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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 437 729
Rank change year-on-year -201 +292 +7
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 147 266 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 1.54% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 37 43 62
10th Percentile £54,750 £56,188 £51,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £79,375
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.81% +2.42%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +10.71% +1.82% +5.77%

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 19,803 17,225 21,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.68% 34.59% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,616 7,847 11,813
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,256 £37,500 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -194 131 £80,000 +15.50% 122
London -5 86 £100,000 +48.15% 88
UK excluding London -247 55 £77,500 +10.71% 47
Work from Home -185 36 £90,000 +31.34% 69
North of England -196 16 £67,500 -3.57% 16
Midlands -13 13 £85,000 +38.78% 9
West Midlands -14 13 £85,000 +38.78% 9
North West -142 13 £55,000 -13.73% 9
South East -31 7 £65,000 -31.58% 3
South West -61 7 £90,000 +31.34% 8
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 2
Yorkshire -26 3 £80,000 +6.67% 5
Scotland - 3 - - 6
East of England -34 2 £87,500 -

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 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.72%) SAS
2 3 (2.04%) JBoss
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.33%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.08%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (52.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (33.33%) Serverless
4 46 (31.29%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (31.29%) Azure
5 40 (27.21%) GCP
6 36 (24.49%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (21.77%) Cloud Computing
8 30 (20.41%) Amazon S3
9 26 (17.69%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (12.93%) GitHub
11 18 (12.24%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.20%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (10.20%) AWS Control Tower
13 11 (7.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.80%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (5.44%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (5.44%) CloudFront
16 7 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.37%) Network Security
2 5 (3.40%) Internet
3 3 (2.04%) Firewall
3 3 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) DHCP
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.25%) NoSQL
2 28 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.48%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.72%) Big Data
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Adabas
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (26.53%) GitLab
2 34 (23.13%) Cucumber
3 18 (12.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.40%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.04%) Maven
5 3 (2.04%) Selenium
5 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.36%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 58 (39.46%) Finance
2 28 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 12 (8.16%) Banking
5 12 (8.16%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.40%) Law
7 4 (2.72%) Billing
7 4 (2.72%) Military
7 4 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 3 (2.04%) Advertising
8 3 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Marketing
8 3 (2.04%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.36%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) iGaming
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (47.62%) Senior
2 40 (27.21%) Architect
3 31 (21.09%) Java Engineer
4 26 (17.69%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.33%) Analyst
5 24 (16.33%) Consultant
5 24 (16.33%) Senior Analyst
6 20 (13.61%) Security Consultant
7 19 (12.93%) Principal Engineer
7 19 (12.93%) Principal Java Engineer
8 18 (12.24%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.52%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (8.84%) AWS Architect
11 12 (8.16%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Developer
13 7 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.76%) Lead
13 7 (4.76%) Senior Architect
13 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (29.93%) Spring Boot
2 35 (23.81%) Spring
3 34 (23.13%) Kafka
4 22 (14.97%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.52%) .NET
5 14 (9.52%) Node.js
6 10 (6.80%) REST
7 8 (5.44%) .NET Framework
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (4.76%) Entity Framework
8 7 (4.76%) JWT
8 7 (4.76%) MediatR
8 7 (4.76%) OAuth
8 7 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 7 (4.76%) OpenAPI
8 7 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (4.76%) Swagger
9 6 (4.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 34 (23.13%) Onboarding
3 32 (21.77%) Public Cloud
4 31 (21.09%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (21.09%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 19 (12.93%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (6.12%) Data Centre
8 7 (4.76%) Data Structures
8 7 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.76%) Mainframe
9 6 (4.08%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (3.40%) PKI
10 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.72%) Blog
11 4 (2.72%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.72%) IVR
11 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.24%) Windows
2 13 (8.84%) Linux
3 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) AIX
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (56.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (51.02%) Mentoring
3 66 (44.90%) AI
4 63 (42.86%) Agile
5 59 (40.14%) CI/CD
6 46 (31.29%) Microservices
7 45 (30.61%) Event-Driven
8 44 (29.93%) Architectural Patterns
9 38 (25.85%) CQRS
10 36 (24.49%) Cloud Security
11 34 (23.13%) BDD
11 34 (23.13%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (21.77%) Test Automation
13 31 (21.09%) Cost Optimisation
13 31 (21.09%) Performance Testing
13 31 (21.09%) Threat Modelling
14 30 (20.41%) Data Protection
15 27 (18.37%) Cost Management
16 26 (17.69%) Coaching
17 25 (17.01%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.94%) Java
2 42 (28.57%) Python
3 37 (25.17%) SQL
4 21 (14.29%) Ruby
5 20 (13.61%) Bash
6 15 (10.20%) PHP
7 14 (9.52%) Perl
8 12 (8.16%) C#
9 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.12%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.08%) COBOL
11 6 (4.08%) Go
12 5 (3.40%) C++
12 5 (3.40%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.04%) Groovy
15 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.68%) Natural
15 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 147 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) AWS Certified Developer
3 15 (10.20%) Degree
4 13 (8.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.76%) CISSP
6 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.72%) ISSAP
8 4 (2.72%) ISSEP
9 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.68%) CCSP
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.84%) GDPR
2 8 (5.44%) HIPAA
3 7 (4.76%) NCSC
4 6 (4.08%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.68%) GRC
8 1 (0.68%) GxP
8 1 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Docker
2 8 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.40%) KVM
4 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.68%) iptables
Systems Management
1 56 (38.10%) Terraform
2 15 (10.20%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.80%) Grafana
4 9 (6.12%) Ansible
5 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.04%) Argo
6 3 (2.04%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.68%) Consul
8 1 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.68%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 41 (27.89%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.33%) Adobe
2 24 (16.33%) Apple
2 24 (16.33%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.12%) Google
3 9 (6.12%) VMware
4 8 (5.44%) Oracle
5 7 (4.76%) Avaya
5 7 (4.76%) Cisco
5 7 (4.76%) Genesys
5 7 (4.76%) SAP
6 5 (3.40%) Splunk
7 4 (2.72%) Epicor
7 4 (2.72%) IFS
7 4 (2.72%) Infor
7 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.36%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.36%) Zerto