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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 424 715
Rank change year-on-year -215 +291 -12
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 159 271 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.80% 1.58% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 41 44 58
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,100 £47,593
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,938 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £94,688 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -10.71%

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 19,752 17,191 21,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.98% 34.39% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10,804 7,861 10,899
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,447 £36,925 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -225 141 £85,000 +13.33% 124
London 0 94 £95,000 +18.75% 93
UK excluding London -246 57 £75,000 - 41
Work from Home -188 39 £90,000 +14.65% 62
Midlands -32 16 £82,500 +26.92% 7
North of England -191 15 £65,000 -13.33% 14
West Midlands -15 13 £85,000 +30.77% 6
North West -145 13 £55,000 -13.73% 9
South East -41 7 £65,000 -31.58% 3
South West -74 7 £90,000 +31.34% 11
Wales - 7 £80,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 1
Scotland - 3 - - 3
East of England -23 2 £87,500 -
Yorkshire -40 2 £75,000 - 4

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 4 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.52%) SAS
2 2 (1.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Drupal
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) JBoss
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (52.83%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (32.08%) Azure
3 51 (32.08%) Serverless
4 48 (30.19%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (25.79%) GCP
6 34 (21.38%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (20.13%) Amazon S3
7 32 (20.13%) Cloud Computing
8 26 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (11.95%) GitHub
11 18 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (9.43%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (9.43%) AWS Control Tower
13 13 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.29%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (5.03%) CloudFront
16 7 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.24%) Network Security
2 6 (3.77%) Firewall
3 5 (3.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.89%) LAN
4 3 (1.89%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.89%) VPN
4 3 (1.89%) WAN
4 3 (1.89%) Wireless
5 1 (0.63%) DHCP
5 1 (0.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (30.82%) NoSQL
2 30 (18.87%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.52%) Big Data
6 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.89%) Metadata
8 1 (0.63%) Adabas
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.63%) Power BI
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 42 (26.42%) GitLab
2 37 (23.27%) Cucumber
3 16 (10.06%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.14%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.26%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.63%) Gatling
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (40.88%) Finance
2 28 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (15.72%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.69%) Banking
5 15 (9.43%) Financial Institution
5 15 (9.43%) Social Skills
6 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.14%) Law
8 4 (2.52%) Billing
8 4 (2.52%) Military
8 4 (2.52%) Retail
9 3 (1.89%) Advertising
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
9 3 (1.89%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Games
10 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Legal
10 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (46.54%) Senior
2 48 (30.19%) Architect
3 36 (22.64%) Java Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (15.72%) Consultant
6 24 (15.09%) Analyst
6 24 (15.09%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (13.21%) Principal Engineer
7 21 (13.21%) Principal Java Engineer
7 21 (13.21%) Security Consultant
8 18 (11.32%) Senior Consultant
9 15 (9.43%) AWS Architect
9 15 (9.43%) Senior Java Engineer
10 14 (8.81%) Senior Security Consultant
11 8 (5.03%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.40%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (4.40%) Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Lead
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (36.48%) Terraform
2 47 (29.56%) Spring Boot
3 40 (25.16%) Spring
4 39 (24.53%) Kafka
5 22 (13.84%) AWS CDK
6 14 (8.81%) .NET
7 12 (7.55%) Node.js
8 10 (6.29%) REST
9 8 (5.03%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (4.40%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.40%) JWT
10 7 (4.40%) MediatR
10 7 (4.40%) OAuth
10 7 (4.40%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.40%) OpenAPI
10 7 (4.40%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (40.88%) Cloud Native
2 37 (23.27%) Public Cloud
3 36 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (22.64%) e-Learning
4 34 (21.38%) Onboarding
5 23 (14.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 21 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (7.55%) Data Centre
8 10 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (5.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
10 7 (4.40%) Mainframe
10 7 (4.40%) Security Posture
11 6 (3.77%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (3.77%) PKI
12 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
13 4 (2.52%) Blog
13 4 (2.52%) IVR
13 4 (2.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.32%) Windows
2 13 (8.18%) Linux
3 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (57.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 77 (48.43%) Mentoring
3 72 (45.28%) AI
4 69 (43.40%) Agile
5 66 (41.51%) CI/CD
6 53 (33.33%) Microservices
7 51 (32.08%) Event-Driven
8 44 (27.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 43 (27.04%) CQRS
10 39 (24.53%) Cloud Security
11 38 (23.90%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (23.27%) BDD
12 37 (23.27%) Test Automation
13 36 (22.64%) Performance Testing
14 34 (21.38%) Threat Modelling
15 32 (20.13%) Data Protection
16 31 (19.50%) Cost Optimisation
17 30 (18.87%) Roadmaps
18 29 (18.24%) DevOps
19 28 (17.61%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.28%) Java
2 45 (28.30%) SQL
3 44 (27.67%) Python
4 21 (13.21%) Ruby
5 18 (11.32%) Bash
6 15 (9.43%) PHP
7 14 (8.81%) Perl
8 12 (7.55%) C#
9 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.40%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.77%) COBOL
11 6 (3.77%) Go
12 5 (3.14%) C++
12 5 (3.14%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.63%) Groovy
14 1 (0.63%) Natural
14 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 159 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 29 (18.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) Degree
4 13 (8.18%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (8.18%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (6.92%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.92%) CISSP
6 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.40%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.52%) ISSAP
8 4 (2.52%) ISSEP
9 3 (1.89%) CCIE
9 3 (1.89%) CCNP
9 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.63%) CCSP
11 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.06%) GDPR
2 10 (6.29%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.03%) NCSC
4 6 (3.77%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.52%) GRC
6 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.63%) GxP
8 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (8.81%) Docker
2 11 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.14%) KVM
4 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.63%) iptables
Systems Management
1 15 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.29%) Grafana
3 9 (5.66%) Ansible
4 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.89%) Argo
6 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) Consul
7 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.63%) Kibana
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.09%) Adobe
2 24 (15.09%) Apple
2 24 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 12 (7.55%) VMware
4 10 (6.29%) Cisco
4 10 (6.29%) Google
5 9 (5.66%) Oracle
6 7 (4.40%) Avaya
6 7 (4.40%) Genesys
6 7 (4.40%) SAP
7 5 (3.14%) Splunk
8 4 (2.52%) Epicor
8 4 (2.52%) IFS
8 4 (2.52%) Infor
8 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.89%) Databricks
9 3 (1.89%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.89%) OutSystems
9 3 (1.89%) Zscaler