AWS Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £531, 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 510 560 701
Rank change year-on-year +50 +141 +123
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 10 22 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.051% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.054% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 12
10th Percentile £482 £538 -
25th Percentile £485 £569 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £635 £638
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% -0.39% +3.66%
75th Percentile £556 £700 £688
90th Percentile £676 £725 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £700 -
% change year-on-year -31.29% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
England +50 10 £531 -15.00% 2
London +32 8 £538 -12.24% 2
UK excluding London +63 2 £481 -31.29% 1
South East +46 2 £481 -31.29% 1
Work from Home +31 2 £520 -25.71% 2

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

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 featuring AWS Data Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (60.00%) Data Integration
4 6 (60.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (60.00%) Databricks
4 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (40.00%) Kafka
6 4 (40.00%) Migration
6 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (40.00%) Azure
6 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
6 4 (40.00%) GCP
6 4 (40.00%) Docker
6 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (40.00%) Flink
6 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (30.00%) ETL
8 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (20.00%) SQL
8 2 (20.00%) Unix
8 2 (20.00%) Linux
8 2 (20.00%) Python
8 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture

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 5 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (40.00%) Flink
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 2 (20.00%) Neo4j
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Plotly
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle