AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Croydon

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.74% - 4.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.17% - 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £580
25th Percentile £716 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £729 - £656
90th Percentile - - £675
South London median daily rate £723 - £625
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 92 54 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 80.00% 50.00% 73.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 39 86
10th Percentile £463 £380 £361
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -5.39% -11.92%
75th Percentile £558 £584 £619
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
South London median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.43
Median hourly rate - - £15.86
75th Percentile - - £16.28
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £71.27 £73.60 £66.19
% change year-on-year -3.17% +11.20% +24.96%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Croydon

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes