AWS Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
North West > Manchester

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Manchester is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.051% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
North West median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,813 921 1,156
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.10% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 590 754
10th Percentile £316 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £594
90th Percentile £695 £663 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 71 56
10th Percentile £22.67 £13.00 £15.56
25th Percentile £29.96 £13.70 £23.58
Median hourly rate £60.00 £20.26 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +196.22% -53.70% +130.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £44.38 £63.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £78.75
North West median hourly rate £45.56 £27.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +68.72% -21.08% +15.38%

AWS Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AWS Data Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Architect job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Architect job vacancies in Manchester

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 6 August 2026, AWS Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring AWS Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Inmon Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Inmon Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Talend