AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 487 521
Rank change year-on-year +14 +34 +202
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 62 56 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.43% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 48 21 38
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile - £49,775 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +12.50%
75th Percentile £98,750 £80,000 £76,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £79,669 £78,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.81% +11.79% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,659 13,062 14,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.35% 40.43% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,367 5,051 10,100
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.34%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £78,009
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 February 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 of England +4 33 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Yorkshire -3 27 £75,000 - 3
East of England +23 13 £97,500 -
South East +16 7 £100,000 +47.55% 4
Midlands 0 5 £49,500 -23.37% 3
West Midlands +8 4 £49,000 -24.15% 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
South West -2 3 £52,500 -26.32% 5
North West +2 2 - - 3
Scotland -12 1 - -
East Midlands -19 1 £75,000 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.61%) Camunda
1 1 (1.61%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (82.26%) Azure
3 32 (51.61%) Serverless
4 8 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 8 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (12.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (6.45%) CloudFront
6 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.84%) GCP
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.23%) Datadog
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) VPN
1 4 (6.45%) WAN
2 3 (4.84%) LAN
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
2 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.84%) Unified Communications
2 3 (4.84%) VoIP
2 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.84%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.61%) Maven
3 1 (1.61%) Selenium
3 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (70.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Finance
3 11 (17.74%) Publishing
4 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Law
5 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.84%) Advertising
6 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (72.58%) Architect
2 13 (20.97%) Applications Architect
3 11 (17.74%) Enterprise Architect
3 11 (17.74%) Software Architect
4 9 (14.52%) AWS Architect
4 9 (14.52%) ERP Architect
4 9 (14.52%) SAP Architect
4 9 (14.52%) SAP Enterprise Architect
5 7 (11.29%) Head of IT
5 7 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Head of IT Security
6 4 (6.45%) Head of Security
6 4 (6.45%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (4.84%) Head of IT Operations
7 3 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) .NET
1 2 (3.23%) ARM Templates
1 2 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.61%) Drools
2 1 (1.61%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.61%) Jest
2 1 (1.61%) Kafka
2 1 (1.61%) Node.js
2 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (46.77%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.84%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (64.52%) TOGAF
2 39 (62.90%) Enterprise Architecture
3 36 (58.06%) Computer Science
3 36 (58.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (50.00%) Migration
5 29 (46.77%) Mentoring
6 28 (45.16%) Application Security
6 28 (45.16%) Microservices
7 26 (41.94%) Architectural Patterns
8 25 (40.32%) Data Modelling
9 24 (38.71%) EAI
10 21 (33.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (27.42%) DevOps
12 16 (25.81%) Roadmaps
13 15 (24.19%) Technology Roadmap
14 14 (22.58%) Agile
14 14 (22.58%) ERP
14 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (20.97%) Architectural Design
15 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.00%) Python
2 29 (46.77%) Java
3 27 (43.55%) TypeScript
4 26 (41.94%) C#
5 25 (40.32%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.29%) Bash
7 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
9 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 61 (98.39%) AWS Certification
2 48 (77.42%) Degree
3 37 (59.68%) Azure Certification
3 37 (59.68%) TOGAF Certification
4 29 (46.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (46.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (12.90%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (4.84%) CCNP
7 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.84%) PMI Certification
7 3 (4.84%) PMP
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (4.84%) NIST
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Terraform
2 8 (12.90%) Ansible
3 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.45%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.84%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) SAP
2 11 (17.74%) Workday
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco
4 1 (1.61%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.61%) Pega
4 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.61%) UiPath