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 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 397 759
Rank change year-on-year -237 +362 +107
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 102 268 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.63% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% 1.56% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 41 43 82
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -14.34% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £99,688
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +1.52% +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 21,196 17,160 25,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.85% 40.26% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,251 7,085 17,143
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,750 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,532 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.73% +3.06% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -229 98 £75,000 +9.45% 17
UK excluding London -182 61 £75,000 +9.45% 6
Work from Home -149 41 £75,000 +25.00% 6
London -46 34 £77,500 +29.17% 9
North of England -178 28 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Midlands -19 16 £49,500 +23.75% 1
West Midlands -23 15 £49,000 +22.50% 1
Yorkshire -30 13 £75,000 - 2
North West -124 13 - -
East of England -5 7 £97,500 -
South West -57 5 £52,500 -23.39% 1
South East -23 4 £77,500 -8.82% 2
North East - 2 £105,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Scotland - 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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) Apache
2 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.92%) Documentum
4 3 (2.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.98%) Drupal
5 1 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.98%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (50.98%) Azure
3 35 (34.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (31.37%) GCP
5 30 (29.41%) Serverless
6 20 (19.61%) Amazon S3
6 20 (19.61%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (8.82%) PaaS
9 9 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (7.84%) SaaS
11 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (4.90%) CloudFront
13 5 (4.90%) GitHub
13 5 (4.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) DNS
2 1 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 17 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (7.84%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.94%) Big Data
5 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.98%) MySQL
7 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.98%) Power BI
7 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.98%) Redis
7 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (20.59%) GitLab
2 20 (19.61%) Cucumber
3 12 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.86%) Git
4 7 (6.86%) JIRA
5 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.94%) Maven
7 3 (2.94%) Selenium
7 3 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.98%) Gatling
8 1 (0.98%) JMeter
8 1 (0.98%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.49%) Finance
2 26 (25.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (7.84%) Banking
4 6 (5.88%) Advertising
4 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.90%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.90%) Publishing
6 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Law
6 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Games
7 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Billing
8 1 (0.98%) iGaming
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (35.29%) Senior
2 34 (33.33%) Architect
3 24 (23.53%) Analyst
3 24 (23.53%) Senior Analyst
4 17 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 12 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
5 12 (11.76%) Principal Java Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) AWS Architect
7 8 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Lead
8 7 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.90%) Applications Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.90%) SAP Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.59%) Kafka
1 21 (20.59%) Spring Boot
2 18 (17.65%) Spring
3 7 (6.86%) Node.js
4 4 (3.92%) .NET
4 4 (3.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.94%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.94%) Drools
5 3 (2.94%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.94%) Jest
5 3 (2.94%) PySpark
5 3 (2.94%) XML
6 2 (1.96%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.96%) RESTful
7 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.98%) JWT
7 1 (0.98%) MediatR
7 1 (0.98%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.43%) Enterprise Software
2 24 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 19 (18.63%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (16.67%) e-Learning
4 17 (16.67%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.92%) PKI
6 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.96%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.98%) Robotics
9 1 (0.98%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.82%) Linux
1 9 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (56.86%) Mentoring
2 40 (39.22%) Agile
3 39 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (37.25%) CI/CD
5 30 (29.41%) AI
6 29 (28.43%) Microservices
7 28 (27.45%) Architectural Patterns
8 27 (26.47%) Cost Optimisation
8 27 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (25.49%) Cost Management
10 24 (23.53%) DevOps
10 24 (23.53%) FinOps
10 24 (23.53%) Software Licensing
11 23 (22.55%) Migration
12 22 (21.57%) Computer Science
12 22 (21.57%) Event-Driven
12 22 (21.57%) TOGAF
13 20 (19.61%) BDD
14 19 (18.63%) Performance Testing
15 18 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.27%) Java
2 29 (28.43%) Python
3 23 (22.55%) SQL
4 18 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.67%) C#
6 15 (14.71%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.82%) Bash
8 7 (6.86%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.92%) C++
10 4 (3.92%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (2.94%) Groovy
12 2 (1.96%) Bicep
13 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.98%) Go
13 1 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 101 (99.02%) AWS Certification
2 25 (24.51%) Degree
3 18 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 18 (17.65%) TOGAF Certification
4 16 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (11.76%) Security Cleared
7 10 (9.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) CITP
9 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (15.69%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) iptables
2 4 (3.92%) KVM
2 4 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (23.53%) Terraform
2 10 (9.80%) Grafana
2 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.84%) Ansible
4 5 (4.90%) Progress Chef
4 5 (4.90%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.90%) Puppet
5 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.94%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.98%) Consul
7 1 (0.98%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 29 (28.43%) ServiceNow
3 24 (23.53%) Adobe
3 24 (23.53%) Apple
4 5 (4.90%) Google
4 5 (4.90%) Pega
4 5 (4.90%) SAP
4 5 (4.90%) Workday
5 4 (3.92%) OpenText
5 4 (3.92%) VMware
5 4 (3.92%) YouTube
6 2 (1.96%) Zerto
7 1 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.98%) Databricks
7 1 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle
7 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.98%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.98%) UiPath