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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 569 582
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 +318
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 117 124 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.63% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 81 48 64
10th Percentile £62,500 £44,750 £46,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +11.79% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £89,063 £92,188
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% +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 19,489 19,744 18,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.30% 37.14% 28.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,865 7,652 12,703
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 23 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 23 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 +52 105 £79,834 +5.74% 21
UK excluding London +36 60 £77,500 +19.97% 15
Work from Home +55 56 £75,000 -5.06% 14
London +21 40 £81,500 -4.12% 10
North of England +32 32 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Yorkshire +9 27 £75,000 -
East of England +30 13 £97,500 -
South East +22 9 £100,000 +88.50% 5
North East - 4 £105,000 -
West Midlands +15 3 £47,000 -27.24% 3
Midlands +8 3 £47,000 -27.24% 3
South West +1 2 £53,750 -24.56% 5
North West +10 1 - - 1
Scotland -12 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 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) Documentum
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) Apache
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (61.54%) Azure
3 53 (45.30%) Serverless
4 28 (23.93%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (22.22%) Amazon S3
6 25 (21.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (14.53%) GCP
8 15 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (12.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.69%) CloudFront
11 8 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.84%) PaaS
11 8 (6.84%) SaaS
12 7 (5.98%) Entra ID
13 5 (4.27%) Figma
13 5 (4.27%) IaaS
14 4 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.40%) VPN
2 8 (6.84%) WAN
3 7 (5.98%) LAN
3 7 (5.98%) SD-WAN
3 7 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.13%) Firewall
4 6 (5.13%) Unified Communications
4 6 (5.13%) VoIP
5 4 (3.42%) Network Security
5 4 (3.42%) VLAN
6 2 (1.71%) DNS
6 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.85%) MPLS
7 1 (0.85%) NAS
7 1 (0.85%) SAN
7 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.98%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Git
2 11 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.69%) GitLab
4 8 (6.84%) Bitbucket
4 8 (6.84%) JIRA
5 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.27%) Vite
6 4 (3.42%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.71%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (57.26%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.35%) Finance
3 12 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.40%) Financial Institution
4 11 (9.40%) Publishing
5 8 (6.84%) Banking
6 7 (5.98%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Law
8 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Advertising
9 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
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%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (52.99%) Architect
2 18 (15.38%) Senior
3 15 (12.82%) AWS Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.40%) Lead
5 11 (9.40%) Software Architect
6 10 (8.55%) Head of IT
6 10 (8.55%) Technical Leader
7 9 (7.69%) ERP Architect
7 9 (7.69%) SAP Architect
7 9 (7.69%) SAP Enterprise Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Head of Infrastructure
9 6 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Head of IT Operations
9 6 (5.13%) Head of Operations
9 6 (5.13%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Consultant
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) Spring
1 9 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.13%) Kafka
3 5 (4.27%) Jest
3 5 (4.27%) Next.js
3 5 (4.27%) React
4 4 (3.42%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.56%) .NET
5 3 (2.56%) RESTful
6 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.71%) Node.js
6 2 (1.71%) PySpark
7 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (29.91%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (13.68%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.13%) Operational Technology
6 5 (4.27%) PKI
6 5 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.27%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.42%) e-Learning
7 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.56%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.11%) Windows
2 8 (6.84%) Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.88%) TOGAF
2 46 (39.32%) Computer Science
3 40 (34.19%) Enterprise Architecture
3 40 (34.19%) Migration
4 39 (33.33%) DevOps
4 39 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 37 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (30.77%) Agile
7 35 (29.91%) Microservices
8 34 (29.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (26.50%) CI/CD
9 31 (26.50%) Roadmaps
9 31 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (25.64%) Application Security
11 27 (23.08%) Data Modelling
12 26 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (21.37%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (21.37%) High Availability
14 24 (20.51%) EAI
14 24 (20.51%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.61%) Python
2 42 (35.90%) Java
3 33 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 32 (27.35%) JavaScript
5 29 (24.79%) C#
6 10 (8.55%) Bash
7 7 (5.98%) SQL
8 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.71%) C++
9 2 (1.71%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 60 (51.28%) Degree
3 48 (41.03%) Azure Certification
4 40 (34.19%) TOGAF Certification
5 37 (31.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (26.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (12.82%) Security Cleared
8 11 (9.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (9.40%) Master's Degree
9 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
10 8 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (5.98%) CCNP
12 6 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) PMI Certification
12 6 (5.13%) PMP
13 4 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (2.56%) CISA
14 3 (2.56%) CISSP
14 3 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.98%) GDPR
3 7 (5.98%) NIST
4 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) Basel III
6 1 (0.85%) GAAP
6 1 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (19.66%) Docker
2 6 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.71%) iptables
4 2 (1.71%) KVM
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (21.37%) Terraform
2 20 (17.09%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.84%) Ansible
4 6 (5.13%) Grafana
5 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.56%) Nessus
6 3 (2.56%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (35.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) SAP
3 11 (9.40%) Workday
4 7 (5.98%) VMware
5 6 (5.13%) Cisco
6 3 (2.56%) Google
6 3 (2.56%) IBM
6 3 (2.56%) OpenText
6 3 (2.56%) Pega
6 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.56%) YouTube
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