AWS Solution Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in Edinburgh is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 71 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% 0.37% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £700 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 580 776 1,143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 94.87% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 446 801
10th Percentile £244 £196 £225
25th Percentile £402 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £538
90th Percentile £610 £655 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 57 10
10th Percentile - £15.64 £12.89
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +156.54% -3.44%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £45.73
90th Percentile £50.06 £66.00 £55.80
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £24.29 £21.67
% change year-on-year -20.28% +12.09% -38.46%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured AWS Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in Edinburgh

AWS Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for AWS Solution Architect in Edinburgh

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle