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

Postings · last 90 days
365
Demand vs prior month
down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks
Most-required skill
Top hiring metro
London

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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

NamePostingsShare
data architecture11412.0%
data governance10711.3%
data modeling10611.2%
SQL677.1%
AWS666.9%
data quality656.8%
ETL626.5%
Azure586.1%
Python565.9%
Databricks485.1%
Snowflake485.1%
data integration474.9%
ELT373.9%
data lineage353.7%
data pipelines343.6%

Top metros hiring Data Architect

NamePostingsShare
London1117.2%
Bengaluru1015.6%
Bristol812.5%
Pune812.5%
Uk812.5%
Arlington57.8%
Edinburgh57.8%
Manchester57.8%
Chicago46.3%

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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).

role
Data Architect
source
Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
data_as_of
2026-05-17
window_days
90
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index