AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 114 117
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +64
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.053% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.057% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £420 - £493
25th Percentile £450 - £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.12%
75th Percentile £550 - £675
90th Percentile £580 - £705
England median daily rate £615 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.80% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,766 1,746 1,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 92.72% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,109 1,279
10th Percentile £251 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 60 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.58 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.69 £14.18 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.25 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% +0.25% +25.25%
75th Percentile £35.75 £32.60 £33.64
90th Percentile £50.00 £44.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +54.59%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the West Midlands

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Coventry - 1 £600 - 3
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
AWS Architect
England

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, AWS 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 across the West Midlands region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) AVEVA
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Solace