AWS Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £537, 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 311 364 428
Rank change year-on-year +53 +64 +35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 25 35 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 25
10th Percentile £450 £485 £562
25th Percentile £475 £490 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% +12.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £675
90th Percentile £688 £820 £720
UK median daily rate £600 £645 £650
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.77% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +14 10 £488 -8.84% 21
North West +14 9 £481 -10.00% 15
Midlands +24 6 £537 -28.40% 24
East Midlands +12 6 £537 -28.40% 9
South East +48 5 £529 -24.50% 16
South West +47 5 £475 -52.50% 5
Scotland +10 4 £600 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire +6 1 £500 - 6
AWS Architect
UK

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Migration
3 9 (36.00%) Finance
4 7 (28.00%) Banking
4 7 (28.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (24.00%) Serverless
6 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) Java
7 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.00%) BPR
7 4 (16.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) IT Governance
7 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (16.00%) High Availability
7 4 (16.00%) Kafka
7 4 (16.00%) Analytics
7 4 (16.00%) Docker
7 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
7 4 (16.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.00%) CI/CD

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Serverless
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (8.00%) Azure
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Games
3 2 (8.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Migration
2 7 (28.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (16.00%) BPR
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) IT Governance
5 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Scrum
5 4 (16.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.00%) VMware