Data Architect: market
A Data Architect designs a company's data architecture: models and stores, flows between systems, quality, access governance and data-handling rules. We currently track 648 open positions for this role, 596 of them fresh. Postings expect data-engineering experience, data modeling, cloud warehouses and lakehouses, integrations, data governance (catalogs, lineage, quality) and leading the data strategy. By co-occurrence in requirements, Azure, AWS, Databricks and SQL appear most often. 39% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Data Architect market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Data Architect market currently has 648 open roles, 596 of them freshly observed. Median salary $10,416/mo.
39% of Data Architect postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 67 of 648 jobs; remote share from 525 with a stated format; 596 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: Data Architect
| Open demand | 648 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Data Architect
One in ten earns under $6,304, one in ten over $17,757. Half the market falls between $8,333 and $14,683. Sample: 67.
The range histogram for Data Architect uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Data Architect
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 123 |
| GB | 118 |
| PL | 90 |
| IN | 40 |
| DE | 27 |
| CA | 21 |
| PH | 14 |
| BR | 13 |
| FR | 10 |
| HK | 10 |
The top country for Data Architect demand is the US (123 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Data Architect requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Azure, AWS, Databricks and SQL.
Demand by grade: Data Architect
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 201 |
| lead | 64 |
| principal | 36 |
| middle | 9 |
| junior | 2 |
Senior-and-above is about 96% of 312 Data Architect postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Data Architect
Demand is spread across 406 employers. The largest accounts for 2.4%, the top ten for 14.5%; the remaining 85.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.4% |
| top-3 | 6.4% |
| top-10 | 14.5% |
| long tail | 85.5% |
Data Architect openings come from 406 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 2.4% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 45 sources; the largest accounts for 13.1% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Data Architect postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Data Architect
- Data Architect · US
- Data Architect · PL
- Principal Data Architect · PL · $11,750
- Data Architect
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Technical Data Architect) · GB
- Snowflake Data Architect · GB · $8,406
- Data Architect · GB · $8,064
- Data Architecture & Engineering Lead · GB · $11,611
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-26
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Data Architect role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Data Architect do?
A Data Architect designs a company's data architecture: models and stores, flows between systems, quality, access governance and data-handling rules.
Which skills do Data Architect postings require?
Postings expect data-engineering experience, data modeling, cloud warehouses and lakehouses, integrations, data governance (catalogs, lineage, quality) and leading the data strategy. In the current slice, Azure, AWS, Databricks and SQL appear in requirements most often.
How do people become Data Architects?
Usually after several years of data engineering: the role requires seeing how data flows through the whole company and making decisions that outlive several generations of tools.
How remote-friendly are Data Architect jobs?
39% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 648 open positions.
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