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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 411 686
Rank change year-on-year -229 +275 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 159 277 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.56% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.76% 1.64% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 37 48 52
10th Percentile - £59,250 £43,228
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,688 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -10.83%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £93,156
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% -17.24%

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 20,797 16,844 21,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.90% 34.29% 27.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 7,426 9,668
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £37,000 £42,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 15 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 21 September 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 -228 141 £90,000 +20.00% 168
London -18 97 £97,500 +21.88% 121
UK excluding London -266 54 £80,000 +6.67% 61
Work from Home -209 38 £90,000 +12.50% 131
Midlands -42 16 £82,500 +26.92% 8
North of England -214 15 £65,000 -13.33% 17
West Midlands -40 13 £85,000 +30.77% 5
North West -157 13 £55,000 -13.73% 11
South East -58 7 £65,000 -35.00% 8
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 3
South West -72 5 £90,000 +31.34% 13
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 3
Scotland - 3 - - 7
Yorkshire -44 2 £75,000 - 5
East of England -39 1 £100,000 - 2

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 (2.52%) SAS
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) JBoss
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 86 (54.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 52 (32.70%) Azure
4 49 (30.82%) Serverless
5 46 (28.93%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (25.16%) GCP
7 32 (20.13%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (20.13%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (19.50%) Amazon S3
9 23 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (11.32%) GitHub
12 16 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (9.43%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (8.81%) AWS Control Tower
15 13 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (5.66%) AWS CodePipeline
17 8 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
18 7 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
18 7 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.61%) Network Security
2 7 (4.40%) Firewall
3 5 (3.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.89%) DNS
4 3 (1.89%) LAN
4 3 (1.89%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.89%) VPN
4 3 (1.89%) WAN
4 3 (1.89%) Wireless
5 2 (1.26%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 27 (16.98%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.89%) Big Data
8 3 (1.89%) Metadata
9 1 (0.63%) Adabas
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.63%) Power BI
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (28.30%) GitLab
2 41 (25.79%) Cucumber
3 14 (8.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (44.03%) Finance
2 28 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.95%) Banking
5 17 (10.69%) Financial Institution
6 15 (9.43%) Social Skills
7 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.14%) Law
9 4 (2.52%) Billing
9 4 (2.52%) Military
9 4 (2.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 3 (1.89%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.26%) Advertising
11 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.26%) Legal
11 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (47.80%) Senior
2 47 (29.56%) Architect
3 40 (25.16%) Java Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (16.35%) Consultant
6 24 (15.09%) Analyst
6 24 (15.09%) Senior Analyst
7 23 (14.47%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (14.47%) Principal Java Engineer
8 21 (13.21%) Security Consultant
9 19 (11.95%) Senior Consultant
10 17 (10.69%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (8.81%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (8.18%) AWS Architect
13 8 (5.03%) Senior Architect
14 7 (4.40%) Developer
14 7 (4.40%) Lead
14 7 (4.40%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.40%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 6 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (33.96%) Terraform
2 51 (32.08%) Spring Boot
3 44 (27.67%) Spring
4 43 (27.04%) Kafka
5 22 (13.84%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.18%) .NET
7 12 (7.55%) Node.js
8 10 (6.29%) REST
9 7 (4.40%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (4.40%) Entity Framework
9 7 (4.40%) JWT
9 7 (4.40%) MediatR
9 7 (4.40%) OAuth
9 7 (4.40%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.40%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.40%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (43.40%) Cloud Native
2 43 (27.04%) Public Cloud
3 40 (25.16%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (25.16%) e-Learning
4 34 (21.38%) Onboarding
5 23 (14.47%) Enterprise Cloud
5 23 (14.47%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (6.92%) Data Centre
6 11 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (5.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (5.03%) PKI
9 7 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.40%) Mainframe
9 7 (4.40%) Security Posture
10 6 (3.77%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.52%) Blog
12 4 (2.52%) IVR
12 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.69%) Windows
2 12 (7.55%) Linux
3 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (59.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 79 (49.69%) Mentoring
3 76 (47.80%) AI
4 72 (45.28%) Agile
5 66 (41.51%) CI/CD
6 57 (35.85%) Microservices
7 55 (34.59%) Event-Driven
8 47 (29.56%) CQRS
9 45 (28.30%) Architectural Patterns
10 41 (25.79%) BDD
10 41 (25.79%) Test Automation
11 40 (25.16%) Performance Testing
12 38 (23.90%) Cloud Security
12 38 (23.90%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (21.38%) Threat Modelling
14 32 (20.13%) Data Protection
15 30 (18.87%) Coaching
15 30 (18.87%) Cost Optimisation
15 30 (18.87%) Roadmaps
16 27 (16.98%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (47.80%) Java
2 49 (30.82%) SQL
3 41 (25.79%) Python
4 21 (13.21%) Ruby
5 16 (10.06%) Bash
6 14 (8.81%) Perl
6 14 (8.81%) PHP
7 12 (7.55%) C#
8 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.77%) COBOL
9 6 (3.77%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.14%) C++
10 5 (3.14%) Go
11 4 (2.52%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.63%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) Groovy
13 1 (0.63%) Natural
Qualifications
1 159 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 26 (16.35%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.81%) Degree
4 13 (8.18%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (8.18%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (7.55%) CISSP
6 10 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.77%) SC Cleared
9 5 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.52%) ISSAP
10 4 (2.52%) ISSEP
11 3 (1.89%) CCIE
11 3 (1.89%) CCNP
11 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.63%) CCSP
12 1 (0.63%) CISM
12 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.06%) GDPR
2 10 (6.29%) HIPAA
3 7 (4.40%) NCSC
4 6 (3.77%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.52%) GRC
6 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.63%) GxP
8 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (6.92%) Docker
3 5 (3.14%) KVM
4 4 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.03%) Ansible
3 7 (4.40%) Grafana
4 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.63%) Nagios
6 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.09%) Adobe
2 24 (15.09%) Apple
2 24 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 13 (8.18%) VMware
4 11 (6.92%) Cisco
5 9 (5.66%) Google
5 9 (5.66%) Oracle
6 7 (4.40%) Avaya
6 7 (4.40%) Genesys
6 7 (4.40%) SAP
7 5 (3.14%) Splunk
8 4 (2.52%) Epicor
8 4 (2.52%) IFS
8 4 (2.52%) Infor
8 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.89%) Databricks
9 3 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.89%) OutSystems
9 3 (1.89%) Zscaler