AWS Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £556, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 613 808
Rank change year-on-year +87 +195 +17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 23 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.030% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.032% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 22
10th Percentile £499 £400 £563
25th Percentile £513 £481 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £710
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -26.06% +18.33%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £732
90th Percentile £706 £698 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £588 -
% change year-on-year -19.15% - -

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 33,956 44,250 77,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.82% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,486 30,168 54,199
10th Percentile £300 £300 £316
25th Percentile £411 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 1,536 1,766
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%

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 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Architect in the UK

AWS Data Architect
Top 7 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 31 October 2024. 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 +87 21 £575 +17.95% 1
London +66 19 £600 +18.52% 1
Work from Home +78 5 £550 -15.38% 1
UK excluding London +43 2 £475 -19.15%
North of England +31 2 £475 -38.71%
Yorkshire +17 1 £475 -38.71%
North West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Java
3 10 (43.48%) Migration
4 9 (39.13%) Spring
4 9 (39.13%) DB2
4 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
4 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
5 8 (34.78%) NoSQL
5 8 (34.78%) Data Migration
6 7 (30.43%) DynamoDB
6 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (30.43%) Database Migration
7 6 (26.09%) Docker
7 6 (26.09%) Logical Data Model
7 6 (26.09%) Physical Data Model
7 6 (26.09%) Banking
7 6 (26.09%) SQL
7 6 (26.09%) NewSQL
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (26.09%) Kafka
7 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
7 6 (26.09%) Git
8 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
8 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
8 5 (21.74%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (21.74%) IBM
8 5 (21.74%) Finance
8 5 (21.74%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes

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 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (8.70%) dbt
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) DB2
2 8 (34.78%) NoSQL
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (30.43%) DynamoDB
3 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (26.09%) NewSQL
5 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (17.39%) MySQL
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (13.04%) CockroachDB
6 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
6 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (8.70%) Big Data
7 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
8 1 (4.35%) IDMS
8 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
General
1 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Spring
1 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
2 6 (26.09%) Kafka
3 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Migration
2 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
3 8 (34.78%) Data Migration
4 7 (30.43%) Database Migration
5 6 (26.09%) Logical Data Model
5 6 (26.09%) Physical Data Model
6 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
7 4 (17.39%) ETL
7 4 (17.39%) Microservices
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
9 2 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
9 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Grafana
2 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.04%) Kibana
3 3 (13.04%) logstash
4 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) IBM
2 3 (13.04%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Talend