Data Architect jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-17, Skillenai has indexed 365 job postings with the title “Data Architect” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is data architecture, with demand down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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+How many Data Architect jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 365 job postings with the title “Data Architect” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Data Architect jobs require?
Across Data Architect postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the skills mentioned most often are data architecture, data governance, data modeling, SQL, AWS.
+Which cities are hiring the most Data Architect?
As of 2026-05-17, Data Architect postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in London, Bengaluru, Bristol, Pune, Uk.
+Is Data Architect a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 365 Data Architect postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Data Architect postings is data architecture, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Data Architect postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Data Architect
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| data architecture | 114 | 12.0% |
| data governance | 107 | 11.3% |
| data modeling | 106 | 11.2% |
| SQL | 67 | 7.1% |
| AWS | 66 | 6.9% |
| data quality | 65 | 6.8% |
| ETL | 62 | 6.5% |
| Azure | 58 | 6.1% |
| Python | 56 | 5.9% |
| Databricks | 48 | 5.1% |
| Snowflake | 48 | 5.1% |
| data integration | 47 | 4.9% |
| ELT | 37 | 3.9% |
| data lineage | 35 | 3.7% |
| data pipelines | 34 | 3.6% |
Top metros hiring Data Architect
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| London | 11 | 17.2% |
| Bengaluru | 10 | 15.6% |
| Bristol | 8 | 12.5% |
| Pune | 8 | 12.5% |
| Uk | 8 | 12.5% |
| Arlington | 5 | 7.8% |
| Edinburgh | 5 | 7.8% |
| Manchester | 5 | 7.8% |
| Chicago | 4 | 6.3% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, matching postings whose canonical role is “Data Architect”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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