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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 430 781
Rank change year-on-year -209 +351 +35
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 123 266 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.56% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 1.52% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 41 38 75
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,875 £55,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -20.31% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £100,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
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 18,821 17,529 26,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 36.81% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,903 7,668 16,816
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 4 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 4 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 -176 115 £79,669 +27.47% 34
London -11 64 £96,250 +60.42% 14
UK excluding London -212 53 £77,500 +13.10% 24
Work from Home -166 35 £90,000 +50.00% 22
Midlands -17 16 £62,500 +8.70% 2
North of England -171 16 £80,000 +23.08% 3
West Midlands -17 15 £50,000 -13.04% 1
North West -140 13 - - 1
South West -68 8 £52,500 -23.39% 7
Wales - 6 £80,000 - 1
South East -29 4 £65,000 -12.46% 8
East of England -20 3 £97,500 - 2
Yorkshire -25 3 £80,000 +6.67% 2
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 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 6 (4.88%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) Apache
2 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.25%) Documentum
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.44%) JBoss
4 2 (1.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.81%) Camunda
5 1 (0.81%) Drupal
5 1 (0.81%) IIS
5 1 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (19.51%) Cloudability
2 5 (4.07%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (48.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 41 (33.33%) Azure
4 35 (28.46%) GCP
5 34 (27.64%) Serverless
6 33 (26.83%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (20.33%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (19.51%) Amazon S3
9 22 (17.89%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (8.94%) Amazon EventBridge
11 11 (8.94%) GitHub
12 10 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (8.13%) CloudFront
12 10 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (7.32%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (6.50%) PaaS
14 8 (6.50%) SaaS
14 8 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.82%) Network Security
2 2 (1.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.14%) NoSQL
2 22 (17.89%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.69%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.07%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.44%) Big Data
6 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.81%) Adabas
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.81%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.81%) Metadata
8 1 (0.81%) Power BI
8 1 (0.81%) Redis
8 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (22.76%) GitLab
2 26 (21.14%) Cucumber
3 20 (16.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.69%) JIRA
5 5 (4.07%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.25%) Git
7 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.44%) Maven
7 3 (2.44%) Selenium
7 3 (2.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.81%) Gatling
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (34.15%) Finance
2 25 (20.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (17.89%) Public Sector
4 19 (15.45%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Banking
6 6 (4.88%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.07%) Advertising
8 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) Billing
9 2 (1.63%) Games
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.63%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) iGaming
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.81%) Publishing
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (39.02%) Senior
2 37 (30.08%) Architect
3 24 (19.51%) Analyst
3 24 (19.51%) Senior Analyst
4 23 (18.70%) Java Engineer
5 19 (15.45%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (13.82%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (13.82%) Principal Java Engineer
7 13 (10.57%) AWS Architect
7 13 (10.57%) Consultant
8 12 (9.76%) Security Consultant
9 9 (7.32%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.50%) Senior Security Consultant
11 7 (5.69%) Lead
12 6 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Lead Architect
12 6 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
13 5 (4.07%) Technical Architect
13 5 (4.07%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.83%) Spring Boot
2 26 (21.14%) Kafka
3 25 (20.33%) Spring
4 15 (12.20%) AWS CDK
5 12 (9.76%) Node.js
6 6 (4.88%) REST
6 6 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (4.07%) .NET
7 5 (4.07%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.25%) Middleware
9 3 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.44%) Drools
9 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.44%) Jest
9 3 (2.44%) XML
10 2 (1.63%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.63%) JWT
10 2 (1.63%) MediatR
10 2 (1.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 42 (34.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (19.51%) Public Cloud
3 23 (18.70%) e-Learning
4 21 (17.07%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (15.45%) Onboarding
6 14 (11.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (8.13%) Data Centre
9 6 (4.88%) Mainframe
10 5 (4.07%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (4.07%) PKI
11 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
11 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
11 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.63%) Blog
12 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.63%) Windows
2 15 (12.20%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Unix
3 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.81%) AIX
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (53.66%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (52.85%) Mentoring
3 52 (42.28%) Agile
4 50 (40.65%) CI/CD
5 48 (39.02%) AI
6 36 (29.27%) Architectural Patterns
7 35 (28.46%) Microservices
8 33 (26.83%) Event-Driven
9 30 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (21.95%) Cost Management
10 27 (21.95%) Cost Optimisation
11 26 (21.14%) BDD
11 26 (21.14%) DevOps
12 25 (20.33%) CQRS
13 24 (19.51%) FinOps
13 24 (19.51%) Performance Testing
13 24 (19.51%) Software Licensing
13 24 (19.51%) Test Automation
14 23 (18.70%) Cloud Security
14 23 (18.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.65%) Java
2 30 (24.39%) Python
3 28 (22.76%) SQL
4 18 (14.63%) Bash
5 14 (11.38%) Ruby
6 9 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.32%) PHP
7 8 (6.50%) C#
7 8 (6.50%) Kotlin
7 8 (6.50%) Perl
8 5 (4.07%) C++
8 5 (4.07%) COBOL
8 5 (4.07%) Google Apps Script
8 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.44%) Go
10 3 (2.44%) Groovy
11 2 (1.63%) Bicep
12 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.81%) Natural
Qualifications
1 122 (99.19%) AWS Certification
2 24 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) TOGAF Certification
4 11 (8.94%) Degree
5 10 (8.13%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (6.50%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) CISSP
9 4 (3.25%) CITP
9 4 (3.25%) ISSAP
9 4 (3.25%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) NCSC
2 5 (4.07%) GDPR
2 5 (4.07%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) GxP
4 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (13.82%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.07%) KVM
4 4 (3.25%) iptables
5 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (36.59%) Terraform
2 12 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.94%) Ansible
3 11 (8.94%) Grafana
4 6 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.07%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.07%) Puppet
6 3 (2.44%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.81%) Consul
7 1 (0.81%) Kibana
7 1 (0.81%) Nagios
7 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 29 (23.58%) ServiceNow
3 24 (19.51%) Adobe
3 24 (19.51%) Apple
4 7 (5.69%) VMware
5 6 (4.88%) Google
6 5 (4.07%) Pega
6 5 (4.07%) SAP
7 4 (3.25%) OpenText
7 4 (3.25%) Oracle
7 4 (3.25%) YouTube
8 3 (2.44%) Epicor
8 3 (2.44%) IFS
8 3 (2.44%) Infor
9 2 (1.63%) Avaya
9 2 (1.63%) Cisco
9 2 (1.63%) Genesys
9 2 (1.63%) Splunk
9 2 (1.63%) Zerto
10 1 (0.81%) Workday