AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 31 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 144 191
Rank change year-on-year -33 +47 +68
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 11 27 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.65% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.90% 2.51% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 6
10th Percentile £358 - £525
25th Percentile £384 £381 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £555
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -27.93% -3.00%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £586
90th Percentile £560 - £605
England median daily rate £588 £456 £625
% change year-on-year +28.77% -27.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,219 1,076 1,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.35% 25.78% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 641 830
10th Percentile £309 £313 £280
25th Percentile £400 £412 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 101 77
10th Percentile £17.18 £10.95 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.26 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -21.72% +37.10%
75th Percentile £50.78 £54.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £55.34
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -49.70% -8.36% +21.24%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the North of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the North of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Yorkshire -23 8 £407 +1.63% 5
North West -10 3 £650 +44.44%
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Serverless
3 6 (54.55%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) GitLab
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) Liquibase
3 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 7 (63.64%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Python Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (54.55%) REST
2 6 (54.55%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
1 6 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (45.45%) Public Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (72.73%) Microservices
4 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
5 6 (54.55%) Change Management
5 6 (54.55%) Cryptography
5 6 (54.55%) High Availability
5 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
6 5 (45.45%) Agile
6 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (45.45%) Data Security
6 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Go
3 5 (45.45%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 7 (63.64%) Master's Degree
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Ansible
1 9 (81.82%) Grafana
1 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
1 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Splunk
2 6 (54.55%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) VMware