AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Reading

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 71 89 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.59% 0.093% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.66% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £567 - -
90th Percentile £591 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £519 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 241 385 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 35.44% 35.88% 41.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 207 293
10th Percentile £255 £342 £210
25th Percentile £356 £500 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -2.82%
75th Percentile £541 £675 £623
90th Percentile £617 £738 £685
Berkshire median daily rate £486 £566 £501
% change year-on-year -14.09% +12.97% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 12
10th Percentile £64.03 £48.18 £58.86
25th Percentile £71.50 £52.84 £60.59
Median hourly rate £90.00 £63.15 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +42.52% -0.22% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £81.18 £66.77
90th Percentile £97.75 £100.00 £74.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +5.70% -2.39% +180.00%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Reading

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
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%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Feasibility Study
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) IBM