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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 410 658
Rank change year-on-year -242 +248 +21
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 160 282 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.57% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.79% 1.65% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38 54 45
10th Percentile £62,393 £61,625 £45,410
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +13.21% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,625 £98,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% -11.11%

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 20,180 17,103 20,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 34.79% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,563 7,360 8,630
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,188 £47,500 £53,964
% change year-on-year +18.29% -11.98% +2.79%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -253 141 £90,000 +17.26% 106
London -7 102 £100,000 +22.70% 72
UK excluding London -300 49 £80,000 +6.67% 37
Work from Home -219 33 £90,000 +10.43% 42
Midlands -34 14 £82,500 +34.69% 8
West Midlands -33 11 £85,000 +38.78% 5
North of England -204 11 £65,000 -13.33% 12
North West -156 10 £55,000 -13.73% 7
South East -50 8 £65,000 -35.00% 6
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 2
South West -74 5 £90,000 +31.34% 2
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 3
Scotland - 3 - - 3
East of England -44 1 £100,000 +2.56% 2
Yorkshire -50 1 £75,000 - 5

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 (2.50%) SAS
2 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) AWS
2 91 (56.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 50 (31.25%) Azure
4 48 (30.00%) Serverless
5 45 (28.13%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (22.50%) GCP
7 33 (20.63%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (19.38%) Amazon ECS
8 31 (19.38%) Amazon S3
9 23 (14.38%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (11.25%) GitHub
12 16 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (9.38%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (8.75%) AWS Control Tower
14 14 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (5.63%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.00%) Entra ID
17 7 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (4.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.50%) Network Security
2 8 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (3.13%) Internet
4 4 (2.50%) DNS
5 3 (1.88%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.88%) LAN
5 3 (1.88%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.88%) VPN
5 3 (1.88%) WAN
5 3 (1.88%) Wireless
6 2 (1.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (36.25%) NoSQL
2 26 (16.25%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.38%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.88%) Big Data
7 3 (1.88%) Metadata
8 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.25%) Power BI
9 1 (0.63%) Adabas
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 49 (30.63%) GitLab
2 45 (28.13%) Cucumber
3 13 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
General
1 76 (47.50%) Finance
2 25 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 23 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (13.75%) Banking
5 20 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 15 (9.38%) Social Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.13%) Law
9 4 (2.50%) Billing
9 4 (2.50%) Military
9 4 (2.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.88%) Legal
10 3 (1.88%) Marketing
10 3 (1.88%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.25%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (46.25%) Senior
2 47 (29.38%) Architect
3 45 (28.13%) Java Engineer
4 30 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (16.88%) Consultant
6 25 (15.63%) Principal Engineer
6 25 (15.63%) Principal Java Engineer
7 21 (13.13%) Security Consultant
8 20 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
8 20 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
9 19 (11.88%) Analyst
9 19 (11.88%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (8.75%) Senior Security Consultant
11 12 (7.50%) AWS Architect
12 7 (4.38%) Developer
12 7 (4.38%) Lead
12 7 (4.38%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.38%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.38%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.75%) AWS Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.38%) Spring Boot
1 55 (34.38%) Terraform
2 49 (30.63%) Spring
3 48 (30.00%) Kafka
4 22 (13.75%) AWS CDK
5 13 (8.13%) .NET
6 11 (6.88%) Node.js
7 10 (6.25%) REST
8 7 (4.38%) .NET Framework
8 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (4.38%) Entity Framework
8 7 (4.38%) JWT
8 7 (4.38%) MediatR
8 7 (4.38%) OAuth
8 7 (4.38%) OAuth2
8 7 (4.38%) OpenAPI
8 7 (4.38%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (4.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 75 (46.88%) Cloud Native
2 49 (30.63%) Public Cloud
3 45 (28.13%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (28.13%) e-Learning
4 34 (21.25%) Onboarding
5 25 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (14.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (6.25%) Data Centre
9 9 (5.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 9 (5.63%) PKI
10 7 (4.38%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (4.38%) Data Structures
10 7 (4.38%) Mainframe
10 7 (4.38%) Security Posture
11 6 (3.75%) Digital Wallet
12 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
13 4 (2.50%) Blog
13 4 (2.50%) IVR
14 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.25%) Windows
2 13 (8.13%) Linux
3 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (63.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 78 (48.75%) Agile
3 76 (47.50%) AI
3 76 (47.50%) Mentoring
4 72 (45.00%) CI/CD
5 62 (38.75%) Microservices
6 60 (37.50%) Event-Driven
7 52 (32.50%) CQRS
8 47 (29.38%) Architectural Patterns
9 46 (28.75%) Test Automation
10 45 (28.13%) BDD
10 45 (28.13%) Performance Testing
11 40 (25.00%) Cloud Security
12 34 (21.25%) Threat Modelling
13 33 (20.63%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (20.00%) Coaching
15 31 (19.38%) Data Protection
15 31 (19.38%) Roadmaps
16 28 (17.50%) Thought Leadership
17 27 (16.88%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.00%) Java
2 55 (34.38%) SQL
3 41 (25.63%) Python
4 21 (13.13%) Ruby
5 15 (9.38%) Bash
6 14 (8.75%) Perl
6 14 (8.75%) PHP
7 12 (7.50%) C#
8 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.75%) COBOL
10 5 (3.13%) C++
10 5 (3.13%) Go
10 5 (3.13%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.50%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.25%) Bicep
14 1 (0.63%) Natural
14 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 160 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 26 (16.25%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.38%) Degree
4 13 (8.13%) CISSP
4 13 (8.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (7.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (6.88%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.13%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.50%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.50%) ISSEP
10 3 (1.88%) CCIE
10 3 (1.88%) CCNP
10 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.63%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) GDPR
2 10 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.00%) NCSC
4 6 (3.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.50%) GRC
6 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.25%) 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 (8.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (6.88%) Docker
3 5 (3.13%) KVM
4 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.63%) Ansible
3 7 (4.38%) Grafana
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) Argo
6 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) Kibana
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.88%) Adobe
2 19 (11.88%) Apple
2 19 (11.88%) ServiceNow
3 14 (8.75%) VMware
4 11 (6.88%) Cisco
5 10 (6.25%) Google
6 9 (5.63%) Oracle
7 7 (4.38%) Avaya
7 7 (4.38%) Genesys
7 7 (4.38%) SAP
8 5 (3.13%) Splunk
9 4 (2.50%) Epicor
9 4 (2.50%) IFS
9 4 (2.50%) Infor
9 4 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.88%) Databricks
10 3 (1.88%) Juniper
10 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.88%) Zscaler