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 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 445 738
Rank change year-on-year -195 +293 +14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 144 266 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.53% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 1.55% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 38 40 61
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,774 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.75% -14.34% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,375 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% -2.11% -

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 19,614 17,210 21,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 34.60% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,381 7,922 12,054
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,929
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -4.17%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -183 132 £77,500 +13.10% 67
London -3 84 £100,000 +66.67% 50
UK excluding London -235 57 £75,000 +9.45% 21
Work from Home -175 37 £90,000 +31.34% 38
North of England -187 16 £80,000 +23.08% 11
Midlands -19 15 £75,000 +22.45% 4
West Midlands -23 14 £67,500 +10.20% 4
North West -131 13 - - 6
South West -68 8 £76,250 +11.27% 4
South East -17 7 £65,000 -31.58%
Wales - 7 £80,000 -
Yorkshire -34 3 £80,000 +6.67% 5
East of England -28 2 £87,500 -
Scotland - 2 - - 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 4 (2.78%) SAS
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) JBoss
3 2 (1.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Drupal
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.67%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 144 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (51.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (34.03%) Serverless
4 46 (31.94%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (31.25%) Azure
6 37 (25.69%) GCP
7 36 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
9 30 (20.83%) Amazon S3
10 27 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (13.19%) GitHub
12 18 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (10.42%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (10.42%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (7.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.94%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (6.25%) CloudFront
17 8 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
18 7 (4.86%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.06%) Network Security
2 5 (3.47%) Internet
3 4 (2.78%) VPN
4 3 (2.08%) Firewall
5 2 (1.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.69%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.39%) NoSQL
2 28 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.64%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.47%) Big Data
7 3 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.69%) Adabas
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
9 1 (0.69%) Redis
9 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 35 (24.31%) GitLab
2 31 (21.53%) Cucumber
3 20 (13.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.47%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.08%) Maven
5 3 (2.08%) Selenium
5 3 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.39%) JIRA
7 1 (0.69%) Gatling
7 1 (0.69%) Git
7 1 (0.69%) JMeter
7 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (36.81%) Finance
2 27 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (18.06%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.72%) Social Skills
5 11 (7.64%) Banking
6 10 (6.94%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.78%) Advertising
7 4 (2.78%) Billing
7 4 (2.78%) Law
7 4 (2.78%) Military
7 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Retail
8 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.39%) Games
9 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Legal
9 2 (1.39%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) iGaming
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (47.22%) Senior
2 39 (27.08%) Architect
3 28 (19.44%) Java Engineer
4 25 (17.36%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.67%) Analyst
5 24 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
6 23 (15.97%) Consultant
7 19 (13.19%) Security Consultant
8 18 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (12.50%) Principal Java Engineer
8 18 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.72%) AWS Architect
9 14 (9.72%) Senior Security Consultant
10 10 (6.94%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) Developer
12 8 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.86%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (4.17%) Lead
14 6 (4.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.78%) Spring Boot
2 31 (21.53%) Spring
3 30 (20.83%) Kafka
4 22 (15.28%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.72%) Node.js
6 13 (9.03%) .NET
7 10 (6.94%) REST
8 8 (5.56%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.86%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.86%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (4.86%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (4.86%) Entity Framework
9 7 (4.86%) JWT
9 7 (4.86%) MediatR
9 7 (4.86%) OAuth
9 7 (4.86%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.86%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.86%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (4.86%) Swagger
10 6 (4.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.11%) Cloud Native
2 33 (22.92%) Onboarding
3 29 (20.14%) Public Cloud
4 28 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (19.44%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 19 (13.19%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (6.94%) Data Centre
8 8 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (4.86%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
10 6 (4.17%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.47%) PKI
12 4 (2.78%) Blog
12 4 (2.78%) IVR
12 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
13 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.19%) Windows
2 14 (9.72%) Linux
3 3 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.39%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) AIX
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (56.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 73 (50.69%) Mentoring
3 66 (45.83%) AI
4 59 (40.97%) Agile
5 58 (40.28%) CI/CD
6 43 (29.86%) Architectural Patterns
7 42 (29.17%) Event-Driven
8 41 (28.47%) Microservices
9 35 (24.31%) Cloud Security
9 35 (24.31%) CQRS
10 34 (23.61%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (21.53%) BDD
12 30 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
13 29 (20.14%) Data Protection
13 29 (20.14%) Test Automation
13 29 (20.14%) Threat Modelling
14 28 (19.44%) Performance Testing
15 27 (18.75%) Cost Management
16 25 (17.36%) Identity Access Management
16 25 (17.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (45.14%) Java
2 42 (29.17%) Python
3 33 (22.92%) SQL
4 22 (15.28%) Bash
5 21 (14.58%) Ruby
6 15 (10.42%) PHP
7 14 (9.72%) Perl
8 12 (8.33%) C#
9 11 (7.64%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.25%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.17%) COBOL
11 6 (4.17%) Go
12 5 (3.47%) C++
12 5 (3.47%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.08%) Groovy
14 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.39%) Bicep
16 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.69%) Natural
Qualifications
1 144 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (19.44%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.42%) AWS Certified Developer
3 15 (10.42%) Degree
4 13 (9.03%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.86%) CISSP
8 6 (4.17%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.78%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.78%) ISSEP
10 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) GDPR
2 7 (4.86%) NCSC
3 6 (4.17%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (4.17%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) GxP
7 1 (0.69%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (11.11%) Docker
2 8 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.47%) KVM
4 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.39%) iptables
Systems Management
1 57 (39.58%) Terraform
2 14 (9.72%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.64%) Grafana
4 10 (6.94%) Ansible
5 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.08%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.08%) Puppet
8 2 (1.39%) Argo
9 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.69%) Consul
9 1 (0.69%) Kibana
9 1 (0.69%) Nagios
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.67%) Adobe
2 24 (16.67%) Apple
2 24 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.25%) VMware
4 7 (4.86%) Avaya
4 7 (4.86%) Cisco
4 7 (4.86%) Genesys
4 7 (4.86%) Google
4 7 (4.86%) Oracle
4 7 (4.86%) SAP
5 4 (2.78%) Epicor
5 4 (2.78%) IFS
5 4 (2.78%) Infor
5 4 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.78%) Splunk
6 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.39%) Zerto
7 1 (0.69%) Databricks
7 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds