AWS Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £635 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 699 830
Rank change year-on-year +121 +131 -166
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 22 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.029% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.030% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 26
10th Percentile £538 - £519
25th Percentile £569 £550 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £638 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% +2.82% -0.80%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £684
90th Percentile £725 £766 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

AWS Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Architect in the UK

AWS Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Architect in the UK

AWS Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Architect in the UK

AWS Data Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +122 17 £625 -1.96% 6
London +115 14 £613 +2.08% 6
Work from Home +130 12 £700 +3.70% 2
UK excluding London - 2 £700 -
South East - 2 £700 -

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, AWS Data Architect contract 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 contract job ads featuring AWS Data Architect in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
2 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Data Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
3 5 (22.73%) Big Data
3 5 (22.73%) Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) DB2
4 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.64%) Flink
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
5 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Apache
5 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Big Data
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (18.18%) DB2
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) Flink
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 2 (9.09%) NewSQL
4 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (4.55%) DocumentDB
5 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (9.09%) Finance
1 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
1 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Data Migration
1 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 5 (22.73%) Analytics
2 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
4 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.09%) ETL
5 2 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 2 (9.09%) Kimball Methodology
5 2 (9.09%) Microservices
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (4.55%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) IBM