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

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 881 1112
Rank change year-on-year +39 +231 -273
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 54 89 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.085% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.093% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 33 81 90
10th Percentile - £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £120,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.59% +21.43% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Solution Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +66 41 £80,000 -5.88% 5
UK excluding London +21 40 £67,500 -20.59% 5
Work from Home +75 25 £80,000 -5.88% 3
South East +42 22 £67,500 -20.59% 1
London +91 8 £87,500 +2.94% 4
Midlands +9 7 £80,000 -10.36%
East Midlands -8 7 £80,000 -20.00%
Scotland - 6 £73,750 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 -
North of England +49 2 £80,000 +1.59%
Yorkshire +92 1 £80,000 +3.23%
North West +11 1 £80,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, AWS Solution Architect 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 permanent job ads featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (40.74%) AWS Certification
3 21 (38.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (37.04%) Azure
5 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
5 19 (35.19%) Docker
6 15 (27.78%) DevOps
6 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (27.78%) SC Cleared
6 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
6 15 (27.78%) Agile
7 14 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (25.93%) Serverless
7 14 (25.93%) Microservices
7 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
8 13 (24.07%) GCP
8 13 (24.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (24.07%) Data Centre
8 13 (24.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (24.07%) Terraform
9 11 (20.37%) Roadmaps
10 10 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (18.52%) Python
11 9 (16.67%) Degree
11 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 9 (16.67%) Data Protection
11 9 (16.67%) CloudFront

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 6 (11.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (25.93%) Serverless
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (24.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (24.07%) GCP
5 10 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 9 (16.67%) CloudFront
6 9 (16.67%) Route 53
7 6 (11.11%) SaaS
8 5 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.70%) IaaS
10 2 (3.70%) PaaS
11 1 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.11%) Big Data
2 6 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
1 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Billing
3 1 (1.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 6 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Agile
1 15 (27.78%) DevOps
1 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
2 14 (25.93%) Microservices
3 11 (20.37%) Roadmaps
4 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 9 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 9 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 9 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (12.96%) Presales
7 6 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 6 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
7 6 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (11.11%) Service Management
7 6 (11.11%) Waterfall
8 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) Python
2 7 (12.96%) C#
3 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) AWS Certification
2 21 (38.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 15 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 9 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
2 6 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
2 13 (24.07%) Terraform
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 6 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 6 (11.11%) Puppet
5 3 (5.56%) Grafana
5 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) VMware
3 5 (9.26%) MuleSoft
3 5 (9.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) EMC
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow