AWS Architect Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services Architect
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in London 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 278 291 390
Rank change year-on-year +13 +99 -33
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 75 100 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.60% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 77 65
10th Percentile £509 £424 £513
25th Percentile £538 £519 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £760 £775 £814
England median daily rate £600 £628 £650
% change year-on-year -4.38% -3.46% -1.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in London

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in London

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in London

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +2 7 £700 +12.00% 8
AWS Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (65.33%) SC Cleared
2 49 (65.33%) Security Cleared
3 29 (38.67%) Public Sector
4 28 (37.33%) Amazon S3
5 27 (36.00%) Containerisation
6 26 (34.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (33.33%) AWS Certification
7 25 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (33.33%) Serverless
8 24 (32.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
9 22 (29.33%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (29.33%) High Availability
9 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (25.33%) Open Source
12 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
13 16 (21.33%) Kubernetes
14 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
15 14 (18.67%) Migration
16 13 (17.33%) Azure
17 12 (16.00%) DevOps
18 10 (13.33%) Kafka
18 10 (13.33%) Terraform
18 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
19 9 (12.00%) Docker
20 8 (10.67%) Ansible
20 8 (10.67%) GCP

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) CICS
2 1 (1.33%) JBoss
2 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (37.33%) Amazon S3
3 26 (34.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 25 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (33.33%) Serverless
5 22 (29.33%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (17.33%) Azure
7 8 (10.67%) GCP
8 7 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (9.33%) PaaS
8 7 (9.33%) SaaS
9 6 (8.00%) Snowflake
10 5 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.67%) IaaS
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.00%) GitHub
12 3 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) Firewall
1 6 (8.00%) VPN
2 4 (5.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) BGP
3 1 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (1.33%) HTTP
3 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.33%) OSPF
3 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.67%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.33%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.33%) Flink
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.67%) Metadata
5 2 (2.67%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.67%) Power BI
5 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) GitLab
2 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) Maven
General
1 29 (38.67%) Public Sector
2 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) Kafka
2 4 (5.33%) REST
3 3 (4.00%) React
3 3 (4.00%) RESTful
4 2 (2.67%) Plotly
4 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.33%) .NET
5 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.33%) LAMP
5 1 (1.33%) Middleware
5 1 (1.33%) Node.js
5 1 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.33%) Spring
5 1 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.33%) CentOS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.00%) Containerisation
2 22 (29.33%) High Availability
2 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (25.33%) Open Source
3 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (18.67%) Migration
6 12 (16.00%) DevOps
7 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (10.67%) Agile
9 7 (9.33%) Data Modelling
9 7 (9.33%) Microservices
9 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.00%) Data Integration
11 5 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (6.67%) Data Governance
11 5 (6.67%) Event-Driven
11 5 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (6.67%) Integration Patterns
12 4 (5.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.00%) Python
2 5 (6.67%) Java
3 3 (4.00%) Bash
3 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) C#
5 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (65.33%) SC Cleared
1 49 (65.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 24 (32.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) OCP
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.33%) CCNA
5 1 (1.33%) CCNP
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (21.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.33%) Terraform
3 8 (10.67%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
5 1 (1.33%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.33%) Istio
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) Databricks
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) IBM
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.33%) Actifio
4 1 (1.33%) Apple
4 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.33%) Foundry
4 1 (1.33%) Google
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media