AWS Solution Architect Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
West Wales > Swansea

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in Swansea is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 2.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swansea. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Swansea with a recognized job title 29 28 23
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.38% 100.00% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 19
10th Percentile - £137 £178
25th Percentile £206 £425 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £313
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +60.00% -34.21%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £416
90th Percentile £638 £565 £500
West Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £313
% change year-on-year -5.00% +60.00% -34.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £16.65 £17.20 -
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.88 -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £19.38 £22.38 -
90th Percentile £19.45 £23.20 -
West Wales median hourly rate £13.85 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.78% - -

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Swansea region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform