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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 491 471
Rank change year-on-year +51 -20 -88
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 163 205 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.37% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.39% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 149 302
10th Percentile £456 £463 £525
25th Percentile £506 £567 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +6.30%
75th Percentile £715 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £640 £620
% change year-on-year -14.06% +3.23% +12.73%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 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 9 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 +78 144 £575 -11.54% 20
London +78 98 £588 -9.62% 13
Work from Home +68 52 £600 -7.69% 15
UK excluding London +51 45 £550 -14.06% 7
North of England +37 23 £503 -24.11% 3
North West +24 18 £511 -14.83% 3
Scotland +46 8 £663 - 1
South West +5 8 £600 -4.00% 1
Yorkshire +13 5 £475 -29.63%
South East +17 4 £595 +10.70%
East of England +1 2 £650 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 163 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (22.09%) Migration
4 33 (20.25%) Java
5 31 (19.02%) Social Skills
6 29 (17.79%) Python
6 29 (17.79%) Finance
6 29 (17.79%) Azure
7 26 (15.95%) Security Cleared
7 26 (15.95%) DevOps
8 24 (14.72%) AWS Certification
9 22 (13.50%) Serverless
10 21 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (12.88%) SC Cleared
11 20 (12.27%) Cloud Security
12 19 (11.66%) Kafka
12 19 (11.66%) Analytics
13 18 (11.04%) Security Architecture
13 18 (11.04%) JavaScript
14 17 (10.43%) Amazon S3
14 17 (10.43%) Microservices
14 17 (10.43%) TypeScript
15 16 (9.82%) SQL
15 16 (9.82%) CI/CD
16 15 (9.20%) Roadmaps
16 15 (9.20%) API Management
16 15 (9.20%) Design Patterns
16 15 (9.20%) TOGAF
16 15 (9.20%) React
16 15 (9.20%) Amazon EC2

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 (6.13%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.52%) Confluence
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.45%) Apache
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (17.79%) Azure
3 22 (13.50%) Serverless
4 21 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (10.43%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (7.98%) IaaS
7 13 (7.98%) SaaS
8 11 (6.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (6.13%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (5.52%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (5.52%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.29%) Apigee
11 7 (4.29%) GCP
11 7 (4.29%) Kong
11 7 (4.29%) PaaS
11 7 (4.29%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.29%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.68%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Firewall
2 4 (2.45%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) Big Data
2 10 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (5.52%) DB2
4 7 (4.29%) Apache Hive
4 7 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.29%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.29%) Impala
4 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.29%) OLAP
4 7 (4.29%) OLTP
4 7 (4.29%) Power BI
4 7 (4.29%) Tableau
5 6 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.68%) Oracle OLAP
6 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.07%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) JIRA
2 7 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.45%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.79%) Finance
3 13 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.75%) Banking
5 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.29%) Back Office
7 3 (1.84%) Games
8 2 (1.23%) Automotive
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Front Office
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.66%) Kafka
2 15 (9.20%) React
3 14 (8.59%) SOAP
4 13 (7.98%) Spring
4 13 (7.98%) Spring Boot
5 9 (5.52%) .NET
5 9 (5.52%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.52%) CSS
5 9 (5.52%) GraphQL
5 9 (5.52%) PySpark
6 7 (4.29%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (4.29%) J2EE
6 7 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (4.29%) REST
6 7 (4.29%) SAML
6 7 (4.29%) Web Services
7 6 (3.68%) Apache Camel
7 6 (3.68%) Spring Integration
8 3 (1.84%) Node.js
9 2 (1.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.29%) DataPower
1 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.84%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.23%) IoT
4 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.23%) Video on Demand
5 1 (0.61%) Derivative
5 1 (0.61%) Equities
5 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.61%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.61%) Life Science
5 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (22.09%) Migration
3 26 (15.95%) DevOps
4 20 (12.27%) Cloud Security
5 19 (11.66%) Analytics
6 18 (11.04%) Security Architecture
7 17 (10.43%) Microservices
8 16 (9.82%) CI/CD
9 15 (9.20%) API Management
9 15 (9.20%) Design Patterns
9 15 (9.20%) Roadmaps
9 15 (9.20%) TOGAF
10 14 (8.59%) Data Architecture
11 13 (7.98%) Containerisation
12 12 (7.36%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (7.36%) ETL
13 11 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (6.75%) Data Migration
13 11 (6.75%) Identity Access Management
13 11 (6.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.25%) Java
2 29 (17.79%) Python
3 18 (11.04%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.82%) SQL
6 9 (5.52%) C#
6 9 (5.52%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.91%) Scala
8 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.72%) AWS Certification
3 21 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.45%) CISM
5 4 (2.45%) CISSP
6 3 (1.84%) Degree
7 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.84%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.23%) NCSC
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.98%) Kubernetes
1 13 (7.98%) Terraform
2 6 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.84%) Packer
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (6.13%) Oracle
2 8 (4.91%) IBM
2 8 (4.91%) Talend
3 7 (4.29%) TSYS
4 4 (2.45%) Okta
5 3 (1.84%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.84%) Databricks
5 3 (1.84%) Google
5 3 (1.84%) SAP
5 3 (1.84%) VMware
6 1 (0.61%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe
6 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.61%) Confluent
6 1 (0.61%) Informatica
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.61%) Reuters