AWS Solution Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 350 403
Rank change year-on-year -26 +53 +78
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 11 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.054% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.058% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile £419 £467 £472
25th Percentile £447 £499 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £525 £678 £750
90th Percentile £570 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,345 13,724 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.39% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,035 8,185 11,953
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,655 776 1,187
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.36 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% -26.67% +50.00%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Solution Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution 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 Solution Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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 -33 3 £450 -3.64%
Scotland - 3 - -
East Midlands -19 2 £450 -3.64%
North of England -41 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -44 2 - -
East of England - 1 £600 -
South East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
AWS Solution Architect
UK

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Migration
4 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (45.45%) Serverless
5 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (27.27%) Cisco
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
6 3 (27.27%) Node.js
6 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
6 3 (27.27%) Python
6 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
7 2 (18.18%) Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Avaya
7 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
7 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (18.18%) GDPR
7 2 (18.18%) Genesys

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Riak
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) NHS
2 2 (18.18%) IVR
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (9.09%) Due Diligence
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Avaya
2 2 (18.18%) Genesys
3 1 (9.09%) CloudEndure