AWS Architect Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 493 448
Rank change year-on-year +94 -45 -54
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 141 164 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.33% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 118 247
10th Percentile £456 £459 £525
25th Percentile £519 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £738 £722 £725
90th Percentile £780 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +90 105 £595 -8.46% 13
North of England +33 14 £495 -25.36% 3
North West +20 11 £495 -17.58% 1
South West +5 4 £1,000 +61.62% 1
Midlands +34 3 £750 +20.00% 2
East Midlands +26 3 £750 +20.00% 1
South East +26 3 £700 +30.23% 1
Yorkshire +18 3 - - 2
East of England +9 2 £650 -
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, AWS 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 England region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 141 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (21.28%) Security Cleared
3 29 (20.57%) Finance
3 29 (20.57%) Python
4 27 (19.15%) SC Cleared
5 26 (18.44%) Serverless
5 26 (18.44%) Social Skills
6 25 (17.73%) Azure
7 24 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (16.31%) DevOps
8 23 (16.31%) Java
9 22 (15.60%) Migration
10 21 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (14.89%) AWS Certification
10 21 (14.89%) Cloud Security
11 18 (12.77%) Analytics
12 17 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (11.35%) Kubernetes
14 15 (10.64%) Microservices
14 15 (10.64%) Terraform
14 15 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (10.64%) Kafka
14 15 (10.64%) JavaScript
15 14 (9.93%) SQL
15 14 (9.93%) TOGAF
15 14 (9.93%) React
15 14 (9.93%) TypeScript
16 13 (9.22%) Big Data
16 13 (9.22%) IaaS
16 13 (9.22%) Amazon S3

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (5.67%) Apache Spark
1 8 (5.67%) Confluence
2 5 (3.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.13%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (18.44%) Serverless
3 25 (17.73%) Azure
4 24 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (9.22%) Amazon S3
6 13 (9.22%) IaaS
7 11 (7.80%) SaaS
7 11 (7.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (7.09%) PaaS
9 9 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.96%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.96%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (3.55%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (3.55%) Apigee
13 5 (3.55%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (3.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) Firewall
1 4 (2.84%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (9.22%) Big Data
3 12 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.96%) Apache Hive
4 7 (4.96%) DB2
4 7 (4.96%) Impala
4 7 (4.96%) Power BI
4 7 (4.96%) Tableau
5 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.26%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.55%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.55%) OLAP
6 5 (3.55%) OLTP
6 5 (3.55%) Oracle OLAP
7 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.13%) Flink
7 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.80%) JIRA
2 9 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.42%) Git
3 2 (1.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (20.57%) Finance
2 26 (18.44%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.96%) Banking
6 6 (4.26%) Marketing
6 6 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.84%) Electronics
7 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Games
9 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.64%) Kafka
2 14 (9.93%) React
3 11 (7.80%) Spring Boot
4 10 (7.09%) GraphQL
4 10 (7.09%) Spring
5 7 (4.96%) .NET
5 7 (4.96%) .NET Core
5 7 (4.96%) CSS
5 7 (4.96%) PySpark
5 7 (4.96%) SAML
6 5 (3.55%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (3.55%) J2EE
6 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.55%) SOAP
6 5 (3.55%) Web Services
7 4 (2.84%) Apache Camel
7 4 (2.84%) Spring Integration
8 3 (2.13%) Middleware
8 3 (2.13%) Node.js
9 1 (0.71%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.55%) DataPower
3 4 (2.84%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.42%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) Life Science
6 1 (0.71%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Replication
6 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.31%) DevOps
2 22 (15.60%) Migration
3 21 (14.89%) Cloud Security
3 21 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (12.77%) Analytics
5 15 (10.64%) Microservices
6 14 (9.93%) TOGAF
7 13 (9.22%) Design Patterns
7 13 (9.22%) Security Architecture
8 11 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (7.80%) CI/CD
8 11 (7.80%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (7.80%) Roadmaps
8 11 (7.80%) Software Engineering
8 11 (7.80%) Technical Debt
9 10 (7.09%) Agile
9 10 (7.09%) Data Migration
9 10 (7.09%) Data Modelling
9 10 (7.09%) ETL
10 9 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.57%) Python
2 23 (16.31%) Java
3 15 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.93%) SQL
4 14 (9.93%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.96%) C#
5 7 (4.96%) Scala
5 7 (4.96%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.42%) Go
6 2 (1.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.89%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.26%) CISSP
5 5 (3.55%) CISM
6 4 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) Degree
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CISA
8 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) GDPR
1 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.42%) NCSC
2 2 (1.42%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.64%) Terraform
3 5 (3.55%) Packer
4 4 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.13%) Ansible
6 2 (1.42%) Consul
6 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.67%) Talend
2 6 (4.26%) IBM
2 6 (4.26%) SAP
3 5 (3.55%) Oracle
3 5 (3.55%) TSYS
4 3 (2.13%) Cloudera
4 3 (2.13%) Databricks
4 3 (2.13%) Okta
5 2 (1.42%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.71%) Confluent
6 1 (0.71%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) Informatica
6 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.71%) Sparx
6 1 (0.71%) VMware