AWS Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 283 374
Rank change year-on-year +48 +91 +32
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 69 62 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.40% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.43% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 46 73
10th Percentile £509 £489 £438
25th Percentile £576 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £688
90th Percentile £838 £841 £735
UK median daily rate £600 £645 £650
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.77% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Architect.

AWS Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (55.07%) AWS CloudFormation
3 35 (50.72%) SC Cleared
3 35 (50.72%) Security Cleared
4 26 (37.68%) AWS Certification
4 26 (37.68%) Terraform
5 25 (36.23%) Serverless
6 24 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (34.78%) Amazon S3
7 23 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (31.88%) Public Sector
8 22 (31.88%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (30.43%) Containerisation
10 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (26.09%) High Availability
11 18 (26.09%) Azure
11 18 (26.09%) Open Source
11 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
11 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
12 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (21.74%) SaaS
13 15 (21.74%) PaaS
13 15 (21.74%) Firewall
13 15 (21.74%) DNS
14 14 (20.29%) GCP
15 11 (15.94%) Ansible
15 11 (15.94%) IaaS

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.45%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (55.07%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (36.23%) Serverless
4 24 (34.78%) Amazon S3
4 24 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (26.09%) Azure
7 15 (21.74%) PaaS
7 15 (21.74%) SaaS
8 14 (20.29%) GCP
9 11 (15.94%) IaaS
10 8 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (8.70%) GitHub
12 5 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (7.25%) Route 53
12 5 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (5.80%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (5.80%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (5.80%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.74%) DNS
1 15 (21.74%) Firewall
2 10 (14.49%) BGP
2 10 (14.49%) DHCP
2 10 (14.49%) HTTP
2 10 (14.49%) HTTPS
2 10 (14.49%) OSPF
2 10 (14.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.25%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.90%) Metadata
2 2 (2.90%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.90%) Power BI
3 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.70%) GitLab
3 5 (7.25%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 22 (31.88%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Finance
5 2 (2.90%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) Kafka
2 4 (5.80%) REST
2 4 (5.80%) RESTful
3 3 (4.35%) React
4 2 (2.90%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.90%) Plotly
5 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.45%) Node.js
5 1 (1.45%) Spring
5 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.59%) Public Cloud
3 7 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Containerisation
2 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 18 (26.09%) High Availability
3 18 (26.09%) Open Source
4 10 (14.49%) Agile
4 10 (14.49%) DevOps
5 9 (13.04%) Sprint Planning
5 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 7 (10.14%) Event-Driven
6 7 (10.14%) Roadmaps
7 6 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (8.70%) Microservices
7 6 (8.70%) Migration
8 5 (7.25%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (7.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (7.25%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (7.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.04%) Bicep
2 7 (10.14%) Java
3 5 (7.25%) Bash
3 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.25%) Python
4 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (50.72%) SC Cleared
1 35 (50.72%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.68%) AWS Certification
3 23 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.80%) OCP
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (7.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (37.68%) Terraform
2 11 (15.94%) Ansible
3 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.25%) Progress Chef
4 5 (7.25%) Puppet
5 1 (1.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Fortinet
2 9 (13.04%) CheckPoint
2 9 (13.04%) Cisco
2 9 (13.04%) Palo Alto
3 2 (2.90%) Databricks
3 2 (2.90%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.45%) Pega
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.45%) Splunk
4 1 (1.45%) VMware