AWS Architect Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services Architect
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the North of England is £488, 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 156 170 210
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 +8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 10 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.31% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.34% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 6
10th Percentile £441 £436 £581
25th Percentile £450 £487 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £535 £663
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% -19.28% +11.48%
75th Percentile £537 £738 £706
90th Percentile - £839 £744
England median daily rate £600 £628 £650
% change year-on-year -4.38% -3.46% -1.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the North of England

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in the North of England

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +14 9 £481 -10.00% 13
Yorkshire +6 1 £500 - 6
AWS Architect
England

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Kafka
3 4 (40.00%) Docker
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (20.00%) Terraform
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (20.00%) Ansible
5 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (30.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Budget Control
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) VMware