AWS Security Architect Contract Job Trends

Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect)
UK

The median Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect) daily rate in the UK is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 531 612
Rank change year-on-year -33 +81 +212
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Security Architect 13 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.044% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.047% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 11
10th Percentile £647 - £575
25th Percentile £684 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £794 £688 £731
90th Percentile £801 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -

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 31,811 33,985 44,100
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.88% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,179 20,513 30,002
10th Percentile £278 £300 £295
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,817 1,273 1,546
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.10 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +53.98%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +85.42%

AWS Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Security Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Security Architect over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Top 8 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 Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 8 November 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 -18 11 £738 +22.92% 15
London +13 8 £725 -6.45% 11
Work from Home +9 6 £750 +15.38% 10
UK excluding London -34 3 £750 +25.00% 8
North of England - 3 £750 -
North West - 2 £750 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, AWS Security 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
3 7 (53.85%) Security Architecture
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 5 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (30.77%) NIST
6 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
6 4 (30.77%) Terraform
6 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (23.08%) CISSP
7 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
7 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
8 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (15.38%) Azure
8 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 2 (15.38%) CISM
8 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
8 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS

AWS Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) CSOC
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
2 7 (53.85%) Security Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
6 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
6 3 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (7.69%) Data Encryption
8 1 (7.69%) Low Latency
8 1 (7.69%) Microservices
8 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
8 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
8 1 (7.69%) SIEM
8 1 (7.69%) SOAR
8 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
8 1 (7.69%) TOGAF
8 1 (7.69%) UML
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) CISSP
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) SANS
4 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (30.77%) NIST
3 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) QA
4 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk