AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 118 114
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 +85
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 15 4 22
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.48% 0.17% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 0.62% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 20
10th Percentile £401 - £481
25th Percentile £439 £475 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.37% +21.36%
75th Percentile £634 £525 -
90th Percentile £738 - £538
England median daily rate £520 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -0.95% -6.46% -6.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,081 650 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.74% 27.84% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 399 490
10th Percentile £260 £225 £263
25th Percentile £405 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £715 £676
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 30 45
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.59
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.92 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £35.50 £52.50 £68.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands -26 14 £550 +10.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Aeronautics
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) SCADA
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
1 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (46.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (40.00%) Change Control
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Identity Management
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (46.67%) Azure Certification
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) VMware