AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 554 626
Rank change year-on-year +163 +72 +39
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 128 46 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.42% 0.34% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 37 61
10th Percentile £435 £463 £525
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -5.77%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £650
90th Percentile £716 £708 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 13 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 30 April 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
England +116 96 £600 +9.09% 71
London +69 60 £600 +9.09% 46
UK excluding London +98 57 £575 +2.22% 29
Work from Home +90 56 £600 +6.67% 45
Scotland - 23 £550 - 1
South West +54 10 £658 -2.59% 3
North of England +36 9 £716 +43.20% 12
North West - 9 £716 - 8
Midlands +27 7 £465 -9.71% 4
Wales - 5 £475 - 2
West Midlands +19 4 £500 - 1
South East +40 3 £575 +2.22% 7
East Midlands +10 3 £459 -10.87% 3

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 14 (10.94%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) Apache
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.56%) Camunda
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.78%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (45.31%) Serverless
3 55 (42.97%) Azure
4 45 (35.16%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (27.34%) Amazon S3
6 32 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (21.88%) GCP
8 27 (21.09%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (16.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (8.59%) GitHub
12 10 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (7.03%) PaaS
13 9 (7.03%) SaaS
14 8 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (5.47%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (3.91%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) VPN
2 8 (6.25%) Firewall
3 5 (3.91%) DNS
4 3 (2.34%) WAN
5 2 (1.56%) BGP
5 2 (1.56%) MPLS
5 2 (1.56%) Network Security
5 2 (1.56%) OSPF
5 2 (1.56%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.56%) VLAN
6 1 (0.78%) IPsec
6 1 (0.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.69%) Big Data
5 5 (3.91%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.34%) Flink
6 3 (2.34%) GIS
6 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.56%) MySQL
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.94%) JIRA
3 13 (10.16%) GitLab
4 11 (8.59%) Bitbucket
5 10 (7.81%) Git
6 2 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.56%) Maven
6 2 (1.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 73 (57.03%) Social Skills
2 40 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (26.56%) Public Sector
4 27 (21.09%) Finance
5 12 (9.38%) Banking
6 10 (7.81%) Legal
7 9 (7.03%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.56%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.56%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Back Office
11 1 (0.78%) Billing
11 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (62.50%) Architect
2 38 (29.69%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (23.44%) AWS Architect
4 16 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 12 (9.38%) Senior
6 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.03%) Lead
8 8 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
8 8 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) Security Architect
8 8 (6.25%) Senior Architect
9 7 (5.47%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Architect
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.13%) Cloud Security Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.81%) Kafka
2 7 (5.47%) REST
3 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.91%) Spring
5 4 (3.13%) Node.js
6 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.34%) PySpark
7 2 (1.56%) .NET
7 2 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.56%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.56%) OpenJDK
7 2 (1.56%) Shiny
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Amplify
8 1 (0.78%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.78%) JMS
8 1 (0.78%) Middleware
8 1 (0.78%) Serverless Framework
8 1 (0.78%) TypeORM
8 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.03%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.56%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.56%) NHS
6 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Licensing
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.16%) Linux
2 4 (3.13%) Windows
3 2 (1.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (39.84%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (36.72%) Containerisation
3 41 (32.03%) Computer Science
4 38 (29.69%) CI/CD
5 37 (28.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (25.00%) DevOps
7 31 (24.22%) Agile
8 30 (23.44%) High Availability
9 28 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (18.75%) Roadmaps
11 22 (17.19%) Migration
12 20 (15.63%) Open Source
13 18 (14.06%) Microservices
13 18 (14.06%) TOGAF
14 17 (13.28%) Event-Driven
15 16 (12.50%) Analytics
15 16 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
15 16 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
16 15 (11.72%) Cloud Security
17 14 (10.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.59%) Python
2 19 (14.84%) Java
3 11 (8.59%) SQL
4 4 (3.13%) Bash
5 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.34%) Scala
5 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.56%) R
7 1 (0.78%) Groovy
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) Ruby
7 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 49 (38.28%) Security Cleared
3 47 (36.72%) SC Cleared
4 36 (28.13%) Degree
5 35 (27.34%) Azure Certification
6 30 (23.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (10.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) DV Cleared
10 7 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (5.47%) Master's Degree
11 6 (4.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (3.91%) CCNP
12 5 (3.91%) OCP
12 5 (3.91%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (3.13%) CITP
14 3 (2.34%) CCIE
15 2 (1.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) QA
2 7 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (14.84%) Docker
2 4 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (28.91%) Terraform
2 29 (22.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.81%) Ansible
4 9 (7.03%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.47%) Grafana
6 4 (3.13%) Argo
7 3 (2.34%) Istio
7 3 (2.34%) Puppet
8 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.78%) Cilium
9 1 (0.78%) Consul
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.75%) Google
3 10 (7.81%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) Cisco
5 5 (3.91%) VMware
6 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.56%) Juniper
7 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.56%) Sage
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) Sybase