AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 615 659
Rank change year-on-year +82 +44 -21
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 50 81 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% 0.51% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 58 117
10th Percentile £463 - £538
25th Percentile £515 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £775
90th Percentile £715 £799 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +19.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,968 15,820 18,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 27.20% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,992 10,558 12,540
10th Percentile £307 £330 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,064 805 779
10th Percentile £13.74 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +24.14% +14.47%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.95 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
England +75 42 £575 -8.00% 43
London +68 25 £550 -12.00% 27
Work from Home +91 20 £588 -2.08% 23
UK excluding London +58 12 £600 +9.09% 15
South East +20 6 £563 - 3
Midlands - 3 £620 - 1
East of England +9 2 £625 +4.17%
East Midlands - 2 £620 -
Yorkshire +8 1 £500 -9.09% 4
North of England +8 1 £500 -9.09% 6
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (4.00%) Apache
1 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Chatbot
2 5 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.00%) Azure
3 16 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (32.00%) GCP
3 16 (32.00%) Serverless
4 13 (26.00%) Amazon S3
5 11 (22.00%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (18.00%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (18.00%) Twilio
7 7 (14.00%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (10.00%) OCI
10 3 (6.00%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (6.00%) GitHub
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) CTI
1 9 (18.00%) VoIP
2 7 (14.00%) Firewall
3 6 (12.00%) LAN
4 5 (10.00%) BGP
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (10.00%) DHCP
4 5 (10.00%) DNS
4 5 (10.00%) EIGRP
4 5 (10.00%) HSRP
4 5 (10.00%) IPsec
4 5 (10.00%) IPv4
4 5 (10.00%) IPv6
4 5 (10.00%) MPLS
4 5 (10.00%) OSPF
4 5 (10.00%) TACACS
4 5 (10.00%) VLAN
4 5 (10.00%) VXLAN
4 5 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (10.00%) Big Data
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.00%) Metadata
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI
5 2 (4.00%) Sisense
5 2 (4.00%) Tableau
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Retail
4 10 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (12.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Architect
2 15 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (28.00%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Senior
6 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) AWS Architect
9 3 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Specialist
10 2 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) Middleware
1 9 (18.00%) Web Services
2 5 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 5 (10.00%) Node.js
3 3 (6.00%) JDBC
3 3 (6.00%) ODBC
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.00%) Kafka
4 2 (4.00%) PySpark
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.00%) JPA
5 1 (2.00%) LDAP
5 1 (2.00%) React
5 1 (2.00%) Spring
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) IVR
2 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Life Science
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) DevOps
2 15 (30.00%) Agile
3 14 (28.00%) Computer Science
3 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (22.00%) Analytics
5 11 (22.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (18.00%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (18.00%) Conversational UI
7 9 (18.00%) CRM
7 9 (18.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (16.00%) Customer Experience
8 8 (16.00%) Data Privacy
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (16.00%) Load Balancing
8 8 (16.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 8 (16.00%) Bash
3 4 (8.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 18 (36.00%) Azure Certification
3 15 (30.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) Degree
5 12 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (18.00%) Master's Degree
7 6 (12.00%) CCNA
7 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (10.00%) CCNP
9 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
9 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
10 3 (6.00%) CISSP
11 2 (4.00%) CISM
12 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) GDPR
1 8 (16.00%) HIPAA
1 8 (16.00%) PCI DSS
1 8 (16.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (26.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Google
2 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (30.00%) Cisco
4 9 (18.00%) Avaya
4 9 (18.00%) Genesys
5 5 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 5 (10.00%) F5
5 5 (10.00%) Infoblox
5 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.00%) Sage
7 2 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (4.00%) VMware
8 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.00%) Confluent
8 1 (2.00%) Databricks
8 1 (2.00%) Informatica
8 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.00%) Talend