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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 433 781
Rank change year-on-year -190 +348 +4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 139 266 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.100%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 1.53% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 39 37 64
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% +13.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £97,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £109,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -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 19,020 17,430 25,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.23% 35.48% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,042 7,810 15,650
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,687 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 17 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 17 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 -194 131 £79,669 +24.97% 21
London +11 82 £100,000 +66.67% 10
UK excluding London -215 54 £77,500 +13.10% 13
Work from Home -176 37 £90,000 +50.00% 13
North of England -176 16 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Midlands -23 15 £75,000 +30.51%
West Midlands -13 14 £67,500 +17.46%
North West -132 13 - - 4
South West -49 8 £71,250 +3.98% 1
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
South East -21 6 £65,000 -25.71% 2
Yorkshire -33 3 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East of England -16 2 £87,500 -
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 4 (2.88%) Confluence
1 4 (2.88%) SAS
2 3 (2.16%) Apache
2 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.16%) JBoss
3 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.44%) Documentum
4 1 (0.72%) Camunda
4 1 (0.72%) Drupal
4 1 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) nginx
4 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (17.27%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (51.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 48 (34.53%) Serverless
4 45 (32.37%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (30.94%) Azure
6 35 (25.18%) GCP
7 34 (24.46%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (24.46%) Cloud Computing
8 28 (20.14%) Amazon S3
9 27 (19.42%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (11.51%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (10.79%) AWS Control Tower
11 15 (10.79%) GitHub
12 14 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.19%) CloudFront
14 9 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (5.76%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.76%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (4.32%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.27%) Network Security
2 5 (3.60%) Internet
3 3 (2.16%) Firewall
3 3 (2.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) DNS
4 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.46%) NoSQL
2 25 (17.99%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.19%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.04%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.60%) Big Data
7 4 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.72%) Adabas
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.72%) Metadata
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.72%) Power BI
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (22.30%) GitLab
2 29 (20.86%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.60%) JIRA
4 5 (3.60%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.16%) Maven
5 3 (2.16%) Selenium
5 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.44%) Git
7 1 (0.72%) Gatling
7 1 (0.72%) JMeter
7 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (35.25%) Finance
2 27 (19.42%) Public Sector
3 24 (17.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.79%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Banking
6 8 (5.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.88%) Advertising
7 4 (2.88%) Billing
7 4 (2.88%) Military
7 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Retail
8 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.44%) Games
9 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) iGaming
10 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (46.04%) Senior
2 40 (28.78%) Architect
3 26 (18.71%) Java Engineer
3 26 (18.71%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (17.27%) Analyst
4 24 (17.27%) Senior Analyst
5 22 (15.83%) Consultant
6 18 (12.95%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (12.95%) Principal Java Engineer
6 18 (12.95%) Security Consultant
6 18 (12.95%) Senior Consultant
7 14 (10.07%) AWS Architect
7 14 (10.07%) Senior Security Consultant
8 8 (5.76%) AWS Solution Architect
8 8 (5.76%) Developer
8 8 (5.76%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.62%) Spring Boot
2 28 (20.14%) Kafka
2 28 (20.14%) Spring
3 22 (15.83%) AWS CDK
4 15 (10.79%) Node.js
5 10 (7.19%) REST
6 9 (6.47%) .NET
7 7 (5.04%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (4.32%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.32%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.60%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.60%) JWT
9 5 (3.60%) MediatR
9 5 (3.60%) Middleware
9 5 (3.60%) OAuth
9 5 (3.60%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.60%) OpenAPI
9 5 (3.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (34.53%) Cloud Native
2 33 (23.74%) Onboarding
3 27 (19.42%) Public Cloud
4 26 (18.71%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (18.71%) e-Learning
5 23 (16.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 20 (14.39%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (7.19%) Data Centre
8 9 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (5.04%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.32%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.60%) PKI
12 4 (2.88%) Blog
12 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
12 4 (2.88%) IVR
12 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
13 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.16%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.67%) Windows
2 14 (10.07%) Linux
3 2 (1.44%) Unix
3 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) AIX
4 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 71 (51.08%) Mentoring
3 64 (46.04%) AI
4 56 (40.29%) Agile
5 53 (38.13%) CI/CD
6 44 (31.65%) Architectural Patterns
7 39 (28.06%) Event-Driven
7 39 (28.06%) Microservices
8 33 (23.74%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (22.30%) Cloud Security
9 31 (22.30%) CQRS
10 29 (20.86%) BDD
11 28 (20.14%) Cost Optimisation
12 27 (19.42%) Cost Management
12 27 (19.42%) Test Automation
13 26 (18.71%) Data Protection
13 26 (18.71%) Performance Testing
13 26 (18.71%) Threat Modelling
14 25 (17.99%) DevOps
14 25 (17.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (43.88%) Java
2 41 (29.50%) Python
3 32 (23.02%) SQL
4 23 (16.55%) Bash
5 21 (15.11%) Ruby
6 15 (10.79%) PHP
7 14 (10.07%) Perl
8 11 (7.91%) JavaScript
9 10 (7.19%) C#
10 8 (5.76%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.32%) COBOL
12 5 (3.60%) C++
12 5 (3.60%) Go
12 5 (3.60%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.16%) Groovy
15 2 (1.44%) Bicep
16 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.72%) Natural
Qualifications
1 138 (99.28%) AWS Certification
2 28 (20.14%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.23%) Degree
4 13 (9.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (9.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.76%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.32%) CISSP
7 6 (4.32%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.88%) ISSAP
8 4 (2.88%) ISSEP
9 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.44%) CITP
10 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) GDPR
2 7 (5.04%) NCSC
3 6 (4.32%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.88%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.72%) GxP
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.79%) Docker
2 8 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.60%) KVM
4 3 (2.16%) iptables
5 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (37.41%) Terraform
2 11 (7.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.19%) Grafana
4 9 (6.47%) Ansible
5 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.88%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.88%) Puppet
7 3 (2.16%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.72%) Consul
8 1 (0.72%) Kibana
8 1 (0.72%) Nagios
8 1 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (19.42%) ServiceNow
3 24 (17.27%) Adobe
3 24 (17.27%) Apple
4 9 (6.47%) VMware
5 7 (5.04%) Avaya
5 7 (5.04%) Cisco
5 7 (5.04%) Genesys
5 7 (5.04%) SAP
6 6 (4.32%) Google
6 6 (4.32%) Oracle
7 4 (2.88%) Epicor
7 4 (2.88%) IFS
7 4 (2.88%) Infor
7 4 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.16%) Pega
9 2 (1.44%) OpenText
9 2 (1.44%) Splunk
9 2 (1.44%) YouTube
9 2 (1.44%) Zerto