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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 429 781
Rank change year-on-year -179 +352 +18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 140 270 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.55% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 1.53% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 44 39 68
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,750 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,834 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.73% -21.88% +13.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £102,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £66,763 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.08% -4.63% +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 19,193 17,591 26,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 35.88% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,063 7,782 16,338
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 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
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 11 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 11 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 -183 131 £79,669 +29.02% 25
London +4 77 £100,000 +66.67% 12
UK excluding London -204 57 £77,500 +16.08% 17
Work from Home -170 38 £90,000 +50.00% 16
North of England -182 16 £80,000 +23.08% 5
Midlands -25 15 £75,000 +30.51% 2
West Midlands -12 14 £67,500 +17.46% 1
North West -130 13 - - 2
South West -61 9 £52,500 -23.39% 2
South East -26 7 £65,000 -12.46% 3
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 2
East of England -17 3 £97,500 - 1
Yorkshire -24 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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) Documentum
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) JBoss
3 3 (2.14%) SAS
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) Camunda
5 1 (0.71%) Drupal
5 1 (0.71%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.71%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (49.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 45 (32.14%) Azure
4 44 (31.43%) Serverless
5 42 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (26.43%) GCP
7 33 (23.57%) Amazon ECS
8 31 (22.14%) Cloud Computing
9 28 (20.00%) Amazon S3
10 26 (18.57%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (10.71%) GitHub
12 14 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (9.29%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (7.86%) CloudFront
15 9 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.71%) PaaS
16 8 (5.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.43%) Network Security
2 4 (2.86%) Internet
3 3 (2.14%) Firewall
3 3 (2.14%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) DNS
4 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 26 (18.57%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.86%) Big Data
6 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.71%) Adabas
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.71%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) Redis
8 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (21.43%) GitLab
2 28 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 20 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.00%) JIRA
5 6 (4.29%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.14%) Maven
7 3 (2.14%) Selenium
7 3 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.43%) Git
9 1 (0.71%) Gatling
9 1 (0.71%) JMeter
9 1 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (34.29%) Finance
2 27 (19.29%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.71%) Banking
6 7 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Advertising
8 4 (2.86%) Retail
9 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.14%) Billing
9 3 (2.14%) Military
10 2 (1.43%) Games
10 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Law
10 2 (1.43%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.71%) iGaming
11 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Publishing
11 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (42.86%) Senior
2 43 (30.71%) Architect
3 25 (17.86%) Java Engineer
3 25 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (17.14%) Analyst
4 24 (17.14%) Senior Analyst
5 19 (13.57%) Consultant
6 18 (12.86%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (12.86%) Principal Java Engineer
7 16 (11.43%) Security Consultant
8 15 (10.71%) AWS Architect
8 15 (10.71%) Senior Consultant
9 12 (8.57%) Senior Security Consultant
10 8 (5.71%) Developer
10 8 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
11 7 (5.00%) Lead
11 7 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.71%) Spring Boot
2 27 (19.29%) Kafka
2 27 (19.29%) Spring
3 20 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 14 (10.00%) Node.js
5 9 (6.43%) .NET
5 9 (6.43%) REST
6 7 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
7 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (3.57%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.57%) JWT
8 5 (3.57%) MediatR
8 5 (3.57%) Middleware
8 5 (3.57%) OAuth
8 5 (3.57%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (33.57%) Cloud Native
2 28 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 26 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (18.57%) Public Cloud
4 25 (17.86%) e-Learning
5 21 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (7.14%) Data Centre
9 7 (5.00%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.29%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (4.29%) PKI
11 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (2.14%) Blog
12 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
12 3 (2.14%) IVR
13 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.29%) Windows
2 16 (11.43%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Unix
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) AIX
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (52.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 60 (42.86%) Agile
3 60 (42.86%) AI
4 54 (38.57%) CI/CD
5 42 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 39 (27.86%) Event-Driven
6 39 (27.86%) Microservices
7 33 (23.57%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 30 (21.43%) CQRS
9 28 (20.00%) BDD
9 28 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 28 (20.00%) DevOps
10 27 (19.29%) Cost Management
10 27 (19.29%) Migration
11 26 (18.57%) Performance Testing
11 26 (18.57%) Roadmaps
11 26 (18.57%) Test Automation
12 24 (17.14%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 59 (42.14%) Java
2 38 (27.14%) Python
3 30 (21.43%) SQL
4 22 (15.71%) Bash
5 19 (13.57%) Ruby
6 13 (9.29%) PHP
7 12 (8.57%) C#
7 12 (8.57%) Perl
8 11 (7.86%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.43%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.29%) C++
10 6 (4.29%) COBOL
10 6 (4.29%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (3.57%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.86%) Go
12 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
13 3 (2.14%) Groovy
14 2 (1.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.71%) Natural
Qualifications
1 139 (99.29%) AWS Certification
2 29 (20.71%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.14%) Degree
4 15 (10.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (6.43%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (4.29%) CISSP
10 4 (2.86%) CITP
10 4 (2.86%) ISSAP
10 4 (2.86%) ISSEP
11 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) GDPR
2 7 (5.00%) NCSC
3 6 (4.29%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.14%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.71%) GxP
7 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.71%) QA
7 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 8 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.29%) KVM
4 4 (2.86%) iptables
5 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (37.14%) Terraform
2 12 (8.57%) Grafana
2 12 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.14%) Ansible
4 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.57%) Puppet
6 3 (2.14%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.71%) Consul
7 1 (0.71%) Kibana
7 1 (0.71%) Nagios
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 39 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.71%) ServiceNow
3 24 (17.14%) Adobe
3 24 (17.14%) Apple
4 9 (6.43%) VMware
5 7 (5.00%) Google
5 7 (5.00%) SAP
6 6 (4.29%) Oracle
7 5 (3.57%) Avaya
7 5 (3.57%) Cisco
7 5 (3.57%) Genesys
7 5 (3.57%) Pega
8 4 (2.86%) Epicor
8 4 (2.86%) IFS
8 4 (2.86%) Infor
8 4 (2.86%) OpenText
8 4 (2.86%) YouTube
9 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.43%) Splunk
10 2 (1.43%) Zerto