AWS Architect Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 404 486
Rank change year-on-year +26 +82 -38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 107 138 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 106 118
10th Percentile £465 £456 £438
25th Percentile £519 £519 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £628 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% -3.46% -1.14%
75th Percentile £672 £738 £713
90th Percentile £774 £778 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £645 £650
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.77% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +13 75 £600 - 36
North of England +14 10 £488 -8.84% 19
North West +14 9 £481 -10.00% 13
Midlands +24 6 £537 -28.40% 19
East Midlands +12 6 £537 -28.40% 6
South East +48 5 £529 -24.50% 14
South West +47 5 £475 -52.50% 5
Yorkshire +6 1 £500 - 6
AWS Architect
UK

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (51.40%) SC Cleared
2 55 (51.40%) Security Cleared
3 31 (28.97%) Serverless
3 31 (28.97%) Amazon S3
3 31 (28.97%) Containerisation
4 30 (28.04%) AWS Certification
5 29 (27.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (27.10%) Public Sector
6 27 (25.23%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (25.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (25.23%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (23.36%) High Availability
8 24 (22.43%) Migration
9 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
10 22 (20.56%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.63%) Kubernetes
12 20 (18.69%) CI/CD
13 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
13 19 (17.76%) Open Source
14 16 (14.95%) Azure
14 16 (14.95%) Agile
15 15 (14.02%) DevOps
15 15 (14.02%) Terraform
16 14 (13.08%) Kafka
16 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
17 13 (12.15%) Ansible
17 13 (12.15%) Docker

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) CICS
2 1 (0.93%) JBoss
2 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (28.97%) Amazon S3
2 31 (28.97%) Serverless
3 29 (27.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (25.23%) Amazon EKS
4 27 (25.23%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (14.95%) Azure
6 11 (10.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (8.41%) GCP
7 9 (8.41%) PaaS
7 9 (8.41%) SaaS
8 7 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.54%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (5.61%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (5.61%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.67%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (4.67%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (4.67%) Azure AKS
10 5 (4.67%) GitHub
10 5 (4.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) Firewall
1 8 (7.48%) VPN
2 6 (5.61%) DNS
3 2 (1.87%) DHCP
4 1 (0.93%) BGP
4 1 (0.93%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.93%) OSPF
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.56%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (9.35%) Data Lake
3 7 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.74%) Flink
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.87%) Metadata
5 2 (1.87%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.87%) Power BI
5 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.93%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) GitLab
1 8 (7.48%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.74%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 29 (27.10%) Public Sector
2 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Finance
5 10 (9.35%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Legal
6 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.08%) Kafka
2 6 (5.61%) REST
3 5 (4.67%) RESTful
4 3 (2.80%) React
5 2 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.87%) Plotly
5 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.93%) LAMP
6 1 (0.93%) Middleware
6 1 (0.93%) Node.js
6 1 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.93%) Spring
6 1 (0.93%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.35%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
1 7 (6.54%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.93%) CentOS
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.97%) Containerisation
2 25 (23.36%) High Availability
3 24 (22.43%) Migration
4 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.69%) CI/CD
7 19 (17.76%) Open Source
8 16 (14.95%) Agile
9 15 (14.02%) DevOps
10 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (12.15%) Data Modelling
12 12 (11.21%) Microservices
13 11 (10.28%) Data Migration
14 10 (9.35%) Event-Driven
14 10 (9.35%) Roadmaps
15 8 (7.48%) Architectural Design
15 8 (7.48%) Architectural Patterns
15 8 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
15 8 (7.48%) Enterprise Architecture
16 7 (6.54%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.28%) Python
2 10 (9.35%) Java
3 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.74%) Bash
5 3 (2.80%) SQL
6 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (51.40%) SC Cleared
1 55 (51.40%) Security Cleared
2 30 (28.04%) AWS Certification
3 27 (25.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.74%) OCP
4 4 (3.74%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.87%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) CCNA
6 1 (0.93%) CCNP
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.02%) Terraform
3 13 (12.15%) Ansible
4 4 (3.74%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.74%) Puppet
5 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) Argo
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.93%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (5.61%) Databricks
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.80%) Oracle
3 2 (1.87%) IBM
3 2 (1.87%) Pega
3 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.93%) Actifio
4 1 (0.93%) Apple
4 1 (0.93%) Cisco
4 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.93%) Foundry
4 1 (0.93%) Google
4 1 (0.93%) Splunk
4 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.93%) VMware