AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services Architect
England > East of England

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the East of England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 83 113
Rank change year-on-year -21 +30 -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.095% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.10% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +42.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 -
90th Percentile £590 - -
England median daily rate £600 £604 £600
% change year-on-year -0.62% +0.63% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,629 953 1,686
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 90.59% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 465 883
10th Percentile £188 £227 £225
25th Percentile £313 £338 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £575
90th Percentile £677 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 133 426
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.46 £15.41
Median hourly rate £22.63 £53.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -57.30% +34.01% +79.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £31.36 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.41% - -6.67%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 East of England.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the East of England

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Architect within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Norfolk - 2 £550 -
Cambridgeshire +2 1 £600 +5.26%
AWS Architect
England

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 12 February 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 East of England region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
2 2 (66.67%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) CloudEndure
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CloudEndure