Hybrid/Remote AWS Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.017% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £410 -
% change year-on-year +46.34% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 10,900 9,462 14,971
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.69% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,021 6,472 10,017
10th Percentile £350 £326 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £628
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 210 532
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.38 £21.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.36% -13.29% -18.66%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.75 £62.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.63 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.20% -24.38%

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Infrastructure Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

AWS Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Infrastructure Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid AWS Infrastructure Architect job vacancies

AWS Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 27 March 2026, AWS Infrastructure 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring AWS Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless

AWS Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform