AWS Solution Architect Jobs

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

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) salary in the UK is £96,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 830 852
Rank change year-on-year +144 +22 +282
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 28 78 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.071% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.075% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 6 56 76
10th Percentile - £66,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £67,188 £69,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% - -12.82%
75th Percentile £100,938 £99,375 £93,188
90th Percentile £110,625 £127,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,220 103,726 84,723
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 94.76% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,439 73,309 55,187
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,605 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Solution Architect.

Salary trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 8 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 12 June 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 +122 27 £95,000 +11.76% 35
Work from Home +119 20 £98,750 +23.44% 31
UK excluding London +159 14 £95,000 +35.71% 18
London +91 13 £108,750 +3.57% 20
North of England +73 11 - - 8
North West +32 11 - - 6
Midlands +83 3 £95,000 +18.75% 1
West Midlands - 3 £95,000 -

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2025, AWS Solution Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (78.57%) Azure
3 21 (75.00%) GCP
4 20 (71.43%) Google
4 20 (71.43%) Management Information System
5 19 (67.86%) TOGAF
6 17 (60.71%) DevOps
7 16 (57.14%) AWS Certification
7 16 (57.14%) Roadmaps
8 15 (53.57%) Kubernetes
9 14 (50.00%) Docker
10 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Architecture
10 13 (46.43%) Agile
10 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
10 13 (46.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (42.86%) Azure Certification
11 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
11 12 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (39.29%) Java
12 11 (39.29%) SQL
12 11 (39.29%) Python
12 11 (39.29%) NoSQL
13 10 (35.71%) Data Privacy
13 10 (35.71%) Microservices
13 10 (35.71%) C#
13 10 (35.71%) HIPAA
13 10 (35.71%) Data Management
13 10 (35.71%) Technology Roadmap
13 10 (35.71%) Cloud Native
13 10 (35.71%) GDPR

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (78.57%) Azure
3 21 (75.00%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) DocumentDB
2 1 (3.57%) Metadata
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 10 (35.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) TOGAF
2 17 (60.71%) DevOps
3 16 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
4 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 12 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (35.71%) Architectural Design
6 10 (35.71%) Data Management
6 10 (35.71%) Data Privacy
6 10 (35.71%) Microservices
6 10 (35.71%) Technology Roadmap
7 9 (32.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (21.43%) ArchiMate
8 6 (21.43%) Kanban
8 6 (21.43%) Scrum
8 6 (21.43%) UML
8 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
1 11 (39.29%) Python
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 13 (46.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (42.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) GDPR
1 10 (35.71%) HIPAA
1 10 (35.71%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) IBM
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk