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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 429 742
Rank change year-on-year -212 +313 +9
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 147 264 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 1.54% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 39 40 60
10th Percentile £52,250 £55,774 £54,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,263 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -13.42% +3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,375 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £107,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,263 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.28% -1.05% -

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 19,752 17,156 21,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.81% 34.59% 25.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,513 7,852 11,952
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £41,125
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 £50,507
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.00% -3.80%

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 7 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 7 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 -199 131 £77,500 +13.10% 78
London +10 84 £100,000 +66.67% 55
UK excluding London -223 57 £75,000 +8.28% 29
Work from Home -177 36 £90,000 +31.34% 38
North of England -193 16 £67,500 -3.57% 11
Midlands -26 14 £80,000 +30.61% 5
West Midlands -25 13 £85,000 +38.78% 5
North West -137 13 £55,000 -13.73% 6
South West -62 8 £76,250 +11.27% 6
South East -23 7 £65,000 -31.58% 3
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -22 3 £80,000 +6.67% 5
Scotland - 3 - - 2
East of England -30 2 £87,500 -
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 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.72%) SAS
2 3 (2.04%) JBoss
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.33%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.08%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (51.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 50 (34.01%) Serverless
4 47 (31.97%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (31.97%) Azure
5 40 (27.21%) GCP
6 37 (25.17%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (21.77%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (21.09%) Amazon S3
9 27 (18.37%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (13.61%) GitHub
11 19 (12.93%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.20%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (10.20%) AWS Control Tower
13 12 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.80%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (6.12%) CloudFront
16 8 (5.44%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.05%) Network Security
2 5 (3.40%) Internet
3 3 (2.04%) Firewall
3 3 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) DHCP
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.89%) NoSQL
2 29 (19.73%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.48%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.72%) Big Data
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Adabas
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 37 (25.17%) GitLab
2 32 (21.77%) Cucumber
3 20 (13.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.40%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.04%) Maven
5 3 (2.04%) Selenium
5 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.36%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 56 (38.10%) Finance
2 28 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.20%) Social Skills
5 11 (7.48%) Banking
5 11 (7.48%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.40%) Law
7 4 (2.72%) Billing
7 4 (2.72%) Military
7 4 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 3 (2.04%) Advertising
8 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Marketing
8 3 (2.04%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.36%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) iGaming
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (47.62%) Senior
2 40 (27.21%) Architect
3 29 (19.73%) Java Engineer
4 26 (17.69%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.33%) Analyst
5 24 (16.33%) Consultant
5 24 (16.33%) Senior Analyst
6 20 (13.61%) Security Consultant
7 18 (12.24%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (12.24%) Principal Java Engineer
7 18 (12.24%) Senior Consultant
8 14 (9.52%) Senior Security Consultant
9 13 (8.84%) AWS Architect
10 11 (7.48%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Developer
12 7 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (4.76%) Lead
12 7 (4.76%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 33 (22.45%) Spring
3 32 (21.77%) Kafka
4 22 (14.97%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.52%) .NET
5 14 (9.52%) Node.js
6 10 (6.80%) REST
7 8 (5.44%) .NET Framework
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (4.76%) Entity Framework
8 7 (4.76%) JWT
8 7 (4.76%) MediatR
8 7 (4.76%) OAuth
8 7 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 7 (4.76%) OpenAPI
8 7 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (4.76%) Swagger
9 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.73%) Cloud Native
2 34 (23.13%) Onboarding
3 30 (20.41%) Public Cloud
4 29 (19.73%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (19.73%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 18 (12.24%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (6.12%) Data Centre
8 7 (4.76%) Data Structures
8 7 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.76%) Mainframe
9 6 (4.08%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (3.40%) PKI
10 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.72%) Blog
11 4 (2.72%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.72%) IVR
11 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.93%) Windows
2 14 (9.52%) Linux
3 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) AIX
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (51.70%) Mentoring
3 66 (44.90%) AI
4 61 (41.50%) Agile
5 59 (40.14%) CI/CD
6 44 (29.93%) Microservices
7 43 (29.25%) Architectural Patterns
7 43 (29.25%) Event-Driven
8 37 (25.17%) Cloud Security
9 36 (24.49%) CQRS
10 34 (23.13%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (21.77%) BDD
12 31 (21.09%) Cost Optimisation
12 31 (21.09%) Threat Modelling
13 30 (20.41%) Data Protection
13 30 (20.41%) Test Automation
14 29 (19.73%) Performance Testing
15 27 (18.37%) Cost Management
16 26 (17.69%) DevOps
16 26 (17.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Java
2 44 (29.93%) Python
3 35 (23.81%) SQL
4 22 (14.97%) Bash
5 21 (14.29%) Ruby
6 15 (10.20%) PHP
7 14 (9.52%) Perl
8 12 (8.16%) C#
9 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.12%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.08%) COBOL
11 6 (4.08%) Go
12 5 (3.40%) C++
12 5 (3.40%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.04%) Groovy
14 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.68%) Bicep
15 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.68%) Natural
Qualifications
1 147 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) AWS Certified Developer
3 15 (10.20%) Degree
4 13 (8.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.76%) CISSP
7 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.72%) ISSAP
8 4 (2.72%) ISSEP
9 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.68%) CCSP
11 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.84%) GDPR
2 8 (5.44%) HIPAA
3 7 (4.76%) NCSC
4 6 (4.08%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.68%) GRC
8 1 (0.68%) GxP
8 1 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (11.56%) Docker
2 8 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.40%) KVM
4 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.36%) iptables
Systems Management
1 58 (39.46%) Terraform
2 15 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.16%) Grafana
4 10 (6.80%) Ansible
5 7 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.04%) Argo
7 3 (2.04%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.04%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.68%) Consul
8 1 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.68%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.33%) Adobe
2 24 (16.33%) Apple
2 24 (16.33%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.12%) Google
3 9 (6.12%) VMware
4 8 (5.44%) Oracle
5 7 (4.76%) Avaya
5 7 (4.76%) Cisco
5 7 (4.76%) Genesys
5 7 (4.76%) SAP
6 5 (3.40%) Splunk
7 4 (2.72%) Epicor
7 4 (2.72%) IFS
7 4 (2.72%) Infor
7 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.36%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.36%) Zerto