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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 552 737
Rank change year-on-year -68 +185 +154
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 95 95 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.58% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 51 49 82
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £55,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -14.34% +14.29%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £99,688
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,500 £114,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +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 22,686 16,502 25,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.62% 39.19% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,874 7,700 17,231
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £57,500 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.90% -6.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -67 90 £77,500 +13.10% 11
UK excluding London -49 54 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Work from Home -24 34 £75,000 +16.10% 27
London -43 31 £87,500 +16.67% 2
North of England -31 26 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire -43 17 £75,000 - 1
Midlands -42 10 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -25 9 £49,000 -24.15% 1
East of England -27 9 £97,500 - 3
North West -38 7 - - 1
South West -57 5 £52,500 -23.39%
South East -39 3 £77,500 -7.46% 2
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 (6.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) Apache
2 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.21%) Documentum
4 3 (3.16%) JBoss
5 1 (1.05%) Camunda
5 1 (1.05%) Drupal
5 1 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) SAS
5 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Cloudability
2 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (51.58%) Azure
3 34 (35.79%) Serverless
4 28 (29.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (25.26%) GCP
6 20 (21.05%) Amazon S3
6 20 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.47%) PaaS
10 8 (8.42%) SaaS
11 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (5.26%) CloudFront
12 5 (5.26%) IaaS
12 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.21%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
2 1 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.05%) VPN
2 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (7.37%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.16%) Big Data
7 3 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.05%) MySQL
8 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.05%) Power BI
8 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.05%) Redis
8 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) GitLab
2 13 (13.68%) Cucumber
2 13 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.42%) Git
4 7 (7.37%) JIRA
5 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.16%) Maven
6 3 (3.16%) Selenium
6 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.05%) Gatling
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (43.16%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.32%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.37%) Banking
6 6 (6.32%) Advertising
6 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.32%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.26%) Law
7 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Publishing
8 3 (3.16%) Games
8 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.05%) Billing
10 1 (1.05%) Electronics
10 1 (1.05%) iGaming
10 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (45.26%) Architect
2 21 (22.11%) Senior
3 12 (12.63%) Analyst
3 12 (12.63%) AWS Architect
3 12 (12.63%) Senior Analyst
4 11 (11.58%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.53%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Principal Java Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Applications Architect
7 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (7.37%) Lead
7 7 (7.37%) Software Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.26%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.26%) SAP Architect
9 5 (5.26%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) Kafka
1 14 (14.74%) Spring Boot
2 11 (11.58%) Spring
3 7 (7.37%) Node.js
4 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.16%) .NET
5 3 (3.16%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.16%) Drools
5 3 (3.16%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.16%) Jest
5 3 (3.16%) PySpark
5 3 (3.16%) XML
6 2 (2.11%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.11%) RESTful
7 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.05%) Memcached
7 1 (1.05%) Middleware
7 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (18.95%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (10.53%) e-Learning
4 10 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 7 (7.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.16%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.16%) PKI
7 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.05%) Robotics
9 1 (1.05%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
1 8 (8.42%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.42%) Mentoring
2 34 (35.79%) Agile
3 33 (34.74%) CI/CD
4 32 (33.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (30.53%) DevOps
5 29 (30.53%) TOGAF
6 28 (29.47%) Architectural Patterns
6 28 (29.47%) Microservices
6 28 (29.47%) Migration
7 27 (28.42%) Computer Science
8 23 (24.21%) Enterprise Architecture
8 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (22.11%) Data Modelling
10 19 (20.00%) AI
11 17 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (16.84%) Analytics
12 16 (16.84%) Application Security
13 15 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 35 (36.84%) Python
2 34 (35.79%) Java
3 21 (22.11%) JavaScript
4 19 (20.00%) C#
4 19 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 16 (16.84%) SQL
6 11 (11.58%) Bash
7 6 (6.32%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.16%) C++
9 3 (3.16%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (3.16%) Groovy
10 2 (2.11%) Bicep
11 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.05%) Go
11 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (98.95%) AWS Certification
2 33 (34.74%) Degree
3 25 (26.32%) Azure Certification
4 22 (23.16%) TOGAF Certification
5 21 (22.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (18.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
8 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
9 8 (8.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) CITP
11 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
12 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (1.05%) CCSP
14 1 (1.05%) CISA
14 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (1.05%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.11%) QA
3 1 (1.05%) Basel III
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) MiFID
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.95%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) iptables
3 3 (3.16%) KVM
3 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (25.26%) Terraform
2 12 (12.63%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.47%) Grafana
4 8 (8.42%) Ansible
5 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.16%) HP Fortify
6 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.05%) Consul
7 1 (1.05%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (34.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.89%) ServiceNow
3 12 (12.63%) Adobe
3 12 (12.63%) Apple
4 6 (6.32%) SAP
5 5 (5.26%) Google
5 5 (5.26%) Pega
5 5 (5.26%) Workday
6 4 (4.21%) OpenText
6 4 (4.21%) YouTube
7 3 (3.16%) VMware
8 2 (2.11%) Databricks
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle
8 2 (2.11%) Zerto
9 1 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.05%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.05%) Splunk
9 1 (1.05%) UiPath