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 637 open positions for this role, 586 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. 38% 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 637 open roles, 586 of them freshly observed. Median salary $10,507/mo.
38% of Data Architect postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 69 of 637 jobs; remote share from 513 with a stated format; 586 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Data Architect postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 85
New sources connected: 11 May +1 · 18 May +1 · 25 May +3 · 1 Jun +4 · 15 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +9 · 29 Jun +5 · 6 Jul +11 · 13 Jul +5 · 20 Jul +8 · 27 Jul +6 · 3 Aug +3 · 10 Aug +3 · 17 Aug +5 · 31 Aug +2 · 7 Sept +2 · 21 Sept +7 · 28 Sept +2 · 5 Oct +2 · 12 Oct +4
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Data Architect salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Data Architect postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Data Architect postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Data Architect postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Data Architect
| Open demand | 637 |
| 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 $19,123. Half the market falls between $8,333 and $14,710. Sample: 69.
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 |
|---|---|
| GB | 123 |
| US | 119 |
| PL | 83 |
| IN | 38 |
| DE | 26 |
| CA | 19 |
| PH | 14 |
| BR | 13 |
| HK | 11 |
| FR | 10 |
The top country for Data Architect demand is the UK (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 | 196 |
| lead | 62 |
| principal | 30 |
| middle | 9 |
| junior | 2 |
Senior-and-above is about 96% of 299 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 393 employers. The largest accounts for 2.5%, the top ten for 15.0%; the remaining 85.0% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.5% |
| top-3 | 6.6% |
| top-10 | 15.0% |
| long tail | 85.0% |
Data Architect openings come from 393 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 2.5% 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 14.3% — 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 / Senior Data · GB · $8,511
- Senior Engineer & Data Architect, Financial Systems · US · $13,576
- SAP Data Architect
- Data Architect Microsoft Fabric
- Big Data Architect · US · $8,333
- Data Architect Kafka - F/H (IT) · FR
- Data Architect · GB
- Lead Data Architect · US
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 2026-10-24
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?
38% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 637 open positions.
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