AWS Solution Architect Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in Cambridge is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.48% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 182 187 204
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.92% 91.67% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 93 113
10th Percentile £250 £229 £166
25th Percentile £400 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £425 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -6.49% -9.10%
75th Percentile £621 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £635 £574
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 24
10th Percentile £26.53 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £24.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £49.10 £52.50 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +178.37% -57.14%
75th Percentile £69.38 £60.63 £61.56
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £17.72
% change year-on-year -30.12% +29.20% +14.32%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Solution Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in Cambridge

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in Cambridge

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Migration

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure