AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 399 696
Rank change year-on-year -170 +297 +168
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 99 254 140
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.65% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 1.59% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 47 45 73
10th Percentile £50,750 £43,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,525 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -19.38% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,500 £114,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £68,525 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -14.34% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,717 16,021 23,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.41% 41.13% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,270 7,079 15,693
10th Percentile £29,625 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,215 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -6.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,833 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
London -42 33 £77,500 +29.17% 5
North of England -177 30 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire -38 15 £75,000 - 1
Midlands -28 14 £49,500 +23.75% 1
West Midlands -25 13 £49,000 +22.50% 1
North West -138 13 - - 1
East of England -2 8 £97,500 - 2
South West -50 5 £52,500 -23.39%
South East -21 3 £77,500 -8.82% 2
North East - 2 £105,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.06%) Confluence
2 5 (5.05%) Apache
2 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.04%) Documentum
4 3 (3.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.01%) Camunda
5 1 (1.01%) Drupal
5 1 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (1.01%) nginx
5 1 (1.01%) SAS
5 1 (1.01%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 22 (22.22%) Cloudability
2 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (55.56%) Azure
3 32 (32.32%) GCP
4 31 (31.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (31.31%) Serverless
5 19 (19.19%) Amazon S3
5 19 (19.19%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.08%) PaaS
8 8 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (7.07%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (7.07%) SaaS
10 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.05%) CloudFront
11 5 (5.05%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.04%) GitHub
12 4 (4.04%) Google Workspace
12 4 (4.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) DNS
2 1 (1.01%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (14.14%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.07%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.03%) Big Data
5 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.01%) MySQL
6 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.01%) Power BI
6 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.01%) Redis
6 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) GitLab
2 17 (17.17%) Cucumber
3 12 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.07%) Git
4 7 (7.07%) JIRA
5 5 (5.05%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.04%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.03%) Maven
7 3 (3.03%) Selenium
7 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.01%) Gatling
8 1 (1.01%) JMeter
8 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.24%) Finance
2 24 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.08%) Banking
5 6 (6.06%) Advertising
5 6 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.05%) Publishing
7 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Law
8 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Games
9 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.01%) Billing
10 1 (1.01%) Electronics
10 1 (1.01%) iGaming
10 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (36.36%) Architect
2 32 (32.32%) Senior
3 22 (22.22%) Analyst
3 22 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
4 14 (14.14%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) AWS Architect
5 10 (10.10%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Principal Java Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Lead
8 6 (6.06%) Applications Architect
8 6 (6.06%) Software Architect
8 6 (6.06%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.05%) SAP Architect
9 5 (5.05%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.18%) Kafka
1 18 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 15 (15.15%) Spring
3 7 (7.07%) Node.js
4 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.03%) .NET
5 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.03%) Drools
5 3 (3.03%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.03%) Jest
5 3 (3.03%) PySpark
5 3 (3.03%) XML
6 2 (2.02%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.02%) RESTful
7 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.01%) Memcached
7 1 (1.01%) Middleware
7 1 (1.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.28%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (16.16%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (14.14%) e-Learning
4 14 (14.14%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) PKI
6 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.03%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.02%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.01%) Robotics
9 1 (1.01%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Linux
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 36 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 35 (35.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (34.34%) Agile
5 29 (29.29%) Microservices
6 28 (28.28%) Architectural Patterns
7 27 (27.27%) AI
8 26 (26.26%) DevOps
8 26 (26.26%) Migration
8 26 (26.26%) TOGAF
9 25 (25.25%) Cost Optimisation
9 25 (25.25%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (24.24%) Computer Science
10 24 (24.24%) Cost Management
11 22 (22.22%) FinOps
11 22 (22.22%) Software Licensing
12 21 (21.21%) Enterprise Architecture
13 20 (20.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (19.19%) Data Modelling
15 18 (18.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.37%) Java
2 33 (33.33%) Python
3 20 (20.20%) JavaScript
3 20 (20.20%) SQL
4 18 (18.18%) C#
5 17 (17.17%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.10%) Bash
7 7 (7.07%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.04%) C++
9 4 (4.04%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (3.03%) Groovy
11 2 (2.02%) Bicep
12 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.01%) Go
12 1 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (98.99%) AWS Certification
2 28 (28.28%) Degree
3 21 (21.21%) Azure Certification
4 20 (20.20%) TOGAF Certification
5 18 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (16.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
8 9 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (8.08%) SC Cleared
10 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) CITP
10 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
11 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.02%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) Basel III
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) MiFID
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) iptables
2 4 (4.04%) KVM
2 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (23.23%) Terraform
2 12 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.10%) Grafana
4 8 (8.08%) Ansible
5 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.05%) Puppet
6 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.03%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.01%) Consul
8 1 (1.01%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (27.27%) ServiceNow
3 22 (22.22%) Adobe
3 22 (22.22%) Apple
4 6 (6.06%) SAP
5 5 (5.05%) Google
5 5 (5.05%) Pega
5 5 (5.05%) Workday
6 4 (4.04%) OpenText
6 4 (4.04%) VMware
6 4 (4.04%) YouTube
7 2 (2.02%) Databricks
7 2 (2.02%) Zerto
8 1 (1.01%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.01%) Palantir
8 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.01%) Splunk
8 1 (1.01%) UiPath