AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 501 578
Rank change year-on-year +111 +77 +39
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 95 41 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.25% 0.35% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 32 54
10th Percentile £416 £463 £516
25th Percentile £513 £523 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £650
90th Percentile £729 £733 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £100.00 - £80.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +71 59 £600 +9.09% 57
South West +55 10 £658 -2.59% 4
North of England +27 9 £716 +43.20% 13
North West - 9 £716 - 9
Midlands +26 7 £465 -25.00% 4
West Midlands +17 4 £500 - 1
South East +43 3 £575 +2.22% 15
East Midlands +11 3 £459 -25.97% 3
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) Apache
3 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.11%) Camunda
5 1 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.05%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (47.37%) Serverless
3 40 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (40.00%) Azure
5 31 (32.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (31.58%) Amazon S3
7 26 (27.37%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (22.11%) GCP
9 20 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (10.53%) GitHub
11 8 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.42%) PaaS
11 8 (8.42%) SaaS
12 7 (7.37%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (7.37%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (6.32%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudTrail
15 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) VPN
2 8 (8.42%) Firewall
3 4 (4.21%) DNS
4 3 (3.16%) WAN
5 2 (2.11%) BGP
5 2 (2.11%) MPLS
5 2 (2.11%) OSPF
5 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.11%) VLAN
6 1 (1.05%) IPsec
6 1 (1.05%) LAN
6 1 (1.05%) Network Security
6 1 (1.05%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.32%) Big Data
4 5 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.16%) Flink
6 3 (3.16%) GIS
6 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.11%) MySQL
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.58%) GitLab
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.11%) Maven
6 2 (2.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (58.95%) Social Skills
2 37 (38.95%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (25.26%) Public Sector
4 19 (20.00%) Finance
5 10 (10.53%) Legal
6 9 (9.47%) Banking
6 9 (9.47%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.11%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Back Office
9 1 (1.05%) Billing
9 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (61.05%) Architect
2 27 (28.42%) AWS Architect
3 25 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (9.47%) Senior
5 8 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Cloud Architect
5 8 (8.42%) Lead
6 7 (7.37%) AWS Solution Architect
6 7 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Security Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.21%) Cloud Security Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.47%) Kafka
2 6 (6.32%) REST
3 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.21%) Node.js
5 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.16%) PySpark
5 3 (3.16%) Spring
6 2 (2.11%) .NET
6 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.11%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.11%) OpenJDK
6 2 (2.11%) Shiny
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (1.05%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.05%) Middleware
7 1 (1.05%) Serverless Framework
7 1 (1.05%) TypeORM
7 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.42%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.05%) CMDB
6 1 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (38.95%) Containerisation
3 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 29 (30.53%) DevOps
5 27 (28.42%) High Availability
6 26 (27.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (25.26%) Agile
8 23 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (22.11%) Computer Science
10 19 (20.00%) Open Source
11 18 (18.95%) Roadmaps
12 17 (17.89%) Microservices
13 14 (14.74%) Analytics
13 14 (14.74%) Migration
13 14 (14.74%) Software Engineering
14 11 (11.58%) Cloud Security
14 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
15 10 (10.53%) Data Governance
15 10 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (10.53%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.53%) Python
2 13 (13.68%) Java
3 9 (9.47%) SQL
4 4 (4.21%) Bash
5 3 (3.16%) Scala
5 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.11%) R
7 1 (1.05%) Groovy
7 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.05%) Ruby
7 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
3 46 (48.42%) SC Cleared
4 24 (25.26%) Degree
5 19 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 18 (18.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (8.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) DV Cleared
9 6 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (4.21%) CCNP
11 4 (4.21%) OCP
11 4 (4.21%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (3.16%) CCIE
13 2 (2.11%) CCNA
13 2 (2.11%) JNCIE
13 2 (2.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.16%) GDPR
5 2 (2.11%) NCSC
6 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (17.89%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) Terraform
2 26 (27.37%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.47%) Ansible
4 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.32%) Grafana
6 3 (3.16%) Argo
6 3 (3.16%) Puppet
7 2 (2.11%) Istio
7 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.05%) Cilium
8 1 (1.05%) Consul
8 1 (1.05%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.84%) Google
3 6 (6.32%) Oracle
4 5 (5.26%) Cisco
5 4 (4.21%) VMware
6 3 (3.16%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.11%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.11%) Juniper
7 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.11%) Sage
8 1 (1.05%) Databricks
8 1 (1.05%) IBM
8 1 (1.05%) Rollbar
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow