AWS Certified Solutions Architect Job Trends

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 425 720
Rank change year-on-year -211 +295 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 152 265 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.77% 1.53% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 38 41 62
10th Percentile £55,125 £55,860 £49,775
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.98% -5.94%
75th Percentile £93,438 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,730 17,302 21,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 34.69% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,633 7,809 11,507
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,929 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.00% -2.91% -1.90%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

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

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 August 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
England -198 134 £87,500 +26.33% 21
London -11 89 £97,500 +44.44% 12
UK excluding London -256 55 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Work from Home -188 38 £90,000 +31.34% 14
Midlands -30 15 £85,000 +38.78% 2
North of England -191 14 £55,000 -21.43% 5
West Midlands -27 13 £85,000 +38.78% 1
North West -145 13 £55,000 -13.73% 3
South East -35 7 £65,000 -31.58%
South West -68 7 £90,000 +31.34% 4
Wales - 7 £80,000 -
Scotland - 3 - -
East of England -20 2 £87,500 -
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -40 1 - - 2

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.63%) SAS
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Drupal
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) JBoss
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.79%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.66%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (52.63%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (33.55%) Serverless
4 48 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (31.58%) Azure
5 40 (26.32%) GCP
6 34 (22.37%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (21.05%) Amazon S3
7 32 (21.05%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (17.11%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (12.50%) GitHub
11 18 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (9.87%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (9.87%) AWS Control Tower
13 13 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.58%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (5.26%) CloudFront
16 7 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (19.08%) Network Security
2 5 (3.29%) Firewall
2 5 (3.29%) Internet
3 3 (1.97%) VPN
4 2 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.32%) LAN
4 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.32%) WAN
4 2 (1.32%) Wireless
5 1 (0.66%) DHCP
5 1 (0.66%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.95%) NoSQL
2 30 (19.74%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.92%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.61%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.63%) Big Data
6 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.97%) Metadata
8 1 (0.66%) Adabas
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.66%) Power BI
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (25.00%) GitLab
2 33 (21.71%) Cucumber
3 16 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.29%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.66%) Gatling
6 1 (0.66%) JMeter
6 1 (0.66%) Maven
6 1 (0.66%) Selenium
6 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Vagrant
General
1 61 (40.13%) Finance
2 28 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (16.45%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.87%) Banking
5 14 (9.21%) Social Skills
6 13 (8.55%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.29%) Law
9 4 (2.63%) Billing
9 4 (2.63%) Military
9 4 (2.63%) Retail
10 3 (1.97%) Advertising
10 3 (1.97%) Marketing
10 3 (1.97%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.32%) Games
11 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Legal
11 2 (1.32%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.66%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 71 (46.71%) Senior
2 45 (29.61%) Architect
3 32 (21.05%) Java Engineer
4 28 (18.42%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (16.45%) Consultant
6 24 (15.79%) Analyst
6 24 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (13.82%) Security Consultant
8 19 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
8 19 (12.50%) Principal Java Engineer
9 18 (11.84%) Senior Consultant
10 15 (9.87%) AWS Architect
11 14 (9.21%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (8.55%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.61%) Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Lead
13 7 (4.61%) Senior Architect
13 7 (4.61%) Senior Developer
14 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (38.16%) Terraform
2 43 (28.29%) Spring Boot
3 36 (23.68%) Spring
4 35 (23.03%) Kafka
5 22 (14.47%) AWS CDK
6 14 (9.21%) .NET
7 12 (7.89%) Node.js
8 10 (6.58%) REST
9 8 (5.26%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (4.61%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (4.61%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.61%) JWT
10 7 (4.61%) MediatR
10 7 (4.61%) OAuth
10 7 (4.61%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.61%) OpenAPI
10 7 (4.61%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (4.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (38.82%) Cloud Native
2 34 (22.37%) Onboarding
3 33 (21.71%) Public Cloud
4 32 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (21.05%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 19 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (7.24%) Data Centre
8 9 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (4.61%) Data Structures
10 7 (4.61%) Mainframe
11 6 (3.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (3.95%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (3.95%) Security Posture
12 5 (3.29%) PKI
13 4 (2.63%) Blog
13 4 (2.63%) IVR
13 4 (2.63%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.84%) Windows
2 13 (8.55%) Linux
3 3 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.32%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) AIX
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (49.34%) Mentoring
3 68 (44.74%) AI
4 64 (42.11%) Agile
5 62 (40.79%) CI/CD
6 47 (30.92%) Microservices
7 46 (30.26%) Event-Driven
8 42 (27.63%) Architectural Patterns
9 39 (25.66%) CQRS
10 38 (25.00%) Cloud Security
11 36 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (21.71%) BDD
12 33 (21.71%) Test Automation
12 33 (21.71%) Threat Modelling
13 32 (21.05%) Data Protection
13 32 (21.05%) Performance Testing
14 31 (20.39%) Cost Optimisation
15 28 (18.42%) DevOps
16 27 (17.76%) Cost Management
16 27 (17.76%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (44.74%) Java
2 44 (28.95%) Python
3 40 (26.32%) SQL
4 21 (13.82%) Ruby
5 18 (11.84%) Bash
6 15 (9.87%) PHP
7 14 (9.21%) Perl
8 12 (7.89%) C#
9 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.61%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.95%) COBOL
11 6 (3.95%) Go
12 5 (3.29%) C++
12 5 (3.29%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.66%) Groovy
14 1 (0.66%) Natural
14 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 152 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.87%) Degree
4 13 (8.55%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (8.55%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (5.92%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.92%) CISSP
6 8 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.63%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.63%) ISSEP
10 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.32%) CCIE
11 2 (1.32%) CCNP
12 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.87%) GDPR
2 10 (6.58%) HIPAA
3 7 (4.61%) NCSC
4 6 (3.95%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.97%) GRC
7 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.66%) GxP
8 1 (0.66%) NIST
8 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (9.21%) Docker
2 10 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.29%) KVM
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.66%) iptables
Systems Management
1 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.58%) Grafana
3 9 (5.92%) Ansible
4 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.97%) Argo
6 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.66%) Consul
7 1 (0.66%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.66%) Kibana
7 1 (0.66%) Nagios
7 1 (0.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.79%) Adobe
2 24 (15.79%) Apple
2 24 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.24%) VMware
4 9 (5.92%) Cisco
4 9 (5.92%) Google
4 9 (5.92%) Oracle
5 7 (4.61%) Avaya
5 7 (4.61%) Genesys
5 7 (4.61%) SAP
6 5 (3.29%) Splunk
7 4 (2.63%) Epicor
7 4 (2.63%) IFS
7 4 (2.63%) Infor
7 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.97%) Databricks
8 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.97%) OutSystems
8 3 (1.97%) Red Hat