AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 630 659
Rank change year-on-year +77 +29 -33
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 45 89 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.34% 0.54% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 63 128
10th Percentile £463 £525 £525
25th Percentile £513 £525 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -5.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £800
90th Percentile £708 £763 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +19.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +95 42 £550 -12.00% 38
London +85 25 £550 -14.06% 25
Work from Home +91 15 £563 -6.25% 19
UK excluding London +46 13 £563 +2.27% 15
South East +28 6 £563 - 3
Midlands - 4 £515 -
East Midlands - 3 £515 -
South West +18 1 £675 +28.57% 2
East of England +17 1 £650 +8.33%
North of England +12 1 £500 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire +8 1 £500 -9.09% 4
West Midlands - 1 - -

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 2 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) nginx
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (40.00%) Serverless
3 15 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 15 (33.33%) Azure
4 13 (28.89%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (17.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (17.78%) GCP
6 7 (15.56%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (15.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (11.11%) OCI
8 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (6.67%) GitHub
10 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) LAN
3 5 (11.11%) BGP
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (11.11%) DHCP
3 5 (11.11%) DNS
3 5 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 5 (11.11%) HSRP
3 5 (11.11%) IPsec
3 5 (11.11%) IPv4
3 5 (11.11%) IPv6
3 5 (11.11%) MPLS
3 5 (11.11%) OSPF
3 5 (11.11%) TACACS
3 5 (11.11%) VLAN
3 5 (11.11%) VXLAN
3 5 (11.11%) Wireless
4 4 (8.89%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.11%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.67%) Metadata
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.44%) Power BI
5 2 (4.44%) Sisense
5 2 (4.44%) Tableau
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.44%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Architect
3 10 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Senior
4 8 (17.78%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (13.33%) Data Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Architect
6 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 4 (8.89%) Node.js
3 3 (6.67%) JDBC
3 3 (6.67%) ODBC
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.44%) Kafka
4 2 (4.44%) PySpark
5 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.22%) JPA
5 1 (2.22%) LDAP
5 1 (2.22%) React
5 1 (2.22%) Spring
5 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.44%) Life Science
2 2 (4.44%) PKI
2 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) DevOps
2 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
4 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Agile
7 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
8 6 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 6 (13.33%) TOGAF
9 5 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (11.11%) Scrum
10 4 (8.89%) Architectural Design
10 4 (8.89%) ETL
10 4 (8.89%) SDLC
10 4 (8.89%) User Experience
10 4 (8.89%) Visualisation
11 3 (6.67%) Asset Management
11 3 (6.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) Bash
3 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 16 (35.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 7 (15.56%) CCNA
4 7 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Degree
5 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
6 5 (11.11%) CCNP
6 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (6.67%) CISSP
9 2 (4.44%) CISM
9 2 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (2.22%) HP ASE
10 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
10 1 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (2.22%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) GDPR
1 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Terraform
2 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (8.89%) Ansible
5 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Google
2 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.56%) Cisco
4 6 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 5 (11.11%) F5
5 5 (11.11%) Infoblox
5 5 (11.11%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.67%) Sage
6 3 (6.67%) VMware
7 2 (4.44%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.22%) Ciena
8 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.22%) Databricks
8 1 (2.22%) EMC
8 1 (2.22%) Informatica
8 1 (2.22%) Juniper
8 1 (2.22%) Nokia
8 1 (2.22%) Talend