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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 568 645
Rank change year-on-year +14 +77 +286
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 115 119 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.57% 0.65% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 76 45 69
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,775 £49,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £79,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +12.86% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,750 £92,125
90th Percentile £101,750 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +10.20%

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 20,213 18,306 21,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.01% 38.45% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,162 7,334 14,802
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.99%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +14 106 £79,669 +5.52% 16
UK excluding London +10 62 £75,000 +16.10% 11
Work from Home +26 44 £75,000 -5.06% 7
London +14 39 £84,500 +5.63% 7
North of England +3 34 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Yorkshire -20 28 £75,000 - 1
East of England +14 13 £97,500 - 1
South East -8 6 £88,750 +7.58% 1
Midlands -2 5 £49,500 -23.37% 2
West Midlands +11 4 £49,000 -24.15% 2
North East - 4 £105,000 -
South West -14 3 £52,500 -26.32% 4
North West -13 2 - - 2
Scotland -17 1 - -
East Midlands -24 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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) Documentum
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.87%) Camunda
5 1 (0.87%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (60.00%) Azure
3 49 (42.61%) Serverless
4 28 (24.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (20.87%) Amazon S3
5 24 (20.87%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (15.65%) GCP
7 12 (10.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (9.57%) PaaS
9 10 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (8.70%) SaaS
10 9 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (6.09%) CloudFront
11 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
11 7 (6.09%) IaaS
12 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (3.48%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) VPN
2 4 (3.48%) VLAN
2 4 (3.48%) WAN
3 3 (2.61%) Firewall
3 3 (2.61%) LAN
3 3 (2.61%) Network Security
3 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.74%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.87%) DNS
5 1 (0.87%) MPLS
5 1 (0.87%) NAS
5 1 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.87%) SAN
5 1 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.22%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.74%) Big Data
7 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.87%) MySQL
8 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) GitLab
2 13 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.43%) Git
4 10 (8.70%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.96%) JIRA
6 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.61%) Vite
9 2 (1.74%) Maven
9 2 (1.74%) Selenium
9 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (57.39%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.30%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.57%) Financial Institution
4 11 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (9.57%) Publishing
5 9 (7.83%) Banking
6 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Law
8 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.61%) Advertising
9 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.87%) Electronics
11 1 (0.87%) Games
11 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (53.91%) Architect
2 15 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (12.17%) AWS Architect
4 13 (11.30%) Applications Architect
4 13 (11.30%) Enterprise Architect
5 12 (10.43%) Senior
6 11 (9.57%) Software Architect
7 9 (7.83%) ERP Architect
7 9 (7.83%) Lead
7 9 (7.83%) SAP Architect
7 9 (7.83%) SAP Enterprise Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Java Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Technical Leader
9 7 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (6.09%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Head of IT
10 6 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) Spring Boot
2 12 (10.43%) Kafka
2 12 (10.43%) Spring
3 5 (4.35%) Jest
3 5 (4.35%) Node.js
4 3 (2.61%) .NET
4 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.61%) Next.js
4 3 (2.61%) PySpark
4 3 (2.61%) React
4 3 (2.61%) RESTful
5 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.74%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.74%) Drools
5 2 (1.74%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.74%) XML
6 1 (0.87%) Middleware
6 1 (0.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (35.65%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.96%) e-Learning
4 8 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.96%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) PKI
5 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.48%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.74%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.87%) Blog
9 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.70%) Windows
2 5 (4.35%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 44 (38.26%) Computer Science
3 43 (37.39%) Mentoring
4 41 (35.65%) Enterprise Architecture
4 41 (35.65%) Migration
5 40 (34.78%) Agile
6 39 (33.91%) Microservices
7 36 (31.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 35 (30.43%) CI/CD
8 35 (30.43%) DevOps
8 35 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (27.83%) Architectural Patterns
10 30 (26.09%) Data Modelling
11 28 (24.35%) Application Security
11 28 (24.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (23.48%) Roadmaps
13 24 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (20.87%) EAI
14 23 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
15 20 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 46 (40.00%) Java
2 44 (38.26%) Python
3 32 (27.83%) JavaScript
3 32 (27.83%) TypeScript
4 29 (25.22%) C#
5 13 (11.30%) SQL
6 11 (9.57%) Bash
7 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.48%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.74%) Bicep
9 2 (1.74%) C++
9 2 (1.74%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 114 (99.13%) AWS Certification
2 57 (49.57%) Degree
3 46 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 38 (33.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 36 (31.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (27.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
8 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
9 9 (7.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Master's Degree
11 5 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (3.48%) CITP
12 4 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (2.61%) CCNP
13 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
14 2 (1.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) Basel III
6 1 (0.87%) GAAP
6 1 (0.87%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) iptables
3 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.74%) KVM
5 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (20.87%) Terraform
2 16 (13.91%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.83%) Ansible
4 6 (5.22%) Grafana
5 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.61%) Nessus
6 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.61%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.61%) Puppet
7 2 (1.74%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (33.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) SAP
3 11 (9.57%) Workday
4 7 (6.09%) VMware
5 5 (4.35%) Pega
5 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.48%) OpenText
6 4 (3.48%) YouTube
7 3 (2.61%) Google
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
8 2 (1.74%) Cisco
8 2 (1.74%) Databricks
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle
9 1 (0.87%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.87%) Palantir
9 1 (0.87%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.87%) UiPath