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 6 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 411 739
Rank change year-on-year -234 +328 +114
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 102 273 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.62% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% 1.57% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 41 40 85
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,763 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% -16.55% +13.48%
75th Percentile £83,640 £88,125 £98,750
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +1.52% +8.00%

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 19,275 17,378 26,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.89% 39.56% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,381 7,273 17,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.91% +1.93% -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 6 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 16 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 June 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 -214 97 £75,000 +15.38% 23
UK excluding London -197 60 £75,000 +9.45% 8
Work from Home -148 37 £75,000 +25.00% 11
London -33 36 £71,250 +18.75% 13
North of England -160 24 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Midlands -11 16 £49,500 +23.75% 2
West Midlands -21 15 £49,000 +22.50% 2
North West -125 13 - -
Yorkshire -31 9 £75,000 - 1
East of England -14 7 £97,500 - 1
South East -22 5 £71,250 -16.18% 3
South West -58 5 £52,500 -23.39%
Wales - 2 £55,500 - 1
North East - 2 £105,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) Apache
2 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.92%) Documentum
4 3 (2.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.98%) Drupal
5 1 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.98%) Magento
3 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (48.04%) Azure
3 39 (38.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (31.37%) GCP
5 27 (26.47%) Serverless
6 21 (20.59%) Amazon S3
6 21 (20.59%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (7.84%) PaaS
11 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (6.86%) GitHub
11 7 (6.86%) SaaS
12 6 (5.88%) CloudFront
12 6 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (4.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) DNS
2 1 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.57%) NoSQL
2 18 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.84%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.96%) Big Data
7 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.98%) Adabas
8 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.98%) Power BI
8 1 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (24.51%) GitLab
2 23 (22.55%) Cucumber
3 14 (13.73%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.86%) JIRA
5 6 (5.88%) Git
6 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.94%) Maven
7 3 (2.94%) Selenium
7 3 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.98%) Gatling
8 1 (0.98%) JMeter
8 1 (0.98%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (28.43%) Finance
2 26 (25.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.82%) Banking
4 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.88%) Advertising
5 6 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.90%) Publishing
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.94%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Games
8 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Billing
9 1 (0.98%) iGaming
9 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (37.25%) Senior
2 29 (28.43%) Architect
3 24 (23.53%) Analyst
3 24 (23.53%) Senior Analyst
4 20 (19.61%) Java Engineer
5 14 (13.73%) Principal Engineer
5 14 (13.73%) Principal Java Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) AWS Architect
7 8 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Lead
9 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.90%) ERP Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.90%) SAP Architect
10 5 (4.90%) SAP Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.49%) Spring Boot
2 24 (23.53%) Kafka
3 22 (21.57%) Spring
4 8 (7.84%) Node.js
5 5 (4.90%) .NET
6 4 (3.92%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.94%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.94%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.94%) Drools
7 3 (2.94%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.94%) Jest
7 3 (2.94%) PySpark
7 3 (2.94%) XML
8 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.96%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.96%) JWT
8 2 (1.96%) MediatR
8 2 (1.96%) OAuth
8 2 (1.96%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.43%) Cloud Native
2 26 (25.49%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (19.61%) e-Learning
4 20 (19.61%) Public Cloud
5 8 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.92%) PKI
6 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.98%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.98%) Robotics
9 1 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.80%) Linux
1 10 (9.80%) Windows
2 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.98%) AIX
3 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (55.88%) Mentoring
2 45 (44.12%) Agile
3 44 (43.14%) CI/CD
4 43 (42.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (30.39%) AI
6 30 (29.41%) Microservices
7 28 (27.45%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (26.47%) Architectural Patterns
8 27 (26.47%) Cost Management
8 27 (26.47%) Cost Optimisation
8 27 (26.47%) Event-Driven
9 24 (23.53%) DevOps
9 24 (23.53%) FinOps
9 24 (23.53%) Software Licensing
10 23 (22.55%) BDD
11 22 (21.57%) CQRS
11 22 (21.57%) Performance Testing
12 21 (20.59%) Test Automation
13 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (19.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.25%) Java
2 25 (24.51%) Python
2 25 (24.51%) SQL
3 14 (13.73%) C#
4 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.80%) Bash
5 10 (9.80%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.86%) Kotlin
7 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.92%) C++
8 4 (3.92%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (2.94%) Groovy
10 2 (1.96%) Bicep
10 2 (1.96%) Go
10 2 (1.96%) Ruby
11 1 (0.98%) COBOL
11 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.98%) Natural
11 1 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 101 (99.02%) AWS Certification
2 20 (19.61%) Degree
3 15 (14.71%) TOGAF Certification
4 14 (13.73%) Azure Certification
4 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
5 11 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (9.80%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) CITP
8 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.96%) NCSC
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 17 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) iptables
2 4 (3.92%) KVM
2 4 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Terraform
2 11 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.80%) Grafana
4 9 (8.82%) Ansible
5 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.90%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.90%) Puppet
7 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.94%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.98%) Consul
9 1 (0.98%) Kibana
9 1 (0.98%) Nagios
9 1 (0.98%) Packer
Vendors
1 39 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (28.43%) ServiceNow
3 24 (23.53%) Adobe
3 24 (23.53%) Apple
4 5 (4.90%) Google
4 5 (4.90%) Pega
4 5 (4.90%) SAP
4 5 (4.90%) VMware
4 5 (4.90%) Workday
5 4 (3.92%) OpenText
5 4 (3.92%) YouTube
6 2 (1.96%) Splunk
6 2 (1.96%) Zerto
7 1 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.98%) Databricks
7 1 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.98%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.98%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.98%) UiPath