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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 105 117
Rank change year-on-year -25 +12 +31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 8 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.61% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.65% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile £520 £603 £498
25th Percentile £538 £621 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% -12.73%
75th Percentile £669 £800 £650
90th Percentile £723 £813 £680
Central London median daily rate £575 £700 £673
% change year-on-year -17.86% +4.09% -2.18%

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 2,150 1,684 1,973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 93.82% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,121 1,258
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 14
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.88
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £89.06
90th Percentile £49.64 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £28.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -16.69% -4.23%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Digital Strategy
5 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (25.00%) JIRA
6 2 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
6 2 (25.00%) Terraform
7 1 (12.50%) AI
7 1 (12.50%) AI Transformation
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock

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 (12.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) gRPC
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
6 1 (12.50%) AI Transformation
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Data Science
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco