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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 679 896
Rank change year-on-year +87 +217 -15
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 92 208 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.087%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.76% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 49 83 51
10th Percentile £45,250 £56,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +14.29% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £99,375 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £114,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,763 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% +12.50% -23.81%

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 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +111 92 £68,525 -16.94% 71
London +113 59 £67,500 -25.00% 46
Work from Home +121 47 £64,600 -6.04% 45
UK excluding London +90 32 £66,763 -1.09% 29
North of England +71 9 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Midlands +50 8 £64,600 -38.48% 4
West Midlands +48 8 £64,600 -38.48% 1
North West +24 8 £65,000 - 8
South West +79 7 £68,525 +9.64% 3
South East +82 5 £83,750 +24.07% 7
East of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire +66 1 £75,000 - 3

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 3 (3.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (65.22%) Azure
3 27 (29.35%) GCP
4 26 (28.26%) Serverless
5 24 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (15.22%) AWS KMS
8 7 (7.61%) GitHub
8 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.61%) SaaS
8 7 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.35%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.35%) IaaS
11 4 (4.35%) PaaS
12 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.83%) Network Security
2 7 (7.61%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) Internet
3 3 (3.26%) LAN
3 3 (3.26%) MPLS
3 3 (3.26%) WAN
3 3 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.26%) WLAN
4 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.61%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.52%) MySQL
3 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.17%) Big Data
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) DB2
6 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.09%) HBase
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.61%) Git
3 6 (6.52%) Gradle
3 6 (6.52%) Maven
4 4 (4.35%) GitLab
5 2 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.09%) Appium
6 1 (1.09%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.09%) Mocha
6 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.09%) Selenium
6 1 (1.09%) Subversion
6 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) Travis CI
General
1 42 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Finance
3 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.61%) Humanities
4 7 (7.61%) Retail
5 6 (6.52%) Games
6 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.26%) Banking
7 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.26%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Automotive
8 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Law
8 2 (2.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.17%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (59.78%) Architect
2 29 (31.52%) AWS Architect
3 27 (29.35%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (20.65%) Senior
6 14 (15.22%) Lead
7 10 (10.87%) Senior Architect
7 10 (10.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 9 (9.78%) AWS Solution Architect
9 8 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (7.61%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (6.52%) Developer
11 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes Architect
11 6 (6.52%) Lead Architect
11 6 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 6 (6.52%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (6.52%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.52%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.17%) Kafka
2 22 (23.91%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (13.04%) RESTful
4 7 (7.61%) ARM Templates
5 6 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (6.52%) React
5 6 (6.52%) Spring
6 3 (3.26%) .NET
6 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.09%) HTML
7 1 (1.09%) Jest
7 1 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 24 (26.09%) Management Information System
3 12 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.52%) Mobile Games
5 3 (3.26%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.17%) Life Science
7 1 (1.09%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (55.43%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.09%) Containerisation
2 47 (51.09%) DevOps
3 42 (45.65%) Microservices
4 34 (36.96%) Cloud Security
5 28 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (28.26%) Event-Driven
7 25 (27.17%) Architectural Design
7 25 (27.17%) Cost Optimisation
7 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (27.17%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (27.17%) TOGAF
8 24 (26.09%) Computer Science
8 24 (26.09%) Software Engineering
9 23 (25.00%) Design Patterns
9 23 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 22 (23.91%) Agile
10 22 (23.91%) Mentoring
10 22 (23.91%) Performance Tuning
11 21 (22.83%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.22%) Java
2 22 (23.91%) Python
3 13 (14.13%) SQL
4 11 (11.96%) C#
5 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.26%) Bash
6 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.17%) Bicep
8 1 (1.09%) C++
8 1 (1.09%) Delphi
8 1 (1.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (98.91%) AWS Certification
2 33 (35.87%) Azure Certification
3 29 (31.52%) Degree
4 21 (22.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (22.83%) Security Cleared
5 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
6 13 (14.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (14.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (7.61%) Postgraduate
8 4 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (3.26%) CCIE
9 3 (3.26%) CCNA
9 3 (3.26%) CCNP
9 3 (3.26%) CISSP
9 3 (3.26%) CITP
9 3 (3.26%) ISSAP
9 3 (3.26%) RHCE
10 2 (2.17%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (27.17%) GDPR
2 23 (25.00%) HIPAA
3 13 (14.13%) NIST
4 8 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (8.70%) QA
5 4 (4.35%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.26%) NCSC
7 1 (1.09%) COBIT
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.09%) GRC
7 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (44.57%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (46.74%) Kubernetes
2 37 (40.22%) Terraform
3 25 (27.17%) Prometheus
4 19 (20.65%) Grafana
5 13 (14.13%) Ansible
6 6 (6.52%) Argo
7 1 (1.09%) Automic
7 1 (1.09%) Consul
7 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.09%) Puppet
7 1 (1.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (29.35%) Google
2 21 (22.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) New Relic
4 3 (3.26%) Cisco
4 3 (3.26%) Databricks
4 3 (3.26%) Hitachi
4 3 (3.26%) IBM
4 3 (3.26%) Meraki
4 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (1.09%) Sybase
6 1 (1.09%) VMware