AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 111 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.29% 0.063% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £567 - -
90th Percentile £591 - -
South East median daily rate £588 £675 £558
% change year-on-year -12.96% +21.08% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

AWS Certified Solutions Architect falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 567 608 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 40.73% 38.48% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 334 454
10th Percentile £255 £262 £205
25th Percentile £375 £408 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £566 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +12.97% -7.01%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £623
90th Percentile £631 £716 £684
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 55
10th Percentile £19.42 £41.18 £45.21
25th Percentile £21.29 £50.10 £55.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -2.39% +180.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 £66.75 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.75 £86.50 £75.93
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Berkshire

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. 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
Reading +18 4 £519 - 1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
South East

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Feasibility Study
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) IBM