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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 600 560
Rank change year-on-year +74 -40 +328
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 115 119 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.61% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 80 44 59
10th Percentile £61,836 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £61,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +11.79% -
75th Percentile £99,063 £87,813 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.03% -4.30% +12.50%

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 19,122 19,420 16,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.10% 36.19% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,752 7,666 10,948
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,499 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,829 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +6.80% +3.00%

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 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 14 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 10 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
England +70 104 £81,500 +7.95% 17
UK excluding London +59 62 £76,250 +18.03% 16
Work from Home +66 58 £75,000 -5.06% 11
London +27 40 £84,500 -0.59% 5
North of England +37 34 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Yorkshire +9 27 £75,000 - 2
East of England +21 12 £97,500 -
South East +28 9 £100,000 +88.50% 5
West Midlands +18 4 £49,000 -24.15% 3
Midlands +14 4 £49,000 -24.15% 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
North West +19 3 - - 3
South West +4 2 £62,500 - 2
Scotland -2 1 - - 1

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 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.74%) Apache
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (66.09%) Azure
3 52 (45.22%) Serverless
4 27 (23.48%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (21.74%) Amazon S3
6 22 (19.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (16.52%) GCP
8 14 (12.17%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (12.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (6.96%) CloudFront
11 7 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
13 5 (4.35%) Figma
14 4 (3.48%) IaaS
14 4 (3.48%) PaaS
14 4 (3.48%) SaaS
15 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (2.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) VPN
2 9 (7.83%) WAN
3 8 (6.96%) LAN
3 8 (6.96%) SD-WAN
3 8 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (6.09%) Unified Communications
4 7 (6.09%) VoIP
5 6 (5.22%) Firewall
6 4 (3.48%) VLAN
7 3 (2.61%) Network Security
8 2 (1.74%) DNS
8 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.87%) MPLS
9 1 (0.87%) NAS
9 1 (0.87%) SAN
9 1 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.09%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.87%) Big Data
7 1 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Git
2 10 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.96%) GitLab
4 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.35%) JIRA
5 5 (4.35%) Vite
6 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (55.65%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.22%) Finance
3 11 (9.57%) Financial Institution
3 11 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.70%) Publishing
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 8 (6.96%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.48%) Law
7 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.74%) Advertising
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.87%) Electronics
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (53.04%) Architect
2 19 (16.52%) Senior
3 16 (13.91%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (13.04%) AWS Architect
5 13 (11.30%) Applications Architect
6 12 (10.43%) Enterprise Architect
7 11 (9.57%) Head of IT
7 11 (9.57%) Software Architect
8 8 (6.96%) ERP Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
8 8 (6.96%) SAP Architect
8 8 (6.96%) SAP Enterprise Architect
9 7 (6.09%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (6.09%) Head of IT Operations
9 7 (6.09%) Head of Operations
9 7 (6.09%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.22%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.35%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.96%) Spring
1 8 (6.96%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.35%) Jest
2 5 (4.35%) Kafka
2 5 (4.35%) Next.js
2 5 (4.35%) React
3 4 (3.48%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.74%) .NET
4 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.74%) Node.js
4 2 (1.74%) PySpark
4 2 (1.74%) RESTful
5 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.87%) EDI
5 1 (0.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (28.70%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (13.91%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.96%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.09%) Operational Technology
5 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.48%) PKI
7 3 (2.61%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.74%) NHS
9 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) Computer Science
2 46 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 40 (34.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 37 (32.17%) DevOps
5 36 (31.30%) Mentoring
5 36 (31.30%) Migration
6 35 (30.43%) Microservices
7 34 (29.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (29.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (26.96%) Agile
8 31 (26.96%) Roadmaps
9 30 (26.09%) Application Security
9 30 (26.09%) CI/CD
9 30 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (23.48%) Data Modelling
11 26 (22.61%) High Availability
12 25 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
12 25 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (20.87%) EAI
13 24 (20.87%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 46 (40.00%) Python
2 42 (36.52%) Java
3 33 (28.70%) TypeScript
4 31 (26.96%) JavaScript
5 29 (25.22%) C#
6 10 (8.70%) Bash
7 8 (6.96%) SQL
8 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.87%) C++
9 1 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 115 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 61 (53.04%) Degree
3 53 (46.09%) Azure Certification
4 38 (33.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (33.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 34 (29.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (11.30%) Security Cleared
7 12 (10.43%) Master's Degree
8 10 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
9 8 (6.96%) CCNP
10 7 (6.09%) PMI Certification
10 7 (6.09%) PMP
11 6 (5.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (2.61%) CISA
13 3 (2.61%) CISSP
13 3 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) NIST
2 10 (8.70%) QA
3 9 (7.83%) GDPR
4 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.87%) Basel III
8 1 (0.87%) GAAP
8 1 (0.87%) MiFID
8 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.74%) KVM
5 2 (1.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) iptables
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Terraform
2 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.96%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.61%) Nessus
5 3 (2.61%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.57%) SAP
3 10 (8.70%) Workday
4 8 (6.96%) Cisco
5 7 (6.09%) VMware
6 6 (5.22%) Google
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
8 2 (1.74%) Databricks
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.87%) Palantir
9 1 (0.87%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.87%) Refinitiv