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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 - 151
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 14 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% - 0.038%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.10% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £293 - -
25th Percentile £446 - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £393
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.20%
75th Percentile £584 - £401
90th Percentile £679 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% -

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 451 477 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 26.04% 25.11% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 291 370
10th Percentile £181 £175 £210
25th Percentile £313 £277 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -7.79% +0.53%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £541
90th Percentile £600 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 12
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.32 £13.07
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.44 £34.94
Median hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -64.10% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £59.90
90th Percentile £27.95 - £64.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -41.51% -23.26% +24.51%

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 4 August 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 4 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
Glasgow - 9 £550 - 2
Edinburgh - 4 £535 - 2
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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Datadog
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Camel
3 1 (7.14%) J2EE
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) IVR
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 4 (28.57%) Operational Stability
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (21.43%) Microservices
8 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
8 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 2 (14.29%) High Availability
8 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 9 (64.29%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (14.29%) CISSP
6 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Avaya
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Pega