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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 419 764
Rank change year-on-year -215 +345 +64
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 109 269 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.60% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 1.55% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 83
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -18.75% +13.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £102,725 £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 18,271 17,304 27,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 38.58% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,604 7,333 17,268
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,263
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.26% -11.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,306 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -224 104 £77,500 +19.23% 11
UK excluding London -206 54 £75,000 +9.45% 8
London -36 49 £83,750 +39.58% 7
Work from Home -150 37 £90,000 +50.00% 7
North of England -168 20 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Midlands -9 15 £50,000 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -4 14 £49,500 +23.75% 2
North West -118 13 - -
Yorkshire -34 7 £75,000 - 1
South West -57 7 £52,500 -23.39% 2
East of England -17 5 £97,500 -
South East -24 4 £65,000 -23.53% 2
Wales - 3 £80,000 - 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 (5.50%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) Apache
2 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.67%) Documentum
4 3 (2.75%) JBoss
5 2 (1.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.92%) Camunda
6 1 (0.92%) Drupal
6 1 (0.92%) IIS
6 1 (0.92%) nginx
6 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (22.02%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.92%) Magento
3 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (42.20%) AWS CloudFormation
3 45 (41.28%) Azure
4 34 (31.19%) GCP
5 28 (25.69%) Serverless
6 23 (21.10%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (19.27%) Amazon S3
8 15 (13.76%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (11.01%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (7.34%) GitHub
12 8 (7.34%) PaaS
13 7 (6.42%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (6.42%) CloudFront
13 7 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (6.42%) SaaS
13 7 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.50%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.34%) Network Security
2 2 (1.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.02%) NoSQL
2 18 (16.51%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.75%) Big Data
7 3 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.92%) Adabas
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.92%) Metadata
8 1 (0.92%) Power BI
8 1 (0.92%) Redis
8 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (23.85%) GitLab
2 24 (22.02%) Cucumber
3 16 (14.68%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.42%) JIRA
5 5 (4.59%) Git
5 5 (4.59%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.75%) Maven
7 3 (2.75%) Selenium
7 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.92%) Gatling
8 1 (0.92%) JMeter
8 1 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 33 (30.28%) Finance
2 25 (22.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.34%) Banking
6 6 (5.50%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.59%) Advertising
8 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Publishing
9 2 (1.83%) Billing
9 2 (1.83%) Games
9 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Law
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) iGaming
10 1 (0.92%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) Senior
2 34 (31.19%) Architect
3 24 (22.02%) Analyst
3 24 (22.02%) Senior Analyst
4 21 (19.27%) Java Engineer
5 15 (13.76%) Principal Engineer
5 15 (13.76%) Principal Java Engineer
6 14 (12.84%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (11.01%) AWS Architect
8 8 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Lead
10 6 (5.50%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) AWS Solution Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Developer
11 5 (4.59%) Lead Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.69%) Spring Boot
2 25 (22.94%) Kafka
3 23 (21.10%) Spring
4 9 (8.26%) Node.js
5 6 (5.50%) AWS CDK
6 5 (4.59%) .NET
7 4 (3.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.75%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.75%) Drools
8 3 (2.75%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.75%) Jest
8 3 (2.75%) Middleware
8 3 (2.75%) PySpark
8 3 (2.75%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (2.75%) XML
9 2 (1.83%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.83%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.83%) OAuth
9 2 (1.83%) REST
9 2 (1.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 23 (21.10%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (20.18%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (19.27%) e-Learning
4 21 (19.27%) Public Cloud
5 10 (9.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (7.34%) Onboarding
7 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
8 5 (4.59%) PKI
9 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
9 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.75%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.83%) Blog
11 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.83%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.76%) Windows
2 13 (11.93%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) AIX
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.88%) Mentoring
2 51 (46.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (44.04%) Agile
4 45 (41.28%) CI/CD
5 37 (33.94%) AI
6 31 (28.44%) Microservices
7 29 (26.61%) Architectural Patterns
8 28 (25.69%) Event-Driven
9 27 (24.77%) Cost Management
9 27 (24.77%) Cost Optimisation
9 27 (24.77%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (22.02%) BDD
10 24 (22.02%) DevOps
10 24 (22.02%) FinOps
10 24 (22.02%) Software Licensing
11 23 (21.10%) CQRS
12 22 (20.18%) Performance Testing
12 22 (20.18%) Test Automation
13 20 (18.35%) Migration
13 20 (18.35%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.53%) Java
2 28 (25.69%) Python
3 27 (24.77%) SQL
4 13 (11.93%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.01%) Bash
5 12 (11.01%) C#
6 8 (7.34%) Kotlin
6 8 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.59%) C++
7 5 (4.59%) Google Apps Script
7 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.59%) Ruby
8 3 (2.75%) Go
8 3 (2.75%) Groovy
8 3 (2.75%) PHP
9 2 (1.83%) Bicep
9 2 (1.83%) COBOL
9 2 (1.83%) Perl
10 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.92%) Natural
Qualifications
1 108 (99.08%) AWS Certification
2 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
3 16 (14.68%) Degree
4 14 (12.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (10.09%) Azure Certification
6 10 (9.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
10 4 (3.67%) CITP
11 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.92%) ISSAP
13 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.75%) GDPR
2 3 (2.75%) NCSC
3 2 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.83%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.59%) KVM
4 4 (3.67%) iptables
5 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (29.36%) Terraform
2 11 (10.09%) Grafana
2 11 (10.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.17%) Ansible
4 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.59%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.59%) Puppet
6 3 (2.75%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.92%) Consul
7 1 (0.92%) Kibana
7 1 (0.92%) Nagios
7 1 (0.92%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (34.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (26.61%) ServiceNow
3 24 (22.02%) Adobe
3 24 (22.02%) Apple
4 7 (6.42%) VMware
5 6 (5.50%) Google
5 6 (5.50%) SAP
6 5 (4.59%) Pega
7 4 (3.67%) OpenText
7 4 (3.67%) YouTube
8 3 (2.75%) Oracle
8 3 (2.75%) Workday
9 2 (1.83%) Epicor
9 2 (1.83%) IFS
9 2 (1.83%) Infor
9 2 (1.83%) Splunk
9 2 (1.83%) Zerto
10 1 (0.92%) Databricks
10 1 (0.92%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.92%) OneLogin