AWS Solution Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
England > London

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 370 421
Rank change year-on-year +14 +51 +113
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 17 24 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 29
10th Percentile £466 £594 £480
25th Percentile £585 £695 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £682 £800 £825
90th Percentile £706 £888 £918
England median daily rate £575 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -23.33% +25.00% -7.69%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,511 15,207 21,402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 94.06% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,420 10,477 15,674
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 192 230
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.88 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -6.67% +14.33%
75th Percentile £50.88 £55.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured AWS Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in London

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in London

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in London over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in London

AWS Solution 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 Solution Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 -2 2 £803 +15.47% 1
South London - 1 £705 -
AWS Solution Architect
England

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (23.53%) Snowflake
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 3 (17.65%) React
4 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) JIRA
5 2 (11.76%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (11.76%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) Route 53
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (23.53%) Serverless
2 4 (23.53%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Route 53
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Police
3 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
2 3 (17.65%) Agile
2 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
2 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
2 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Microservices
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
3 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.76%) Scrum
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) IBM