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 £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 164 192
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 +29
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 11 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.47% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.51% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 7
10th Percentile £446 £428 £528
25th Percentile £458 £479 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £503 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -22.65% -
75th Percentile £537 £619 £700
90th Percentile £777 £795 £738
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -0.46%

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 3,254 4,533 5,217
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.76% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,148 2,747 3,625
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 457 167
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £24.10 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -9.06% +32.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.61
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 23 June 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 -6 9 £512 +0.24% 19
Yorkshire 0 2 £630 +32.63% 8
AWS Architect
England

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Kafka
3 4 (36.36%) Docker
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Legal
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) Budget Control
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
5 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (18.18%) Budget Control
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (9.09%) VMware