AWS Solution Architect Job Trends in England

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

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 663 662
Rank change year-on-year +87 -1 +231
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 38 53 30
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.086% 0.087% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.092% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 18 41 22
10th Percentile £75,625 £85,000 £52,625
25th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £67,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +20.00% -10.26%
75th Percentile £90,000 £142,500 £110,313
90th Percentile £96,125 £165,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +20.00% -10.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 39,967 57,915 45,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 94.93% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25,557 32,858 35,120
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,988 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Solution Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in England

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in England

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in England over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in England

AWS Solution 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 Solution Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. 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
North of England +46 32 £82,500 -5.71% 7
North West +51 29 £80,000 -8.57% 5
London +11 5 £82,500 -21.43% 33
Yorkshire - 3 £82,500 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
AWS Solution Architect
UK

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, AWS Solution Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
4 17 (44.74%) Azure
4 17 (44.74%) GCP
5 15 (39.47%) Google
5 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
5 15 (39.47%) TOGAF
6 13 (34.21%) DevOps
7 12 (31.58%) Docker
8 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
8 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
9 10 (26.32%) AWS Certification
9 10 (26.32%) Java
9 10 (26.32%) Microservices
9 10 (26.32%) NoSQL
9 10 (26.32%) Python
10 9 (23.68%) AI
10 9 (23.68%) Amazon Bedrock
10 9 (23.68%) Architectural Design
10 9 (23.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (23.68%) C#
10 9 (23.68%) Machine Learning
10 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (23.68%) SQL
11 8 (21.05%) Azure Certification
11 8 (21.05%) Data Management
11 8 (21.05%) Data Privacy
11 8 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (21.05%) GDPR

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 17 (44.74%) GCP
3 9 (23.68%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (10.53%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) Route 53
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DNS
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) DocumentDB
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
1 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
1 1 (2.63%) OAuth
1 1 (2.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (39.47%) Management Information System
3 9 (23.68%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Agile
2 18 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
3 15 (39.47%) TOGAF
4 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
5 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
6 10 (26.32%) Microservices
7 9 (23.68%) AI
7 9 (23.68%) Architectural Design
7 9 (23.68%) Machine Learning
7 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (21.05%) Data Management
8 8 (21.05%) Data Privacy
8 8 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
8 8 (21.05%) Technology Roadmap
9 7 (18.42%) API Management
9 7 (18.42%) Business Strategy
9 7 (18.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (18.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) Java
1 10 (26.32%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) C#
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 9 (23.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Azure Certification
4 7 (18.42%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (7.89%) Degree
6 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) GDPR
1 8 (21.05%) HIPAA
1 8 (21.05%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Google