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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 541 666
Rank change year-on-year -51 +125 +246
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 106 100 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.59% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 72 48 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,718 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +0.67% +6.43%
75th Percentile £98,750 £87,813 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +12.50%

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 20,665 16,848 23,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.62% 39.38% 27.58%
Number of salaries quoted 8,310 7,495 16,248
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,608 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -25 98 £77,500 +10.71% 25
UK excluding London -19 57 £75,000 +16.10% 12
Work from Home -1 37 £75,000 +16.10% 12
London -23 36 £87,500 +10.76% 13
North of England -24 28 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire -21 23 £75,000 - 2
East of England -9 14 £97,500 - 3
South East -7 5 £77,500 -6.06% 1
Midlands -24 5 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -6 4 £49,000 -24.15% 1
South West -27 4 £52,500 -26.32% 3
North East - 3 £105,000 -
North West -22 2 - - 2
Scotland -19 1 - -
East Midlands -35 1 £75,000 -

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 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.72%) Confluence
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.77%) Documentum
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.89%) JBoss
4 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.94%) Camunda
5 1 (0.94%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (57.55%) Azure
3 43 (40.57%) Serverless
4 27 (25.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (19.81%) Amazon S3
5 21 (19.81%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (16.04%) GCP
7 12 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (11.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (10.38%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.38%) PaaS
9 10 (9.43%) SaaS
10 9 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.60%) Entra ID
12 7 (6.60%) IaaS
13 6 (5.66%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (4.72%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Network Security
1 4 (3.77%) VPN
2 3 (2.83%) VLAN
2 3 (2.83%) WAN
3 2 (1.89%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) LAN
3 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) MPLS
4 1 (0.94%) NAS
4 1 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.94%) SAN
4 1 (0.94%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.94%) VoIP
4 1 (0.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.72%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.83%) Big Data
7 3 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.94%) MySQL
8 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.94%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.26%) GitLab
1 13 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.43%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.49%) Git
4 6 (5.66%) JIRA
5 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.83%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.89%) Maven
7 2 (1.89%) Selenium
7 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (56.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (33.02%) Finance
3 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.38%) Publishing
5 10 (9.43%) Financial Institution
6 9 (8.49%) Banking
7 8 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.72%) Law
10 4 (3.77%) Advertising
11 3 (2.83%) Games
11 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.83%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.89%) Marketing
13 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.94%) Electronics
13 1 (0.94%) iGaming
13 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (56.60%) Architect
2 16 (15.09%) AWS Architect
3 15 (14.15%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (12.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 11 (10.38%) Applications Architect
6 10 (9.43%) Senior
6 10 (9.43%) Software Architect
7 9 (8.49%) ERP Architect
7 9 (8.49%) SAP Architect
7 9 (8.49%) SAP Enterprise Architect
8 8 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.66%) Head of Infrastructure
10 6 (5.66%) Lead
10 6 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Lead Architect
11 5 (4.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.32%) Kafka
2 11 (10.38%) Spring Boot
3 9 (8.49%) Spring
4 5 (4.72%) Node.js
5 3 (2.83%) .NET
5 3 (2.83%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.83%) PySpark
5 3 (2.83%) RESTful
6 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.89%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.89%) Drools
6 2 (1.89%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.89%) Jest
6 2 (1.89%) XML
7 1 (0.94%) Middleware
7 1 (0.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (34.91%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (16.98%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.55%) e-Learning
4 8 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.55%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.72%) PKI
5 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.77%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.94%) Blog
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.38%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) TOGAF
2 39 (36.79%) Agile
3 38 (35.85%) Enterprise Architecture
4 37 (34.91%) Mentoring
4 37 (34.91%) Migration
5 36 (33.96%) Computer Science
6 35 (33.02%) Microservices
7 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
7 34 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (30.19%) DevOps
8 32 (30.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 30 (28.30%) Architectural Patterns
10 28 (26.42%) Data Modelling
11 25 (23.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (22.64%) Application Security
13 22 (20.75%) Roadmaps
14 21 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (19.81%) EAI
15 19 (17.92%) Technology Roadmap
16 17 (16.04%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.57%) Python
2 39 (36.79%) Java
3 27 (25.47%) C#
3 27 (25.47%) JavaScript
4 24 (22.64%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.21%) SQL
6 11 (10.38%) Bash
7 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.72%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.83%) C++
9 3 (2.83%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.89%) Bicep
10 2 (1.89%) Groovy
11 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 105 (99.06%) AWS Certification
2 49 (46.23%) Degree
3 40 (37.74%) Azure Certification
4 35 (33.02%) TOGAF Certification
5 29 (27.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (25.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
8 10 (9.43%) SC Cleared
9 7 (6.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (5.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Master's Degree
11 4 (3.77%) CITP
12 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.89%) CCNP
13 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.94%) CCSP
14 1 (0.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) GDPR
1 4 (3.77%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.94%) Basel III
4 1 (0.94%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (18.87%) Docker
2 6 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.77%) iptables
4 3 (2.83%) KVM
5 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (25.47%) Terraform
2 17 (16.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.49%) Grafana
4 8 (7.55%) Ansible
5 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.77%) Puppet
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.89%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.89%) Nessus
8 2 (1.89%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 33 (31.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) SAP
3 11 (10.38%) Workday
4 7 (6.60%) VMware
5 5 (4.72%) Pega
5 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.77%) Google
6 4 (3.77%) OpenText
6 4 (3.77%) YouTube
7 2 (1.89%) IBM
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle
8 1 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.94%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco
8 1 (0.94%) Databricks
8 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.94%) Palantir
8 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.94%) UiPath
8 1 (0.94%) Zerto