AWS Solution Architect Job Trends

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) salary in the UK is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 609 682 676
Rank change year-on-year +73 -6 +247
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 35 34 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.061% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.066% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 22 13 15
10th Percentile - £70,000 £65,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £67,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - £160,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +18.52% -15.63%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 53,514 51,675 48,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.18% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,893 27,368 37,623
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +76 34 £83,750 -20.24% 8
UK excluding London +61 21 £80,000 - 4
North of England +33 21 £80,000 -8.57% 2
North West +43 18 £80,000 -8.57% 2
Work from Home +59 15 £100,000 +8.11% 6
London +50 12 £100,000 -4.76% 4
East Midlands - 5 - -
Midlands - 5 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £82,500 -

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 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 featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 10 (28.57%) AI
3 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 10 (28.57%) GCP
4 9 (25.71%) Agile
4 9 (25.71%) Amazon Bedrock
4 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
4 9 (25.71%) Machine Learning
4 9 (25.71%) Python
5 8 (22.86%) DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) Docker
7 6 (17.14%) Serverless
8 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (14.29%) Business Transformation
8 5 (14.29%) Google
8 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
9 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
9 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (11.43%) GDPR
9 4 (11.43%) Java
9 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.43%) Microservices
10 3 (8.57%) Analytics
10 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) GCP
3 9 (25.71%) Amazon Bedrock
4 6 (17.14%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Route 53
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
1 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) OAuth
1 1 (2.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (25.71%) AI Agents
3 5 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 10 (28.57%) AI
3 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
3 9 (25.71%) Machine Learning
4 8 (22.86%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) Business Transformation
7 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
8 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
8 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
8 4 (11.43%) Microservices
9 3 (8.57%) Analytics
9 3 (8.57%) Data Management
9 3 (8.57%) Data Privacy
9 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.57%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) C#
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) HIPAA
2 3 (8.57%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) Basel III
3 1 (2.86%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.86%) Refinitiv