AWS Architect Contracts

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK is £640 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 508 462
Rank change year-on-year +70 -46 -66
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 157 208 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.37% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 140 311
10th Percentile £466 £449 £525
25th Percentile £519 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £688 £625 £615
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.63% +13.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

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 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 13 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 28 April 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
England +86 136 £625 -3.85% 21
London +101 97 £595 -8.46% 16
Work from Home +85 62 £700 +7.69% 12
UK excluding London +67 36 £688 +10.00% 8
North of England +37 15 £535 -19.28% 2
North West +29 12 £535 -10.88%
Scotland +39 7 £675 - 4
Midlands +28 5 £750 +20.00%
East Midlands +23 5 £750 +20.00%
South West +4 4 £1,000 +63.27% 1
Yorkshire +22 3 - - 2
South East +21 3 £700 +30.23% 1
East of England +10 2 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 157 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (22.29%) Social Skills
3 34 (21.66%) Python
3 34 (21.66%) Migration
4 32 (20.38%) Security Cleared
5 28 (17.83%) Azure
5 28 (17.83%) Finance
5 28 (17.83%) Serverless
6 27 (17.20%) Java
6 27 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (17.20%) SC Cleared
7 26 (16.56%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (15.92%) DevOps
8 25 (15.92%) AWS Certification
9 23 (14.65%) Terraform
10 22 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (13.38%) Roadmaps
12 19 (12.10%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
13 18 (11.46%) Kubernetes
14 17 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (10.83%) Microservices
14 17 (10.83%) Big Data
15 16 (10.19%) Cloud Security
15 16 (10.19%) CI/CD
16 15 (9.55%) Containerisation
16 15 (9.55%) IaaS
16 15 (9.55%) Amazon S3
16 15 (9.55%) TOGAF
17 14 (8.92%) Agile

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 10 (6.37%) Confluence
2 8 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (17.83%) Azure
2 28 (17.83%) Serverless
3 26 (16.56%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (9.55%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.55%) IaaS
7 12 (7.64%) PaaS
7 12 (7.64%) SaaS
8 11 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (5.73%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (4.46%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.82%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (3.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 5 (3.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (3.18%) Kong
12 5 (3.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Network Security
2 3 (1.91%) Firewall
3 2 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.64%) Internet
4 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.10%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.83%) Big Data
3 13 (8.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.46%) Apache Hive
4 7 (4.46%) DB2
4 7 (4.46%) Impala
4 7 (4.46%) Power BI
4 7 (4.46%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.46%) Tableau
5 6 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.18%) OLAP
6 5 (3.18%) OLTP
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (2.55%) Flink
7 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) JIRA
2 11 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.83%) Finance
3 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.37%) Banking
5 8 (5.10%) Marketing
5 8 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.46%) Back Office
6 7 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.82%) Electronics
7 6 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Games
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) Kafka
2 12 (7.64%) SOAP
3 10 (6.37%) GraphQL
3 10 (6.37%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.73%) Spring
5 8 (5.10%) React
6 7 (4.46%) PySpark
6 7 (4.46%) REST
6 7 (4.46%) SAML
7 5 (3.18%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (3.18%) J2EE
7 5 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.18%) Web Services
8 4 (2.55%) Apache Camel
8 4 (2.55%) Spring Integration
9 3 (1.91%) .NET
9 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.91%) CSS
9 3 (1.91%) Middleware
9 3 (1.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.18%) DataPower
2 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.27%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.64%) CCTV
6 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.64%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.64%) IoT
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Life Science
6 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.66%) Migration
2 27 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (15.92%) DevOps
4 21 (13.38%) Roadmaps
5 17 (10.83%) Microservices
6 16 (10.19%) CI/CD
6 16 (10.19%) Cloud Security
7 15 (9.55%) Containerisation
7 15 (9.55%) TOGAF
8 14 (8.92%) Agile
8 14 (8.92%) Analytics
8 14 (8.92%) Design Patterns
8 14 (8.92%) Security Architecture
9 13 (8.28%) API Management
9 13 (8.28%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (8.28%) Service Management
10 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (7.64%) Technical Debt
11 11 (7.01%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.01%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (21.66%) Python
2 27 (17.20%) Java
3 12 (7.64%) SQL
4 11 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.46%) Scala
7 3 (1.91%) C#
7 3 (1.91%) Go
7 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 25 (15.92%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.82%) CISSP
5 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.18%) CISM
6 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) Degree
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CISA
8 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.64%) GIAC
8 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.27%) GDPR
2 2 (1.27%) NCSC
2 2 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (14.65%) Terraform
2 18 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.82%) Packer
4 4 (2.55%) Ansible
4 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.91%) Consul
5 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle
2 8 (5.10%) SAP
2 8 (5.10%) Talend
3 6 (3.82%) IBM
4 5 (3.18%) TSYS
5 4 (2.55%) Databricks
5 4 (2.55%) Okta
6 3 (1.91%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.91%) VMware
7 2 (1.27%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.64%) Confluent
8 1 (0.64%) Informatica
8 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.64%) Sparx