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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 549 666
Rank change year-on-year -26 +117 +247
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 107 103 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.52% 0.60% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 73 45 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,660 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +2.03% +5.34%
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,750 £95,938
90th Percentile £101,400 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +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 20,401 17,201 23,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.02% 39.17% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,094 7,407 16,128
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +1 99 £77,500 +3.33% 22
UK excluding London -9 57 £75,000 +16.10% 9
Work from Home +30 39 £75,000 -3.23% 11
London -11 37 £83,750 +5.35% 6
North of England -14 29 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Yorkshire -25 23 £75,000 - 2
East of England +10 13 £97,500 - 1
South East -16 5 £77,500 -6.06%
Midlands -22 5 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -5 4 £49,000 -24.15% 1
South West -29 4 £52,500 -26.32% 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
North West -16 2 - - 2
Scotland -18 1 - -
East Midlands -28 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 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.74%) Documentum
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.80%) Apache
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.87%) JBoss
5 1 (0.93%) Camunda
5 1 (0.93%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (58.88%) Azure
3 43 (40.19%) Serverless
4 25 (23.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (19.63%) Amazon S3
5 21 (19.63%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (15.89%) GCP
7 12 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (10.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (10.28%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.28%) PaaS
9 10 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (9.35%) SaaS
10 8 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (6.54%) Entra ID
11 7 (6.54%) IaaS
12 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (5.61%) CloudFront
13 5 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) VPN
2 4 (3.74%) Network Security
2 4 (3.74%) VLAN
3 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 3 (2.80%) WAN
4 2 (1.87%) LAN
4 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.93%) DNS
5 1 (0.93%) MPLS
5 1 (0.93%) NAS
5 1 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.93%) SAN
5 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.93%) VoIP
5 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.95%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.48%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.87%) Big Data
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.93%) MySQL
8 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.15%) GitLab
2 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.35%) Cucumber
3 10 (9.35%) Git
4 6 (5.61%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.61%) JIRA
5 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.87%) Maven
6 2 (1.87%) Selenium
6 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.93%) Vite
General
1 61 (57.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (32.71%) Finance
3 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.28%) Financial Institution
4 11 (10.28%) Publishing
5 9 (8.41%) Banking
5 9 (8.41%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Law
8 4 (3.74%) Advertising
9 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.93%) Electronics
11 1 (0.93%) Games
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (56.07%) Architect
2 16 (14.95%) AWS Architect
3 15 (14.02%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (12.15%) Enterprise Architect
5 11 (10.28%) Applications Architect
5 11 (10.28%) Senior
6 10 (9.35%) Software Architect
7 9 (8.41%) ERP Architect
7 9 (8.41%) SAP Architect
7 9 (8.41%) SAP Enterprise Architect
8 8 (7.48%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (6.54%) Lead
9 7 (6.54%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.67%) Head of IT
11 5 (4.67%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) Kafka
1 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
2 10 (9.35%) Spring
3 5 (4.67%) Node.js
4 3 (2.80%) .NET
4 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.80%) Jest
4 3 (2.80%) PySpark
4 3 (2.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.87%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.87%) Drools
5 2 (1.87%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.87%) XML
6 1 (0.93%) Middleware
6 1 (0.93%) Next.js
6 1 (0.93%) React
6 1 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (35.51%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (16.82%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.48%) e-Learning
4 8 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.48%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.67%) PKI
5 5 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.74%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.87%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.93%) Blog
9 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Windows
2 6 (5.61%) Linux
3 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.19%) TOGAF
2 38 (35.51%) Agile
2 38 (35.51%) Enterprise Architecture
2 38 (35.51%) Mentoring
2 38 (35.51%) Migration
3 37 (34.58%) Computer Science
4 35 (32.71%) Microservices
5 33 (30.84%) CI/CD
5 33 (30.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 32 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (28.97%) DevOps
8 30 (28.04%) Architectural Patterns
9 27 (25.23%) Data Modelling
10 26 (24.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (23.36%) Application Security
12 24 (22.43%) Roadmaps
13 22 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (19.63%) EAI
14 21 (19.63%) Technology Roadmap
15 18 (16.82%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.38%) Python
2 39 (36.45%) Java
3 27 (25.23%) JavaScript
4 26 (24.30%) C#
5 25 (23.36%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.15%) SQL
7 10 (9.35%) Bash
8 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.74%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.87%) Bicep
10 2 (1.87%) C++
10 2 (1.87%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 106 (99.07%) AWS Certification
2 50 (46.73%) Degree
3 42 (39.25%) Azure Certification
4 35 (32.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 30 (28.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (27.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
8 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
9 7 (6.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
11 5 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) CITP
12 4 (3.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (1.87%) CCNP
15 1 (0.93%) CISSP
15 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) GDPR
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) Basel III
5 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (17.76%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.74%) iptables
4 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.87%) KVM
6 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (22.43%) Terraform
2 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.48%) Ansible
4 7 (6.54%) Grafana
5 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.74%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.74%) Puppet
7 3 (2.80%) Nessus
7 3 (2.80%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.87%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (31.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) SAP
3 11 (10.28%) Workday
4 7 (6.54%) VMware
5 5 (4.67%) Pega
5 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.74%) OpenText
6 4 (3.74%) YouTube
7 3 (2.80%) Google
7 3 (2.80%) IBM
8 2 (1.87%) Oracle
9 1 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco
9 1 (0.93%) Databricks
9 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.93%) Palantir
9 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.93%) UiPath
9 1 (0.93%) Zerto