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 £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 413 459
Rank change year-on-year +59 +46 -96
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 34 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 44
10th Percentile £484 £562 £513
25th Percentile £490 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.63% +14.15%
75th Percentile £741 £675 £678
90th Percentile £828 £720 £775
UK median daily rate £640 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -1.54% - +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +32 15 £535 -19.28% 2
North West +32 12 £535 -10.88%
Scotland +44 7 £675 - 4
South West +12 4 £1,000 +63.27% 1
Midlands +30 3 £750 +20.00% 1
South East +22 3 £700 +30.23% 1
East Midlands +21 3 £750 +20.00% 1
Yorkshire +20 3 - - 2
East of England +10 2 £650 -
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (38.24%) Roadmaps
3 13 (38.24%) API Management
4 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
4 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 12 (35.29%) Java
4 12 (35.29%) SOAP
5 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 10 (29.41%) Service Management
6 10 (29.41%) Finance
6 10 (29.41%) Migration
7 9 (26.47%) Oracle
8 8 (23.53%) Terraform
8 8 (23.53%) Azure
8 8 (23.53%) IaaS
9 7 (20.59%) REST
9 7 (20.59%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (20.59%) Back Office
9 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
9 7 (20.59%) TOGAF
9 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
9 7 (20.59%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
9 7 (20.59%) Storage Management
10 6 (17.65%) SOA
10 6 (17.65%) DevOps
10 6 (17.65%) Microservices
10 6 (17.65%) SaaS
11 5 (14.71%) PaaS

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (11.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) IaaS
3 6 (17.65%) SaaS
4 5 (14.71%) Apigee
4 5 (14.71%) AWS CodeBuild
4 5 (14.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 5 (14.71%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (14.71%) Kong
4 5 (14.71%) PaaS
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.82%) Serverless
6 3 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
1 5 (14.71%) OLAP
1 5 (14.71%) OLTP
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle OLAP
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.82%) Big Data
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Back Office
3 7 (20.59%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 3 (8.82%) Electronics
6 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.82%) Marketing
7 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) SOAP
2 7 (20.59%) REST
3 5 (14.71%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (14.71%) J2EE
3 5 (14.71%) Kafka
3 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (14.71%) Web Services
4 4 (11.76%) Apache Camel
4 4 (11.76%) Spring
4 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.76%) Spring Integration
5 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.94%) Middleware
6 1 (2.94%) React
6 1 (2.94%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) DataPower
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (38.24%) API Management
2 13 (38.24%) Roadmaps
3 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
4 10 (29.41%) Migration
4 10 (29.41%) Service Management
5 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
5 7 (20.59%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
5 7 (20.59%) Storage Management
5 7 (20.59%) TOGAF
6 6 (17.65%) DevOps
6 6 (17.65%) Microservices
6 6 (17.65%) SOA
7 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (14.71%) OO
7 5 (14.71%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (14.71%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Java
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CISM
3 2 (5.88%) CISSP
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) IBM
2 5 (14.71%) TSYS
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.94%) VMware