AWS Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 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 347 398 455
Rank change year-on-year +51 +57 -87
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Architect 45 37 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 52
10th Percentile £468 £562 £513
25th Percentile £490 £603 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £640 £620
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +3.23% +12.73%
75th Percentile £694 £681 £716
90th Percentile £740 £745 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +6.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,497 21,400 29,228
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,649 14,865 20,542
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 1,094 1,390
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £74.15 £75.50 £61.71
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
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
UK

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (33.33%) Java
3 15 (33.33%) API Management
4 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
4 14 (31.11%) SOAP
5 11 (24.44%) Finance
5 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
5 11 (24.44%) Roadmaps
6 10 (22.22%) Oracle
6 10 (22.22%) Azure
6 10 (22.22%) DevOps
6 10 (22.22%) Data Architecture
7 9 (20.00%) Kafka
7 9 (20.00%) Microservices
7 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 9 (20.00%) Migration
7 9 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (17.78%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
8 8 (17.78%) Banking
8 8 (17.78%) SOA
8 8 (17.78%) AWS Certification
9 7 (15.56%) Apigee
9 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (15.56%) REST
9 7 (15.56%) CQRS

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (13.33%) Confluence
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (22.22%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) Apigee
3 7 (15.56%) Kong
4 6 (13.33%) IaaS
4 6 (13.33%) SaaS
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.67%) PaaS
7 3 (6.67%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.22%) iPaaS
9 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) MongoDB
1 7 (15.56%) OLAP
1 7 (15.56%) OLTP
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle OLAP
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.67%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.22%) Flink
5 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
3 8 (17.78%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Back Office
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) SOAP
2 9 (20.00%) Kafka
3 7 (15.56%) IBM Integration Bus
3 7 (15.56%) J2EE
3 7 (15.56%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (15.56%) REST
3 7 (15.56%) Web Services
4 6 (13.33%) Apache Camel
4 6 (13.33%) Spring
4 6 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.33%) Spring Integration
5 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.22%) Middleware
6 1 (2.22%) React
6 1 (2.22%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) DataPower
2 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (33.33%) API Management
3 11 (24.44%) Roadmaps
4 10 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 10 (22.22%) DevOps
5 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (20.00%) Microservices
5 9 (20.00%) Migration
5 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 9 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.78%) SOA
7 7 (15.56%) CQRS
7 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (15.56%) OO
7 7 (15.56%) OOA/OOD
7 7 (15.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) AWS Certification
2 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) CISM
6 2 (4.44%) CISSP
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) IBM
2 7 (15.56%) TSYS
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.22%) VMware