AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends

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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 392 532
Rank change year-on-year -143 +140 +91
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 90 127 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.43% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 1.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 96 37
10th Percentile £393 £435 £463
25th Percentile £450 £509 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £731 £688 £650
90th Percentile £768 £716 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £74.80 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £102.50 - -
90th Percentile £102.95 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 15,191 9,088 13,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.90% 30.91% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,090 5,726 8,071
10th Percentile £350 £285 £305
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £650
90th Percentile £721 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 521 1,070
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.83
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.46 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.54 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.77% -6.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.58
90th Percentile £85.36 £80.00 £75.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +18.75% -2.30% -18.12%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 12 Contract Job 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 11 May 2026. 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 -140 69 £600 - 15
UK excluding London -113 35 £550 -4.35% 8
London -75 32 £620 +3.33% 4
Work from Home -67 24 £650 +8.33% 10
North West -37 14 £425 -40.64% 1
North of England -63 14 £425 -40.64% 2
South East -52 8 £594 +3.26% 2
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
South West -40 4 £750 +14.07% 1
West Midlands -60 3 £725 +45.00% 1
Midlands -69 3 £725 +57.95% 1
Scotland -18 1 £313 -43.09%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (4.44%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (37.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 33 (36.67%) Serverless
4 27 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 27 (30.00%) Azure
5 22 (24.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (17.78%) Amazon S3
8 15 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (15.56%) GitHub
10 12 (13.33%) GCP
11 11 (12.22%) AWS Control Tower
11 11 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
12 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
13 9 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (8.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (8.89%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) DNS
2 9 (10.00%) Firewall
3 6 (6.67%) VPN
4 5 (5.56%) DHCP
5 3 (3.33%) 3GPP
5 3 (3.33%) Network Security
5 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.33%) TETRA
5 3 (3.33%) WAN
6 2 (2.22%) BGP
6 2 (2.22%) PCoIP
6 2 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.11%) Multicast
7 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.11%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.11%) Wireless
7 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.89%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (12.22%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.33%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.33%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.22%) DB2
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.11%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.11%) Metadata
9 1 (1.11%) MySQL
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.11%) Parquet
9 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.44%) GitLab
3 5 (5.56%) JIRA
4 3 (3.33%) MLflow
5 2 (2.22%) Git
5 2 (2.22%) JUnit
5 2 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) Snyk
General
1 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Finance
3 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.44%) Legal
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.22%) Electronics
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.11%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Billing
8 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (51.11%) Architect
2 21 (23.33%) AWS Architect
2 21 (23.33%) Cloud Architect
3 14 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 12 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Lead
6 9 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Lead Architect
8 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (6.67%) Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Architect
11 4 (4.44%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) Kafka
2 6 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 5 (5.56%) REST
3 5 (5.56%) RESTful
4 4 (4.44%) Node.js
4 4 (4.44%) Web Services
5 2 (2.22%) OpenGL
5 2 (2.22%) Qt
5 2 (2.22%) Spring
5 2 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.11%) .NET
6 1 (1.11%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.11%) boto
6 1 (1.11%) FHIR
6 1 (1.11%) OAuth
6 1 (1.11%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.11%) OpenID
6 1 (1.11%) React
6 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (35.56%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.33%) PKI
8 2 (2.22%) CUDA
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.11%) IoT
9 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 53 (58.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (53.33%) DevOps
4 27 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 23 (25.56%) Microservices
6 22 (24.44%) Agile
7 19 (21.11%) Observability
8 18 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 18 (20.00%) Migration
9 16 (17.78%) Roadmaps
10 15 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 15 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (15.56%) Cloud Security
11 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (15.56%) FinOps
11 14 (15.56%) Machine Learning
11 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
12 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.44%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) Java
3 14 (15.56%) Bash
4 11 (12.22%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.78%) Rust
7 5 (5.56%) SQL
8 4 (4.44%) Bicep
9 3 (3.33%) Ruby
10 2 (2.22%) C#
11 1 (1.11%) Go
11 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 40 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 31 (34.44%) SC Cleared
4 15 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 9 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.56%) Degree
7 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (4.44%) CCNP
8 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
8 4 (4.44%) MBA
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (2.22%) CCIE
11 1 (1.11%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) NCSC
2 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) HL7
5 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (27.78%) Docker
2 10 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (66.67%) Terraform
2 29 (32.22%) Kubernetes
3 12 (13.33%) Ansible
4 3 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.22%) Packer
5 2 (2.22%) SCCM
6 1 (1.11%) Argo
6 1 (1.11%) CASB
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.11%) Grafana
6 1 (1.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) Citrix
2 7 (7.78%) VMware
3 6 (6.67%) CloudEndure
4 3 (3.33%) Databricks
4 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.33%) HP
4 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.22%) AVEVA
5 2 (2.22%) Cisco
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Leostream
5 2 (2.22%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.22%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Sybase
6 1 (1.11%) Palantir
6 1 (1.11%) Zscaler