Lead Data Architect Jobs

Lead Data Architect
UK

The median Lead Data Architect salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 915 1238
Rank change year-on-year +37 +323 -338
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 29 32 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.034% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.037% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 15
10th Percentile £61,000 £84,500 £60,722
25th Percentile £77,500 £93,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £126,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £139,250 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £112,500 £83,500
% change year-on-year -24.44% +34.73% +26.52%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Lead Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London -21 26 £85,000 -24.44%
England +33 25 £85,000 -22.73% 4
Work from Home +43 16 £85,000 -22.73%
South East +4 11 £63,500 -20.63%
South West - 9 £95,000 -
North of England +25 3 £80,000 -28.89%
Scotland -65 3 £100,000 -
North East - 3 £80,000 -
London +103 2 £110,000 +4.76% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Lead 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 Lead Data Architect in the job title.

1 20 (68.97%) Data Architecture
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) Data Modelling
3 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 10 (34.48%) Roadmaps
4 9 (31.03%) Thought Leadership
4 9 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (31.03%) Data Governance
5 8 (27.59%) ETL
5 8 (27.59%) Architecture Roadmap
5 8 (27.59%) Databricks
6 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
6 7 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
6 7 (24.14%) Analytics
7 6 (20.69%) Automotive
7 6 (20.69%) Financial Institution
7 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Data Management
7 6 (20.69%) Data Analysis
7 6 (20.69%) Data Lake
7 6 (20.69%) Data Science
7 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
7 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
7 6 (20.69%) Metadata
8 5 (17.24%) Azure Stack
8 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
9 4 (13.79%) Data Security

Lead 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Stack
4 4 (13.79%) Matillion
4 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.79%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.69%) Data Lake
2 6 (20.69%) Metadata
3 4 (13.79%) Power BI
4 3 (10.34%) Big Data
4 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Automotive
2 6 (20.69%) Financial Institution
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Billing
3 4 (13.79%) Wearables
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Data Architecture
2 13 (44.83%) Data Modelling
3 10 (34.48%) Roadmaps
4 9 (31.03%) Data Governance
4 9 (31.03%) Thought Leadership
5 8 (27.59%) Architecture Roadmap
5 8 (27.59%) ETL
6 7 (24.14%) Analytics
6 7 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
7 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Data Analysis
7 6 (20.69%) Data Management
7 6 (20.69%) Data Science
8 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (13.79%) Data Security
9 4 (13.79%) Information Security
9 4 (13.79%) Metadata Management
9 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft