AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 179 205
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 +63
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.065% 0.072%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.30% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile £402 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £450 £625 £538
90th Percentile - £640 -
England median daily rate £563 £438 £620
% change year-on-year +28.57% -29.44% +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,353 1,985 2,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 38.79% 42.93% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 1,250 1,323
10th Percentile £220 £330 £263
25th Percentile £410 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £715 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 154 134
10th Percentile - £22.30 £25.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £43.69 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.77% -3.05% +33.33%
75th Percentile £64.25 £72.33 £73.74
90th Percentile £81.00 £87.46 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the South East

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Hampshire - 3 £402 - 1
Thames Valley +15 1 £450 -28.00% 5
Berkshire +13 1 £450 -28.00% 5
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM