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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 432 786
Rank change year-on-year -201 +354 +25
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 118 263 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.56% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 1.51% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 40 36 77
10th Percentile £51,125 £40,625 £55,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -20.31% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,625 £77,813 £98,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.27% -2.11% +12.00%

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 18,713 17,417 26,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.40% 37.38% 25.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,863 7,532 16,939
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,501
25th Percentile £42,996 £38,750 £38,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.21% -12.04%
75th Percentile £79,688 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -4.76%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -185 111 £79,669 +27.47% 30
London -23 60 £96,250 +60.42% 14
UK excluding London -216 52 £76,250 +11.27% 19
Work from Home -154 35 £90,000 +50.00% 22
Midlands -27 16 £62,500 +56.25% 1
North of England -181 16 £80,000 +23.08% 3
West Midlands -20 15 £50,000 +25.00% 1
North West -130 13 - - 1
South West -59 8 £52,500 -23.39% 1
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 2
South East -26 4 £65,000 -12.46% 8
East of England -15 3 £97,500 - 3
Yorkshire -32 3 £80,000 +6.67% 2
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

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 6 (5.08%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.39%) Documentum
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.54%) JBoss
4 2 (1.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.85%) Camunda
5 1 (0.85%) Drupal
5 1 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.85%) nginx
5 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (20.34%) Cloudability
2 4 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (47.46%) AWS CloudFormation
3 40 (33.90%) Azure
4 35 (29.66%) GCP
5 30 (25.42%) Serverless
6 29 (24.58%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (18.64%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (18.64%) Amazon S3
8 18 (15.25%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (15.25%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (8.47%) GitHub
10 9 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.63%) Amazon EventBridge
10 9 (7.63%) CloudFront
10 9 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.78%) PaaS
11 8 (6.78%) SaaS
12 7 (5.93%) AWS Control Tower
12 7 (5.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.86%) Network Security
2 2 (1.69%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.03%) NoSQL
2 20 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.93%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.54%) Big Data
6 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.85%) Adabas
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.85%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.85%) Metadata
8 1 (0.85%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) Redis
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (23.73%) GitLab
2 26 (22.03%) Cucumber
3 19 (16.10%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.93%) JIRA
5 5 (4.24%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.39%) Git
7 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.54%) Maven
7 3 (2.54%) Selenium
7 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.85%) Gatling
8 1 (0.85%) JMeter
8 1 (0.85%) Vagrant
General
1 40 (33.90%) Finance
2 25 (21.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (16.10%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.10%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.78%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.24%) Advertising
7 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.69%) Billing
8 2 (1.69%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.69%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) iGaming
9 1 (0.85%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.85%) Publishing
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (38.14%) Senior
2 36 (30.51%) Architect
3 24 (20.34%) Analyst
3 24 (20.34%) Senior Analyst
4 23 (19.49%) Java Engineer
5 18 (15.25%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (14.41%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (14.41%) Principal Java Engineer
7 13 (11.02%) AWS Architect
8 9 (7.63%) Consultant
8 9 (7.63%) Security Consultant
9 8 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Lead
11 6 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) Lead Architect
11 6 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (5.08%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) Senior Security Consultant
12 5 (4.24%) Technical Architect
12 5 (4.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.12%) Spring Boot
2 26 (22.03%) Kafka
3 25 (21.19%) Spring
4 12 (10.17%) AWS CDK
5 11 (9.32%) Node.js
6 5 (4.24%) .NET
6 5 (4.24%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.39%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.39%) Middleware
7 4 (3.39%) REST
8 3 (2.54%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.54%) Drools
8 3 (2.54%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.54%) Jest
8 3 (2.54%) XML
9 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.69%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.69%) OAuth
9 2 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (34.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (20.34%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (20.34%) Public Cloud
3 23 (19.49%) e-Learning
4 21 (17.80%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (12.71%) Onboarding
6 12 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (8.47%) Data Centre
7 10 (8.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (4.24%) Mainframe
8 5 (4.24%) PKI
9 4 (3.39%) Digital Wallet
9 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
9 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.69%) Blog
11 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.69%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.25%) Windows
2 15 (12.71%) Linux
3 2 (1.69%) Unix
3 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) AIX
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.39%) Infrastructure as Code
1 63 (53.39%) Mentoring
2 51 (43.22%) Agile
3 49 (41.53%) CI/CD
4 44 (37.29%) AI
5 34 (28.81%) Microservices
6 33 (27.97%) Architectural Patterns
7 32 (27.12%) Event-Driven
8 29 (24.58%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (22.88%) Cost Management
9 27 (22.88%) Cost Optimisation
10 26 (22.03%) BDD
11 25 (21.19%) CQRS
11 25 (21.19%) DevOps
12 24 (20.34%) FinOps
12 24 (20.34%) Performance Testing
12 24 (20.34%) Software Licensing
12 24 (20.34%) Test Automation
13 22 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (17.80%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 47 (39.83%) Java
2 28 (23.73%) SQL
3 27 (22.88%) Python
4 16 (13.56%) Bash
5 11 (9.32%) Ruby
6 9 (7.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.78%) C#
7 8 (6.78%) Kotlin
8 7 (5.93%) PHP
9 6 (5.08%) Perl
10 5 (4.24%) C++
10 5 (4.24%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.39%) COBOL
11 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.54%) Go
12 3 (2.54%) Groovy
13 2 (1.69%) Bicep
14 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.85%) Natural
Qualifications
1 117 (99.15%) AWS Certification
2 22 (18.64%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.02%) TOGAF Certification
4 10 (8.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (8.47%) Degree
5 8 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.93%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) CITP
9 3 (2.54%) CISSP
9 3 (2.54%) ISSAP
9 3 (2.54%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) NCSC
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
2 4 (3.39%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (2.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) GxP
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (14.41%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.24%) KVM
4 4 (3.39%) iptables
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (34.75%) Terraform
2 12 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.32%) Ansible
3 11 (9.32%) Grafana
4 6 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.24%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.24%) Puppet
6 3 (2.54%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.85%) Consul
7 1 (0.85%) Kibana
7 1 (0.85%) Nagios
7 1 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 29 (24.58%) ServiceNow
3 24 (20.34%) Adobe
3 24 (20.34%) Apple
4 7 (5.93%) VMware
5 6 (5.08%) Google
6 5 (4.24%) Pega
6 5 (4.24%) SAP
7 4 (3.39%) OpenText
7 4 (3.39%) Oracle
7 4 (3.39%) YouTube
8 3 (2.54%) Epicor
8 3 (2.54%) IFS
8 3 (2.54%) Infor
9 2 (1.69%) Splunk
9 2 (1.69%) Zerto
10 1 (0.85%) Databricks
10 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.85%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.85%) Workday