AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends in the North of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 153 373
Rank change year-on-year -165 +220 +11
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 16 187 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.077% 1.99% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 4.87% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £61,500 -
25th Percentile - £61,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £70,469
90th Percentile - £75,500 £78,063
England median annual salary £79,669 £61,750 £88,625
% change year-on-year +29.02% -30.32% +26.61%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,379 3,842 3,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.23% 40.82% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 1,243 2,476
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,722 £33,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,835 £50,000 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% +0.50% -7.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £80,000
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 the North of England

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West -136 13 - - 2
Yorkshire -28 3 £80,000 +6.67% 3
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (18.75%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (81.25%) Azure
3 12 (75.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) Apigee
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (18.75%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 3 (18.75%) Cypress.io
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) Maven
1 3 (18.75%) Selenium
1 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Analyst
1 12 (75.00%) Senior
1 12 (75.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 3 (18.75%) Drools
1 3 (18.75%) Gherkin
1 3 (18.75%) Jest
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
1 3 (18.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Mentoring
2 12 (75.00%) AI
2 12 (75.00%) Cost Management
2 12 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 12 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (75.00%) FinOps
2 12 (75.00%) Software Licensing
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) BDD
3 3 (18.75%) Coaching
3 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
3 3 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Software Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) Groovy
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (18.75%) Kotlin
1 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Adobe
1 12 (75.00%) Apple
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (75.00%) ServiceNow