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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 284 271
Rank change year-on-year +20 -13 +133
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 9 12 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.087% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% 0.30% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 13
10th Percentile £87,625 £41,250 £63,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £45,513 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £53,050 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +88.50% -21.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £105,000 £70,663 £72,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £76,000
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
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 3,214 3,968 3,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.03% 44.29% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,729 2,134
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £27,965
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +0.96%
75th Percentile £66,620 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,250 £82,500
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 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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the South East

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 13 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
Surrey +12 8 £100,000 - 1
Thames Valley +13 1 £77,500 -6.06%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £77,500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) LAN
1 7 (77.78%) SD-WAN
1 7 (77.78%) Unified Communications
1 7 (77.78%) VoIP
1 7 (77.78%) VPN
1 7 (77.78%) WAN
1 7 (77.78%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (77.78%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Head of IT
1 7 (77.78%) Head of IT Operations
1 7 (77.78%) Head of Operations
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Operational Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (77.78%) Budget Management
2 7 (77.78%) Budgeting
2 7 (77.78%) Business Continuity
2 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (77.78%) Data Protection
2 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (77.78%) ERP
2 7 (77.78%) High Availability
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) ITSM
2 7 (77.78%) Logistics
2 7 (77.78%) Problem Management
2 7 (77.78%) Project Management
2 7 (77.78%) Service Delivery
2 7 (77.78%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Degree
3 7 (77.78%) CCNP
3 7 (77.78%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (77.78%) Master's Degree
3 7 (77.78%) PMI Certification
3 7 (77.78%) PMP
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft