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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 417 782
Rank change year-on-year -217 +365 +46
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 100 270 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.60% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 1.56% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37 39 83
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -18.75% +13.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £103,050 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +1.52% +8.00%

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 18,205 17,271 27,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 38.62% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,583 7,324 17,293
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,613
90th Percentile £93,250 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,584 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.73% +1.17% -4.76%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -213 95 £77,500 +19.23% 18
UK excluding London -210 53 £75,000 +9.45% 11
London -35 41 £83,750 +39.58% 12
Work from Home -156 36 £83,750 +39.58% 10
North of England -177 20 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Midlands -16 15 £50,000 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -9 14 £49,500 +23.75% 2
North West -112 13 - - 1
Yorkshire -30 7 £75,000 - 1
South West -63 6 £52,500 -23.39% 3
East of England -15 5 £97,500 -
South East -16 4 £65,000 -23.53% 2
Wales - 3 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.00%) Apache
2 5 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.00%) Documentum
4 3 (3.00%) JBoss
5 1 (1.00%) Camunda
5 1 (1.00%) Drupal
5 1 (1.00%) IIS
5 1 (1.00%) nginx
5 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (24.00%) Cloudability
2 2 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.00%) Magento
3 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (44.00%) Azure
3 43 (43.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 33 (33.00%) GCP
5 24 (24.00%) Serverless
6 21 (21.00%) Amazon S3
7 20 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.00%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (8.00%) GitHub
10 8 (8.00%) PaaS
11 7 (7.00%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (7.00%) CloudFront
11 7 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (7.00%) SaaS
11 7 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (6.00%) OpenShift
13 5 (5.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.00%) NoSQL
2 18 (18.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (7.00%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) Adabas
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.00%) Metadata
8 1 (1.00%) Power BI
8 1 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (26.00%) GitLab
2 24 (24.00%) Cucumber
3 16 (16.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.00%) JIRA
5 5 (5.00%) Git
5 5 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.00%) Maven
7 3 (3.00%) Selenium
7 3 (3.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.00%) Gatling
8 1 (1.00%) JMeter
8 1 (1.00%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (31.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.00%) Banking
6 6 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.00%) Advertising
8 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Publishing
9 2 (2.00%) Games
9 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Law
10 1 (1.00%) Billing
10 1 (1.00%) iGaming
10 1 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (38.00%) Senior
2 29 (29.00%) Architect
3 24 (24.00%) Analyst
3 24 (24.00%) Senior Analyst
4 21 (21.00%) Java Engineer
5 15 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
5 15 (15.00%) Principal Java Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) AWS Architect
7 9 (9.00%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Lead
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Lead Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Technical Leader
12 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.00%) Spring Boot
2 25 (25.00%) Kafka
3 23 (23.00%) Spring
4 8 (8.00%) Node.js
5 4 (4.00%) .NET
5 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.00%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.00%) Drools
6 3 (3.00%) Gherkin
6 3 (3.00%) Jest
6 3 (3.00%) PySpark
6 3 (3.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (3.00%) XML
7 2 (2.00%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.00%) JWT
7 2 (2.00%) MediatR
7 2 (2.00%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (32.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (23.00%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (22.00%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (21.00%) e-Learning
4 21 (21.00%) Public Cloud
5 10 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
7 5 (5.00%) PKI
8 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (3.00%) Mainframe
9 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.00%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
11 1 (1.00%) Robotics
11 1 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.00%) Windows
2 13 (13.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) AIX
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.00%) Mentoring
2 47 (47.00%) Agile
2 47 (47.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (33.00%) AI
5 30 (30.00%) Microservices
6 28 (28.00%) Event-Driven
7 27 (27.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 27 (27.00%) Cost Management
7 27 (27.00%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (26.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 24 (24.00%) BDD
9 24 (24.00%) FinOps
9 24 (24.00%) Software Licensing
10 23 (23.00%) CQRS
11 22 (22.00%) DevOps
11 22 (22.00%) Performance Testing
11 22 (22.00%) Test Automation
12 19 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (19.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (38.00%) Java
2 26 (26.00%) SQL
3 23 (23.00%) Python
4 12 (12.00%) C#
4 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.00%) Bash
6 8 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 8 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.00%) C++
7 5 (5.00%) Google Apps Script
7 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.00%) Groovy
8 3 (3.00%) Ruby
9 2 (2.00%) Bicep
9 2 (2.00%) COBOL
9 2 (2.00%) Go
10 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.00%) Natural
10 1 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 99 (99.00%) AWS Certification
2 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 12 (12.00%) Degree
5 10 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.00%) CITP
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.00%) NCSC
3 2 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) KVM
2 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) iptables
4 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (29.00%) Terraform
2 11 (11.00%) Grafana
2 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.00%) Ansible
4 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.00%) Puppet
6 3 (3.00%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.00%) Consul
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) Nagios
7 1 (1.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (37.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (29.00%) ServiceNow
3 24 (24.00%) Adobe
3 24 (24.00%) Apple
4 6 (6.00%) Google
4 6 (6.00%) VMware
5 5 (5.00%) Pega
6 4 (4.00%) OpenText
6 4 (4.00%) SAP
6 4 (4.00%) YouTube
7 3 (3.00%) Workday
8 2 (2.00%) Oracle
8 2 (2.00%) Splunk
8 2 (2.00%) Zerto
9 1 (1.00%) Commvault
9 1 (1.00%) Epicor
9 1 (1.00%) IFS
9 1 (1.00%) Infor
9 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software