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 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 628 639
Rank change year-on-year +234 +11 +303
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 289 107 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.75% 0.55% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 60 42 46
10th Percentile £63,500 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,750 £72,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% -2.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £85,625 £86,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,125 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £64,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.97% -0.62% +4.00%

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 16,479 19,576 16,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.84% 28.80% 30.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,636 8,086 11,434
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,106 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +3.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 13 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 2 November 2025. 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 +254 281 £81,500 +8.67% 49
UK excluding London +230 226 £77,500 +19.97% 38
Work from Home +206 226 £80,750 +11.38% 29
North of England +167 196 £75,000 +27.66% 5
North West +141 181 £62,500 +6.38% 3
London +85 48 £81,500 -0.61% 20
Yorkshire +28 13 £75,000 -
East of England +27 11 £97,500 - 7
South East +43 10 £100,000 +88.50% 12
West Midlands +38 5 £61,250 -15.28% 11
Midlands +29 5 £61,250 -23.44% 12
South West +39 4 £72,500 - 2
North East - 2 £105,000 - 2

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 (1.38%) Apache
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) CMS
3 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 289 (100.00%) AWS
2 243 (84.08%) Azure
3 205 (70.93%) GCP
4 39 (13.49%) Serverless
5 28 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (8.30%) Amazon S3
7 17 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (4.15%) SaaS
11 11 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.77%) CloudFront
14 7 (2.42%) GitHub
15 6 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.08%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.08%) IaaS
15 6 (2.08%) PaaS
16 5 (1.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.15%) VPN
2 8 (2.77%) LAN
2 8 (2.77%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.77%) WAN
2 8 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.42%) Firewall
3 7 (2.42%) Unified Communications
3 7 (2.42%) VoIP
4 4 (1.38%) VLAN
5 3 (1.04%) Network Security
6 2 (0.69%) DNS
6 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) MPLS
7 1 (0.35%) NAS
7 1 (0.35%) SAN
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (2.42%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.73%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (1.38%) Big Data
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.46%) Git
2 8 (2.77%) GitLab
2 8 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.73%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.73%) JIRA
4 5 (1.73%) Vite
5 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 192 (66.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (17.30%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.80%) Finance
4 16 (5.54%) Law
5 11 (3.81%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.77%) Marketing
7 8 (2.77%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.42%) Publishing
8 7 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.73%) Banking
10 4 (1.38%) Legal
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 205 (70.93%) Senior
2 180 (62.28%) Software Engineer
3 176 (60.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 50 (17.30%) Architect
5 21 (7.27%) AWS Architect
6 20 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.54%) Lead
8 12 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (3.81%) AWS Solution Architect
10 10 (3.46%) Senior Architect
10 10 (3.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (3.11%) DevOps Architect
11 9 (3.11%) Head of IT
11 9 (3.11%) TOGAF Architect
12 8 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.77%) Infrastructure Architect
13 7 (2.42%) Developer
13 7 (2.42%) Head of Operations
13 7 (2.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (61.25%) .NET
2 176 (60.90%) Node.js
3 12 (4.15%) Spring
3 12 (4.15%) Spring Boot
4 9 (3.11%) React
5 8 (2.77%) Kafka
6 5 (1.73%) Jest
6 5 (1.73%) Next.js
7 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.38%) Bootstrap
7 4 (1.38%) CSS
7 4 (1.38%) CSS3
7 4 (1.38%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.38%) HTML
7 4 (1.38%) HTML5
7 4 (1.38%) Material-UI
7 4 (1.38%) REST
7 4 (1.38%) RESTful
7 4 (1.38%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 176 (60.90%) Cyberattack
1 176 (60.90%) Linux Command Line
1 176 (60.90%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (12.11%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.42%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.38%) PKI
8 4 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.69%) CMDB
10 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 184 (63.67%) Linux
2 12 (4.15%) Windows
3 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (76.47%) Agile
2 208 (71.97%) Microservices
3 202 (69.90%) Mentoring
4 199 (68.86%) Software Engineering
5 189 (65.40%) Machine Learning
6 188 (65.05%) Cloud Security
7 181 (62.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 181 (62.63%) User Experience
8 180 (62.28%) Scrum
9 178 (61.59%) Data Engineering
10 47 (16.26%) DevOps
11 44 (15.22%) CI/CD
12 42 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (13.15%) TOGAF
14 34 (11.76%) Computer Science
15 31 (10.73%) Roadmaps
16 30 (10.38%) Containerisation
17 29 (10.03%) Disaster Recovery
18 27 (9.34%) Enterprise Architecture
19 24 (8.30%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 220 (76.12%) Java
2 218 (75.43%) Python
3 196 (67.82%) JavaScript
4 180 (62.28%) Go
5 177 (61.25%) C++
6 176 (60.90%) Rust
7 25 (8.65%) SQL
8 22 (7.61%) C#
9 18 (6.23%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.11%) Bash
11 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.73%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.69%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 289 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 191 (66.09%) Security Cleared
3 188 (65.05%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (61.59%) DV Cleared
5 45 (15.57%) Degree
6 44 (15.22%) Azure Certification
7 25 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (6.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (4.15%) SC Cleared
10 11 (3.81%) Master's Degree
10 11 (3.81%) PMI Certification
10 11 (3.81%) PMP
11 9 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (2.77%) CCNP
13 4 (1.38%) CISSP
13 4 (1.38%) ISSAP
14 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (1.04%) MCP
14 3 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.92%) NIST
2 19 (6.57%) GDPR
3 11 (3.81%) HIPAA
4 9 (3.11%) QA
5 8 (2.77%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.35%) GAAP
9 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (10.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.69%) KVM
5 2 (0.69%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) iptables
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (12.80%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.38%) Terraform
3 8 (2.77%) Ansible
4 5 (1.73%) Grafana
4 5 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.04%) Nessus
5 3 (1.04%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.92%) Google
3 8 (2.77%) Cisco
4 7 (2.42%) VMware
5 6 (2.08%) SAP
5 6 (2.08%) Workday
6 5 (1.73%) Splunk
7 3 (1.04%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Databricks
8 1 (0.35%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle
8 1 (0.35%) Pure Storage