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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 426 775
Rank change year-on-year -193 +349 +26
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 137 268 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.55% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 1.52% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 43 38 70
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -20.31% +13.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £101,563
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.27% -2.11% +12.00%

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 19,096 17,678 26,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.55% 36.27% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,991 7,818 16,621
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
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 9 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 9 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 -181 129 £79,669 +27.47% 46
London +5 75 £100,000 +66.67% 26
UK excluding London -215 56 £76,250 +11.27% 30
Work from Home -166 36 £90,000 +50.00% 14
Midlands -20 16 £62,500 +8.70% 2
North of England -181 16 £80,000 +23.08% 4
West Midlands -15 15 £50,000 -13.04% 1
North West -130 13 - - 1
South West -59 9 £52,500 -23.39% 16
South East -34 6 £65,000 -12.46% 4
Wales - 6 £80,000 - 2
East of England -18 3 £97,500 - 1
Yorkshire -32 3 £80,000 +6.67% 3
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 4 (2.92%) Documentum
3 3 (2.19%) Apache
3 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.19%) JBoss
3 3 (2.19%) SAS
4 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.73%) Camunda
5 1 (0.73%) Drupal
5 1 (0.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.73%) nginx
5 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (17.52%) Cloudability
2 5 (3.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.73%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (50.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 45 (32.85%) Azure
4 43 (31.39%) Serverless
5 41 (29.93%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (27.01%) GCP
7 31 (22.63%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (22.63%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (19.71%) Amazon S3
9 25 (18.25%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (10.22%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (9.49%) AWS Control Tower
11 13 (9.49%) GitHub
12 12 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.30%) CloudFront
13 10 (7.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (5.84%) PaaS
14 8 (5.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.33%) Network Security
2 4 (2.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.73%) DNS
3 1 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (22.63%) NoSQL
2 25 (18.25%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.57%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.11%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.92%) Big Data
6 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.73%) Adabas
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.73%) Metadata
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.73%) Power BI
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (21.90%) GitLab
2 28 (20.44%) Cucumber
3 20 (14.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.11%) JIRA
5 6 (4.38%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.19%) Git
7 3 (2.19%) Maven
7 3 (2.19%) Selenium
7 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.73%) Gatling
8 1 (0.73%) JMeter
8 1 (0.73%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (35.04%) Finance
2 26 (18.98%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.57%) Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.65%) Advertising
8 4 (2.92%) Retail
9 3 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Billing
9 3 (2.19%) Military
9 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Games
10 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.46%) Law
10 2 (1.46%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.73%) iGaming
11 1 (0.73%) Publishing
11 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (43.07%) Senior
2 41 (29.93%) Architect
3 25 (18.25%) Java Engineer
4 24 (17.52%) Analyst
4 24 (17.52%) Senior Analyst
5 23 (16.79%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (13.87%) Consultant
7 18 (13.14%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (13.14%) Principal Java Engineer
8 16 (11.68%) Security Consultant
9 15 (10.95%) AWS Architect
9 15 (10.95%) Senior Consultant
10 12 (8.76%) Senior Security Consultant
11 8 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (5.11%) Developer
12 7 (5.11%) Lead
12 7 (5.11%) Senior Java Engineer
13 6 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.38%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.55%) Spring Boot
2 27 (19.71%) Kafka
2 27 (19.71%) Spring
3 19 (13.87%) AWS CDK
4 13 (9.49%) Node.js
5 8 (5.84%) .NET
5 8 (5.84%) REST
6 6 (4.38%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (3.65%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.65%) GraphQL
7 5 (3.65%) Middleware
8 4 (2.92%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (2.92%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (2.92%) JWT
8 4 (2.92%) MediatR
8 4 (2.92%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.92%) OpenAPI
8 4 (2.92%) Swagger
8 4 (2.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (33.58%) Cloud Native
2 28 (20.44%) Onboarding
3 26 (18.98%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (18.98%) Public Cloud
4 25 (18.25%) e-Learning
5 22 (16.06%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (14.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (7.30%) Data Centre
9 6 (4.38%) Mainframe
9 6 (4.38%) PKI
10 5 (3.65%) Digital Wallet
11 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (2.19%) Blog
12 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
12 3 (2.19%) IVR
13 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
13 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Windows
2 16 (11.68%) Linux
3 2 (1.46%) Unix
3 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.73%) AIX
4 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (54.01%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (51.09%) Mentoring
3 58 (42.34%) Agile
3 58 (42.34%) AI
4 53 (38.69%) CI/CD
5 41 (29.93%) Architectural Patterns
6 38 (27.74%) Microservices
7 37 (27.01%) Event-Driven
8 30 (21.90%) Cybersecurity
9 29 (21.17%) CQRS
9 29 (21.17%) DevOps
10 28 (20.44%) BDD
10 28 (20.44%) Cost Optimisation
11 27 (19.71%) Cloud Security
11 27 (19.71%) Cost Management
12 26 (18.98%) Migration
12 26 (18.98%) Performance Testing
12 26 (18.98%) Test Automation
13 24 (17.52%) FinOps
13 24 (17.52%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.34%) Java
2 38 (27.74%) Python
3 30 (21.90%) SQL
4 22 (16.06%) Bash
5 18 (13.14%) Ruby
6 13 (9.49%) PHP
7 12 (8.76%) Perl
8 11 (8.03%) C#
8 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.57%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.38%) C++
10 6 (4.38%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (3.65%) COBOL
11 5 (3.65%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.92%) Go
12 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
13 3 (2.19%) Groovy
14 2 (1.46%) Bicep
15 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.73%) Natural
Qualifications
1 136 (99.27%) AWS Certification
2 29 (21.17%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.95%) Degree
4 14 (10.22%) TOGAF Certification
5 13 (9.49%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (6.57%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
8 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) CISSP
9 4 (2.92%) CITP
9 4 (2.92%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.92%) ISSEP
10 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) GDPR
2 6 (4.38%) NCSC
3 5 (3.65%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.73%) GxP
7 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.73%) QA
7 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (13.14%) Docker
2 8 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.38%) KVM
4 4 (2.92%) iptables
5 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (37.96%) Terraform
2 13 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.76%) Grafana
4 11 (8.03%) Ansible
5 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.65%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.65%) Puppet
7 3 (2.19%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.73%) Consul
8 1 (0.73%) Kibana
8 1 (0.73%) Nagios
8 1 (0.73%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.17%) ServiceNow
3 24 (17.52%) Adobe
3 24 (17.52%) Apple
4 9 (6.57%) VMware
5 7 (5.11%) Google
5 7 (5.11%) SAP
6 6 (4.38%) Oracle
7 5 (3.65%) Avaya
7 5 (3.65%) Cisco
7 5 (3.65%) Genesys
7 5 (3.65%) Pega
8 4 (2.92%) Epicor
8 4 (2.92%) IFS
8 4 (2.92%) Infor
8 4 (2.92%) OpenText
8 4 (2.92%) YouTube
9 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.46%) Splunk
10 2 (1.46%) Zerto