AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 329 424
Rank change year-on-year +81 +95 +115
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 56 16 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.03% 0.38% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 14 44
10th Percentile £459 £513 £525
25th Percentile £525 £518 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £638
90th Percentile £736 £635 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -5.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
2 2 (3.57%) Camunda
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.79%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (53.57%) Serverless
3 29 (51.79%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (41.07%) Amazon S3
4 23 (41.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (39.29%) Azure
6 21 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (23.21%) GCP
8 8 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (12.50%) PaaS
9 7 (12.50%) SaaS
10 6 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
10 6 (10.71%) GitHub
11 5 (8.93%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
12 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.36%) Big Data
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.79%) Flink
6 1 (1.79%) GIS
6 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.57%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 36 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (55.36%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (51.79%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.50%) Legal
5 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.93%) Finance
7 4 (7.14%) Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (78.57%) Architect
2 23 (41.07%) AWS Architect
3 18 (32.14%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (8.93%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Senior
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.57%) Java Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Principal Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) Kafka
2 4 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.57%) Keycloak
3 2 (3.57%) OpenJDK
3 2 (3.57%) Shiny
3 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.79%) JMS
4 1 (1.79%) Middleware
4 1 (1.79%) Node.js
4 1 (1.79%) PySpark
4 1 (1.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Life Science
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 20 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 20 (35.71%) Open Source
4 19 (33.93%) High Availability
5 18 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.43%) Agile
8 11 (19.64%) DevOps
9 10 (17.86%) Migration
9 10 (17.86%) TOGAF
10 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
11 8 (14.29%) Analytics
11 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (12.50%) DevSecOps
12 7 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
12 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 6 (10.71%) Data Security
13 6 (10.71%) ETL
13 6 (10.71%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.57%) R
4 2 (3.57%) Scala
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 29 (51.79%) SC Cleared
2 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
3 21 (37.50%) Degree
4 19 (33.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (30.36%) Azure Certification
6 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (10.71%) Master's Degree
8 4 (7.14%) OCP
8 4 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (5.36%) CITP
10 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (1.79%) CCNA
11 1 (1.79%) CCNP
11 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.79%) PMP
11 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Kubernetes
1 10 (17.86%) Terraform
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (23.21%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Sage
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.79%) Sybase