AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 295 373
Rank change year-on-year -82 +78 +72
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 30 55 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.44% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 1.71% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 41 16
10th Percentile £398 £413 £463
25th Percentile £450 £563 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +9.09% -14.73%
75th Percentile £732 £688 £613
90th Percentile £766 £700 £788
England median daily rate £563 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
England median hourly rate £95.50 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,062 3,209 4,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.12% 25.90% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,626 2,152 2,824
10th Percentile £363 £355 £325
25th Percentile £446 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.15% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £740 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 59 108
10th Percentile £22.48 £18.39 £14.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £23.47 £19.98
Median hourly rate £55.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.20% +16.28% -40.83%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.68 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.54 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.85% - -23.81%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Central London -20 6 £625 -7.41% 5
South London - 2 £723 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (33.33%) Serverless
4 9 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (26.67%) Azure
6 7 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (23.33%) GCP
7 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (16.67%) AWS KMS
9 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
9 4 (13.33%) GitHub
10 3 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.33%) DynamoDB
3 3 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.67%) DB2
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) MLflow
3 2 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Snyk
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Electronics
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Architect
2 9 (30.00%) AWS Architect
2 9 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (23.33%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Developer
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
7 2 (6.67%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) RESTful
2 3 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Web Services
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) boto
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
1 17 (56.67%) DevOps
2 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (26.67%) Event-Driven
3 8 (26.67%) Microservices
3 8 (26.67%) Observability
4 7 (23.33%) Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 5 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) SOA
7 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Ruby
3 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
3 15 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (10.00%) MBA
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) CCNP
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NCSC
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Terraform
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) CloudForms
5 1 (3.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Citrix
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) AVEVA
3 2 (6.67%) CloudEndure
3 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.67%) Sybase
4 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk