AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Amazon Web Services Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 64 104
Rank change year-on-year -31 +40 -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.12% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £407 -
25th Percentile £516 £414 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £426 £700
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -39.14% -
75th Percentile £549 £438 £725
90th Percentile - £445 -
South East median daily rate £566 £481 £700
% change year-on-year +17.72% -31.29% +30.23%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,564 710 1,547
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 95.69% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 518 898
10th Percentile £363 £256 £363
25th Percentile £475 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £645 £613 £675
90th Percentile £725 £660 £738
South East median daily rate £518 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 43 185
10th Percentile £13.88 £20.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.68 £33.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% -4.10% +9.24%
75th Percentile £56.00 £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.11 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £50.49 £33.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +52.75% -30.42% -3.06%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in Hampshire

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Basingstoke - 2 £533 - 1
AWS Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 Hampshire region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus