AWS Solution Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 426 487
Rank change year-on-year +54 +61 -66
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 6 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.039% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.042% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 17
10th Percentile £485 £589 £558
25th Percentile £566 £609 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -1.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £775
90th Percentile £710 £744 £815
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +9.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Solution Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Solution Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
North of England +29 3 £575 -4.21%
North West +24 3 £575 -4.21%
Scotland - 3 £700 - 1
AWS Solution Architect
UK

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, AWS Solution Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) API Management
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) Back Office
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (50.00%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Apigee
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Kong
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) OLAP
2 1 (16.67%) OLTP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 3 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) DataPower
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) API Management
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) CQRS
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) TSYS