AWS Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 343 -
Rank change year-on-year -66 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Architect 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.007% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% - -
UK median daily rate £800 £410 £660
% change year-on-year +95.12% -37.88% -14.84%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 17,697 12,500 19,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.52% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,723 7,450 12,390
10th Percentile £214 £210 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -2.45% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,882 647 1,927
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.21 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.24 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.85 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.23% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £62.15 £64.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.56 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 1 £550 - 1
AWS Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 2026, AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep

AWS Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) MODAF
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware