Data Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 542 573
Rank change year-on-year +158 +31 -110
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Architect 438 210 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 249 146 151
10th Percentile £52,325 £51,875 £49,950
25th Percentile £59,300 £68,750 £55,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +15.94% -4.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +134 145 £75,000 -21.05% 18
South East +77 121 £85,000 - 24
North West +57 72 £70,000 -26.32% 10
Midlands +41 67 £59,300 -18.21% 8
West Midlands +60 53 £59,300 -30.24% 5
Yorkshire +106 51 £80,000 -11.11% 4
South West -5 45 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Scotland -60 32 £72,500 +9.85% 7
North East +20 22 £77,500 - 4
East of England -1 19 £50,000 -37.50% 2
East Midlands -17 14 £70,000 -3.45% 3
Wales +3 6 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 289 (65.98%) Data Architecture
2 268 (61.19%) Data Modelling
3 208 (47.49%) Azure
4 185 (42.24%) Data Warehouse
5 154 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (34.93%) AWS
7 150 (34.25%) Data Governance
8 149 (34.02%) ETL
9 142 (32.42%) Data Quality
10 141 (32.19%) Analytical Skills
11 127 (29.00%) Data Engineering
12 126 (28.77%) GDPR
13 121 (27.63%) Data Security
14 119 (27.17%) Analytics
15 117 (26.71%) Data Integration
16 112 (25.57%) GCP
17 111 (25.34%) Mentoring
18 102 (23.29%) BigQuery
19 100 (22.83%) Google
20 97 (22.15%) Platform Engineering
21 96 (21.92%) Self-Motivation
21 96 (21.92%) ERD
21 96 (21.92%) Innovative Thinking
21 96 (21.92%) Looker
22 86 (19.63%) Metadata
23 84 (19.18%) Data Strategy
24 78 (17.81%) Finance
25 76 (17.35%) Data Management
26 73 (16.67%) SQL
27 72 (16.44%) Business Intelligence

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.46%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 208 (47.49%) Azure
2 153 (34.93%) AWS
3 112 (25.57%) GCP
4 50 (11.42%) Power Platform
5 38 (8.68%) Snowflake
6 23 (5.25%) Matillion
7 21 (4.79%) Serverless
8 9 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.05%) SaaS
9 7 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.14%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.46%) PaaS
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Extranet
1 2 (0.46%) LAN
1 2 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.46%) WAN
1 2 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (42.24%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (23.29%) BigQuery
3 96 (21.92%) Looker
4 86 (19.63%) Metadata
5 50 (11.42%) Power BI
6 39 (8.90%) Data Lake
7 26 (5.94%) Data Vault
8 23 (5.25%) NoSQL
9 20 (4.57%) Tableau
10 10 (2.28%) Big Data
11 8 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.60%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.60%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.60%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.37%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.37%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.68%) MySQL
14 3 (0.68%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (1.60%) Git
2 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.46%) ERwin
2 2 (0.46%) MLflow
General
1 141 (32.19%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (17.81%) Finance
3 40 (9.13%) Social Skills
4 30 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.57%) Retail
7 18 (4.11%) Marketing
8 17 (3.88%) Law
9 15 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.74%) Legal
11 9 (2.05%) Banking
12 6 (1.37%) Automotive
12 6 (1.37%) Billing
12 6 (1.37%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.14%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Wearables
15 3 (0.68%) Advertising
15 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.28%) Middleware
2 9 (2.05%) Kafka
3 3 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (0.68%) REST
3 3 (0.68%) SOAP
4 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.23%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 96 (21.92%) Self-Motivation
2 43 (9.82%) Management Information System
3 27 (6.16%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.51%) Taxonomies
5 9 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.83%) Blog
7 7 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.37%) IoT
9 5 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.91%) PMI
10 4 (0.91%) Replication
11 3 (0.68%) NHS
12 2 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.46%) Reinsurance
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.23%) Industry 4.0
13 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.23%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
2 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (65.98%) Data Architecture
2 268 (61.19%) Data Modelling
3 154 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (34.25%) Data Governance
5 149 (34.02%) ETL
6 127 (29.00%) Data Engineering
7 121 (27.63%) Data Security
8 119 (27.17%) Analytics
9 117 (26.71%) Data Integration
10 111 (25.34%) Mentoring
11 97 (22.15%) Platform Engineering
12 96 (21.92%) ERD
12 96 (21.92%) Innovative Thinking
13 84 (19.18%) Data Strategy
14 76 (17.35%) Data Management
15 72 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
16 69 (15.75%) Data Science
17 68 (15.53%) Data Design
18 65 (14.84%) Roadmaps
19 52 (11.87%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 73 (16.67%) SQL
2 27 (6.16%) T-SQL
3 19 (4.34%) Python
4 12 (2.74%) Java
5 10 (2.28%) Kotlin
6 5 (1.14%) Scala
7 1 (0.23%) C++
7 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 27 (6.16%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.25%) Degree
4 12 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (32.42%) Data Quality
2 126 (28.77%) GDPR
3 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (0.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 100 (22.83%) Google
2 41 (9.36%) Databricks
3 19 (4.34%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.83%) Oracle
5 4 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (0.91%) NEC
6 3 (0.68%) SAP
7 2 (0.46%) Cisco
7 2 (0.46%) Informatica
8 1 (0.23%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.23%) ESRI
8 1 (0.23%) Sparx
8 1 (0.23%) Talend
8 1 (0.23%) Teradata