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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 421 680
Rank change year-on-year -225 +259 +22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 159 277 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.56% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.78% 1.63% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 39 47 56
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,700 £46,138
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £98,125 £95,625 £92,844
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +3.33% +22.45% -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 20,281 17,017 20,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 34.25% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,151 7,626 9,988
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,170 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -234 141 £90,000 +20.00% 66
London -12 95 £97,500 +21.88% 50
UK excluding London -268 56 £77,500 +3.33% 21
Work from Home -202 39 £90,000 +12.50% 22
Midlands -34 16 £82,500 +26.92% 3
North of England -200 15 £65,000 -13.33% 6
West Midlands -21 13 £85,000 +30.77% 2
North West -140 13 £55,000 -13.73% 3
South East -24 7 £65,000 -33.33% 2
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
South West -81 6 £90,000 +31.34% 6
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 1
Scotland - 3 - - 2
East of England -31 2 £87,500 -
Yorkshire -50 2 £75,000 - 3

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%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.52%) SAS
2 2 (1.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Drupal
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) JBoss
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (54.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 52 (32.70%) Azure
4 50 (31.45%) Serverless
5 47 (29.56%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (26.42%) GCP
7 33 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (20.13%) Cloud Computing
9 31 (19.50%) Amazon S3
10 25 (15.72%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (11.95%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (11.95%) GitHub
12 18 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (9.43%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (9.43%) AWS Control Tower
14 12 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.29%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.61%) Network Security
2 6 (3.77%) Firewall
3 5 (3.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
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 1 (0.63%) DHCP
5 1 (0.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (32.08%) NoSQL
2 28 (17.61%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.52%) Big Data
6 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.89%) Metadata
8 1 (0.63%) Adabas
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.63%) Power BI
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 43 (27.04%) GitLab
2 39 (24.53%) Cucumber
3 15 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.14%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.26%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.63%) Gatling
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (42.14%) Finance
2 28 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.32%) Banking
5 16 (10.06%) 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%) Games
11 2 (1.26%) Legal
11 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) iGaming
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (46.54%) Senior
2 47 (29.56%) Architect
3 38 (23.90%) Java Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (15.72%) Consultant
6 24 (15.09%) Analyst
6 24 (15.09%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (13.84%) Principal Engineer
7 22 (13.84%) Principal Java Engineer
8 21 (13.21%) Security Consultant
9 18 (11.32%) Senior Consultant
10 16 (10.06%) 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%) AWS Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (35.85%) Terraform
2 49 (30.82%) Spring Boot
3 42 (26.42%) Spring
4 41 (25.79%) Kafka
5 22 (13.84%) AWS CDK
6 14 (8.81%) .NET
7 12 (7.55%) Node.js
8 10 (6.29%) REST
9 8 (5.03%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (4.40%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.40%) JWT
10 7 (4.40%) MediatR
10 7 (4.40%) OAuth
10 7 (4.40%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.40%) OpenAPI
10 7 (4.40%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 67 (42.14%) Cloud Native
2 39 (24.53%) Public Cloud
3 38 (23.90%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (23.90%) e-Learning
4 34 (21.38%) Onboarding
5 23 (14.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 22 (13.84%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (6.92%) Data Centre
8 10 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (5.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
10 7 (4.40%) Mainframe
10 7 (4.40%) PKI
10 7 (4.40%) Security Posture
11 6 (3.77%) Digital Wallet
12 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
13 4 (2.52%) Blog
13 4 (2.52%) IVR
13 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.69%) Windows
2 13 (8.18%) Linux
3 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (58.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 78 (49.06%) Mentoring
3 74 (46.54%) AI
4 72 (45.28%) Agile
5 67 (42.14%) CI/CD
6 55 (34.59%) Microservices
7 53 (33.33%) Event-Driven
8 45 (28.30%) CQRS
9 44 (27.67%) Architectural Patterns
10 39 (24.53%) BDD
10 39 (24.53%) Cloud Security
10 39 (24.53%) Test Automation
11 38 (23.90%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (23.90%) Performance Testing
12 34 (21.38%) Threat Modelling
13 32 (20.13%) Data Protection
14 31 (19.50%) Cost Optimisation
15 30 (18.87%) Roadmaps
16 29 (18.24%) Coaching
17 27 (16.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 75 (47.17%) Java
2 47 (29.56%) SQL
3 43 (27.04%) Python
4 21 (13.21%) Ruby
5 17 (10.69%) Bash
6 15 (9.43%) PHP
7 14 (8.81%) Perl
8 13 (8.18%) C#
9 10 (6.29%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.40%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.77%) C++
11 6 (3.77%) COBOL
11 6 (3.77%) Go
12 5 (3.14%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.63%) Groovy
14 1 (0.63%) Natural
Qualifications
1 159 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (17.61%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) Degree
4 14 (8.81%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (8.18%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (6.92%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.92%) CISSP
7 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.77%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.52%) ISSAP
11 4 (2.52%) ISSEP
12 3 (1.89%) CCIE
12 3 (1.89%) CCNP
12 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.06%) GDPR
2 10 (6.29%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.03%) 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 13 (8.18%) Docker
2 12 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.77%) KVM
4 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.66%) Grafana
3 8 (5.03%) Ansible
4 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.89%) Argo
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) Consul
7 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.63%) Kibana
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
7 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 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
4 11 (6.92%) 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%) Juniper
9 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.89%) Zscaler