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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 436 508
Rank change year-on-year +60 +72 -39
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 148 162 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.40% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 121 140
10th Percentile £450 £475 £449
25th Percentile £507 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £697 £738 £713
90th Percentile £813 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -23.29% +12.00% +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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +23 109 £600 -4.00% 92
London +15 76 £600 +1.69% 33
Work from Home +57 72 £600 -14.29% 76
UK excluding London +50 25 £537 -23.29% 69
North of England +18 10 £488 -8.84% 20
North West +11 9 £481 -10.00% 14
South West +45 6 £550 -45.00% 5
Midlands +21 6 £537 -28.40% 22
East Midlands +16 6 £537 -28.40% 9
South East +48 5 £529 -24.50% 13
Scotland +9 3 £600 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire +5 1 £500 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 148 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (47.30%) SC Cleared
2 70 (47.30%) Security Cleared
3 43 (29.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (25.00%) Migration
5 35 (23.65%) High Availability
5 35 (23.65%) AWS Certification
6 34 (22.97%) Amazon S3
6 34 (22.97%) Serverless
7 32 (21.62%) Containerisation
7 32 (21.62%) Terraform
8 31 (20.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
9 30 (20.27%) Public Sector
9 30 (20.27%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (18.92%) Azure
10 28 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
13 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (15.54%) Kubernetes
14 23 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (14.19%) SaaS
16 20 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
16 20 (13.51%) Data Migration
16 20 (13.51%) Onboarding
17 19 (12.84%) Agile
17 19 (12.84%) Firewall
17 19 (12.84%) GCP

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 (3.38%) 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
1 148 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (29.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 34 (22.97%) Amazon S3
3 34 (22.97%) Serverless
4 30 (20.27%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (18.92%) Azure
6 21 (14.19%) SaaS
7 19 (12.84%) GCP
7 19 (12.84%) PaaS
8 16 (10.81%) Amazon ELB
9 14 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (9.46%) IaaS
10 9 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.41%) GitHub
12 7 (4.73%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.05%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.05%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.84%) Firewall
2 16 (10.81%) DNS
3 11 (7.43%) DHCP
4 10 (6.76%) BGP
4 10 (6.76%) HTTP
4 10 (6.76%) HTTPS
4 10 (6.76%) OSPF
4 10 (6.76%) TCP/IP
4 10 (6.76%) VPN
5 2 (1.35%) Network Security
5 2 (1.35%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) LAN
6 1 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 8 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.38%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.70%) Flink
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.35%) Metadata
6 2 (1.35%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.35%) Power BI
6 2 (1.35%) 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 (6.08%) GitLab
1 9 (6.08%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.05%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 30 (20.27%) Public Sector
2 25 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Finance
5 10 (6.76%) Banking
6 2 (1.35%) Games
6 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.35%) Legal
6 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.46%) Kafka
2 7 (4.73%) REST
3 6 (4.05%) RESTful
4 3 (2.03%) React
5 2 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.35%) Plotly
5 2 (1.35%) Spring
5 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
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 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 18 (12.16%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 10 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.03%) Private Cloud
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 (6.76%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) Windows
3 4 (2.70%) Unix
4 3 (2.03%) 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 37 (25.00%) Migration
2 35 (23.65%) High Availability
3 32 (21.62%) Containerisation
4 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
5 27 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (13.51%) Data Migration
9 19 (12.84%) Agile
9 19 (12.84%) Open Source
10 18 (12.16%) DevOps
10 18 (12.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (11.49%) Architectural Design
11 17 (11.49%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (10.81%) Auto-Scaling
12 16 (10.81%) Load Balancing
13 15 (10.14%) Use Case
14 14 (9.46%) Microservices
15 13 (8.78%) Data Modelling
16 12 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.11%) Python
2 11 (7.43%) Java
3 9 (6.08%) Bicep
4 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.38%) Bash
6 3 (2.03%) SQL
7 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Dart
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (47.30%) SC Cleared
1 70 (47.30%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.65%) AWS Certification
3 31 (20.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (3.38%) OCP
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.70%) Degree
6 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.35%) CCNA
7 2 (1.35%) CCNP
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.68%) GDPR
2 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (21.62%) Terraform
2 23 (15.54%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.81%) Ansible
4 5 (3.38%) Progress Chef
4 5 (3.38%) Puppet
5 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
6 1 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (6.76%) Cisco
1 10 (6.76%) Fortinet
2 9 (6.08%) CheckPoint
2 9 (6.08%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.05%) Databricks
3 6 (4.05%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.38%) Pega
5 4 (2.70%) Oracle
6 3 (2.03%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.35%) Google
7 2 (1.35%) IBM
7 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Actifio
8 1 (0.68%) Apple
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) VMware