AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 106 112
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +55
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 14 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.24% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.67% 0.80% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £480 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £669 £525 -
90th Percentile £738 - -
England median daily rate £510 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -2.86% -6.67% -5.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 839 501 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.14% 29.79% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 331 341
10th Percentile £289 £213 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -1.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 18 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.26 £17.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.13 £23.00
Median hourly rate £22.26 £30.75 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -11.51% +78.21%
75th Percentile £31.00 £41.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.05 £52.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Worcestershire - 7 £600 -
Coventry -13 5 £413 -
Birmingham - 1 £450 - 1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
6 1 (7.14%) Datadog
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Aeronautics
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) SCADA
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (42.86%) Change Control
5 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
6 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 3 (21.43%) Asset Management
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) VMware