AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the South West

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 7 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.48% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.91% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £559 £563 -
25th Percentile £591 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - -
75th Percentile £716 £688 -
90th Percentile £736 - -
England median daily rate £538 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -10.42% +14.29% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86.55 - -
25th Percentile £87.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
England median hourly rate £95.50 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,553 990 1,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.17% 52.38% 53.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 613 1,097
10th Percentile £340 £220 £367
25th Percentile £438 £420 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 107 200
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £25.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £21.66 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.55 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.40% -56.08% -3.47%
75th Percentile £70.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.25 £74.25 £77.55
England median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -34.88% -21.82%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the South West

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Wiltshire -12 3 £575 -14.81% 1
Bristol -14 3 - -
Cornwall - 1 £750 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) 3GPP
1 3 (42.86%) TETRA
2 2 (28.57%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 1 (14.29%) Flask
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) AI
4 3 (42.86%) API Development
4 3 (42.86%) ArchiMate
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 3 (42.86%) MODAF
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (28.57%) Service Design
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes