AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in England is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 400 439
Rank change year-on-year -46 +39 +116
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 96 104 126
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.39% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 70 98
10th Percentile £456 £506 £474
25th Percentile £516 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £672 £738 £738
90th Percentile £726 £800 £791
UK median daily rate £603 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.31% +4.00% -2.34%

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 28,510 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,200 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in England

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies 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 18 December 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 -6 60 £625 -3.85% 12
North of England -51 10 £550 +5.77% 1
Midlands -33 9 £413 -11.67%
West Midlands -26 7 £413 -
North West -18 5 £675 +42.11%
Yorkshire -38 5 £538 -12.24% 1
South East -30 4 £600 -15.79% 3
South West -5 3 £600 -11.11% 1
East Midlands -16 2 £450 -3.64%
North East -8 1 - -
East of England -22 1 £600 +17.65% 1
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 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 England region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (46.88%) Terraform
3 32 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 31 (32.29%) AWS Certification
5 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (31.25%) Security Cleared
6 27 (28.13%) SC Cleared
7 24 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (23.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (20.83%) Serverless
10 19 (19.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (19.79%) Cloud Security
10 19 (19.79%) DevOps
11 17 (17.71%) Agile
11 17 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (16.67%) Amazon S3
12 16 (16.67%) Migration
13 15 (15.63%) GitHub
13 15 (15.63%) Kubernetes
14 14 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (13.54%) Azure
15 13 (13.54%) Docker
15 13 (13.54%) Microservices
16 12 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
17 11 (11.46%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (11.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 11 (11.46%) Ansible
17 11 (11.46%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (11.46%) Python

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 23 (23.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (20.83%) Serverless
5 17 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (16.67%) Amazon S3
7 15 (15.63%) GitHub
8 13 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (13.54%) Azure
9 12 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
10 11 (11.46%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (11.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 11 (11.46%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (7.29%) AWS KMS
12 7 (7.29%) GCP
13 6 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
14 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (5.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) DNS
1 8 (8.33%) Firewall
2 4 (4.17%) Network Security
2 4 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.04%) NAS
3 1 (1.04%) SAN
3 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.08%) Riak
5 2 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.08%) Tableau
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.04%) Metadata
6 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.33%) GitLab
3 6 (6.25%) JIRA
4 4 (4.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.04%) Postman
General
1 19 (19.79%) Finance
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Police
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Node.js
1 9 (9.38%) React
2 8 (8.33%) Kafka
3 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
3 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.17%) Middleware
4 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.04%) .NET
5 1 (1.04%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.04%) JAAS
5 1 (1.04%) JSSE
5 1 (1.04%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.17%) NHS
3 4 (4.17%) SCADA
4 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.04%) CMDB
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.04%) Equities
6 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (19.79%) Cloud Security
3 19 (19.79%) DevOps
4 17 (17.71%) Agile
5 16 (16.67%) Migration
6 14 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
7 13 (13.54%) Microservices
8 11 (11.46%) Roadmaps
8 11 (11.46%) Security Architecture
9 10 (10.42%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (9.38%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.33%) Analytics
11 8 (8.33%) Data Governance
11 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (7.29%) Containerisation
12 7 (7.29%) Data Architecture
12 7 (7.29%) DevSecOps
12 7 (7.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.46%) Python
2 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (2.08%) Java
5 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.04%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) Go
6 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (32.29%) AWS Certification
2 30 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 27 (28.13%) SC Cleared
4 19 (19.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.13%) CISSP
6 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Degree
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) CCSP
7 1 (1.04%) CISM
7 1 (1.04%) SANS
7 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.33%) GDPR
3 7 (7.29%) NIST
4 5 (5.21%) NCSC
4 5 (5.21%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (2.08%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.08%) QA
7 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.04%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (13.54%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (46.88%) Terraform
2 15 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.46%) Ansible
4 4 (4.17%) Kibana
5 3 (3.13%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) CloudEndure
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Citrix
3 2 (2.08%) Avaloq
3 2 (2.08%) Databricks
3 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.04%) Apple
4 1 (1.04%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco
4 1 (1.04%) Confluent
4 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.04%) Foundry
4 1 (1.04%) Google
4 1 (1.04%) JDA
4 1 (1.04%) Palantir
4 1 (1.04%) Solace
4 1 (1.04%) Sparx
4 1 (1.04%) VMware
4 1 (1.04%) WSO2