AWS Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 375 418
Rank change year-on-year +12 +43 +93
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.011% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.012% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £400 - £436
25th Percentile £401 £468 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -19.15% +5.62%
75th Percentile £470 £483 £691
90th Percentile £510 - £749
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £588
% change year-on-year -10.64% - -16.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,783 16,444 20,410
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 92.28% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 9,515 13,624
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £678 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,274 1,412 1,211
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.27 £14.03
25th Percentile £16.19 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

AWS Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 September 2025. 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
Midlands - 1 £400 -
South East - 1 £402 - 1
South West - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
AWS Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills

AWS Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks