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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 542 683
Rank change year-on-year -65 +141 +200
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 95 99 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.62% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 57 50 83
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £56,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £69,800 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -12.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +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 21,659 16,067 24,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 39.17% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,772 7,605 17,062
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,553 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -82 89 £77,500 +11.03% 22
UK excluding London -57 53 £75,000 +16.10% 14
Work from Home -10 32 £75,000 +16.10% 14
London -39 31 £83,750 +10.93% 11
North of England -48 26 £75,000 - 5
Yorkshire -36 20 £75,000 - 3
East of England -26 11 £97,500 - 3
Midlands -47 7 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -18 6 £49,000 -24.15% 1
South West -49 5 £52,500 -26.32% 2
North West -36 4 - - 2
South East -43 3 £77,500 -7.46% 2
North East - 2 £105,000 -
Scotland -17 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

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 (6.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) Apache
2 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.21%) Documentum
4 3 (3.16%) JBoss
5 1 (1.05%) Camunda
5 1 (1.05%) Drupal
5 1 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Cloudability
2 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (53.68%) Azure
3 37 (38.95%) Serverless
4 29 (30.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 20 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (21.05%) GCP
6 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (11.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (10.53%) PaaS
8 9 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (9.47%) SaaS
9 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (6.32%) IaaS
10 6 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (5.26%) CloudFront
11 5 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
2 1 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.05%) VPN
2 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.89%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.32%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.16%) Big Data
6 3 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.05%) MySQL
7 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.05%) Power BI
7 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.05%) Redis
7 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) GitLab
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.58%) Cucumber
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 7 (7.37%) JIRA
5 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.21%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.16%) Maven
7 3 (3.16%) Selenium
7 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.05%) Gatling
8 1 (1.05%) JMeter
8 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (51.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.53%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.42%) Publishing
5 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.37%) Banking
5 7 (7.37%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Advertising
7 5 (5.26%) Law
8 3 (3.16%) Games
8 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.05%) Electronics
10 1 (1.05%) iGaming
10 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Architect
2 15 (15.79%) AWS Architect
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
4 11 (11.58%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
6 9 (9.47%) Applications Architect
6 9 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) ERP Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Java Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) SAP Architect
7 8 (8.42%) SAP Enterprise Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Software Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Lead
8 6 (6.32%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Principal Java Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.26%) Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Kafka
1 12 (12.63%) Spring Boot
2 9 (9.47%) Spring
3 6 (6.32%) Node.js
4 4 (4.21%) .NET
4 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.16%) Drools
5 3 (3.16%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.16%) Jest
5 3 (3.16%) PySpark
5 3 (3.16%) RESTful
5 3 (3.16%) XML
6 2 (2.11%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.05%) Memcached
7 1 (1.05%) Middleware
7 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.42%) e-Learning
4 8 (8.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (8.42%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.21%) Low-Code
6 4 (4.21%) PKI
7 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.05%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Linux
1 9 (9.47%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.11%) Mentoring
2 37 (38.95%) Agile
3 35 (36.84%) TOGAF
4 33 (34.74%) CI/CD
5 31 (32.63%) Computer Science
5 31 (32.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (32.63%) Migration
6 30 (31.58%) DevOps
6 30 (31.58%) Enterprise Architecture
6 30 (31.58%) Microservices
7 28 (29.47%) Architectural Patterns
8 26 (27.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (25.26%) Data Modelling
10 21 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (20.00%) Application Security
12 17 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (17.89%) EAI
13 16 (16.84%) Containerisation
13 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (16.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) Python
2 37 (38.95%) Java
3 25 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 24 (25.26%) C#
5 21 (22.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (14.74%) SQL
7 12 (12.63%) Bash
8 7 (7.37%) Kotlin
9 5 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.21%) C++
10 4 (4.21%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (3.16%) Groovy
12 2 (2.11%) Bicep
13 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (1.05%) Go
13 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (98.95%) AWS Certification
2 40 (42.11%) Degree
3 30 (31.58%) Azure Certification
4 28 (29.47%) TOGAF Certification
5 24 (25.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (22.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
8 9 (9.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
9 6 (6.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) CITP
10 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
11 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (1.05%) CCSP
13 1 (1.05%) CISA
13 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (1.05%) CISSP
13 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.05%) Basel III
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) MiFID
4 1 (1.05%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (21.05%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) iptables
2 4 (4.21%) KVM
2 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (27.37%) Terraform
2 14 (14.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.53%) Grafana
4 8 (8.42%) Ansible
5 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.26%) Puppet
6 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.16%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.05%) Consul
8 1 (1.05%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.47%) SAP
4 8 (8.42%) Workday
5 6 (6.32%) Google
6 5 (5.26%) Adobe
6 5 (5.26%) Apple
6 5 (5.26%) Pega
7 4 (4.21%) OpenText
7 4 (4.21%) VMware
7 4 (4.21%) YouTube
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle
8 2 (2.11%) Zerto
9 1 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.05%) Databricks
9 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.05%) Palantir
9 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software