AWS Architect Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in Scotland 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 112 122 161
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 4 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.32% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.33% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £653 -
25th Percentile - £656 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £619 £694 -
90th Percentile £630 £698 -
UK median daily rate £600 £645 £650
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.77% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in Scotland

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in Scotland

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 3 £600 -11.11%
Glasgow - 1 - -
AWS Architect
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Games
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle