AWS Certified Solutions Architect Jobs

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Solutions Architect qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 610 926 885
Rank change year-on-year +316 -41 -217
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 123 164 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.44% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 43 82 103
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £53,250 £50,313 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -11.76% +28.30%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,188 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £103,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.17% -11.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,632 37,186 31,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.59% 29.55% 24.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,990 17,220 17,757
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £40,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,074 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% +3.77% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% +1.02%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 12 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 29 November 2023. 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 +291 109 £74,000 -12.94% 44
UK excluding London +227 80 £68,750 +10.00% 29
South West +84 44 £58,000 -38.95% 5
Work from Home +237 42 £73,250 -13.82% 23
London +245 29 £85,000 -10.53% 17
North of England +145 25 £84,084 +5.11% 9
North West +125 25 £84,084 +5.11% 3
South East +139 8 £71,250 +14.00% 8
Midlands +120 5 £100,000 +8.11% 6
East Midlands +46 4 - - 1
Scotland +53 2 - - 1
West Midlands +112 1 £100,000 +8.11% 5

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.50%) WebSphere
2 7 (5.69%) Apache
2 7 (5.69%) IIS
2 7 (5.69%) MS Exchange
3 4 (3.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) AutoCAD
1 6 (4.88%) PTC Creo
1 6 (4.88%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (49.59%) Azure
3 41 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (29.27%) GCP
5 17 (13.82%) IaaS
5 17 (13.82%) PaaS
6 16 (13.01%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (8.94%) Serverless
8 9 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.69%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.07%) GitHub
11 5 (4.07%) SaaS
12 4 (3.25%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (27.64%) DNS
2 33 (26.83%) HTTP
2 33 (26.83%) TCP/IP
3 29 (23.58%) DHCP
4 6 (4.88%) WAN
5 5 (4.07%) Firewall
5 5 (4.07%) Internet
6 4 (3.25%) 5G
6 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.25%) SMTP
7 3 (2.44%) VPN
8 2 (1.63%) LAN
8 2 (1.63%) Network Security
8 2 (1.63%) SMS
8 2 (1.63%) Wireless
9 1 (0.81%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (5.69%) SAP HANA
1 7 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.44%) Big Data
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.81%) DB2
6 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.69%) Chocolatey
2 7 (5.69%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) GitLab
3 3 (2.44%) JIRA
4 2 (1.63%) Gradle
4 2 (1.63%) Maven
4 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.63%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 71 (57.72%) Social Skills
2 68 (55.28%) Finance
3 53 (43.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.13%) Retail
6 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (40.65%) Architect
2 36 (29.27%) Cloud Architect
3 32 (26.02%) Senior
4 24 (19.51%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (13.82%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 15 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Software Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) AWS Architect
7 14 (11.38%) Lead
8 11 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.94%) Senior Architect
9 9 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.50%) Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Principal Architect
12 6 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.88%) Development Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Architect
12 6 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.58%) HTML
1 29 (23.58%) OpenID
1 29 (23.58%) SAML
2 25 (20.33%) .NET
2 25 (20.33%) Node.js
3 12 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (8.94%) XML
5 7 (5.69%) Kafka
5 7 (5.69%) RESTful
5 7 (5.69%) YAML
6 5 (4.07%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.25%) JSON
7 4 (3.25%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.25%) REST
7 4 (3.25%) Web Services
8 3 (2.44%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.44%) Spring
9 1 (0.81%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.81%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (42.28%) Cyberattack
2 32 (26.02%) Cloud Native
2 32 (26.02%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (18.70%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (17.07%) Public Cloud
5 13 (10.57%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
7 7 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (4.88%) Operational Technology
9 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
10 4 (3.25%) GNSS
10 4 (3.25%) Tandem
10 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
11 3 (2.44%) Hedge funds
11 3 (2.44%) IoT
11 3 (2.44%) Media Streaming
12 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.08%) Linux
2 23 (18.70%) Windows
3 9 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (4.07%) Unix
6 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.63%) CentOS
7 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (53.66%) Agile
2 51 (41.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (34.96%) Cloud Security
4 41 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 39 (31.71%) DevOps
6 38 (30.89%) Roadmaps
7 37 (30.08%) Microservices
8 35 (28.46%) Mentoring
9 34 (27.64%) SDLC
10 33 (26.83%) Line Management
10 33 (26.83%) Software Engineering
11 31 (25.20%) DevSecOps
11 31 (25.20%) Identity Management
12 30 (24.39%) Scrum
13 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (23.58%) Technology Roadmap
14 24 (19.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (19.51%) User Experience
15 23 (18.70%) Data Engineering
15 23 (18.70%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.96%) Python
2 34 (27.64%) Java
3 24 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 23 (18.70%) Go
4 23 (18.70%) Rust
5 17 (13.82%) Bash
6 16 (13.01%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.88%) MATLAB
7 6 (4.88%) SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Groovy
8 1 (0.81%) Ruby
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 68 (55.28%) Security Cleared
3 56 (45.53%) DV Cleared
4 28 (22.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 25 (20.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 25 (20.33%) Degree
6 20 (16.26%) Azure Certification
7 12 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (8.13%) MCSE
9 9 (7.32%) Master's Degree
9 9 (7.32%) MCSA
10 7 (5.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
12 4 (3.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.81%) CRISC
13 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) QA
2 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.81%) ISO 31000
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (20.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (42.28%) Terraform
2 28 (22.76%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.57%) Ansible
4 7 (5.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (5.69%) SCCM
4 7 (5.69%) SCOM
5 4 (3.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.63%) Puppet
6 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) Kibana
7 1 (0.81%) logstash
7 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.57%) Oracle
3 9 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.50%) IBM
5 7 (5.69%) SAP
5 7 (5.69%) TOWER Software
6 6 (4.88%) MathWorks
6 6 (4.88%) PTC
7 4 (3.25%) Google
7 4 (3.25%) Rackspace
8 2 (1.63%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.63%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.81%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco
9 1 (0.81%) Citrix
9 1 (0.81%) Databricks
9 1 (0.81%) Okta
9 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.81%) VMware