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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 586 559
Rank change year-on-year +68 -27 +344
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 117 123 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.63% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 78 46 52
10th Percentile £63,750 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,663 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,750 £78,250 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +5.74% -1.33%
75th Percentile £99,688 £88,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +19.97% -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 19,341 19,538 15,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.64% 35.56% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,785 7,770 10,661
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.87% +4.76% +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 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 14 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 January 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 +54 106 £81,500 +7.95% 24
UK excluding London +54 63 £77,500 +19.97% 22
Work from Home +60 59 £75,000 -5.06% 11
London +27 41 £87,500 +2.94% 9
North of England +44 35 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Yorkshire +18 27 £75,000 - 1
East of England +34 13 £97,500 - 1
South East +23 9 £100,000 +88.50% 3
North West +31 4 - - 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
West Midlands +20 3 £51,218 -20.72% 4
Midlands +8 3 £51,218 -20.72% 4
South West +14 2 £62,500 - 2
Scotland -9 1 - - 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 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (67.52%) Azure
3 50 (42.74%) Serverless
4 25 (21.37%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (19.66%) Amazon S3
6 22 (18.80%) GCP
7 21 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (6.84%) CloudFront
11 7 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.98%) SaaS
12 6 (5.13%) Entra ID
13 5 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (4.27%) Figma
13 5 (4.27%) IaaS
13 5 (4.27%) PaaS
14 3 (2.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.26%) VPN
2 9 (7.69%) WAN
3 8 (6.84%) LAN
3 8 (6.84%) SD-WAN
3 8 (6.84%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (5.98%) Unified Communications
4 7 (5.98%) VoIP
5 6 (5.13%) Firewall
6 4 (3.42%) VLAN
7 3 (2.56%) Network Security
8 2 (1.71%) DNS
8 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.85%) MPLS
9 1 (0.85%) NAS
9 1 (0.85%) SAN
9 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (5.98%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Big Data
6 1 (0.85%) MySQL
6 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Git
2 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.84%) GitLab
4 7 (5.98%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.27%) JIRA
5 5 (4.27%) Vite
6 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.35%) Finance
3 11 (9.40%) Financial Institution
3 11 (9.40%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.55%) Publishing
5 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.98%) Banking
7 6 (5.13%) Law
8 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.85%) Games
10 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (53.85%) Architect
2 22 (18.80%) Senior
3 17 (14.53%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (13.68%) AWS Architect
5 13 (11.11%) Applications Architect
6 12 (10.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 11 (9.40%) Head of IT
7 11 (9.40%) Software Architect
8 8 (6.84%) ERP Architect
8 8 (6.84%) Lead
8 8 (6.84%) SAP Architect
8 8 (6.84%) SAP Enterprise Architect
9 7 (5.98%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (5.98%) Head of IT Operations
9 7 (5.98%) Head of Operations
9 7 (5.98%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.27%) AWS Solution Architect
11 5 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) Spring
1 8 (6.84%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.27%) Jest
2 5 (4.27%) Next.js
2 5 (4.27%) React
3 4 (3.42%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.42%) Kafka
4 2 (1.71%) .NET
4 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.71%) Node.js
4 2 (1.71%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.85%) EDI
5 1 (0.85%) PySpark
5 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.35%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (16.24%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.98%) Operational Technology
5 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.27%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.42%) PKI
8 3 (2.56%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.71%) CMDB
9 2 (1.71%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.71%) NHS
10 1 (0.85%) Blog
10 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.85%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.40%) Windows
2 6 (5.13%) Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.03%) Computer Science
1 48 (41.03%) TOGAF
2 41 (35.04%) Enterprise Architecture
3 39 (33.33%) DevOps
4 36 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 36 (30.77%) Microservices
4 36 (30.77%) Migration
5 35 (29.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (28.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (27.35%) Agile
7 32 (27.35%) Roadmaps
7 32 (27.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (25.64%) Application Security
9 29 (24.79%) CI/CD
10 28 (23.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (23.08%) High Availability
12 26 (22.22%) Data Modelling
13 25 (21.37%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (21.37%) Technology Roadmap
14 24 (20.51%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 46 (39.32%) Python
2 43 (36.75%) Java
3 33 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 31 (26.50%) JavaScript
5 30 (25.64%) C#
6 10 (8.55%) Bash
7 8 (6.84%) SQL
8 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.85%) C++
9 1 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 61 (52.14%) Degree
3 56 (47.86%) Azure Certification
4 38 (32.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (32.48%) TOGAF Certification
5 34 (29.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
7 12 (10.26%) Master's Degree
8 10 (8.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
9 8 (6.84%) CCNP
10 7 (5.98%) PMI Certification
10 7 (5.98%) PMP
11 5 (4.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) CISSP
12 4 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (2.56%) CISA
13 3 (2.56%) MCP
13 3 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.82%) NIST
2 12 (10.26%) GDPR
3 10 (8.55%) QA
4 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (2.56%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.71%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.85%) Basel III
9 1 (0.85%) GAAP
9 1 (0.85%) MiFID
9 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (19.66%) Docker
2 6 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.71%) KVM
5 2 (1.71%) vSphere
6 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.85%) iptables
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (20.51%) Terraform
2 23 (19.66%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.69%) Ansible
4 4 (3.42%) Grafana
4 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.56%) Nessus
5 3 (2.56%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) SAP
3 10 (8.55%) Workday
4 8 (6.84%) Cisco
5 7 (5.98%) Google
5 7 (5.98%) VMware
6 3 (2.56%) IBM
7 2 (1.71%) Databricks
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle
8 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.85%) Palantir
8 1 (0.85%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.85%) Refinitiv