AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 3 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.04% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 7.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
75th Percentile £420 - -
90th Percentile £438 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £393 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 85 66 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.71% 16.18% 23.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 44 81
10th Percentile £317 £393 £388
25th Percentile £346 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £700
90th Percentile £624 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £431 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -19.77% -10.42% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £14.32 - -
25th Percentile £15.01 £11.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% +22.73% +24.01%
75th Percentile £17.34 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £18.04 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +19.81% -55.74% +105.73%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Sheffield

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Sheffield

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

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Python Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 6 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Data Security
2 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Go
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft