AWS Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
England > North West

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North West 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 176 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.026% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £625 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 3,444 2,018 2,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 91.98% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,937 1,299 1,374
10th Percentile £282 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £599 £553 £585
90th Percentile £676 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 159 209
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £11.07
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +68.72% -21.08% +15.38%
75th Percentile £72.45 £50.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +5.88%

AWS Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

AWS Data Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Architect job vacancies in the North West

AWS Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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
Manchester - 1 £600 -
AWS Data Architect
England

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

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 North West 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 the North West 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