AWS Architect Contracts

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 507 457
Rank change year-on-year +82 -50 -61
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 162 201 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.35% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.37% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 136 305
10th Percentile £466 £463 £525
25th Percentile £519 £575 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile £776 £814 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £615
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% +12.84%

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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +91 138 £600 -7.69% 23
London +84 102 £589 -9.42% 13
Work from Home +78 57 £650 - 15
UK excluding London +64 33 £650 +4.00% 10
North of England +28 14 £489 -26.19% 4
North West +31 10 £492 -18.04% 2
Scotland +44 8 £663 - 1
Yorkshire +21 4 £475 -29.63% 2
South West 0 4 £1,000 +61.62% 1
South East +22 3 £700 +30.23% 1
Midlands +23 2 £750 +20.00% 3
East Midlands +19 2 £750 +20.00% 2
East of England +15 2 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (21.60%) Python
3 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
4 33 (20.37%) Migration
5 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
6 31 (19.14%) Java
7 30 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (17.28%) Azure
9 26 (16.05%) Serverless
9 26 (16.05%) Finance
9 26 (16.05%) SC Cleared
9 26 (16.05%) DevOps
10 24 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (14.20%) AWS Certification
12 19 (11.73%) Cloud Security
13 18 (11.11%) Terraform
13 18 (11.11%) Analytics
14 17 (10.49%) Security Architecture
14 17 (10.49%) Big Data
15 16 (9.88%) Kafka
15 16 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (9.88%) Kubernetes
15 16 (9.88%) Roadmaps
15 16 (9.88%) CI/CD
16 15 (9.26%) Containerisation
16 15 (9.26%) Microservices
16 15 (9.26%) Amazon S3
16 15 (9.26%) JavaScript
17 14 (8.64%) SQL
17 14 (8.64%) JIRA

AWS 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 10 (6.17%) Confluence
2 9 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (17.28%) Azure
3 26 (16.05%) Serverless
4 24 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (9.26%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.64%) IaaS
8 13 (8.02%) SaaS
9 12 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.56%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (4.94%) PaaS
13 7 (4.32%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
14 6 (3.70%) GCP
14 6 (3.70%) Snowflake
15 5 (3.09%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Firewall
2 4 (2.47%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.49%) Big Data
2 11 (6.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.32%) Apache Hive
3 7 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.32%) DB2
3 7 (4.32%) Impala
3 7 (4.32%) Power BI
3 7 (4.32%) Tableau
4 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.09%) OLAP
4 5 (3.09%) OLTP
4 5 (3.09%) Oracle OLAP
4 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (8.64%) JIRA
2 9 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.47%) Git
4 1 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.05%) Finance
3 14 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.56%) Banking
5 8 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.32%) Back Office
6 7 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
7 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Games
9 2 (1.23%) Electronics
9 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
10 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.88%) Kafka
2 14 (8.64%) React
3 12 (7.41%) SOAP
4 11 (6.79%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.17%) GraphQL
5 10 (6.17%) Spring
6 8 (4.94%) PySpark
7 7 (4.32%) .NET
7 7 (4.32%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.32%) CSS
7 7 (4.32%) REST
7 7 (4.32%) SAML
8 5 (3.09%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (3.09%) J2EE
8 5 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (3.09%) Web Services
9 4 (2.47%) Apache Camel
9 4 (2.47%) Spring Integration
10 3 (1.85%) Middleware
10 3 (1.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.09%) DataPower
3 4 (2.47%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.23%) IoT
5 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.23%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.62%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
6 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.37%) Migration
2 30 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (16.05%) DevOps
4 19 (11.73%) Cloud Security
5 18 (11.11%) Analytics
6 17 (10.49%) Security Architecture
7 16 (9.88%) CI/CD
7 16 (9.88%) Roadmaps
8 15 (9.26%) Containerisation
8 15 (9.26%) Microservices
9 13 (8.02%) Agile
9 13 (8.02%) API Management
9 13 (8.02%) Design Patterns
9 13 (8.02%) TOGAF
10 12 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (7.41%) Data Modelling
10 12 (7.41%) ETL
10 12 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (7.41%) Machine Learning
11 11 (6.79%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.60%) Python
2 31 (19.14%) Java
3 15 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.64%) SQL
4 14 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.94%) Scala
6 7 (4.32%) C#
6 7 (4.32%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.23%) Go
7 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.20%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.09%) CISSP
5 4 (2.47%) CISM
5 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.23%) Degree
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.23%) NCSC
2 2 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (4.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (11.11%) Terraform
2 16 (9.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.09%) Packer
4 4 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.85%) Ansible
6 2 (1.23%) Consul
6 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (5.56%) Oracle
2 8 (4.94%) Talend
3 6 (3.70%) IBM
4 5 (3.09%) Databricks
4 5 (3.09%) TSYS
5 4 (2.47%) Okta
5 4 (2.47%) SAP
6 3 (1.85%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.85%) VMware
7 2 (1.23%) Google
8 1 (0.62%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) Confluent
8 1 (0.62%) Informatica
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.62%) Red Hat