AWS Solution Architect Contracts

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 628 718
Rank change year-on-year +84 +90 -102
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 40 69 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 57 103
10th Percentile £375 £513 £553
25th Percentile £470 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £725
90th Percentile £782 £825 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +26.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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 +60 34 £650 - 7
London +64 25 £600 -7.69% 5
Work from Home +101 13 £700 +3.70% 8
UK excluding London +26 7 £700 +7.69% 2
North of England +19 4 £575 -4.21%
North West +16 3 £575 -4.21%
Scotland - 3 £700 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) Migration
3 10 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (22.50%) PySpark
4 9 (22.50%) Apache Spark
5 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 8 (20.00%) Big Data
5 8 (20.00%) Talend
5 8 (20.00%) ETL
5 8 (20.00%) Java
5 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (17.50%) JIRA
6 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.50%) SAML
6 7 (17.50%) Apache Hive
6 7 (17.50%) Tableau
6 7 (17.50%) Scala
6 7 (17.50%) AWS Certification
6 7 (17.50%) Impala
6 7 (17.50%) Power BI
6 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
6 7 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (15.00%) Technical Debt
7 6 (15.00%) Finance
8 5 (12.50%) Agile
8 5 (12.50%) DevOps
8 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (10.00%) Data Architecture

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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 9 (22.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.50%) CMS
4 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.50%) PaaS
6 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 3 (7.50%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.00%) dbt
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) IaaS
7 2 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Big Data
2 7 (17.50%) Apache Hive
2 7 (17.50%) Impala
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
2 7 (17.50%) Tableau
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Arrow
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Dremio
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.50%) Flink
4 1 (2.50%) Metadata
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) OLAP
4 1 (2.50%) OLTP
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Back Office
5 3 (7.50%) Games
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) PySpark
2 7 (17.50%) SAML
3 4 (10.00%) SOAP
4 3 (7.50%) REST
5 2 (5.00%) gRPC
5 2 (5.00%) Kafka
5 2 (5.00%) NumPy
5 2 (5.00%) Pandas
5 2 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (5.00%) SciPy
5 2 (5.00%) Spring
5 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.50%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (2.50%) J2EE
6 1 (2.50%) Middleware
6 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.50%) React
6 1 (2.50%) Spring Integration
6 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.00%) Derivative
1 2 (5.00%) Equities
1 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.50%) DataPower
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Life Science
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Migration
2 8 (20.00%) ETL
2 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (15.00%) Technical Debt
5 5 (12.50%) Agile
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.00%) API Management
6 4 (10.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.50%) Containerisation
7 3 (7.50%) Security Architecture
7 3 (7.50%) Service Management
7 3 (7.50%) Storage Management
8 2 (5.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.00%) Line Management
8 2 (5.00%) Microservices
8 2 (5.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) Scala
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Talend
2 4 (10.00%) Okta
3 3 (7.50%) Cloudera
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.00%) Reuters
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) Confluent
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica
5 1 (2.50%) TSYS