AWS Certified Solutions Architect Jobs

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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 745 829
Rank change year-on-year +269 +84 +118
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 268 158 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.15% 0.091%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% 0.57% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38 73 52
10th Percentile £40,875 £55,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £80,000 £70,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +13.88% -17.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £102,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,525 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.11% +12.00% -10.71%

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 26,003 27,829 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 43.58% 26.14% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,900 16,744 14,428
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,781 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +9.38%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 12 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 6 July 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 +284 267 £62,500 -28.57% 84
Work from Home +226 212 £60,000 -14.29% 43
UK excluding London +278 210 £68,525 -2.11% 35
North of England +198 186 £65,000 +13.04% 10
North West +148 185 £63,750 +10.87% 3
London +109 50 £60,000 -33.33% 54
South West +106 9 £68,525 +9.64% 4
Midlands +70 7 £57,500 -45.24% 9
West Midlands +66 7 £57,500 -45.24% 6
East of England +40 5 - - 5
South East +52 3 £74,250 +10.00% 2
Yorkshire +50 1 £75,000 - 5

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.49%) Apache
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 268 (100.00%) AWS
2 232 (86.57%) Azure
3 211 (78.73%) GCP
4 28 (10.45%) Serverless
5 23 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (5.60%) SaaS
8 11 (4.10%) AWS KMS
9 7 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.24%) GitHub
10 6 (2.24%) IaaS
10 6 (2.24%) PaaS
11 5 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.87%) dbt
12 4 (1.49%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.22%) Network Security
2 4 (1.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 8 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.24%) Big Data
4 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.87%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.75%) MySQL
7 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.37%) HBase
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.24%) Git
2 6 (2.24%) GitLab
3 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.75%) Gradle
3 2 (0.75%) Maven
4 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 192 (71.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 37 (13.81%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.33%) Finance
4 16 (5.97%) Law
5 10 (3.73%) Marketing
6 9 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.24%) Legal
8 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.87%) Retail
9 4 (1.49%) Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Games
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Humanities
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 202 (75.37%) Senior
2 182 (67.91%) Software Engineer
3 178 (66.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 53 (19.78%) Architect
5 31 (11.57%) AWS Architect
6 26 (9.70%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (7.84%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (5.97%) Senior Architect
8 16 (5.97%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 15 (5.60%) AWS Solution Architect
10 14 (5.22%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.85%) DevOps Architect
11 13 (4.85%) Lead
11 13 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (4.85%) TOGAF Architect
12 9 (3.36%) Developer
13 7 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.61%) IT Architect
14 5 (1.87%) Infrastructure Architect
14 5 (1.87%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (66.79%) .NET
2 178 (66.42%) Node.js
3 22 (8.21%) Kafka
4 14 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.73%) RESTful
6 7 (2.61%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.61%) Spring
7 6 (2.24%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.24%) React
8 5 (1.87%) HTML
8 5 (1.87%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.49%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.49%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.49%) CSS
9 4 (1.49%) CSS3
9 4 (1.49%) HTML5
9 4 (1.49%) Material-UI
9 4 (1.49%) REST
9 4 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 181 (67.54%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (66.79%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (66.42%) Cyberattack
4 39 (14.55%) Cloud Native
5 25 (9.33%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) CMDB
9 2 (0.75%) Mobile Games
10 1 (0.37%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 183 (68.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (83.21%) Microservices
2 216 (80.60%) Agile
3 208 (77.61%) Cloud Security
3 208 (77.61%) Software Engineering
4 199 (74.25%) Mentoring
5 194 (72.39%) Machine Learning
6 183 (68.28%) Data Engineering
6 183 (68.28%) Scrum
7 182 (67.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 178 (66.42%) User Experience
9 58 (21.64%) CI/CD
10 52 (19.40%) Containerisation
11 50 (18.66%) DevOps
12 37 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (11.94%) Architectural Design
14 30 (11.19%) TOGAF
15 22 (8.21%) Computer Science
15 22 (8.21%) Event-Driven
15 22 (8.21%) Roadmaps
15 22 (8.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 223 (83.21%) Java
2 213 (79.48%) Python
3 182 (67.91%) Go
3 182 (67.91%) JavaScript
4 179 (66.79%) C++
5 178 (66.42%) Rust
6 30 (11.19%) SQL
7 17 (6.34%) C#
8 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.12%) Bash
10 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.75%) Bicep
11 2 (0.75%) Scala
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 267 (99.63%) AWS Certification
2 201 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 183 (68.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (66.42%) DV Cleared
5 33 (12.31%) Azure Certification
6 30 (11.19%) Degree
7 20 (7.46%) SC Cleared
8 19 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.87%) CISSP
11 5 (1.87%) ISSAP
12 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.49%) PMP
13 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.75%) CCSK
15 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.37%) FFIEC
15 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.57%) GDPR
2 27 (10.07%) HIPAA
3 22 (8.21%) NIST
4 11 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.99%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.49%) QA
7 2 (0.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.37%) COBIT
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 42 (15.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
2 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (18.66%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.06%) Terraform
3 17 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 15 (5.60%) Grafana
5 9 (3.36%) Ansible
6 2 (0.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (12.69%) Google
2 16 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.87%) Splunk
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle
5 2 (0.75%) Databricks
5 2 (0.75%) New Relic
5 2 (0.75%) Sun
6 1 (0.37%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.37%) IBM
6 1 (0.37%) Sybase
6 1 (0.37%) VMware