AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends in the South East

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 268 369
Rank change year-on-year -26 +101 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 5 4 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.034% 0.051% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.11% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 21
10th Percentile - £63,850 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,375 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +25.93% +42.11%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,625 £72,500
90th Percentile - £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -23.53% +21.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,306 3,756 5,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.79% 47.87% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,749 1,528 3,665
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,110 £38,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.94% -0.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,790 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Thames Valley +19 3 £77,500 -11.43% 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £77,500 -
East Sussex - 2 £65,000 - 2
Berkshire +13 1 - - 1
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
England

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (40.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (40.00%) JWT
2 2 (40.00%) MediatR
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) CQRS
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Anywhere
1 1 (20.00%) Pega
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath