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 £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 120 147
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +45
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 13 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.30% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
10th Percentile £563 £498 £535
25th Percentile £617 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.45% -18.71%
75th Percentile £800 £650 £625
90th Percentile £813 £680 £723
Central London median daily rate £700 £673 £569
% change year-on-year +4.09% +18.19% -24.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,611 1,989 2,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 93.78% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,230 1,876
10th Percentile £328 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 13
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £25.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.04 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% +51.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -5.41% -10.84%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 2025, 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) NIST
4 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) Agile

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Data Management
3 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
4 1 (7.69%) Observability
4 1 (7.69%) Technology Enablement
4 1 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) IBM