AWS Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £660 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 371 402
Rank change year-on-year +86 +31 -59
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 58 95 233
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.41% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 70 185
10th Percentile £489 £438 £513
25th Percentile £516 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £722 £725
90th Percentile £753 £816 £775
UK median daily rate £619 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -4.81% - +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 17 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
4 12 (20.69%) Java
5 11 (18.97%) Migration
5 11 (18.97%) JIRA
5 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
5 11 (18.97%) Design Patterns
6 10 (17.24%) Finance
6 10 (17.24%) Python
7 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (15.52%) Azure
7 9 (15.52%) Microservices
7 9 (15.52%) AWS Certification
7 9 (15.52%) API Management
8 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 8 (13.79%) DevOps
8 8 (13.79%) Serverless
8 8 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
8 8 (13.79%) SOAP
8 8 (13.79%) Banking
9 7 (12.07%) TOGAF
9 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
9 7 (12.07%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (12.07%) Amazon S3
9 7 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (12.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (10.34%) Terraform

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 6 (10.34%) Confluence
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (13.79%) Serverless
4 7 (12.07%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (10.34%) IaaS
5 6 (10.34%) SaaS
6 5 (8.62%) Apigee
6 5 (8.62%) Kong
6 5 (8.62%) PaaS
6 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (5.17%) GCP
9 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Big Data
2 5 (8.62%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.62%) OLAP
2 5 (8.62%) OLTP
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle OLAP
3 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.45%) DB2
5 2 (3.45%) NewSQL
6 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.72%) Metadata
6 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.17%) Back Office
6 3 (5.17%) Games
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
6 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Electronics
7 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) SOAP
2 6 (10.34%) Kafka
2 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.62%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (8.62%) J2EE
3 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (8.62%) Spring
3 5 (8.62%) Web Services
4 4 (6.90%) Apache Camel
4 4 (6.90%) Spring Integration
5 3 (5.17%) REST
6 2 (3.45%) Middleware
7 1 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) DataPower
3 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.45%) Video on Demand
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (18.97%) Design Patterns
2 11 (18.97%) Migration
3 9 (15.52%) API Management
3 9 (15.52%) Microservices
4 8 (13.79%) DevOps
4 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
4 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (12.07%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (12.07%) Risk Management
5 7 (12.07%) TOGAF
6 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
6 6 (10.34%) SOA
6 6 (10.34%) Technical Debt
7 5 (8.62%) Agile
7 5 (8.62%) CQRS
7 5 (8.62%) OO
7 5 (8.62%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (8.62%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) Java
2 10 (17.24%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) AWS Certification
3 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) CISSP
5 2 (3.45%) CISM
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.72%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) NCSC
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Consul
4 2 (3.45%) Packer
4 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) IBM
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle
2 5 (8.62%) TSYS
3 4 (6.90%) Okta
4 3 (5.17%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat