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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 643 596
Rank change year-on-year +105 -47 +339
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 122 112 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 0.56% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 67 46 50
10th Percentile £62,750 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,813 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.02% +4.64%
75th Percentile £99,375 £83,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £110,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +12.50%

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 17,041 19,846 16,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.53% 29.48% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 8,005 11,252
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +2.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 13 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 November 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 +113 113 £81,500 +8.67% 58
UK excluding London +86 57 £75,000 +16.10% 30
London +86 53 £93,750 +10.29% 29
Work from Home +76 51 £75,000 +3.45% 34
North of England +55 28 £75,000 +27.66% 5
Yorkshire +20 17 £75,000 - 2
East of England +29 12 £97,500 - 4
North West +51 9 £62,500 +6.38% 2
South East +35 9 £100,000 +88.50% 10
Midlands +52 5 £61,250 -5.19% 8
West Midlands +47 5 £61,250 -5.19% 6
South West +21 3 £70,000 - 2
North East - 2 £105,000 - 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 4 (3.28%) Apache
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.82%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (58.20%) Azure
3 42 (34.43%) Serverless
4 29 (23.77%) GCP
5 27 (22.13%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (20.49%) Amazon S3
7 20 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (12.30%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (10.66%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (10.66%) SaaS
10 11 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.56%) CloudFront
13 7 (5.74%) GitHub
13 7 (5.74%) IaaS
13 7 (5.74%) PaaS
14 6 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (4.92%) Entra ID
15 5 (4.10%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) VPN
2 8 (6.56%) LAN
2 8 (6.56%) SD-WAN
2 8 (6.56%) WAN
2 8 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (5.74%) Firewall
3 7 (5.74%) Unified Communications
3 7 (5.74%) VoIP
4 4 (3.28%) VLAN
5 3 (2.46%) Network Security
6 2 (1.64%) DNS
6 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.82%) MPLS
7 1 (0.82%) NAS
7 1 (0.82%) SAN
7 1 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.11%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.74%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.92%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (3.28%) Big Data
7 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Git
2 10 (8.20%) GitLab
3 9 (7.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.92%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.10%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.10%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.10%) JIRA
5 5 (4.10%) Vite
6 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (36.07%) Finance
3 17 (13.93%) Law
4 16 (13.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.30%) Financial Institution
6 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (9.84%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (8.20%) Marketing
8 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
9 8 (6.56%) Banking
9 8 (6.56%) Telecoms
10 7 (5.74%) Publishing
11 4 (3.28%) Legal
12 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Electronics
13 1 (0.82%) Games
13 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (44.26%) Architect
2 29 (23.77%) Senior
3 21 (17.21%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (15.57%) AWS Architect
5 15 (12.30%) Lead
6 10 (8.20%) AWS Solution Architect
6 10 (8.20%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.38%) Head of IT
8 8 (6.56%) Applications Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.74%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.74%) Developer
9 7 (5.74%) DevOps Architect
9 7 (5.74%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (5.74%) Head of IT Operations
9 7 (5.74%) Head of Operations
9 7 (5.74%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.66%) Spring
1 13 (10.66%) Spring Boot
2 9 (7.38%) React
3 7 (5.74%) Kafka
4 5 (4.10%) Jest
4 5 (4.10%) Next.js
5 4 (3.28%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.28%) Bootstrap
5 4 (3.28%) CSS
5 4 (3.28%) CSS3
5 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.28%) HTML
5 4 (3.28%) HTML5
5 4 (3.28%) Material-UI
5 4 (3.28%) REST
5 4 (3.28%) RESTful
5 4 (3.28%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (3.28%) Vue
6 2 (1.64%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.05%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.21%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (9.02%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.56%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.74%) Operational Technology
6 6 (4.92%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (4.10%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.28%) PKI
8 4 (3.28%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (2.46%) e-Learning
9 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.64%) CMDB
10 2 (1.64%) NHS
10 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Windows
2 8 (6.56%) Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.16%) DevOps
2 46 (37.70%) Agile
3 44 (36.07%) CI/CD
4 43 (35.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (33.61%) TOGAF
6 38 (31.15%) Computer Science
7 34 (27.87%) Microservices
8 30 (24.59%) Containerisation
8 30 (24.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (24.59%) Enterprise Architecture
8 30 (24.59%) Roadmaps
9 29 (23.77%) Mentoring
10 26 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (19.67%) High Availability
13 23 (18.85%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (18.85%) ITIL
13 23 (18.85%) Technology Roadmap
14 22 (18.03%) Software Engineering
15 21 (17.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (38.52%) Python
2 46 (37.70%) Java
3 24 (19.67%) C#
3 24 (19.67%) JavaScript
3 24 (19.67%) SQL
4 22 (18.03%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.02%) Bash
6 6 (4.92%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.10%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.28%) Go
9 2 (1.64%) Scala
10 1 (0.82%) C++
10 1 (0.82%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 122 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 51 (41.80%) Degree
3 48 (39.34%) Azure Certification
4 29 (23.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (19.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (19.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (13.93%) Security Cleared
7 14 (11.48%) SC Cleared
8 12 (9.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (9.02%) Master's Degree
9 11 (9.02%) PMI Certification
9 11 (9.02%) PMP
10 10 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (6.56%) CCNP
12 5 (4.10%) CISSP
13 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) ISSAP
14 3 (2.46%) CISA
14 3 (2.46%) MCP
14 3 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.57%) NIST
2 16 (13.11%) GDPR
3 9 (7.38%) QA
4 8 (6.56%) Accessibility
5 7 (5.74%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.64%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.82%) Basel III
8 1 (0.82%) GAAP
8 1 (0.82%) MiFID
8 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (25.41%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.64%) KVM
5 2 (1.64%) vSphere
6 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.82%) iptables
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 32 (26.23%) Terraform
3 8 (6.56%) Ansible
4 4 (3.28%) Grafana
4 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.46%) Nessus
5 3 (2.46%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.57%) Google
3 8 (6.56%) Cisco
4 7 (5.74%) SAP
4 7 (5.74%) VMware
5 6 (4.92%) Workday
6 5 (4.10%) Splunk
7 3 (2.46%) IBM
8 2 (1.64%) Databricks
9 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.82%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle
9 1 (0.82%) Palantir
9 1 (0.82%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.82%) Refinitiv