AWS Solution Architect Contract Job Trends

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 £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 510 566
Rank change year-on-year -25 +56 +172
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 42 37 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 49
10th Percentile £455 £510 £472
25th Percentile £513 £519 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £695 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +15.83% -4.76%
75th Percentile £697 £784 £725
90th Percentile £738 £888 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.83% -5.00%

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 31,811 33,985 44,100
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.88% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,179 20,513 30,002
10th Percentile £278 £300 £295
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,817 1,273 1,546
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.10 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +53.98%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +85.42%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Solution Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution 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 Solution Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 8 November 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 -23 29 £600 -13.67% 51
Work from Home +10 19 £600 -13.67% 16
London +3 15 £625 -10.39% 30
UK excluding London -32 9 £500 -16.67% 34
Midlands -28 3 £450 -3.64% 2
East Midlands -15 2 £450 -3.64% 2
Yorkshire -33 2 - - 2
North of England -37 2 - - 7
Scotland - 2 £500 -
East of England - 1 £600 -
South East - 1 - - 24
West Midlands - 1 - -

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) Serverless
2 14 (33.33%) Terraform
3 13 (30.95%) AWS Certification
4 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
5 11 (26.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 9 (21.43%) Agile
7 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (21.43%) Python
8 8 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 8 (19.05%) Firewall
9 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (16.67%) GitLab
9 7 (16.67%) Microservices
9 7 (16.67%) Patch Management
10 6 (14.29%) DNS
10 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
10 6 (14.29%) Migration
10 6 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
10 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 6 (14.29%) Route 53
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (11.90%) CRM

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Serverless
3 11 (26.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (14.29%) Route 53
7 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (11.90%) GitHub
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (4.76%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Firewall
2 6 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Riak
3 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.76%) Tableau
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) GitLab
2 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Private Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Publishing
6 1 (2.38%) Police
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Kafka
1 5 (11.90%) Node.js
2 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 4 (9.52%) React
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) Middleware
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 9 (21.43%) Agile
2 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
4 7 (16.67%) Microservices
4 7 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 6 (14.29%) Migration
5 6 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
5 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.90%) CRM
6 5 (11.90%) DevOps
7 4 (9.52%) AI
7 4 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security
8 3 (7.14%) Cost Management
8 3 (7.14%) Logistics
8 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
8 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (7.14%) Go
2 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.76%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.95%) AWS Certification
3 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Terraform
2 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Avaloq
1 2 (4.76%) CloudEndure
1 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle