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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 414 673
Rank change year-on-year -243 +259 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 159 275 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.56% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.77% 1.61% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 50
10th Percentile - £59,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,763 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -10.83%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £91,906
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% -17.24%

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 20,646 17,099 21,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.58% 34.54% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,510 7,447 9,354
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,000 £42,415
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -3.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
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 26 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 26 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 -231 141 £90,000 +20.00% 136
London -8 98 £100,000 +22.70% 92
UK excluding London -302 53 £80,000 +6.67% 55
Work from Home -215 38 £90,000 +10.43% 55
Midlands -38 16 £82,500 +26.92% 7
North of England -204 14 £65,000 -13.33% 15
West Midlands -30 13 £85,000 +30.77% 5
North West -154 13 £55,000 -13.73% 10
South East -38 7 £65,000 -35.00% 8
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 3
South West -78 5 £90,000 +31.34% 11
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 2
Scotland - 3 - - 6
East of England -32 1 £100,000 - 2
Yorkshire -50 1 £75,000 - 5

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%) SAS
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (54.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 52 (32.70%) Azure
4 48 (30.19%) Serverless
5 45 (28.30%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (25.16%) GCP
7 32 (20.13%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (19.50%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (18.87%) Amazon S3
10 23 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (11.32%) GitHub
13 16 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (9.43%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (8.81%) AWS Control Tower
16 13 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (5.66%) AWS CodePipeline
18 7 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
18 7 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
18 7 (4.40%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.61%) Network Security
2 7 (4.40%) Firewall
3 5 (3.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.89%) DNS
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 2 (1.26%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (34.59%) NoSQL
2 26 (16.35%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.03%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.89%) Big Data
7 3 (1.89%) Metadata
8 1 (0.63%) Adabas
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.63%) Power BI
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (28.93%) GitLab
2 42 (26.42%) Cucumber
3 13 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
General
1 72 (45.28%) Finance
2 28 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 20 (12.58%) Banking
5 18 (11.32%) Financial Institution
6 15 (9.43%) Social Skills
7 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.14%) Law
9 4 (2.52%) Billing
9 4 (2.52%) Military
9 4 (2.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 3 (1.89%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.26%) Legal
11 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (47.80%) Senior
2 46 (28.93%) Architect
3 42 (26.42%) Java Engineer
4 30 (18.87%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (16.35%) Consultant
6 24 (15.09%) Analyst
6 24 (15.09%) Principal Engineer
6 24 (15.09%) Principal Java Engineer
6 24 (15.09%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (13.21%) Security Consultant
8 19 (11.95%) Senior Consultant
9 18 (11.32%) Senior Java Engineer
10 14 (8.81%) Senior Security Consultant
11 12 (7.55%) AWS Architect
12 7 (4.40%) Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.77%) AWS Solution Architect
13 6 (3.77%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (33.33%) Terraform
2 52 (32.70%) Spring Boot
3 46 (28.93%) Spring
4 45 (28.30%) Kafka
5 22 (13.84%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.18%) .NET
7 11 (6.92%) Node.js
8 10 (6.29%) REST
9 7 (4.40%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (4.40%) Entity Framework
9 7 (4.40%) JWT
9 7 (4.40%) MediatR
9 7 (4.40%) OAuth
9 7 (4.40%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.40%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.40%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 71 (44.65%) Cloud Native
2 45 (28.30%) Public Cloud
3 42 (26.42%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (26.42%) e-Learning
4 34 (21.38%) Onboarding
5 24 (15.09%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (14.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (6.29%) Data Centre
9 9 (5.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 8 (5.03%) PKI
11 7 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
11 7 (4.40%) Mainframe
11 7 (4.40%) Security Posture
12 6 (3.77%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
14 4 (2.52%) Blog
14 4 (2.52%) IVR
15 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.69%) Windows
2 12 (7.55%) Linux
3 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (61.01%) Infrastructure as Code
2 79 (49.69%) Mentoring
3 77 (48.43%) AI
4 73 (45.91%) Agile
5 68 (42.77%) CI/CD
6 59 (37.11%) Microservices
7 57 (35.85%) Event-Driven
8 49 (30.82%) CQRS
9 45 (28.30%) Architectural Patterns
10 43 (27.04%) Test Automation
11 42 (26.42%) BDD
11 42 (26.42%) Performance Testing
12 38 (23.90%) Cloud Security
12 38 (23.90%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (21.38%) Threat Modelling
14 31 (19.50%) Data Protection
15 30 (18.87%) Coaching
15 30 (18.87%) Cost Optimisation
15 30 (18.87%) Roadmaps
16 27 (16.98%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (48.43%) Java
2 51 (32.08%) SQL
3 41 (25.79%) Python
4 21 (13.21%) Ruby
5 15 (9.43%) Bash
6 14 (8.81%) Perl
6 14 (8.81%) PHP
7 12 (7.55%) C#
8 8 (5.03%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.77%) COBOL
10 5 (3.14%) C++
10 5 (3.14%) Go
10 5 (3.14%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.52%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.63%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) Natural
13 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 159 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 25 (15.72%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.81%) Degree
4 13 (8.18%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (7.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 12 (7.55%) CISSP
6 10 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared
10 4 (2.52%) ISSAP
10 4 (2.52%) ISSEP
11 3 (1.89%) CCIE
11 3 (1.89%) CCNP
11 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.63%) CCSP
12 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.06%) GDPR
2 10 (6.29%) HIPAA
3 7 (4.40%) 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 12 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.29%) Docker
3 5 (3.14%) KVM
4 4 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.89%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.03%) Ansible
3 7 (4.40%) Grafana
4 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.63%) Nagios
6 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.09%) Adobe
2 24 (15.09%) Apple
2 24 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 13 (8.18%) VMware
4 11 (6.92%) Cisco
5 9 (5.66%) 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%) Juniper
9 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.89%) Zscaler