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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 376 424
Rank change year-on-year +80 +48 +101
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 54 28 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.66% 0.68% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 17 37
10th Percentile £430 £453 £570
25th Percentile £575 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £763
90th Percentile £700 £788 £825
England median daily rate £600 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +11.63% -14.00% -0.79%
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 3,258 4,120 5,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.88% 23.45% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 2,816 3,715
10th Percentile £351 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £658 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 112 86
10th Percentile £18.82 £14.37 £19.70
25th Percentile £24.83 £20.22 £21.88
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -52.38% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53.58 £43.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £68.68 £87.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% -22.73% +34.38%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +12 10 £675 +11.80% 21
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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) CMS
2 2 (3.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (59.26%) Serverless
3 30 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 26 (48.15%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (48.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (22.22%) Azure
7 11 (20.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (12.96%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (12.96%) GitHub
10 6 (11.11%) GCP
11 5 (9.26%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (7.41%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (7.41%) PaaS
12 4 (7.41%) SaaS
13 3 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (5.56%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) VPN
2 6 (11.11%) Firewall
3 4 (7.41%) DNS
4 1 (1.85%) IPsec
4 1 (1.85%) LAN
4 1 (1.85%) SMS
4 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.26%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.70%) Big Data
5 2 (3.70%) GIS
5 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Flink
6 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.85%) MySQL
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) GitLab
1 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 31 (57.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (35.19%) Public Sector
4 14 (25.93%) Finance
5 6 (11.11%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Publishing
7 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.85%) Back Office
7 1 (1.85%) Billing
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Retail
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Architect
2 23 (42.59%) AWS Architect
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.26%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (7.41%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Designer
8 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Security Technical Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) REST
2 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.70%) Kafka
2 2 (3.70%) Node.js
2 2 (3.70%) OAuth
2 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.70%) OpenID
2 2 (3.70%) SAML
3 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.85%) PySpark
3 1 (1.85%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (1.85%) ServiceStack
3 1 (1.85%) TypeORM
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 5 (9.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.70%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.85%) CMDB
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (57.41%) Containerisation
3 29 (53.70%) High Availability
4 22 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
6 18 (33.33%) DevOps
7 17 (31.48%) Open Source
8 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.67%) Migration
10 8 (14.81%) Agile
10 8 (14.81%) Cloud Security
10 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.81%) Microservices
11 6 (11.11%) Analytics
11 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
12 5 (9.26%) Computer Science
12 5 (9.26%) Configuration Management
12 5 (9.26%) Continuous Deployment
12 5 (9.26%) Cost Optimisation
12 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 6 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Groovy
5 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) Ruby
5 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (98.15%) AWS Certification
2 24 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 23 (42.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Degree
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (9.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 5 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
9 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.70%) OCP
9 2 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.85%) CCNA
10 1 (1.85%) CCNP
10 1 (1.85%) CISSP
10 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Terraform
2 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.41%) Puppet
5 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.70%) Grafana
7 1 (1.85%) Argo
7 1 (1.85%) Cilium
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Google
3 3 (5.56%) IBM
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow