AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 114 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +48
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.12% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 7
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile £463 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £650 - £706
90th Percentile £651 - £818
Central London median daily rate £600 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,088 1,620 2,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 92.84% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,021 1,507
10th Percentile £355 £350 £348
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.04%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.90 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £36.28 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +54.00% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.41 £56.25 £27.50
90th Percentile £62.36 £100.00 £44.10
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.77% +24.00% -28.57%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the City of London

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 15 April 2026, AWS Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Migration
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
5 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 3 (33.33%) Serverless
5 3 (33.33%) Terraform
5 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
6 2 (22.22%) GDPR
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Network Security
6 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (44.44%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) GitOps
6 1 (11.11%) Observability
6 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 2 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kibana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft