AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends in the Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 229 218
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 +109
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 3 17 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.038% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.71% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £43,100 - -
25th Percentile £44,000 £63,150 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £64,600 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.24% -26.17% -4.11%
75th Percentile £49,000 £66,050 £93,438
90th Percentile £49,300 £73,025 £97,375
England median annual salary £81,500 £77,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% +10.36% -13.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,716 2,410 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.72% 37.77% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 743 718 1,132
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,299
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
West Midlands +14 3 £47,000 -27.24% 4
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Advertising
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft