AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends 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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 317 362
Rank change year-on-year -25 +45 +121
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 57 39 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.84% 0.77% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 32 43
10th Percentile £312 £381 £500
25th Percentile £404 £409 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £544 £535
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +1.64% -2.73%
75th Percentile £594 £631 £638
90th Percentile £713 £732 £700
UK median daily rate £494 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.23% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - -

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 6,756 5,065 7,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.93% 34.65% 36.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,242 3,026 4,331
10th Percentile £256 £225 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -7.20% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £649
90th Percentile £705 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 853 394 614
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £15.83
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.24
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -18.10% +16.87%
75th Percentile £51.53 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £79.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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 31 December 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 31 December 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
Midlands -23 15 £550 +10.00% 2
West Midlands -20 14 £550 +10.00% 2
Scotland +19 13 £420 -23.64% 3
North of England -57 13 £435 +2.35% 6
South East -8 11 £600 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire -51 10 £420 +1.82% 3
North West -22 3 £465 -35.19% 3
East of England - 3 £475 - 1
South West -7 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (38.60%) AWS CloudFormation
3 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 21 (36.84%) Serverless
4 15 (26.32%) Amazon S3
5 13 (22.81%) GCP
6 11 (19.30%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (17.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (14.04%) AWS CloudTrail
10 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (12.28%) AWS Control Tower
10 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
11 5 (8.77%) AWS KMS
12 4 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (7.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (7.02%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (7.02%) Datadog
12 4 (7.02%) GitHub
13 3 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) DNS
3 3 (5.26%) DHCP
3 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.26%) VPN
4 2 (3.51%) Network Security
5 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) NoSQL
2 10 (17.54%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) GitLab
2 17 (29.82%) Jenkins
3 11 (19.30%) Git
4 10 (17.54%) Liquibase
5 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Finance
3 14 (24.56%) Banking
4 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.28%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.02%) Aerospace
6 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Aeronautics
7 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Aviation
8 1 (1.75%) Electronics
8 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.75%) Marketing
8 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Architect
2 12 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (19.30%) Senior
4 10 (17.54%) AWS Architect
5 8 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Python Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Lead
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Data Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Digital Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Digital Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) RESTful
2 10 (17.54%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (17.54%) REST
3 5 (8.77%) Node.js
4 3 (5.26%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 2 (3.51%) Middleware
6 1 (1.75%) .NET
6 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.75%) JMS
6 1 (1.75%) LDAP
6 1 (1.75%) PySpark
6 1 (1.75%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 10 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.26%) PKI
4 3 (5.26%) SCADA
5 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.75%) IVR
6 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Linux
2 12 (21.05%) Windows
3 9 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (57.89%) Containerisation
2 29 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (49.12%) DevOps
4 26 (45.61%) CI/CD
5 22 (38.60%) Agile
5 22 (38.60%) Microservices
6 18 (31.58%) Computer Science
7 14 (24.56%) Cost Optimisation
7 14 (24.56%) High Availability
7 14 (24.56%) Migration
8 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (22.81%) Roadmaps
8 13 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (19.30%) Cloud Security
10 11 (19.30%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (17.54%) Change Management
11 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (17.54%) Cryptography
11 10 (17.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) Java
3 10 (17.54%) Go
4 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.51%) Perl
6 2 (3.51%) Ruby
7 1 (1.75%) C#
7 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 21 (36.84%) Degree
3 17 (29.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (24.56%) Azure Certification
5 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
6 12 (21.05%) Master's Degree
7 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.51%) CISSP
9 2 (3.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.02%) NCSC
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.26%) NIST
3 3 (5.26%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (40.35%) Docker
2 10 (17.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (59.65%) Terraform
2 25 (43.86%) Kubernetes
3 21 (36.84%) Ansible
4 13 (22.81%) Prometheus
5 10 (17.54%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Nagios
6 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) Google
3 10 (17.54%) Splunk
4 5 (8.77%) CloudEndure
4 5 (8.77%) Oracle
5 4 (7.02%) Citrix
5 4 (7.02%) VMware
6 3 (5.26%) IBM
6 3 (5.26%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) Avaya
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) Pega
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.75%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.75%) Workday