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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 320 408
Rank change year-on-year +67 +88 +143
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 56 22 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.92% 0.58% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 17 41
10th Percentile £423 £490 -
25th Percentile £467 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile - £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -

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 2,916 3,781 5,892
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.01% 25.76% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,427 3,967
10th Percentile £350 £330 £375
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £623 £635 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 252 236
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.85 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.17 £25.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -28.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.48 £85.00 £78.97
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
% change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%

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 3 July 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 2 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Camunda
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.79%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (58.93%) Serverless
3 32 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (48.21%) Amazon S3
5 25 (44.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (41.07%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (32.14%) Azure
8 11 (19.64%) GCP
9 10 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (12.50%) GitHub
11 7 (12.50%) PaaS
11 7 (12.50%) SaaS
12 6 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (8.93%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (8.93%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (8.93%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (1.79%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) SMS
4 1 (1.79%) SSL
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.07%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.79%) Flink
7 1 (1.79%) GIS
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) MySQL
7 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.71%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Liquibase
General
1 36 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (51.79%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (46.43%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
5 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (71.43%) Architect
2 25 (44.64%) AWS Architect
3 16 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (10.71%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Developer
7 2 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Migration Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Kafka
2 5 (8.93%) REST
3 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.57%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.57%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.57%) Node.js
4 2 (3.57%) OpenJDK
4 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.79%) JMS
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) PySpark
5 1 (1.79%) RESTful
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceStack
5 1 (1.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.79%) IVR
7 1 (1.79%) Life Science
7 1 (1.79%) NHS
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Licensing
7 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Replication
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 21 (37.50%) High Availability
4 20 (35.71%) Open Source
5 19 (33.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (32.14%) CI/CD
7 17 (30.36%) Computer Science
8 16 (28.57%) DevOps
9 13 (23.21%) Agile
10 12 (21.43%) Migration
11 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (16.07%) TOGAF
13 8 (14.29%) Analytics
13 8 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (12.50%) Cloud Security
14 7 (12.50%) Data Analytics
14 7 (12.50%) Data Security
14 7 (12.50%) DevSecOps
14 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) Python
2 12 (21.43%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Scala
5 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 26 (46.43%) SC Cleared
2 26 (46.43%) Security Cleared
3 19 (33.93%) Degree
4 17 (30.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (25.00%) Azure Certification
6 8 (14.29%) 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%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) CITP
10 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
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 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) QA
3 2 (3.57%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.43%) Terraform
3 9 (16.07%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) Grafana
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Puppet
6 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.79%) Sybase
5 1 (1.79%) VMware