AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 424 539
Rank change year-on-year +95 +115 -84
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 16 53 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.38% 0.81% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 54
10th Percentile £513 £525 £513
25th Percentile £518 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £745
90th Percentile £635 £675 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -10.20% -5.77% +20.93%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

AWS Certified Solutions Architect is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,242 6,581 8,861
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.64% 25.45% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,651 4,416 6,215
10th Percentile £325 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.63%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £730 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 292 228
10th Percentile £15.85 £20.00 £19.35
25th Percentile £25.00 £42.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +33.22% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.51
90th Percentile £83.84 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.81
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.16% +8.01%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (31.25%) Serverless
5 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (12.50%) Azure
6 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (12.50%) WhatsApp
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Junos
2 1 (6.25%) SDH
2 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Redshift Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (12.50%) Data Science
6 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (12.50%) ETL
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 7 (43.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) HP ASE
4 1 (6.25%) JNCIA
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Ciena
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) EMC
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Nokia
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) VMware