AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.45% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +18.86% +1.84% -20.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 74 103 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 33.64% 41.70% 48.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 44
10th Percentile £228 £200 £157
25th Percentile £419 £325 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £684 £600 £600
90th Percentile £694 £641 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 14
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.60 £21.19
25th Percentile £22.94 £14.78 -
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% +4.01% +73.83%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £35.43
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £25.15 £48.18
% change year-on-year +79.72% -47.80% -10.08%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
County Antrim - 1 £600 - 3
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus