AWS Architect Contracts

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK is £635 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 501 472
Rank change year-on-year +69 -29 -72
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 161 204 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.34% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 139 309
10th Percentile £473 £448 £525
25th Percentile £519 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £725
90th Percentile £776 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £688 £625 £615
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.63% +13.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
England +100 140 £625 -3.85% 22
London +96 103 £590 -9.23% 16
Work from Home +88 61 £700 +7.69% 13
UK excluding London +54 34 £688 +10.00% 9
North of England +34 15 £535 -19.28% 2
North West +23 12 £535 -10.88%
Scotland +42 7 £675 - 4
South West +8 4 £1,000 +63.27% 1
Midlands +28 3 £750 +20.00% 1
East Midlands +23 3 £750 +20.00% 1
Yorkshire +20 3 - - 2
South East +17 3 £700 +30.23% 1
East of England +17 2 £650 -

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 161 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 34 (21.12%) Migration
4 33 (20.50%) Python
5 32 (19.88%) Security Cleared
6 30 (18.63%) Java
6 30 (18.63%) Finance
7 28 (17.39%) Serverless
8 27 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (16.77%) SC Cleared
8 27 (16.77%) Azure
9 26 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (15.53%) AWS Certification
10 25 (15.53%) DevOps
11 22 (13.66%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (13.66%) Terraform
12 21 (13.04%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.18%) Cloud Security
13 18 (11.18%) Public Sector
13 18 (11.18%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (10.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
14 17 (10.56%) Big Data
14 17 (10.56%) IaaS
14 17 (10.56%) CI/CD
15 16 (9.94%) Analytics
15 16 (9.94%) Security Architecture
15 16 (9.94%) Microservices
16 15 (9.32%) Amazon S3
16 15 (9.32%) Containerisation

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (6.21%) Confluence
2 8 (4.97%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (17.39%) Serverless
3 27 (16.77%) Azure
4 26 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (13.66%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (10.56%) IaaS
6 17 (10.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (9.32%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.07%) SaaS
9 12 (7.45%) PaaS
10 11 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (5.59%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.35%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.73%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (3.11%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (3.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
14 5 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) Firewall
2 4 (2.48%) Network Security
3 2 (1.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.56%) Big Data
3 12 (7.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 7 (4.35%) DB2
4 7 (4.35%) Impala
4 7 (4.35%) Power BI
4 7 (4.35%) Tableau
5 6 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.11%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.11%) OLAP
6 5 (3.11%) OLTP
6 5 (3.11%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (2.48%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.86%) Flink
Development Applications
1 14 (8.70%) JIRA
2 11 (6.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.24%) Git
3 2 (1.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.63%) Finance
3 18 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.59%) Banking
5 8 (4.97%) Marketing
5 8 (4.97%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.35%) Back Office
6 7 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Electronics
7 6 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Games
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.24%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.07%) Kafka
1 13 (8.07%) React
2 12 (7.45%) SOAP
3 11 (6.83%) Spring Boot
4 10 (6.21%) GraphQL
4 10 (6.21%) Spring
5 7 (4.35%) PySpark
5 7 (4.35%) REST
5 7 (4.35%) SAML
6 6 (3.73%) .NET
6 6 (3.73%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.73%) CSS
7 5 (3.11%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (3.11%) J2EE
7 5 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (3.11%) Web Services
8 4 (2.48%) Apache Camel
8 4 (2.48%) Spring Integration
9 3 (1.86%) Middleware
9 3 (1.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.11%) DataPower
3 4 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.24%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.62%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.62%) IoT
6 1 (0.62%) Life Science
6 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
6 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.12%) Migration
2 27 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (15.53%) DevOps
4 21 (13.04%) Roadmaps
5 18 (11.18%) Cloud Security
6 17 (10.56%) CI/CD
7 16 (9.94%) Analytics
7 16 (9.94%) Microservices
7 16 (9.94%) Security Architecture
8 15 (9.32%) Containerisation
9 14 (8.70%) TOGAF
10 13 (8.07%) Agile
10 13 (8.07%) API Management
10 13 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (8.07%) Design Patterns
10 13 (8.07%) Service Management
11 12 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (7.45%) Software Engineering
11 12 (7.45%) Technical Debt
12 11 (6.83%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.50%) Python
2 30 (18.63%) Java
3 14 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.07%) SQL
4 13 (8.07%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.35%) Scala
6 6 (3.73%) C#
6 6 (3.73%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.86%) Go
8 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 25 (15.53%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.73%) CISSP
5 5 (3.11%) CISM
6 4 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Degree
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISA
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.86%) GDPR
1 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.24%) NCSC
2 2 (1.24%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (13.66%) Terraform
2 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.73%) Packer
4 4 (2.48%) Ansible
4 4 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.86%) Consul
5 3 (1.86%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (5.59%) Oracle
2 8 (4.97%) SAP
2 8 (4.97%) Talend
3 6 (3.73%) IBM
4 5 (3.11%) TSYS
5 4 (2.48%) Databricks
5 4 (2.48%) Okta
6 3 (1.86%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.86%) VMware
7 2 (1.24%) Google
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.62%) Confluent
8 1 (0.62%) Informatica
8 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.62%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.62%) Sparx