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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 435 770
Rank change year-on-year -184 +335 +14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 140 265 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 1.52% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 64
10th Percentile £51,250 £54,805 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% +13.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,813 £97,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £109,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.10% -2.11% +5.66%

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 19,092 17,379 25,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 35.44% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,102 7,791 15,554
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.55% -8.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18 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 18 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 -201 132 £79,669 +22.57% 22
London +15 83 £100,000 +66.67% 10
UK excluding London -220 54 £77,500 +13.10% 14
Work from Home -160 37 £90,000 +50.00% 14
North of England -195 16 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Midlands -24 15 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -14 14 £67,500 +17.39%
North West -127 13 - - 4
South West -55 8 £71,250 +3.98% 1
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
South East -21 6 £65,000 -25.71% 3
Yorkshire -31 3 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East of England -15 2 £87,500 -
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 4 (2.86%) Confluence
1 4 (2.86%) SAS
2 3 (2.14%) Apache
2 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.14%) JBoss
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.43%) Documentum
4 1 (0.71%) Camunda
4 1 (0.71%) Drupal
4 1 (0.71%) IIS
4 1 (0.71%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.71%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (50.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 48 (34.29%) Serverless
4 45 (32.14%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (30.71%) Azure
6 35 (25.00%) GCP
7 34 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (24.29%) Cloud Computing
8 28 (20.00%) Amazon S3
9 27 (19.29%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (11.43%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (10.71%) AWS Control Tower
11 15 (10.71%) GitHub
12 14 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.14%) CloudFront
14 9 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.86%) Network Security
2 5 (3.57%) Internet
3 3 (2.14%) Firewall
3 3 (2.14%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) DNS
4 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.29%) NoSQL
2 25 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.57%) Big Data
7 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.71%) Adabas
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.71%) Metadata
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.71%) Power BI
9 1 (0.71%) Redis
9 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (22.14%) GitLab
2 29 (20.71%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.57%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.57%) JIRA
4 5 (3.57%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.14%) Maven
5 3 (2.14%) Selenium
5 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.43%) Git
7 1 (0.71%) Gatling
7 1 (0.71%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (35.00%) Finance
2 27 (19.29%) Public Sector
3 24 (17.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.43%) Banking
6 8 (5.71%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.86%) Advertising
7 4 (2.86%) Billing
7 4 (2.86%) Military
7 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Retail
8 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.43%) Games
9 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) iGaming
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (45.71%) Senior
2 41 (29.29%) Architect
3 26 (18.57%) Java Engineer
3 26 (18.57%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (17.14%) Analyst
4 24 (17.14%) Senior Analyst
5 22 (15.71%) Consultant
6 18 (12.86%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (12.86%) Principal Java Engineer
6 18 (12.86%) Security Consultant
6 18 (12.86%) Senior Consultant
7 14 (10.00%) AWS Architect
7 14 (10.00%) Senior Security Consultant
8 8 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
8 8 (5.71%) Developer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.43%) Spring Boot
2 28 (20.00%) Kafka
2 28 (20.00%) Spring
3 22 (15.71%) AWS CDK
4 15 (10.71%) Node.js
5 10 (7.14%) REST
6 9 (6.43%) .NET
7 7 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.57%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.57%) MediatR
9 5 (3.57%) Middleware
9 5 (3.57%) OAuth
9 5 (3.57%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.57%) Swagger
9 5 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 33 (23.57%) Onboarding
3 27 (19.29%) Public Cloud
4 26 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (18.57%) e-Learning
5 23 (16.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 20 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (7.14%) Data Centre
8 9 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (5.00%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.29%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.57%) PKI
12 4 (2.86%) Blog
12 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
12 4 (2.86%) IVR
12 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
13 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.57%) Windows
2 14 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Unix
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) AIX
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 71 (50.71%) Mentoring
3 64 (45.71%) AI
4 57 (40.71%) Agile
5 53 (37.86%) CI/CD
6 44 (31.43%) Architectural Patterns
7 39 (27.86%) Event-Driven
7 39 (27.86%) Microservices
8 34 (24.29%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (22.86%) Cloud Security
10 31 (22.14%) CQRS
11 29 (20.71%) BDD
12 28 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
13 27 (19.29%) Cost Management
13 27 (19.29%) Data Protection
13 27 (19.29%) Test Automation
13 27 (19.29%) Threat Modelling
14 26 (18.57%) Performance Testing
15 25 (17.86%) DevOps
15 25 (17.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 61 (43.57%) Java
2 41 (29.29%) Python
3 32 (22.86%) SQL
4 23 (16.43%) Bash
5 21 (15.00%) Ruby
6 15 (10.71%) PHP
7 14 (10.00%) Perl
8 11 (7.86%) JavaScript
9 10 (7.14%) C#
10 8 (5.71%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.29%) COBOL
12 5 (3.57%) C++
12 5 (3.57%) Go
12 5 (3.57%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.14%) Groovy
15 2 (1.43%) Bicep
16 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.71%) Natural
Qualifications
1 139 (99.29%) AWS Certification
2 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.14%) Degree
4 13 (9.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (9.29%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.71%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.00%) CISSP
8 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.86%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.86%) ISSEP
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.43%) CITP
11 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) GDPR
2 7 (5.00%) NCSC
3 6 (4.29%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.86%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) GxP
7 1 (0.71%) NIST
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.71%) Docker
2 8 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.57%) KVM
4 3 (2.14%) iptables
5 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (37.14%) Terraform
2 11 (7.86%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.14%) Grafana
4 9 (6.43%) Ansible
5 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.86%) Puppet
7 3 (2.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.71%) Consul
8 1 (0.71%) Kibana
8 1 (0.71%) Nagios
8 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (19.29%) ServiceNow
3 24 (17.14%) Adobe
3 24 (17.14%) Apple
4 9 (6.43%) VMware
5 7 (5.00%) Avaya
5 7 (5.00%) Cisco
5 7 (5.00%) Genesys
5 7 (5.00%) SAP
6 6 (4.29%) Google
6 6 (4.29%) Oracle
7 4 (2.86%) Epicor
7 4 (2.86%) IFS
7 4 (2.86%) Infor
7 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.14%) Pega
9 2 (1.43%) OpenText
9 2 (1.43%) Splunk
9 2 (1.43%) YouTube
9 2 (1.43%) Zerto