AWS Architect Contracts 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 120 163
Rank change year-on-year +14 +43 +16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 9 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £612 £503 £566
25th Percentile £660 £525 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £806 £638 £719
90th Percentile £813 £660 £775
Central London median daily rate £700 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +3.85%

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 1,682 2,038 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 95.46% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,403 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the City of London

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect 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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the City of London

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 City of London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
5 2 (22.22%) NIST
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
5 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) IBM