AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Central London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 125 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +63
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.11% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.70% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £618 - £529
25th Percentile £625 £675 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +23.35% +16.58%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £683 - £825
London median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 494 570 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.57% 24.52% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 343 384
10th Percentile £328 £350 £327
25th Percentile £436 £454 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £644 £688
90th Percentile £726 £751 £797
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile £25.04 £23.10 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.00 £18.23
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £39.47
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -17.65% -8.48%
75th Percentile £34.48 £112.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £52.16 - £75.63
London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.21 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.41% -19.61% +17.83%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
City of London +7 2 £650 -7.14% 6
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform