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 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 282 364
Rank change year-on-year +63 +82 +25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 89 49 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 36 62
10th Percentile £513 £489 £439
25th Percentile £563 £509 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £678 £753 £725
90th Percentile £780 £888 £825
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 9,573 12,367 21,273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 93.60% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 8,323 14,997
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 386 514
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.94 £24.65
Median hourly rate £33.99 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.81 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (38.20%) Serverless
3 33 (37.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 33 (37.08%) Terraform
4 32 (35.96%) Security Cleared
5 31 (34.83%) SC Cleared
5 31 (34.83%) Amazon S3
5 31 (34.83%) AWS Certification
6 30 (33.71%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
8 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
9 26 (29.21%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (26.97%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (26.97%) Containerisation
11 24 (26.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (23.60%) Kubernetes
12 21 (23.60%) Open Source
13 20 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
14 19 (21.35%) Public Sector
14 19 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (19.10%) High Availability
16 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (16.85%) Python
18 13 (14.61%) Agile
19 12 (13.48%) Ansible
19 12 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 11 (12.36%) DevOps
20 11 (12.36%) Microservices
20 11 (12.36%) Finance

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 (1.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (38.20%) Serverless
3 33 (37.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (34.83%) Amazon S3
5 30 (33.71%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (29.21%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (12.36%) Azure
9 10 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (11.24%) GitHub
10 8 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (8.99%) Route 53
11 7 (7.87%) GCP
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (5.62%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (5.62%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (5.62%) PaaS
12 5 (5.62%) SaaS
13 4 (4.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) Firewall
2 9 (10.11%) DNS
3 5 (5.62%) VPN
4 2 (2.25%) WAN
5 1 (1.12%) BGP
5 1 (1.12%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) HTTP
5 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.12%) LAN
5 1 (1.12%) OSPF
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.97%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.62%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) Riak
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) GitLab
1 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.62%) Git
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (21.35%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.36%) Finance
5 4 (4.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) Kafka
1 6 (6.74%) Node.js
1 6 (6.74%) React
1 6 (6.74%) REST
2 3 (3.37%) RESTful
3 2 (2.25%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.12%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.12%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.12%) Middleware
4 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.99%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) NHS
5 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.25%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Linux
1 10 (11.24%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
2 25 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (26.97%) Containerisation
4 21 (23.60%) Open Source
5 19 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (19.10%) High Availability
7 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (14.61%) Agile
9 11 (12.36%) DevOps
9 11 (12.36%) Microservices
10 10 (11.24%) Event-Driven
11 9 (10.11%) Migration
12 8 (8.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 6 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (6.74%) Cloud Security
13 6 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (5.62%) Integration Patterns
14 5 (5.62%) Logistics
14 5 (5.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) Python
2 8 (8.99%) Java
2 8 (8.99%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.62%) Bash
4 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.49%) Go
6 1 (1.12%) Bicep
6 1 (1.12%) Scala
6 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.83%) AWS Certification
2 31 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 24 (26.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.49%) OCP
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
2 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.12%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (37.08%) Terraform
2 21 (23.60%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.48%) Ansible
4 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.62%) Puppet
5 1 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.37%) Pega
1 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.25%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Cisco
3 1 (1.12%) Databricks
3 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.12%) Google
3 1 (1.12%) JDA
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle
3 1 (1.12%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.12%) VMware