AWS Architect Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in West Yorkshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 68 76
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.54% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £514 - £621
25th Percentile £516 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £693
75th Percentile £566 - £744
90th Percentile £571 - £770
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £613 £675
% change year-on-year -12.24% -9.26% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 869 663 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.31% 96.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 412 721
10th Percentile £290 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £552 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 12
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.02 £15.48
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.50 £17.14
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.17
90th Percentile - £53.50 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +27.16% +9.53% +0.28%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Leeds -13 5 £538 - 2
AWS Architect
Yorkshire

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 19 December 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 Yorkshire region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Riak
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Riak
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform