AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 30 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 81 113
Rank change year-on-year -24 +32 -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 8 21 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.52% 1.37% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.16% 6.73% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 3
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £384 £381 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £443 £409 £598
90th Percentile £475 £438 £611
England median daily rate £588 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +27.03% -26.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 370 312 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.96% 20.42% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 212 259
10th Percentile £306 £351 £258
25th Percentile £375 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £22.23 £15.32 £18.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -17.10% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £37.04
90th Percentile - £58.50 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% -9.09% +22.22%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Yorkshire

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in Yorkshire

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
South Yorkshire - 6 £393 - 2
West Yorkshire -28 1 £500 +25.00% 3
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) Liquibase
3 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (75.00%) REST
2 6 (75.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (75.00%) Change Management
3 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (75.00%) Cryptography
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (62.50%) Data Security
4 5 (62.50%) High Availability
4 5 (62.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Go
3 4 (50.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 6 (75.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Grafana
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Splunk
2 6 (75.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft