AWS Certified Solutions Architect Jobs

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 803 979
Rank change year-on-year +95 +176 -71
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 134 84 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% 0.31% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 63 55 112
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £79,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.66% +2.58%
75th Percentile £99,375 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -0.04%

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 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 16 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 26 July 2024. 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 +65 98 £87,500 +25.00% 16
UK excluding London +24 83 £70,000 - 12
Work from Home +102 81 £70,000 -17.65% 13
London +84 44 £89,875 +23.97% 7
North of England +24 18 £62,500 -2.47% 3
Scotland -28 17 £70,000 -
South East +12 16 £67,500 +42.11% 4
North West +3 14 £62,500 -2.47% 2
Midlands -15 13 £105,000 +27.27% 3
West Midlands -2 8 £105,000 +27.27% 1
Northern Ireland - 8 £60,000 - 2
South West -4 6 - - 1
East Midlands -23 5 £102,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
Wales - 4 - -
East of England -4 1 - -

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (34.33%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 48 (35.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (58.96%) Azure
3 50 (37.31%) Amazon EKS
4 48 (35.82%) Amazon SQS
5 33 (24.63%) Serverless
6 32 (23.88%) GCP
7 26 (19.40%) Amazon S3
7 26 (19.40%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (14.18%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (13.43%) SaaS
10 17 (12.69%) IaaS
11 15 (11.19%) PaaS
12 13 (9.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (8.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.22%) CloudFront
14 7 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (4.48%) Snowflake
16 4 (2.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 49 (36.57%) DNS
2 46 (34.33%) BGP
2 46 (34.33%) SSL
2 46 (34.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.24%) Firewall
3 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (47.01%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (34.33%) Oracle Database
2 46 (34.33%) RDBMS
2 46 (34.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.48%) Big Data
4 5 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.49%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.49%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.75%) Impala
7 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.75%) Redis
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.75%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.48%) Git
3 4 (2.99%) GitLab
4 2 (1.49%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 83 (61.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.43%) Finance
3 11 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.72%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Law
6 6 (4.48%) Legal
7 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.24%) Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 88 (65.67%) Architect
2 69 (51.49%) Solutions Architect
3 57 (42.54%) Lead
4 46 (34.33%) Lead Architect
4 46 (34.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 21 (15.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (11.94%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (11.19%) AWS Architect
8 14 (10.45%) AWS Solution Architect
9 10 (7.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
12 7 (5.22%) Senior
13 6 (4.48%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 6 (4.48%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.57%) Spring Boot
2 46 (34.33%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (6.72%) Middleware
4 5 (3.73%) Spring
5 4 (2.99%) Kafka
6 3 (2.24%) .NET
6 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.24%) Node.js
7 2 (1.49%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.49%) RESTful
8 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.75%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.75%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.75%) Next.js
8 1 (0.75%) React
8 1 (0.75%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 50 (37.31%) Public Cloud
2 46 (34.33%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (19.40%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.24%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.49%) PKI
7 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 69 (51.49%) Linux
2 46 (34.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (13.43%) Windows
4 11 (8.21%) Unix
5 9 (6.72%) Solaris
5 9 (6.72%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.49%) Mesosphere
7 1 (0.75%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.75%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.75%) tvOS
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (59.70%) Agile
2 58 (43.28%) Scrum
3 57 (42.54%) Kanban
4 53 (39.55%) Migration
5 51 (38.06%) TOGAF
6 49 (36.57%) Actionable Insight
6 49 (36.57%) Load Balancing
6 49 (36.57%) Project Management
6 49 (36.57%) SDLC
7 48 (35.82%) ArchiMate
7 48 (35.82%) Data Migration
7 48 (35.82%) Open Source
8 46 (34.33%) Cloud Operations
8 46 (34.33%) Collaborative Working
8 46 (34.33%) Re-Platforming
8 46 (34.33%) Systems Engineering
9 35 (26.12%) Containerisation
10 33 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (23.88%) DevOps
12 27 (20.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.40%) Python
2 20 (14.93%) Java
3 6 (4.48%) Bash
3 6 (4.48%) Go
3 6 (4.48%) Kotlin
4 4 (2.99%) Bicep
4 4 (2.99%) C#
4 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.24%) SQL
5 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 59 (44.03%) Security Cleared
3 58 (43.28%) Azure Certification
4 57 (42.54%) SC Cleared
5 24 (17.91%) Degree
6 22 (16.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (9.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Master's Degree
9 9 (6.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (4.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (1.49%) CCIE
13 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
13 2 (1.49%) ISTQB
13 2 (1.49%) MCSA
13 2 (1.49%) MCSE
13 2 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.75%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.73%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) GDPR
2 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.49%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (18.66%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.64%) Terraform
3 9 (6.72%) Ansible
4 3 (2.24%) Grafana
4 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.24%) Puppet
5 2 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.75%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.75%) Rancher
6 1 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 48 (35.82%) Oracle
1 48 (35.82%) Sparx
2 23 (17.16%) Google
3 10 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.99%) VMware
5 2 (1.49%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.49%) Databricks
5 2 (1.49%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (1.49%) SAP
5 2 (1.49%) Splunk
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco
6 1 (0.75%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.75%) Informatica
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.75%) Roku
6 1 (0.75%) Samsung