AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts 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 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 294 365 452
Rank change year-on-year +71 +87 +36
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 59 26 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 0.61% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 28
10th Percentile £413 £463 £609
25th Percentile £553 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £640
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -14.06% -8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £719
90th Percentile £730 £788 £790
England median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £80.00
England median hourly rate £100.00 - £80.00

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 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in London

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +10 11 £675 +12.50% 1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (5.08%) Apache
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) nginx
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (57.63%) Serverless
3 32 (54.24%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (45.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (42.37%) Amazon S3
6 22 (37.29%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (22.03%) Azure
8 12 (20.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (11.86%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (11.86%) GCP
9 7 (11.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (8.47%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (8.47%) GitHub
11 4 (6.78%) PaaS
11 4 (6.78%) SaaS
12 3 (5.08%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (5.08%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (5.08%) AWS KMS
13 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) VPN
2 5 (8.47%) Firewall
3 3 (5.08%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) IPsec
4 1 (1.69%) LAN
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
4 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.98%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.47%) Big Data
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.39%) Flink
5 2 (3.39%) GIS
5 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.69%) MySQL
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) GitLab
2 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) Git
4 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.39%) JIRA
4 2 (3.39%) Maven
General
1 34 (57.63%) Social Skills
2 25 (42.37%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (35.59%) Public Sector
4 14 (23.73%) Finance
5 7 (11.86%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (55.93%) Architect
2 24 (40.68%) AWS Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Developer
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Kafka
1 4 (6.78%) REST
2 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.39%) Node.js
2 2 (3.39%) PySpark
2 2 (3.39%) Shiny
2 2 (3.39%) Spring
2 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.69%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (1.69%) TypeORM
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.69%) CMDB
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Unix
2 2 (3.39%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (50.85%) Containerisation
3 25 (42.37%) High Availability
4 22 (37.29%) CI/CD
4 22 (37.29%) DevOps
4 22 (37.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (28.81%) Open Source
6 16 (27.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (20.34%) Agile
8 10 (16.95%) Analytics
9 9 (15.25%) Migration
9 9 (15.25%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.86%) Microservices
11 6 (10.17%) Cloud Security
11 6 (10.17%) Data Architecture
11 6 (10.17%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.17%) ETL
11 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
11 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
12 5 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Python
2 7 (11.86%) Java
3 6 (10.17%) SQL
4 3 (5.08%) Bash
4 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.39%) R
6 1 (1.69%) Groovy
6 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.69%) Ruby
6 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 29 (49.15%) Security Cleared
3 27 (45.76%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Certification
5 6 (10.17%) Degree
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.39%) CCNA
8 2 (3.39%) CCNP
8 2 (3.39%) OCP
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.69%) CCIE
9 1 (1.69%) CISSP
9 1 (1.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Terraform
2 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.17%) Ansible
3 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.78%) Grafana
5 3 (5.08%) Argo
5 3 (5.08%) Puppet
6 2 (3.39%) Istio
6 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Cilium
7 1 (1.69%) Consul
7 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Google
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
4 2 (3.39%) Sage
4 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow