AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 84 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% 0.26% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% 1.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £530 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £790 - -
North West median daily rate £558 £356 £560
% change year-on-year +56.60% -36.43% +6.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 308 276 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.35% 23.94% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 142 288
10th Percentile £302 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -9.09% -0.48%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £614
90th Percentile £682 £688 £703
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 19
10th Percentile £20.00 £27.90 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.63 £31.25 £17.40
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +8.33% +53.85%
75th Percentile £35.50 £55.38 £46.38
90th Percentile £68.75 £95.10 £63.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.82% -24.75% +92.42%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Manchester

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP