AWS Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 681 816
Rank change year-on-year +138 +135 -141
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 24 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.023% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.025% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 25
10th Percentile £488 - £525
25th Percentile £536 £550 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £615
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% -1.60%
75th Percentile £678 £622 £688
90th Percentile £725 £718 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

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 May 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 May 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 +104 19 £613 +6.52% 5
London +92 15 £600 +4.35% 4
Work from Home +124 11 £613 +2.08% 2
UK excluding London - 3 £700 - 1
South East - 2 £700 -
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
North of England - 1 £475 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (33.33%) Kafka
3 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) Data Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Java
5 6 (25.00%) Python
5 6 (25.00%) Analytics
5 6 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
5 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (25.00%) Serverless
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) DynamoDB
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) DB2
7 4 (16.67%) SQL
7 4 (16.67%) ETL
7 4 (16.67%) Finance
7 4 (16.67%) Big Data
7 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot

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 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (25.00%) Serverless
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (12.50%) Azure
7 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon Neptune
9 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (4.17%) GCP
9 1 (4.17%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (20.83%) DB2
1 5 (20.83%) DynamoDB
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.67%) Big Data
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (8.33%) NewSQL
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.17%) DocumentDB
5 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
1 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (29.17%) Data Migration
2 7 (29.17%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
4 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.67%) ETL
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (12.50%) Microservices
7 2 (8.33%) Data Architecture
7 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
7 2 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (8.33%) Kimball Methodology
7 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 1 (4.17%) Data Transformation
8 1 (4.17%) Database Security
8 1 (4.17%) DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning
8 1 (4.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Ab Initio
3 1 (4.17%) IBM