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 £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 143
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +44
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 11 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.63% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile £550 £540 £535
25th Percentile £588 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £650 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +14.24% -10.39%
75th Percentile £743 £675 £638
90th Percentile £800 £690 £728
Central London median daily rate £643 £695 £569
% change year-on-year -7.55% +22.14% -18.71%

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 1,643 1,981 2,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 93.31% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,217 1,841
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 15
10th Percentile £16.90 £15.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £67.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.89% +77.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% -7.89% -6.17%

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 November 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 15 November 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
4 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 2 (18.18%) NIST
5 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Terraform
6 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure
6 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD

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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
2 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks