AWS Architect Contracts

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 443 505
Rank change year-on-year +68 +62 -37
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 146 158 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 120 140
10th Percentile £450 £467 £449
25th Percentile £506 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £813 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -21.89% +10.00% +1.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +33 107 £600 -4.00% 79
London +13 75 £600 +1.69% 29
Work from Home +57 69 £600 -14.29% 66
UK excluding London +43 25 £537 -21.89% 54
North of England +23 10 £488 -8.84% 17
North West +8 9 £481 -10.00% 11
Midlands +25 6 £537 -28.40% 18
East Midlands +11 6 £537 -28.40% 6
South West +46 5 £475 -52.50% 4
South East +45 5 £529 -24.50% 6
Scotland +6 4 £600 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £500 - 6

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 146 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (47.95%) SC Cleared
2 70 (47.95%) Security Cleared
3 43 (29.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (24.66%) Migration
5 35 (23.97%) High Availability
5 35 (23.97%) Amazon S3
5 35 (23.97%) Serverless
6 34 (23.29%) AWS Certification
7 32 (21.92%) Terraform
8 31 (21.23%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (21.23%) Containerisation
9 30 (20.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (20.55%) Public Sector
10 29 (19.86%) CI/CD
11 28 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (19.18%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (17.81%) Azure
13 25 (17.12%) Social Skills
13 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (16.44%) Amazon RDS
15 22 (15.07%) Kubernetes
16 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
16 21 (14.38%) SaaS
17 20 (13.70%) Data Migration
17 20 (13.70%) Onboarding
18 19 (13.01%) Agile
18 19 (13.01%) Firewall
18 19 (13.01%) PaaS

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.68%) CICS
2 1 (0.68%) JBoss
2 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (29.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 35 (23.97%) Amazon S3
3 35 (23.97%) Serverless
4 31 (21.23%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (19.18%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (17.81%) Azure
7 21 (14.38%) SaaS
8 19 (13.01%) PaaS
9 18 (12.33%) GCP
10 16 (10.96%) Amazon ELB
11 14 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (9.59%) IaaS
12 9 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (5.48%) GitHub
14 7 (4.79%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (4.11%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (4.11%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (4.11%) Azure AKS
15 6 (4.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.01%) Firewall
2 16 (10.96%) DNS
3 11 (7.53%) DHCP
4 10 (6.85%) BGP
4 10 (6.85%) HTTP
4 10 (6.85%) HTTPS
4 10 (6.85%) OSPF
4 10 (6.85%) TCP/IP
4 10 (6.85%) VPN
5 2 (1.37%) Network Security
5 2 (1.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) LAN
6 1 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.44%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.85%) Data Lake
3 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.11%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.74%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.74%) Flink
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.37%) Metadata
6 2 (1.37%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.37%) Power BI
6 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.16%) GitLab
1 9 (6.16%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.11%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 30 (20.55%) Public Sector
2 25 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Finance
5 10 (6.85%) Banking
6 2 (1.37%) Games
6 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.37%) Legal
6 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) Kafka
2 7 (4.79%) REST
3 6 (4.11%) RESTful
4 3 (2.05%) React
5 2 (1.37%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.37%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.37%) Plotly
5 2 (1.37%) Spring
5 2 (1.37%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.68%) Flutter
6 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.68%) JSON
6 1 (0.68%) LAMP
6 1 (0.68%) Middleware
6 1 (0.68%) Node.js
6 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.68%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.70%) Onboarding
2 18 (12.33%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.22%) Public Cloud
4 10 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.05%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (0.68%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.85%) Linux
2 8 (5.48%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Unix
4 3 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.66%) Migration
2 35 (23.97%) High Availability
3 31 (21.23%) Containerisation
4 29 (19.86%) CI/CD
5 28 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (13.70%) Data Migration
9 19 (13.01%) Agile
9 19 (13.01%) Open Source
10 17 (11.64%) Architectural Design
10 17 (11.64%) Architectural Patterns
10 17 (11.64%) DevOps
10 17 (11.64%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (10.96%) Auto-Scaling
11 16 (10.96%) Load Balancing
12 15 (10.27%) Use Case
13 14 (9.59%) Microservices
14 13 (8.90%) Data Modelling
15 12 (8.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.22%) Python
2 11 (7.53%) Java
3 9 (6.16%) Bicep
4 6 (4.11%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.42%) Bash
6 3 (2.05%) SQL
7 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Dart
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (47.95%) SC Cleared
1 70 (47.95%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.29%) AWS Certification
3 30 (20.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (3.42%) OCP
4 5 (3.42%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.74%) Degree
6 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.37%) CCNA
7 2 (1.37%) CCNP
7 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.68%) GDPR
2 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (8.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (21.92%) Terraform
2 22 (15.07%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.27%) Ansible
4 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
4 5 (3.42%) Puppet
5 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
6 1 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (6.85%) Cisco
1 10 (6.85%) Fortinet
2 9 (6.16%) CheckPoint
2 9 (6.16%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.11%) Databricks
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.42%) Pega
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle
6 3 (2.05%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.37%) IBM
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Actifio
8 1 (0.68%) Apple
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) VMware