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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 507 586
Rank change year-on-year +125 +79 +43
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 97 41 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.27% 0.35% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 31 50
10th Percentile £419 £463 £524
25th Percentile £509 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £631 £649
90th Percentile £726 £738 £764
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £619
% change year-on-year +4.35% -7.07% -4.81%
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 7,630 11,568 13,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.29% 31.20% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,848 7,141 9,255
10th Percentile £290 £310 £333
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £627 £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 440 986 738
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £22.27 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% -23.81% +38.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £68.48
90th Percentile £81.35 £77.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +27.06%

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 7 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 7 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 +90 60 £600 +9.09% 57
South West - 10 £658 - 7
North of England +25 9 £716 +43.20% 14
North West - 9 £716 - 10
Midlands +27 8 £462 -25.48% 5
West Midlands +21 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands +13 4 £448 -27.82% 3
South East +30 3 £575 +2.22% 11
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 (6.19%) Confluence
2 5 (5.15%) Apache
3 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.06%) Camunda
5 1 (1.03%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.03%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.03%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (47.42%) Serverless
3 41 (42.27%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (39.18%) Azure
5 33 (34.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (31.96%) Amazon S3
7 27 (27.84%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (21.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (21.65%) GCP
9 10 (10.31%) GitHub
10 9 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (9.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (8.25%) AWS CodePipeline
11 8 (8.25%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (8.25%) PaaS
11 8 (8.25%) SaaS
12 6 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (6.19%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (5.15%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) VPN
2 9 (9.28%) Firewall
3 5 (5.15%) DNS
4 3 (3.09%) WAN
5 2 (2.06%) BGP
5 2 (2.06%) MPLS
5 2 (2.06%) OSPF
5 2 (2.06%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.06%) VLAN
6 1 (1.03%) IPsec
6 1 (1.03%) LAN
6 1 (1.03%) Network Security
6 1 (1.03%) SMS
6 1 (1.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.84%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.22%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.19%) Big Data
4 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.09%) Flink
6 3 (3.09%) GIS
6 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.06%) MySQL
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.31%) GitLab
3 8 (8.25%) Git
4 6 (6.19%) JIRA
5 3 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.06%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.03%) Maven
General
1 56 (57.73%) Social Skills
2 37 (38.14%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (24.74%) Public Sector
4 21 (21.65%) Finance
5 10 (10.31%) Banking
5 10 (10.31%) Legal
6 9 (9.28%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.03%) Back Office
9 1 (1.03%) Billing
9 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (60.82%) Architect
2 27 (27.84%) AWS Architect
3 26 (26.80%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (10.31%) Senior
5 9 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (7.22%) AWS Solution Architect
7 7 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Lead
7 7 (7.22%) Security Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.15%) Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Architect
10 4 (4.12%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Cloud Security Architect
10 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 4 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.25%) Kafka
2 6 (6.19%) REST
3 5 (5.15%) Node.js
4 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.09%) PySpark
6 2 (2.06%) .NET
6 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.06%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.06%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.06%) Middleware
6 2 (2.06%) OpenJDK
6 2 (2.06%) Shiny
6 2 (2.06%) Spring
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (1.03%) Serverless Framework
7 1 (1.03%) ServiceStack
7 1 (1.03%) TypeORM
7 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Windows
3 3 (3.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.24%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (39.18%) Containerisation
3 36 (37.11%) CI/CD
4 31 (31.96%) DevOps
5 29 (29.90%) High Availability
6 27 (27.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (24.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (23.71%) Agile
9 20 (20.62%) Computer Science
10 19 (19.59%) Open Source
11 18 (18.56%) Microservices
11 18 (18.56%) Roadmaps
12 16 (16.49%) Migration
13 14 (14.43%) Analytics
14 13 (13.40%) Software Engineering
15 12 (12.37%) Mentoring
16 11 (11.34%) Cloud Security
16 11 (11.34%) TOGAF
17 10 (10.31%) Data Governance
17 10 (10.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.96%) Python
2 14 (14.43%) Java
3 9 (9.28%) SQL
4 4 (4.12%) Bash
4 4 (4.12%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.09%) Scala
6 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.06%) R
7 1 (1.03%) Groovy
7 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.03%) Ruby
7 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 97 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 48 (49.48%) Security Cleared
3 46 (47.42%) SC Cleared
4 23 (23.71%) Degree
5 19 (19.59%) Azure Certification
6 17 (17.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (10.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) DV Cleared
10 6 (6.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (5.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (5.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (4.12%) CCNP
12 4 (4.12%) OCP
12 4 (4.12%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (3.09%) CCIE
14 2 (2.06%) CCNA
14 2 (2.06%) JNCIE
14 2 (2.06%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.09%) GDPR
5 2 (2.06%) NCSC
6 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (28.87%) Terraform
2 27 (27.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.28%) Ansible
4 7 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.15%) Grafana
6 4 (4.12%) Puppet
7 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.06%) Argo
9 1 (1.03%) Cilium
9 1 (1.03%) Consul
9 1 (1.03%) Istio
9 1 (1.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) Google
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 5 (5.15%) Cisco
5 4 (4.12%) VMware
6 3 (3.09%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.06%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.06%) Juniper
7 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.06%) Sage
8 1 (1.03%) Databricks
8 1 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (1.03%) Rollbar
8 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow