AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts in Scotland

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 23 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 7.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -5.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 321 606 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.75% 27.33% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 326 408
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £363 £346 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 14
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.95 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.73 £16.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%
75th Percentile £28.07 £60.00 £57.90
90th Percentile £61.16 £64.70 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Scotland

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Scotland

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Scotland

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow - 16 £550 - 1
Edinburgh - 6 £575 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Serverless
3 10 (43.48%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
4 5 (21.74%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Bitbucket
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JMS
1 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Licensing
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Computer Science
2 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
4 8 (34.78%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) Mathematics
4 8 (34.78%) Operational Stability
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
6 5 (21.74%) Community of Practice
6 5 (21.74%) Data Security
7 4 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (17.39%) Critical Thinking
7 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Migration
8 3 (13.04%) Architectural Design
8 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (43.48%) Azure Certification
3 8 (34.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (30.43%) Degree
5 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.35%) CISSP
7 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase
3 1 (4.35%) VMware