AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the East of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 92 114
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.22% 0.068% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £453 - £521
25th Percentile £456 £575 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £515 £625 £584
90th Percentile £531 - £594
England median daily rate £500 £438 £620
% change year-on-year +14.29% -29.44% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 449 432 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.16% 29.43% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 169 318
10th Percentile £200 £200 £273
25th Percentile £387 £313 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £675
90th Percentile £661 £600 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 110 153
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +95.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £55.38 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.20 £72.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Bedfordshire - 1 £531 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £450 -
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Nagios
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) SaltStack