Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.56%) Trello
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.28%) Primavera
4 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.094%) Maximo
6 1 (0.094%) Odoo
6 1 (0.094%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 439 (41.30%) Azure
2 339 (31.89%) AWS
3 211 (19.85%) GCP
4 180 (16.93%) Power Platform
5 59 (5.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 56 (5.27%) Snowflake
7 33 (3.10%) dbt
7 33 (3.10%) Serverless
8 32 (3.01%) PowerApps
9 29 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (2.63%) SaaS
11 25 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (1.79%) Matillion
13 18 (1.69%) GitHub
14 17 (1.60%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) Internet
3 2 (0.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.094%) HTTP
4 1 (0.094%) Intranet
4 1 (0.094%) IPsec
4 1 (0.094%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.094%) RIP
4 1 (0.094%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (32.55%) Data Warehouse
2 154 (14.49%) Power BI
3 149 (14.02%) Data Lake
4 147 (13.83%) Metadata
5 138 (12.98%) BigQuery
6 118 (11.10%) Looker
7 95 (8.94%) Tableau
8 59 (5.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 43 (4.05%) SQL Server
10 32 (3.01%) Big Data
11 31 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (2.35%) NoSQL
14 19 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (1.79%) Data Vault
15 18 (1.69%) Relational Database
16 15 (1.41%) MongoDB
16 15 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
17 14 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 13 (1.22%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 33 (3.10%) Git
2 15 (1.41%) JIRA
3 14 (1.32%) GitLab
4 10 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.47%) ERwin
6 3 (0.28%) MLflow
6 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.094%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.094%) Vagrant
General
1 395 (37.16%) Finance
2 294 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (25.59%) Social Skills
4 128 (12.04%) Marketing
5 100 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (7.53%) Presentation Skills
7 70 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 68 (6.40%) Banking
9 61 (5.74%) Law
10 49 (4.61%) Retail
11 31 (2.92%) Retail Banking
12 30 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (2.35%) Legal
14 23 (2.16%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.69%) Investment Banking
16 17 (1.60%) Games
17 16 (1.51%) Front Office
18 12 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
20 6 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 572 (53.81%) Architect
2 410 (38.57%) Data Architect
3 172 (16.18%) Senior
4 123 (11.57%) Consultant
5 122 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
6 117 (11.01%) Lead
7 105 (9.88%) Data Engineer
8 80 (7.53%) Senior Architect
9 67 (6.30%) Senior Data Architect
10 64 (6.02%) Principal Architect
11 61 (5.74%) Data Consultant
12 50 (4.70%) Senior Consultant
13 47 (4.42%) Analyst
13 47 (4.42%) Senior Technology Consultant
13 47 (4.42%) Technology Consultant
14 44 (4.14%) Developer
15 40 (3.76%) Enterprise Architect
16 31 (2.92%) Data Analyst
17 30 (2.82%) Java Architect
17 30 (2.82%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.07%) PySpark
2 21 (1.98%) .NET
3 19 (1.79%) HTML
3 19 (1.79%) Pandas
4 17 (1.60%) Kafka
5 14 (1.32%) NumPy
6 13 (1.22%) gRPC
6 13 (1.22%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (1.22%) SciPy
7 10 (0.94%) Middleware
8 5 (0.47%) Apache Beam
8 5 (0.47%) CSS
8 5 (0.47%) J2EE
9 4 (0.38%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.38%) RESTful
9 4 (0.38%) Web Services
10 3 (0.28%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.28%) HTML5
10 3 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 124 (11.67%) Self-Motivation
2 79 (7.43%) Management Information System
3 69 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 64 (6.02%) Cloud Native
5 28 (2.63%) Credit Risk
6 26 (2.45%) Reference Data
7 24 (2.26%) Taxonomies
8 19 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 13 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.13%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.13%) Derivative
12 12 (1.13%) Equities
12 12 (1.13%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.13%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.28%) Unix
1 3 (0.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.094%) Android
2 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.094%) Linux
2 1 (0.094%) Solaris
2 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (48.82%) Data Modelling
2 364 (34.24%) Data Governance
3 301 (28.32%) Analytics
4 296 (27.85%) ETL
5 277 (26.06%) Roadmaps
6 269 (25.31%) Data Engineering
7 257 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (22.77%) Mentoring
9 233 (21.92%) Business Intelligence
10 227 (21.35%) Agile
11 220 (20.70%) Data Management
12 212 (19.94%) Data Integration
13 168 (15.80%) Strategic Roadmap
14 164 (15.43%) Data Strategy
15 151 (14.21%) Data Security
16 144 (13.55%) Decision-Making
17 135 (12.70%) Data Analysis
18 131 (12.32%) Innovative Thinking
19 124 (11.67%) Data Science
20 119 (11.19%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 294 (27.66%) SQL
2 162 (15.24%) Python
3 68 (6.40%) Java
4 38 (3.57%) T-SQL
5 30 (2.82%) Scala
6 23 (2.16%) R
7 21 (1.98%) JavaScript
8 19 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.51%) C#
10 13 (1.22%) Ruby
11 11 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.28%) VB
15 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.094%) Bicep
16 1 (0.094%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.094%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (9.31%) Degree
2 80 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 76 (7.15%) Azure Certification
4 67 (6.30%) AWS Certification
5 51 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (3.76%) Master's Degree
7 33 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.63%) SC Cleared
9 15 (1.41%) CISSP
10 11 (1.03%) PhD
11 9 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.85%) MBA
12 7 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.56%) IIBA
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.19%) CIMA
16 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.094%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 162 (15.24%) GDPR
3 21 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.60%) QA
5 12 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.28%) PMO
8 3 (0.28%) PSD2
8 3 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (1.13%) Docker
2 6 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.094%) HDFS
3 1 (0.094%) LXC
3 1 (0.094%) RACF
3 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (1.51%) Terraform
2 10 (0.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.19%) Argo
4 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (14.11%) Google
2 135 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 84 (7.90%) Databricks
4 24 (2.26%) Oracle
5 15 (1.41%) SAP
6 14 (1.32%) Sparx
7 11 (1.03%) Informatica
8 7 (0.66%) Teradata
9 6 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.47%) Talend
11 4 (0.38%) Dell
12 3 (0.28%) Facebook
12 3 (0.28%) IBM
12 3 (0.28%) Twitter
13 2 (0.19%) Ab Initio
13 2 (0.19%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.19%) Cognos
13 2 (0.19%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.19%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.19%) SnapLogic