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 £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 625 735
Rank change year-on-year +76 +110 -116
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 36 64 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 95
10th Percentile £375 £550 £555
25th Percentile £461 £613 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% +9.47%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £725
90th Percentile £778 £835 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £638 £663
% change year-on-year +9.80% -3.77% +26.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 7 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 28 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 +78 30 £600 -8.75% 9
London +68 23 £550 -15.38% 4
Work from Home +93 10 £650 -3.70% 6
UK excluding London +32 6 £700 +9.80% 5
North of England +29 3 £575 -4.21% 2
North West +24 3 £575 -4.21%
Scotland - 3 £700 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) Migration
3 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.22%) ETL
5 8 (22.22%) Python
5 8 (22.22%) Apache Spark
5 8 (22.22%) Talend
5 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 7 (19.44%) Power BI
6 7 (19.44%) PySpark
6 7 (19.44%) Big Data
6 7 (19.44%) Apache Hive
6 7 (19.44%) Tableau
6 7 (19.44%) AWS Certification
6 7 (19.44%) Impala
6 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (19.44%) SAML
6 7 (19.44%) Scala
6 7 (19.44%) JIRA
6 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
7 6 (16.67%) Java
7 6 (16.67%) Technical Debt
8 5 (13.89%) DevOps
8 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.11%) API Management
9 4 (11.11%) Public Sector

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 8 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 3 (8.33%) Serverless
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.78%) Apigee
7 1 (2.78%) Kong
7 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Apache Hive
1 7 (19.44%) Big Data
1 7 (19.44%) Impala
1 7 (19.44%) Power BI
1 7 (19.44%) Tableau
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) OLAP
3 1 (2.78%) OLTP
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Back Office
4 3 (8.33%) Games
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Automotive
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) PySpark
1 7 (19.44%) SAML
2 4 (11.11%) SOAP
3 3 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (5.56%) Middleware
4 2 (5.56%) Spring
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.78%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (2.78%) J2EE
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) Spring Integration
5 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.78%) DataPower
1 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (22.22%) ETL
4 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Debt
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (11.11%) Agile
7 4 (11.11%) API Management
7 4 (11.11%) Data Architecture
8 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 3 (8.33%) Microservices
8 3 (8.33%) Security Architecture
8 3 (8.33%) Service Management
8 3 (8.33%) Storage Management
9 2 (5.56%) CI/CD
9 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (5.56%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Scala
3 6 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Talend
2 4 (11.11%) Okta
3 3 (8.33%) Cloudera
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Confluent
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) TSYS