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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 443 755
Rank change year-on-year -167 +312 +20
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 142 266 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.100%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 1.54% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 38 37 63
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,016 £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% +9.97%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £99,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £109,500
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 19,163 17,224 23,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.06% 35.09% 25.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,087 7,823 14,072
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,424 £40,000
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -197 133 £77,500 +16.08% 37
London +8 85 £100,000 +66.67% 26
UK excluding London -220 55 £75,000 +9.45% 14
Work from Home -177 37 £90,000 +50.00% 19
North of England -187 16 £80,000 +23.08% 8
Midlands -26 15 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands -26 14 £67,500 +17.39%
North West -135 13 - - 4
South West -57 8 £71,250 +2.87% 3
South East -15 7 £65,000 -25.71% 1
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -30 3 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East of England -17 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 (2.82%) SAS
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
2 3 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.11%) JBoss
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Camunda
4 1 (0.70%) Drupal
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.90%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (51.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 50 (35.21%) Serverless
4 47 (33.10%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (30.99%) Azure
6 36 (25.35%) GCP
7 35 (24.65%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (22.54%) Cloud Computing
9 30 (21.13%) Amazon S3
10 27 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (11.27%) Amazon EventBridge
11 16 (11.27%) GitHub
12 15 (10.56%) AWS Control Tower
12 15 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.04%) CloudFront
13 10 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (6.34%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.63%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.31%) Network Security
2 5 (3.52%) Internet
3 3 (2.11%) Firewall
3 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 1 (0.70%) DNS
4 1 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.35%) NoSQL
2 27 (19.01%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.75%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.93%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.52%) Big Data
7 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.70%) Adabas
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.70%) Metadata
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (22.54%) GitLab
2 30 (21.13%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.52%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.11%) JIRA
5 3 (2.11%) Maven
5 3 (2.11%) Selenium
5 3 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.41%) Git
7 1 (0.70%) Gatling
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (35.92%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.86%) Social Skills
5 10 (7.04%) Banking
6 9 (6.34%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.82%) Advertising
7 4 (2.82%) Billing
7 4 (2.82%) Military
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Retail
8 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.41%) Games
9 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Law
9 2 (1.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) iGaming
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (47.18%) Senior
2 39 (27.46%) Architect
3 27 (19.01%) Java Engineer
4 26 (18.31%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.90%) Analyst
5 24 (16.90%) Senior Analyst
6 23 (16.20%) Consultant
7 19 (13.38%) Security Consultant
8 18 (12.68%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (12.68%) Principal Java Engineer
8 18 (12.68%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.86%) AWS Architect
9 14 (9.86%) Senior Security Consultant
10 9 (6.34%) Developer
10 9 (6.34%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.76%) Spring Boot
2 29 (20.42%) Kafka
2 29 (20.42%) Spring
3 22 (15.49%) AWS CDK
4 15 (10.56%) Node.js
5 10 (7.04%) .NET
5 10 (7.04%) REST
6 7 (4.93%) .NET Framework
6 7 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET
7 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (4.23%) Entity Framework
7 6 (4.23%) GraphQL
7 6 (4.23%) JWT
7 6 (4.23%) MediatR
7 6 (4.23%) OAuth
7 6 (4.23%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.23%) OpenAPI
7 6 (4.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (35.21%) Cloud Native
2 33 (23.24%) Onboarding
3 28 (19.72%) Public Cloud
4 27 (19.01%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (19.01%) e-Learning
5 23 (16.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 20 (14.08%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (7.04%) Data Centre
8 7 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.93%) Mainframe
9 6 (4.23%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (3.52%) PKI
11 4 (2.82%) Blog
11 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.82%) IVR
11 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
12 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
12 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
13 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.38%) Windows
2 14 (9.86%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) Unix
3 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 72 (50.70%) Mentoring
3 66 (46.48%) AI
4 58 (40.85%) Agile
5 56 (39.44%) CI/CD
6 44 (30.99%) Architectural Patterns
7 41 (28.87%) Event-Driven
8 40 (28.17%) Microservices
9 34 (23.94%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (23.24%) Cloud Security
10 33 (23.24%) CQRS
11 30 (21.13%) BDD
12 28 (19.72%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (19.72%) Data Protection
12 28 (19.72%) Test Automation
12 28 (19.72%) Threat Modelling
13 27 (19.01%) Cost Management
13 27 (19.01%) Performance Testing
14 24 (16.90%) FinOps
14 24 (16.90%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.37%) Java
2 42 (29.58%) Python
3 33 (23.24%) SQL
4 23 (16.20%) Bash
5 21 (14.79%) Ruby
6 15 (10.56%) PHP
7 14 (9.86%) Perl
8 11 (7.75%) C#
8 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.34%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.23%) COBOL
10 6 (4.23%) Go
11 5 (3.52%) C++
11 5 (3.52%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (2.82%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
13 3 (2.11%) Groovy
14 2 (1.41%) Bicep
15 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.70%) Natural
Qualifications
1 141 (99.30%) AWS Certification
2 28 (19.72%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.97%) Degree
4 14 (9.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (9.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.93%) CISSP
9 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
10 4 (2.82%) ISSAP
10 4 (2.82%) ISSEP
11 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) GDPR
2 7 (4.93%) NCSC
3 6 (4.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (3.52%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.70%) GRC
8 1 (0.70%) GxP
8 1 (0.70%) NIST
8 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.56%) Docker
2 8 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.52%) KVM
4 3 (2.11%) iptables
5 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (38.03%) Terraform
2 12 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.04%) Grafana
4 9 (6.34%) Ansible
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.82%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.82%) Puppet
7 3 (2.11%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.70%) Consul
8 1 (0.70%) Kibana
8 1 (0.70%) Nagios
8 1 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.61%) ServiceNow
3 24 (16.90%) Adobe
3 24 (16.90%) Apple
4 9 (6.34%) VMware
5 7 (4.93%) Avaya
5 7 (4.93%) Cisco
5 7 (4.93%) Genesys
5 7 (4.93%) Google
5 7 (4.93%) Oracle
5 7 (4.93%) SAP
6 4 (2.82%) Epicor
6 4 (2.82%) IFS
6 4 (2.82%) Infor
6 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.41%) Splunk
7 2 (1.41%) Zerto
8 1 (0.70%) Databricks
8 1 (0.70%) Pega
8 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds