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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 563 634
Rank change year-on-year +4 +71 +281
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 111 115 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.64% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 74 45 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,660 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £77,500 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +5.80% +4.64%
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,750 £95,000
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% +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 20,109 17,934 21,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.64% 38.71% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,049 7,217 15,340
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,000
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 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 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 2 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 +15 102 £79,669 +5.87% 35
UK excluding London -6 60 £75,000 +16.10% 27
Work from Home +4 42 £75,000 -5.06% 24
London +11 37 £87,500 +9.38% 11
North of England +3 32 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire -15 26 £75,000 - 2
East of England +9 13 £97,500 - 3
South East -11 6 £88,750 +7.58% 6
Midlands -15 5 £49,500 -23.37% 4
West Midlands -2 4 £49,000 -24.15% 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
South West -18 3 £52,500 -26.32% 8
North West -4 2 - - 3
Scotland -20 1 - -
East Midlands -31 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 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.60%) Documentum
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.90%) Camunda
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (60.36%) Azure
3 46 (41.44%) Serverless
4 26 (23.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (19.82%) Amazon S3
5 22 (19.82%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (16.22%) GCP
7 11 (9.91%) PaaS
7 11 (9.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (9.01%) SaaS
9 8 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.31%) IaaS
11 6 (5.41%) CloudFront
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.41%) VPN
2 4 (3.60%) VLAN
2 4 (3.60%) WAN
3 3 (2.70%) Firewall
3 3 (2.70%) LAN
3 3 (2.70%) Network Security
3 3 (2.70%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.80%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.80%) VoIP
5 1 (0.90%) DNS
5 1 (0.90%) MPLS
5 1 (0.90%) NAS
5 1 (0.90%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.90%) SAN
5 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.21%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.80%) Big Data
7 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.90%) MySQL
8 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) GitLab
2 12 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) Git
4 10 (9.01%) Cucumber
5 7 (6.31%) JIRA
6 6 (5.41%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.80%) Maven
8 2 (1.80%) Selenium
8 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.80%) Vite
General
1 64 (57.66%) Social Skills
2 36 (32.43%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.91%) Financial Institution
4 11 (9.91%) Publishing
5 10 (9.01%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (8.11%) Banking
7 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.50%) Law
9 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.70%) Advertising
10 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.80%) Marketing
12 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.90%) Electronics
12 1 (0.90%) Games
12 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (54.95%) Architect
2 15 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (12.61%) AWS Architect
4 13 (11.71%) Enterprise Architect
5 12 (10.81%) Applications Architect
6 11 (9.91%) Software Architect
7 10 (9.01%) Senior
8 9 (8.11%) ERP Architect
8 9 (8.11%) SAP Architect
8 9 (8.11%) SAP Enterprise Architect
9 8 (7.21%) Java Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Lead
10 7 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Head of Infrastructure
10 7 (6.31%) Technical Architect
10 7 (6.31%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Head of IT
11 6 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.71%) Spring Boot
2 12 (10.81%) Kafka
3 11 (9.91%) Spring
4 5 (4.50%) Node.js
5 4 (3.60%) Jest
6 3 (2.70%) .NET
6 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.70%) PySpark
6 3 (2.70%) RESTful
7 2 (1.80%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.80%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.80%) Drools
7 2 (1.80%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.80%) Next.js
7 2 (1.80%) React
7 2 (1.80%) XML
8 1 (0.90%) Middleware
8 1 (0.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (36.04%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (17.12%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.21%) e-Learning
4 8 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.21%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.50%) PKI
5 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.60%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.80%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.80%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.90%) Blog
9 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.90%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Windows
2 5 (4.50%) Linux
3 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) TOGAF
2 42 (37.84%) Computer Science
3 41 (36.94%) Mentoring
4 40 (36.04%) Enterprise Architecture
4 40 (36.04%) Migration
5 39 (35.14%) Agile
6 38 (34.23%) Microservices
7 35 (31.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 33 (29.73%) CI/CD
8 33 (29.73%) DevOps
8 33 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (27.93%) Architectural Patterns
10 29 (26.13%) Data Modelling
11 28 (25.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (24.32%) Application Security
13 26 (23.42%) Roadmaps
14 23 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (20.72%) EAI
15 22 (19.82%) Technology Roadmap
16 19 (17.12%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.74%) Java
2 42 (37.84%) Python
3 30 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 29 (26.13%) TypeScript
5 28 (25.23%) C#
6 13 (11.71%) SQL
7 10 (9.01%) Bash
8 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.60%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.80%) Bicep
10 2 (1.80%) C++
10 2 (1.80%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 110 (99.10%) AWS Certification
2 55 (49.55%) Degree
3 45 (40.54%) Azure Certification
4 37 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 34 (30.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (27.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
8 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
9 8 (7.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Master's Degree
10 5 (4.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (3.60%) CITP
11 4 (3.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (2.70%) CCNP
12 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) GDPR
1 6 (5.41%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.90%) Basel III
4 1 (0.90%) GAAP
4 1 (0.90%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) iptables
3 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.80%) KVM
5 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Terraform
2 15 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.21%) Ansible
4 6 (5.41%) Grafana
5 5 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.70%) Nessus
6 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.70%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.70%) Puppet
7 2 (1.80%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.81%) SAP
3 11 (9.91%) Workday
4 7 (6.31%) VMware
5 5 (4.50%) Pega
5 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.60%) OpenText
6 4 (3.60%) YouTube
7 3 (2.70%) Google
7 3 (2.70%) IBM
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco
8 2 (1.80%) Databricks
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle
9 1 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.90%) Palantir
9 1 (0.90%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.90%) UiPath