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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 415 733
Rank change year-on-year -201 +318 +135
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 101 263 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.61% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% 1.53% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 43 44 81
10th Percentile £50,250 £42,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -14.34% +14.29%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,625 £98,750
90th Percentile £101,150 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +1.52% +8.00%

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 20,964 17,137 25,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.31% 39.47% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,955 7,566 17,188
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,125 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £38,402
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -8.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,485 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,719 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.31% +4.00% -2.91%

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 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 15 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 13 May 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 96 £75,000 +9.45% 19
UK excluding London -196 62 £75,000 +9.45% 9
Work from Home -132 43 £75,000 +25.00% 14
London -42 30 £77,500 +29.17% 7
North of England -151 29 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Midlands -21 16 £49,500 +23.75%
West Midlands -11 15 £49,000 +22.50%
Yorkshire -47 14 £75,000 - 1
North West -122 13 - - 1
East of England -8 8 £97,500 - 2
South West -50 5 £52,500 -23.39% 1
South East -14 3 £77,500 -8.82% 4
North East - 2 £105,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Scotland - 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 (5.94%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.96%) Documentum
4 3 (2.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.99%) Camunda
5 1 (0.99%) Drupal
5 1 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (23.76%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.99%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (54.46%) Azure
3 33 (32.67%) GCP
4 31 (30.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (29.70%) Serverless
6 19 (18.81%) Amazon S3
6 19 (18.81%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (8.91%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (8.91%) PaaS
8 9 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (7.92%) SaaS
10 7 (6.93%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (4.95%) CloudFront
12 5 (4.95%) IaaS
12 5 (4.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) DNS
2 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
2 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (12.87%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (6.93%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.97%) Big Data
6 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.99%) Power BI
7 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (16.83%) GitLab
2 16 (15.84%) Cucumber
3 12 (11.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.93%) Git
4 7 (6.93%) JIRA
5 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.96%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.97%) Maven
7 3 (2.97%) Selenium
7 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.99%) Gatling
8 1 (0.99%) JMeter
8 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (22.77%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Advertising
5 6 (5.94%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Publishing
7 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Law
8 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Games
9 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.99%) Billing
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) iGaming
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (37.62%) Architect
2 33 (32.67%) Senior
3 24 (23.76%) Analyst
3 24 (23.76%) Senior Analyst
4 13 (12.87%) Java Engineer
5 11 (10.89%) AWS Architect
6 10 (9.90%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Principal Java Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Lead
9 7 (6.93%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Software Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.95%) Applications Architect
11 5 (4.95%) Lead Architect
11 5 (4.95%) SAP Architect
11 5 (4.95%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) Kafka
1 17 (16.83%) Spring Boot
2 14 (13.86%) Spring
3 7 (6.93%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.97%) .NET
5 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.97%) Drools
5 3 (2.97%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.97%) Jest
5 3 (2.97%) PySpark
5 3 (2.97%) XML
6 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.98%) RESTful
7 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.99%) Memcached
7 1 (0.99%) Middleware
7 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.71%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (19.80%) Cloud Native
3 15 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (12.87%) e-Learning
4 13 (12.87%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.96%) PKI
6 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.97%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.98%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.99%) Robotics
9 1 (0.99%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Linux
1 9 (8.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) Mentoring
2 37 (36.63%) Agile
3 35 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (32.67%) CI/CD
5 30 (29.70%) AI
6 27 (26.73%) Architectural Patterns
6 27 (26.73%) Cost Optimisation
6 27 (26.73%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (26.73%) Microservices
7 26 (25.74%) Cost Management
7 26 (25.74%) DevOps
8 24 (23.76%) Computer Science
8 24 (23.76%) FinOps
8 24 (23.76%) Migration
8 24 (23.76%) Software Licensing
8 24 (23.76%) TOGAF
9 19 (18.81%) Enterprise Architecture
9 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (17.82%) Data Modelling
11 17 (16.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 35 (34.65%) Java
2 31 (30.69%) Python
3 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
3 19 (18.81%) SQL
4 17 (16.83%) C#
5 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.91%) Bash
7 7 (6.93%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.96%) C++
9 4 (3.96%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (2.97%) Groovy
11 2 (1.98%) Bicep
12 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.99%) Go
12 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (99.01%) AWS Certification
2 28 (27.72%) Degree
3 19 (18.81%) Azure Certification
3 19 (18.81%) TOGAF Certification
4 18 (17.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
7 9 (8.91%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) CITP
9 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (15.84%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) iptables
2 4 (3.96%) KVM
2 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (23.76%) Terraform
2 10 (9.90%) Grafana
2 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.92%) Ansible
4 5 (4.95%) Progress Chef
4 5 (4.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.95%) Puppet
5 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.97%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.99%) Consul
7 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (42.57%) Microsoft
2 29 (28.71%) ServiceNow
3 24 (23.76%) Adobe
3 24 (23.76%) Apple
4 6 (5.94%) SAP
5 5 (4.95%) Google
5 5 (4.95%) Pega
5 5 (4.95%) Workday
6 4 (3.96%) OpenText
6 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 4 (3.96%) YouTube
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle
7 2 (1.98%) Zerto
8 1 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.99%) Databricks
8 1 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.99%) Splunk
8 1 (0.99%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.99%) UiPath