AWS Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £800, 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 586 523 596
Rank change year-on-year -63 +73 +175
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Architect 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.010% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £595 - -
25th Percentile £663 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £410 £660
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% -37.88% -14.84%
75th Percentile £825 £415 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £410 -
% change year-on-year +34.15% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 35,687 28,709 41,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.95% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,471 17,591 27,699
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £489
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.45% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 837 2,322
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.76 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £61.54 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.85 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.23% -7.14% -

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

AWS Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Infrastructure Architect in the UK

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -65 6 £800 +95.12% 1
London -37 3 £800 -
UK excluding London -66 3 £550 +34.15% 1
Midlands - 2 - -
Work from Home - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 1 £550 - 1

AWS Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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 featuring AWS Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) GDPR
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF

AWS Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) MODAF
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SANS
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) VMware