AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 387 430
Rank change year-on-year +108 +43 +41
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 57 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.058% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.25% 0.16% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 11 25
10th Percentile £460 £456 £513
25th Percentile £500 £508 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £575
90th Percentile £715 £688 £630
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -5.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland - 23 £550 - 1
South West +55 10 £658 -2.59% 4
North of England +27 9 £716 +43.20% 13
North West - 9 £716 - 9
Midlands +26 7 £465 -25.00% 4
Wales - 5 £475 - 2
West Midlands +17 4 £500 - 1
South East +43 3 £575 +2.22% 15
East Midlands +11 3 £459 -25.97% 3
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (21.05%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (66.67%) Azure
3 18 (31.58%) Serverless
4 17 (29.82%) GCP
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon S3
5 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (12.28%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.26%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (3.51%) PaaS
9 2 (3.51%) SaaS
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) BGP
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) MPLS
2 2 (3.51%) OSPF
2 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.51%) VLAN
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
2 2 (3.51%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) JIRA
2 10 (17.54%) Bitbucket
3 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) Git
4 2 (3.51%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (61.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (22.81%) Public Sector
3 12 (21.05%) Finance
4 8 (14.04%) Legal
5 7 (12.28%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.77%) Banking
7 3 (5.26%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.51%) Digital Health
8 2 (3.51%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (70.18%) Architect
2 25 (43.86%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (21.05%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior
6 6 (10.53%) Security Architect
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Security Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Migration Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Principal Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.51%) AWS Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Java Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Network Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.51%) Keycloak
2 2 (3.51%) OpenJDK
2 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.75%) JMS
3 1 (1.75%) Middleware
3 1 (1.75%) Node.js
3 1 (1.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) NHS
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) Computer Science
2 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (26.32%) Containerisation
3 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (24.56%) Agile
4 14 (24.56%) TOGAF
5 13 (22.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 11 (19.30%) Migration
6 11 (19.30%) Roadmaps
7 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 10 (17.54%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (17.54%) Mathematics
7 10 (17.54%) Operational Stability
8 9 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (15.79%) Cloud Security
8 9 (15.79%) ITIL
8 9 (15.79%) Microservices
8 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (12.28%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) Python
2 10 (17.54%) Java
3 4 (7.02%) SQL
4 2 (3.51%) Scala
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (49.12%) Degree
3 25 (43.86%) Azure Certification
4 24 (42.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (28.07%) SC Cleared
5 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
6 11 (19.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (17.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
8 7 (12.28%) Master's Degree
9 4 (7.02%) CITP
10 3 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (3.51%) CCIE
11 2 (3.51%) CCNP
11 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (3.51%) JNCIE
11 2 (3.51%) JNCIP
12 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (1.75%) CISSP
12 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) NCSC
4 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (28.07%) Google
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco
4 3 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 2 (3.51%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.51%) Juniper
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Sybase