AWS Architect Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in Scotland is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 115 154
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 +14
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 2 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.38% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.40% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £511 £545 -
25th Percentile £528 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £663 £530
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +25.00% -11.67%
75th Percentile £603 £691 -
90th Percentile £624 £696 -
UK median daily rate £600 £594 £650
% change year-on-year +1.05% -8.65% -

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 1,540 1,984 2,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 94.70% 95.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 1,216 1,763
10th Percentile £244 £200 £250
25th Percentile £360 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £557 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 130 51
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.33 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £19.50 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% +3.01% -49.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £57.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £27.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.55% -16.67% +76.47%

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 19 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
Edinburgh +2 2 £563 -16.67% 3
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Scotland region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD

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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle