AWS Solution Architect Contracts

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 559 660
Rank change year-on-year +78 +101 +79
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 38 41 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.094% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 41
10th Percentile £467 £375 £550
25th Percentile £527 £470 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £658 £769 £725
90th Percentile £786 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £750 £638
% change year-on-year -28.40% +17.65% -1.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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 +64 36 £575 +4.55% 29
London +30 20 £588 +6.86% 15
Work from Home +56 17 £575 -14.81% 22
UK excluding London +56 11 £537 -28.40% 14
North of England +33 6 £537 +22.74% 8
North West +16 6 £537 +22.74% 7
Midlands +24 5 £494 -34.20% 4
East Midlands +10 5 £494 -34.20% 2
South East - 1 £575 - 1
South West - 1 £675 - 1

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 10 (26.32%) Public Cloud
4 10 (26.32%) AWS Certification
4 10 (26.32%) Serverless
4 10 (26.32%) Event-Driven
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
5 9 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (23.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.68%) Microservices
5 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
5 9 (23.68%) Banking
5 9 (23.68%) Migration
6 8 (21.05%) Terraform
6 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
6 8 (21.05%) Ansible
6 8 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (18.42%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (18.42%) Observability
7 7 (18.42%) Kafka
7 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (18.42%) REST
7 7 (18.42%) DevOps
7 7 (18.42%) Java
8 6 (15.79%) Finance

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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 1 (2.63%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Serverless
3 9 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (15.79%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (15.79%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (15.79%) GitHub
5 6 (15.79%) SaaS
6 5 (13.16%) Azure AKS
6 5 (13.16%) PaaS
7 4 (10.53%) Azure
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.63%) Apigee
10 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DHCP
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) LAN
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
1 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) GitLab
General
1 9 (23.68%) Banking
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
4 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Kafka
1 7 (18.42%) REST
2 4 (10.53%) RESTful
3 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.63%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.63%) Spring
4 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Public Cloud
2 9 (23.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 10 (26.32%) Event-Driven
3 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (23.68%) Microservices
3 9 (23.68%) Migration
3 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
4 7 (18.42%) DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (18.42%) Integration Patterns
4 7 (18.42%) Observability
5 6 (15.79%) Budgeting
5 6 (15.79%) Cost Management
6 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.16%) Scrum
7 4 (10.53%) BPR
7 4 (10.53%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) C#
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 8 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.16%) OCP
4 5 (13.16%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Degree
5 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.05%) Ansible
2 8 (21.05%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) IBM
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Foundry
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.63%) VMware
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