AWS Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 570 682
Rank change year-on-year +43 +112 +152
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Architect 7 23 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.052% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.056% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 10
10th Percentile £401 £488 £511
25th Percentile £444 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £600
90th Percentile £609 £725 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £700 -
% change year-on-year -42.57% - -

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 27,617 40,796 52,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 92.91% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,719 26,125 36,530
10th Percentile £289 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.36% -1.70% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,193 3,003 1,492
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.45 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%

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 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Architect in the UK

AWS Data Architect
Top 8 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 21 June 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 +39 7 £525 -12.50% 8
London +40 4 £538 -10.42% 8
UK excluding London +38 3 £402 -42.57% 1
South East +47 1 £402 -42.57%
Work from Home +40 1 £520 -9.57% 7
South West - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (71.43%) Data Integration
4 4 (57.14%) ETL
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (57.14%) Databricks
4 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
5 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
5 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
5 3 (42.86%) Kafka
5 3 (42.86%) Docker
5 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 2 (28.57%) SQL
6 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
6 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (28.57%) GCP
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (28.57%) Flink

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 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
3 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (28.57%) Flink
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Plotly
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Data Integration
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Data Security
6 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
6 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks