AWS Architect Contracts

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 484 465
Rank change year-on-year +70 -19 -69
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 162 203 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.36% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.38% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 146 304
10th Percentile £456 £463 £525
25th Percentile £508 £575 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +7.88%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £640 £625
% change year-on-year -12.11% +2.40% +13.64%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 11 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 1 June 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 +66 142 £581 -10.58% 26
London +85 96 £581 -10.58% 15
Work from Home +69 52 £600 -7.69% 12
UK excluding London +47 44 £563 -12.11% 8
North of England +35 23 £503 -24.11% 3
North West +32 18 £511 -14.83% 2
Scotland +43 8 £663 - 1
South West 0 8 £600 -3.03% 1
Yorkshire +19 5 £475 -29.63%
South East +12 3 £700 +30.23% 1
East of England +5 2 £650 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (20.99%) Migration
4 32 (19.75%) Java
4 32 (19.75%) Social Skills
5 30 (18.52%) Python
6 28 (17.28%) Azure
7 27 (16.67%) Finance
8 26 (16.05%) DevOps
9 25 (15.43%) AWS Certification
9 25 (15.43%) Security Cleared
10 24 (14.81%) Serverless
11 22 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (12.96%) Cloud Security
13 20 (12.35%) SC Cleared
14 19 (11.73%) Security Architecture
15 18 (11.11%) Amazon S3
15 18 (11.11%) Kafka
16 17 (10.49%) Analytics
16 17 (10.49%) Microservices
17 16 (9.88%) JavaScript
17 16 (9.88%) CI/CD
18 15 (9.26%) Design Patterns
18 15 (9.26%) API Management
18 15 (9.26%) TOGAF
18 15 (9.26%) TypeScript
18 15 (9.26%) React
18 15 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (8.64%) Data Architecture
19 14 (8.64%) SaaS

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 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.56%) Confluence
3 6 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (17.28%) Azure
3 24 (14.81%) Serverless
4 22 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.64%) SaaS
8 13 (8.02%) IaaS
9 12 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 8 (4.94%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.32%) Apigee
12 7 (4.32%) Kong
12 7 (4.32%) PaaS
12 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
13 6 (3.70%) GCP
13 6 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Firewall
2 4 (2.47%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (7.41%) Big Data
2 10 (6.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (4.94%) DB2
4 7 (4.32%) Apache Hive
4 7 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.32%) Impala
4 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.32%) OLAP
4 7 (4.32%) OLTP
4 7 (4.32%) Power BI
4 7 (4.32%) Tableau
5 6 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.70%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.02%) JIRA
2 7 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.47%) Git
4 1 (0.62%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.17%) Banking
5 8 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.32%) Back Office
7 3 (1.85%) Games
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.11%) Kafka
2 15 (9.26%) React
3 14 (8.64%) SOAP
4 13 (8.02%) Spring
4 13 (8.02%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.17%) GraphQL
6 8 (4.94%) .NET
6 8 (4.94%) .NET Core
6 8 (4.94%) CSS
6 8 (4.94%) PySpark
7 7 (4.32%) IBM Integration Bus
7 7 (4.32%) J2EE
7 7 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (4.32%) REST
7 7 (4.32%) SAML
7 7 (4.32%) Web Services
8 6 (3.70%) Apache Camel
8 6 (3.70%) Spring Integration
9 3 (1.85%) Middleware
9 3 (1.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.32%) DataPower
1 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.23%) IoT
5 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.23%) 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%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (20.99%) Migration
3 26 (16.05%) DevOps
4 21 (12.96%) Cloud Security
5 19 (11.73%) Security Architecture
6 17 (10.49%) Analytics
6 17 (10.49%) Microservices
7 16 (9.88%) CI/CD
8 15 (9.26%) API Management
8 15 (9.26%) Design Patterns
8 15 (9.26%) TOGAF
9 14 (8.64%) Data Architecture
9 14 (8.64%) Roadmaps
10 13 (8.02%) Containerisation
10 13 (8.02%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (7.41%) ETL
12 11 (6.79%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (6.79%) Data Migration
12 11 (6.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (6.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.75%) Java
2 30 (18.52%) Python
3 16 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 15 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.64%) SQL
6 8 (4.94%) C#
6 8 (4.94%) Scala
6 8 (4.94%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (15.43%) AWS Certification
1 25 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (3.09%) CISSP
4 4 (2.47%) CISM
4 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.85%) Degree
6 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.23%) NCSC
2 2 (1.23%) NIST
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (8.02%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.02%) Terraform
2 6 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.85%) Packer
4 1 (0.62%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (6.17%) Oracle
2 8 (4.94%) IBM
2 8 (4.94%) Talend
3 7 (4.32%) TSYS
4 4 (2.47%) Okta
5 3 (1.85%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.85%) Databricks
5 3 (1.85%) SAP
5 3 (1.85%) VMware
6 2 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.62%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.62%) Confluent
7 1 (0.62%) Informatica
7 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.62%) Red Hat