AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the North West

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 136 117 137
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 +31
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% 0.61% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £427 - £551
25th Percentile £451 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £356 £560
Median % change year-on-year +56.60% -36.43% +6.68%
75th Percentile £694 - £578
90th Percentile £773 - £585
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 870 661 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.67% 28.99% 30.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 328 544
10th Percentile £224 £258 £252
25th Percentile £400 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +2.39%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £708 £680 £703
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 56 68
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.14 £29.58
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.82% -24.75% +92.42%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.38 £46.89
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.67 £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.19% -5.71% +16.67%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the North West

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester -5 3 £650 - 1
Cheshire -23 1 £465 +30.62% 1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP