AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 352 466
Rank change year-on-year +5 +114 +60
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 77 49 43
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.35% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 1.29% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 30
10th Percentile £76,250 - £62,250
25th Percentile £83,125 - £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -33.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £105,000 £68,750 £101,563
90th Percentile £110,000 £91,500 £115,625
England median annual salary £79,669 £62,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +27.47% -28.57% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,519 3,792 6,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.39% 30.14% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 1,960 3,868
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £35,714
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £66,575
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.39% -1.37%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,063
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,043
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.77% -9.93%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
East London - 3 £100,000 - 1
Central London +2 2 £100,000 - 8
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.90%) SAS
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (68.83%) AWS CloudFormation
3 27 (35.06%) Cloud Computing
4 23 (29.87%) Serverless
5 21 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (19.48%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
8 12 (15.58%) AWS Control Tower
9 10 (12.99%) Azure
10 7 (9.09%) OpenShift
11 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
11 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
11 6 (7.79%) GCP
11 6 (7.79%) Google Workspace
11 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (3.90%) Dialogflow
13 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.68%) Network Security
2 4 (5.19%) Internet
3 3 (3.90%) Firewall
4 2 (2.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.90%) Big Data
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (35.06%) GitLab
2 25 (32.47%) Cucumber
3 6 (7.79%) TeamCity
4 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.30%) Git
5 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 44 (57.14%) Finance
2 15 (19.48%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.69%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Banking
4 7 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.90%) Advertising
5 3 (3.90%) Billing
5 3 (3.90%) Military
5 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Public Speaking
7 1 (1.30%) Games
7 1 (1.30%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Senior
2 25 (32.47%) Java Engineer
3 21 (27.27%) Architect
4 19 (24.68%) Consultant
5 18 (23.38%) Principal Engineer
5 18 (23.38%) Principal Java Engineer
6 16 (20.78%) Security Consultant
7 15 (19.48%) Senior Consultant
8 13 (16.88%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (15.58%) Senior Security Consultant
10 11 (14.29%) AWS Architect
11 7 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
11 7 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (6.49%) Senior Architect
14 4 (5.19%) Compliance Consultant
14 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Architect
14 4 (5.19%) Professional Services Consultant
14 4 (5.19%) Risk Consultant
15 3 (3.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.77%) Kafka
1 26 (33.77%) Spring
1 26 (33.77%) Spring Boot
2 14 (18.18%) AWS CDK
3 4 (5.19%) Node.js
3 4 (5.19%) Web Services
4 3 (3.90%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.30%) Middleware
6 1 (1.30%) PySpark
6 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.30%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (44.16%) Cloud Native
2 27 (35.06%) Onboarding
3 26 (33.77%) Public Cloud
4 25 (32.47%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (32.47%) e-Learning
5 20 (25.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 19 (24.68%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (11.69%) Data Centre
8 6 (7.79%) PKI
9 5 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
11 3 (3.90%) Blog
11 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
11 3 (3.90%) IVR
12 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
12 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
13 1 (1.30%) Media Streaming
13 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
13 1 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Windows
2 11 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Unix
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 35 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 33 (42.86%) Agile
4 31 (40.26%) Architectural Patterns
5 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
6 26 (33.77%) Event-Driven
6 26 (33.77%) Microservices
7 25 (32.47%) BDD
7 25 (32.47%) CQRS
7 25 (32.47%) Performance Testing
7 25 (32.47%) Test Automation
8 22 (28.57%) AI
9 20 (25.97%) Thought Leadership
10 19 (24.68%) Cloud Security
10 19 (24.68%) Generative AI
11 18 (23.38%) Coaching
11 18 (23.38%) End-to-End Testing
11 18 (23.38%) Infrastructure Management
11 18 (23.38%) Threat Modelling
12 17 (22.08%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.04%) Java
2 31 (40.26%) Python
3 29 (37.66%) SQL
4 14 (18.18%) Bash
5 12 (15.58%) Perl
5 12 (15.58%) PHP
5 12 (15.58%) Ruby
6 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.79%) C#
7 6 (7.79%) C++
7 6 (7.79%) Google Apps Script
7 6 (7.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (5.19%) Go
9 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) Degree
4 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (7.79%) CISSP
5 6 (7.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (5.19%) ISSAP
6 4 (5.19%) ISSEP
7 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.09%) Docker
3 6 (7.79%) KVM
Systems Management
1 29 (37.66%) Terraform
2 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.79%) Grafana
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.90%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.30%) Kibana
5 1 (1.30%) Nagios
5 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
1 9 (11.69%) VMware
2 6 (7.79%) Google
3 5 (6.49%) Avaya
3 5 (6.49%) Cisco
3 5 (6.49%) Genesys
4 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) SAP
5 2 (2.60%) Splunk
5 2 (2.60%) Zerto
6 1 (1.30%) Commvault
6 1 (1.30%) Netezza
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Teradata