AWS Solution Architect Job Trends in the North West

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
England > North West

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) salary in the North West is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 215 -
Rank change year-on-year +56 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 23 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.39% 0.018% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.019% -
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 -
90th Percentile £95,000 - -
England median annual salary £83,750 £105,000 £102,000
% change year-on-year -20.24% +2.94% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 5,068 5,157 3,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.72% 93.49% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 2,819 2,576
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the North West

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the North West

AWS Solution Architect
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Manchester +46 18 £80,000 -8.57% 1
Cheshire - 5 - -
AWS Solution Architect
England

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 14 December 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 North West region featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Enterprise Architecture
3 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 12 (52.17%) GCP
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (30.43%) Google
6 7 (30.43%) TOGAF
7 6 (26.09%) AI
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
7 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
7 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
7 6 (26.09%) Serverless
8 5 (21.74%) Business Transformation
8 5 (21.74%) C#
8 5 (21.74%) DevOps
8 5 (21.74%) Docker
8 5 (21.74%) Microservices
8 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
8 5 (21.74%) SQL
8 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
9 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
9 4 (17.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
9 4 (17.39%) Data Management
9 4 (17.39%) Data Privacy
9 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Bedrock
3 6 (26.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (30.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (26.09%) AI Agents
3 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Enterprise Architecture
2 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) TOGAF
5 6 (26.09%) AI
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
6 5 (21.74%) Business Transformation
6 5 (21.74%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Microservices
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
7 4 (17.39%) Data Management
7 4 (17.39%) Data Privacy
7 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 4 (17.39%) Technology Roadmap
8 3 (13.04%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) C#
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
1 4 (17.39%) HIPAA
1 4 (17.39%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Google