AWS Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect)
UK > England

The median Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect) daily rate in England is £738, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 511 564
Rank change year-on-year -18 +53 +171
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Security Architect 11 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.037% 0.032% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.035% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 10
10th Percentile £641 £510 £620
25th Percentile £669 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £781 £700 £753
90th Percentile £804 £790 £776
UK median daily rate £750 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -12.90%

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 27,142 28,971 37,444
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 93.00% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,434 17,700 25,988
10th Percentile £281 £300 £299
25th Percentile £404 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
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 1,605 1,092 1,424
10th Percentile £14.07 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.15 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +53.98%

AWS Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Security Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Security Architect job vacancy trend in England

AWS Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

AWS Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Security Architect in England

AWS Security 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 Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 8 November 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 8 £725 -6.45% 11
North of England - 3 £750 -
North West - 2 £750 -
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
AWS Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, AWS Security 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
3 6 (54.55%) Security Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (36.36%) NIST
4 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) CISSP
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) CISM
6 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
6 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
6 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform
7 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS

AWS Security 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) CSOC
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Security Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (9.09%) Data Encryption
6 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 1 (9.09%) SIEM
6 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 1 (9.09%) UML
6 1 (9.09%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CISM
4 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) SANS
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk