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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 429 786
Rank change year-on-year -199 +357 +33
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 122 265 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.56% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 1.51% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 40 38 76
10th Percentile £51,125 £40,875 £55,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -20.31% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,625 £77,500 £99,688
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £68,525 £68,750
% change year-on-year +11.27% -0.33% +10.00%

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 18,797 17,518 26,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 37.07% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 7,619 16,891
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,150
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.48% -11.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,556
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 3 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 3 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 -186 115 £79,669 +27.47% 34
London -10 64 £96,250 +60.42% 14
UK excluding London -206 52 £76,250 +11.27% 24
Work from Home -156 35 £90,000 +50.00% 22
Midlands -13 16 £62,500 +8.70% 2
North of England -177 16 £80,000 +23.08% 3
West Midlands -14 15 £50,000 -13.04% 1
North West -134 13 - - 1
South West -66 8 £52,500 -23.39% 7
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 1
South East -24 4 £65,000 -12.46% 8
East of England -13 3 £97,500 - 2
Yorkshire -31 3 £80,000 +6.67% 2
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 6 (4.92%) Confluence
2 4 (3.28%) Apache
2 4 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.28%) Documentum
3 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.46%) JBoss
4 2 (1.64%) SAS
5 1 (0.82%) Camunda
5 1 (0.82%) Drupal
5 1 (0.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (19.67%) Cloudability
2 4 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (48.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 41 (33.61%) Azure
4 35 (28.69%) GCP
5 33 (27.05%) Serverless
6 32 (26.23%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (19.67%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (18.85%) Amazon S3
9 22 (18.03%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (9.02%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (8.20%) GitHub
13 9 (7.38%) AWS Control Tower
13 9 (7.38%) CloudFront
13 9 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (6.56%) PaaS
14 8 (6.56%) SaaS
14 8 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.93%) Network Security
2 2 (1.64%) Internet
3 1 (0.82%) DNS
3 1 (0.82%) Firewall
3 1 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.31%) NoSQL
2 21 (17.21%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.74%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.46%) Big Data
6 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.82%) Adabas
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.82%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.82%) Metadata
8 1 (0.82%) Power BI
8 1 (0.82%) Redis
8 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (22.95%) GitLab
2 26 (21.31%) Cucumber
3 19 (15.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.74%) JIRA
5 5 (4.10%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.28%) Git
7 3 (2.46%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.46%) Maven
7 3 (2.46%) Selenium
7 3 (2.46%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.82%) Gatling
8 1 (0.82%) JMeter
8 1 (0.82%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (34.43%) Finance
2 25 (20.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (17.21%) Public Sector
4 19 (15.57%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
6 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.10%) Advertising
8 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Retail
9 2 (1.64%) Billing
9 2 (1.64%) Games
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Law
10 1 (0.82%) iGaming
10 1 (0.82%) Military
10 1 (0.82%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.82%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (39.34%) Senior
2 36 (29.51%) Architect
3 24 (19.67%) Analyst
3 24 (19.67%) Senior Analyst
4 23 (18.85%) Java Engineer
5 18 (14.75%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (13.93%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (13.93%) Principal Java Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) AWS Architect
7 13 (10.66%) Consultant
8 12 (9.84%) Security Consultant
9 9 (7.38%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.56%) Senior Security Consultant
11 7 (5.74%) Lead
12 6 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Lead Architect
12 6 (4.92%) Senior Java Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Technical Architect
13 5 (4.10%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.23%) Spring Boot
2 26 (21.31%) Kafka
3 25 (20.49%) Spring
4 14 (11.48%) AWS CDK
5 11 (9.02%) Node.js
6 5 (4.10%) .NET
6 5 (4.10%) REST
6 5 (4.10%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.28%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.28%) Middleware
8 3 (2.46%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.46%) Drools
8 3 (2.46%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.46%) Jest
8 3 (2.46%) XML
9 2 (1.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.64%) JWT
9 2 (1.64%) MediatR
9 2 (1.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (33.61%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.67%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (19.67%) Public Cloud
3 23 (18.85%) e-Learning
4 21 (17.21%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (15.57%) Onboarding
6 14 (11.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (8.20%) Data Centre
9 5 (4.10%) Mainframe
9 5 (4.10%) PKI
10 4 (3.28%) Digital Wallet
10 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
10 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
10 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.64%) Blog
11 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Windows
2 15 (12.30%) Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Unix
3 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) AIX
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (53.28%) Infrastructure as Code
1 65 (53.28%) Mentoring
2 51 (41.80%) Agile
3 49 (40.16%) CI/CD
4 47 (38.52%) AI
5 35 (28.69%) Architectural Patterns
6 34 (27.87%) Microservices
7 32 (26.23%) Event-Driven
8 29 (23.77%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (22.13%) Cost Management
9 27 (22.13%) Cost Optimisation
10 26 (21.31%) BDD
10 26 (21.31%) DevOps
11 25 (20.49%) CQRS
12 24 (19.67%) FinOps
12 24 (19.67%) Performance Testing
12 24 (19.67%) Software Licensing
12 24 (19.67%) Test Automation
13 22 (18.03%) Cloud Security
13 22 (18.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.16%) Java
2 30 (24.59%) Python
3 28 (22.95%) SQL
4 18 (14.75%) Bash
5 13 (10.66%) Ruby
6 9 (7.38%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.38%) PHP
7 8 (6.56%) C#
7 8 (6.56%) Kotlin
7 8 (6.56%) Perl
8 5 (4.10%) C++
8 5 (4.10%) Google Apps Script
8 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.28%) COBOL
9 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.46%) Go
10 3 (2.46%) Groovy
11 2 (1.64%) Bicep
12 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.82%) Natural
Qualifications
1 121 (99.18%) AWS Certification
2 24 (19.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.66%) TOGAF Certification
4 11 (9.02%) Degree
5 10 (8.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (6.56%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.28%) CISSP
9 4 (3.28%) CITP
9 4 (3.28%) ISSAP
9 4 (3.28%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) GDPR
1 5 (4.10%) NCSC
2 4 (3.28%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (2.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.82%) GxP
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) QA
4 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (13.93%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.10%) KVM
4 4 (3.28%) iptables
5 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (36.07%) Terraform
2 12 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.02%) Ansible
3 11 (9.02%) Grafana
4 6 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.10%) Puppet
6 3 (2.46%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.82%) Consul
7 1 (0.82%) Kibana
7 1 (0.82%) Nagios
7 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (28.69%) Microsoft
2 29 (23.77%) ServiceNow
3 24 (19.67%) Adobe
3 24 (19.67%) Apple
4 7 (5.74%) VMware
5 6 (4.92%) Google
6 5 (4.10%) Pega
6 5 (4.10%) SAP
7 4 (3.28%) OpenText
7 4 (3.28%) Oracle
7 4 (3.28%) YouTube
8 3 (2.46%) Epicor
8 3 (2.46%) IFS
8 3 (2.46%) Infor
9 2 (1.64%) Avaya
9 2 (1.64%) Cisco
9 2 (1.64%) Genesys
9 2 (1.64%) Splunk
9 2 (1.64%) Zerto
10 1 (0.82%) Workday