AWS Certified Solutions Architect Contracts

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 597 666
Rank change year-on-year +75 +69 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 53 85 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.41% 0.56% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 63 106
10th Percentile £456 - £513
25th Percentile £520 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £750
90th Percentile £708 £815 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +57 46 £563 -10.00% 26
London +72 27 £550 -12.00% 16
Work from Home +87 23 £600 - 12
UK excluding London +27 14 £600 +9.09% 11
South East +15 7 £600 - 2
North of England +11 3 £475 -13.64% 5
North West +21 2 £450 -39.19% 4
East of England +6 2 £625 +4.17% 1
East Midlands - 2 £620 -
Midlands - 2 £620 -
Yorkshire +6 1 £500 -9.09% 1

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.77%) Apache
1 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) IIS
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Chatbot
2 5 (9.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (43.40%) Azure
3 16 (30.19%) GCP
4 12 (22.64%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (22.64%) Serverless
5 11 (20.75%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
6 10 (18.87%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (16.98%) Twilio
8 6 (11.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (9.43%) OCI
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.66%) GitHub
12 2 (3.77%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (3.77%) PaaS
12 2 (3.77%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) CTI
1 9 (16.98%) VoIP
2 7 (13.21%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) LAN
3 6 (11.32%) DNS
3 6 (11.32%) MPLS
3 6 (11.32%) Wireless
4 5 (9.43%) BGP
4 5 (9.43%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (9.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (9.43%) DHCP
4 5 (9.43%) EIGRP
4 5 (9.43%) HSRP
4 5 (9.43%) IPsec
4 5 (9.43%) IPv4
4 5 (9.43%) IPv6
4 5 (9.43%) OSPF
4 5 (9.43%) TACACS
4 5 (9.43%) VLAN
4 5 (9.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.55%) Big Data
2 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.66%) Metadata
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.77%) Sisense
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) MySQL
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (33.96%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Retail
3 11 (20.75%) Telecoms
4 6 (11.32%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Automotive
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Architect
2 17 (32.08%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (22.64%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Senior
5 5 (9.43%) AWS Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Network Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) Middleware
1 9 (16.98%) Web Services
2 5 (9.43%) 802.1X
3 4 (7.55%) Node.js
4 2 (3.77%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.77%) JDBC
4 2 (3.77%) ODBC
5 1 (1.89%) .NET
5 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.89%) JPA
5 1 (1.89%) LDAP
5 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) React
5 1 (1.89%) Spring
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) IVR
2 8 (15.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.77%) Life Science
4 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.77%) Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) DevOps
2 14 (26.42%) Agile
2 14 (26.42%) Computer Science
3 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
3 12 (22.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 11 (20.75%) Analytics
4 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.87%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.98%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.98%) Conversational UI
6 9 (16.98%) CRM
6 9 (16.98%) Knowledge Transfer
7 8 (15.09%) Customer Experience
7 8 (15.09%) Data Privacy
7 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (15.09%) Load Balancing
7 8 (15.09%) Performance Testing
7 8 (15.09%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) Python
2 8 (15.09%) Bash
3 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.66%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 19 (35.85%) Azure Certification
3 15 (28.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (24.53%) Degree
4 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (22.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (16.98%) Master's Degree
7 7 (13.21%) CCNA
7 7 (13.21%) CCNP
8 5 (9.43%) CISSP
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
9 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
10 2 (3.77%) CISM
11 1 (1.89%) CCIE
11 1 (1.89%) CCSP
11 1 (1.89%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.89%) MCSA
11 1 (1.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) GDPR
1 9 (16.98%) HIPAA
1 9 (16.98%) PCI DSS
2 8 (15.09%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) COBIT
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Terraform
2 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.43%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (5.66%) Ansible
5 2 (3.77%) Grafana
5 2 (3.77%) Karpenter
5 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Google
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (30.19%) Cisco
3 9 (16.98%) Avaya
3 9 (16.98%) Genesys
4 5 (9.43%) CheckPoint
4 5 (9.43%) F5
4 5 (9.43%) Infoblox
4 5 (9.43%) Palo Alto
4 5 (9.43%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.77%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (3.77%) Sage
5 2 (3.77%) VMware
6 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.89%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.89%) Confluent
6 1 (1.89%) Informatica
6 1 (1.89%) Juniper
6 1 (1.89%) Okta
6 1 (1.89%) Salesforce