AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Amazon Web Services Architect
South West > Somerset

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in Somerset is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South West median daily rate £600 £475 £1,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -52.50% +63.27%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 260 122 190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 92.42% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 82 121
10th Percentile £224 £196 £158
25th Percentile £261 £322 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% +10.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £547 £634 £575
90th Percentile £614 £686 £613
South West median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.71% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 2 35
10th Percentile £37.25 £13.35 £13.11
25th Percentile £51.25 £14.63 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £17.01 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +238.14% -57.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58.75 £19.13 £46.50
90th Percentile - £20.26 £55.75
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -25.05%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in Somerset

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in Somerset.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in Somerset

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Taunton - 1 £550 -
AWS Architect
South West

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset

For the 6 months to 5 March 2026, AWS Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Somerset region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware