AWS Solution Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 438 496
Rank change year-on-year +49 +58 -81
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 7 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.038% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.041% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 14
10th Percentile £539 £589 £565
25th Percentile £700 £609 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -1.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £725
90th Percentile - £744 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution 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 Solution Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +36 3 £750 +16.28%
Scotland - 3 £700 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £750 -
North of England +28 1 £438 -27.08%
North West +14 1 £438 -27.08%
AWS Solution Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, AWS Solution 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 Solution Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (42.86%) API Management
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Back Office
4 3 (42.86%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 3 (42.86%) REST
5 2 (28.57%) Big Data
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code

AWS Solution 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Back Office
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) API Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Organisational Awareness
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle