AWS Architect Contract Job Trends 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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 317 377
Rank change year-on-year -33 +60 +92
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 39 37 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 25
10th Percentile £406 £460 £474
25th Percentile £501 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +6.12%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £738
90th Percentile £623 - £765
UK median daily rate £603 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.31% +4.00% -2.15%

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 16,378 13,796 18,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 92.40% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,052 8,232 11,988
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,657 784 1,199
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.48 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.29 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +82.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies 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 20 December 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 20 December 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
Scotland +13 11 £525 -12.50%
North of England -48 10 £550 +5.77% 4
Midlands -30 9 £413 -11.67%
West Midlands -23 7 £413 -
North West -23 5 £675 +42.11% 1
Yorkshire -47 5 £538 -12.24% 3
South East -29 4 £600 -15.79% 3
South West -6 3 £600 -11.11% 1
East Midlands -19 2 £450 -3.64%
North East -10 1 - -
East of England -24 1 £600 +17.65% 1
Wales - 1 £475 -
AWS Architect
UK

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (61.54%) Terraform
3 17 (43.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (28.21%) AWS Certification
5 11 (28.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (28.21%) Migration
5 11 (28.21%) Serverless
6 10 (25.64%) DevOps
7 9 (23.08%) Amazon S3
7 9 (23.08%) Microservices
7 9 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
8 8 (20.51%) Agile
8 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
8 8 (20.51%) Node.js
8 8 (20.51%) Python
9 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (17.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (15.38%) AWS Control Tower
10 6 (15.38%) GDPR
10 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
10 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudTrail
11 5 (12.82%) DynamoDB

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (28.21%) Serverless
4 9 (23.08%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (15.38%) AWS Control Tower
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (7.69%) Azure
9 3 (7.69%) GitHub
9 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) DHCP
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) NAS
2 1 (2.56%) SAN
2 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (12.82%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.13%) Riak
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Node.js
2 4 (10.26%) Kafka
2 4 (10.26%) React
3 3 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.13%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.56%) J2EE
5 1 (2.56%) JSON
5 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.56%) Spring
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) NHS
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) SCADA
4 3 (7.69%) IVR
5 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) CMDB
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (28.21%) Migration
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Microservices
4 9 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.51%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (12.82%) Network Segmentation
8 5 (12.82%) Regulatory Compliance
9 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security
9 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.26%) DevSecOps
9 4 (10.26%) Event-Driven
9 4 (10.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.26%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) Bash
4 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) AWS Certification
1 11 (28.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) GDPR
2 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (7.69%) NCSC
4 3 (7.69%) NIST
5 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (5.13%) QA
6 1 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
1 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (61.54%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Cisco
1 3 (7.69%) CloudEndure
1 3 (7.69%) Pega
2 2 (5.13%) Avaya
2 2 (5.13%) Citrix
2 2 (5.13%) Genesys
2 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) AVEVA
3 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.56%) JDA
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) Solace
3 1 (2.56%) VMware