AWS Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 377 481
Rank change year-on-year +32 +104 +98
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 8 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.079% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.084% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 9
10th Percentile £485 £533 -
25th Percentile £506 £569 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +2.08% -2.44%
75th Percentile £586 £649 £688
90th Percentile £679 £705 £778
England median daily rate £531 £625 £638
% change year-on-year -15.00% -1.96% +3.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Architect in London

AWS Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Architect in London

AWS Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the London region featuring AWS Data Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
3 6 (75.00%) Data Integration
3 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (75.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (75.00%) Databricks
4 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
4 5 (62.50%) Apache Spark
5 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (50.00%) GCP
5 4 (50.00%) Flink
5 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (50.00%) Kafka
5 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (50.00%) Azure
5 4 (50.00%) Docker
5 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
7 2 (25.00%) Migration
7 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (25.00%) Neo4j
7 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (25.00%) React
7 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (62.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (50.00%) Flink
3 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) Neo4j
3 2 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Plotly
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Integration
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle