AWS Architect Contracts

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK is £594 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 493 447
Rank change year-on-year +79 -46 -53
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 155 203 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.36% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.38% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 142 305
10th Percentile £460 £468 £525
25th Percentile £514 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £633 £600
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.42% +9.09%

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 39,539 53,460 83,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.63% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,741 37,320 58,759
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
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% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,737 1,489 2,014
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £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 24 May 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 24 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 +72 134 £600 -7.69% 30
London +83 96 £581 -10.58% 19
Work from Home +77 50 £625 -3.85% 16
UK excluding London +48 35 £613 -3.16% 17
North of England +40 16 £492 -25.77% 4
North West +36 12 £495 -17.58% 2
Scotland +36 8 £663 - 1
South West +10 6 £550 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire +15 4 £475 -29.63% 2
South East +15 3 £700 +30.23% 7
East of England +11 2 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 155 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (21.29%) Migration
2 33 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (21.29%) Java
3 32 (20.65%) Python
4 31 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 28 (18.06%) Azure
6 27 (17.42%) Security Cleared
7 26 (16.77%) DevOps
8 25 (16.13%) Serverless
9 23 (14.84%) AWS Certification
9 23 (14.84%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (14.19%) Finance
10 22 (14.19%) SC Cleared
11 20 (12.90%) Cloud Security
12 18 (11.61%) Kafka
13 17 (10.97%) Security Architecture
14 16 (10.32%) Amazon S3
14 16 (10.32%) Microservices
14 16 (10.32%) CI/CD
15 15 (9.68%) Design Patterns
15 15 (9.68%) API Management
15 15 (9.68%) TOGAF
15 15 (9.68%) JavaScript
15 15 (9.68%) Analytics
16 14 (9.03%) SaaS
16 14 (9.03%) TypeScript
16 14 (9.03%) React
16 14 (9.03%) SQL
16 14 (9.03%) SOAP

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 9 (5.81%) Apache Spark
1 9 (5.81%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (18.06%) Azure
3 25 (16.13%) Serverless
4 23 (14.84%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (10.32%) Amazon S3
6 14 (9.03%) SaaS
7 13 (8.39%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (8.39%) IaaS
8 10 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (5.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (5.81%) Entra ID
10 8 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.52%) Apigee
11 7 (4.52%) Kong
11 7 (4.52%) PaaS
11 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.87%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (3.87%) GCP
12 6 (3.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) Firewall
2 4 (2.58%) Network Security
3 2 (1.29%) VPN
4 1 (0.65%) Internet
4 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) Big Data
2 11 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.16%) DB2
5 7 (4.52%) Apache Hive
5 7 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.52%) Impala
5 7 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.52%) OLAP
5 7 (4.52%) OLTP
5 7 (4.52%) Power BI
5 7 (4.52%) Tableau
6 6 (3.87%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.23%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.39%) JIRA
2 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.58%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.19%) Finance
3 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.45%) Banking
5 8 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.52%) Back Office
6 7 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.94%) Games
8 2 (1.29%) Automotive
8 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.29%) Marketing
8 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.61%) Kafka
2 14 (9.03%) React
2 14 (9.03%) SOAP
3 13 (8.39%) Spring
3 13 (8.39%) Spring Boot
4 10 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 8 (5.16%) PySpark
6 7 (4.52%) .NET
6 7 (4.52%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.52%) CSS
6 7 (4.52%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (4.52%) J2EE
6 7 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (4.52%) REST
6 7 (4.52%) SAML
6 7 (4.52%) Web Services
7 6 (3.87%) Apache Camel
7 6 (3.87%) Spring Integration
8 3 (1.94%) Middleware
8 3 (1.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.52%) DataPower
1 7 (4.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.29%) IoT
5 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.29%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.65%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Replication
6 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.29%) Migration
1 33 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (16.77%) DevOps
3 20 (12.90%) Cloud Security
4 17 (10.97%) Security Architecture
5 16 (10.32%) CI/CD
5 16 (10.32%) Microservices
6 15 (9.68%) Analytics
6 15 (9.68%) API Management
6 15 (9.68%) Design Patterns
6 15 (9.68%) TOGAF
7 14 (9.03%) Roadmaps
8 13 (8.39%) Containerisation
8 13 (8.39%) Enterprise Architecture
9 12 (7.74%) ETL
10 11 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (7.10%) Data Migration
10 11 (7.10%) Data Modelling
10 11 (7.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (7.10%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.29%) Java
2 32 (20.65%) Python
3 15 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.03%) SQL
4 14 (9.03%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.16%) Scala
6 7 (4.52%) C#
6 7 (4.52%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.84%) AWS Certification
3 22 (14.19%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) CISSP
5 4 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.58%) CISM
5 4 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.94%) Degree
7 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.65%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.29%) NCSC
2 2 (1.29%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (8.39%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.39%) Terraform
2 6 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.94%) Packer
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (6.45%) Oracle
2 8 (5.16%) IBM
2 8 (5.16%) Talend
3 7 (4.52%) TSYS
4 4 (2.58%) Okta
5 3 (1.94%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.94%) Databricks
5 3 (1.94%) SAP
5 3 (1.94%) VMware
6 2 (1.29%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) Confluent
7 1 (0.65%) Informatica
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.65%) Red Hat