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 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 530 683
Rank change year-on-year -72 +153 +201
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 96 97 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.61% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61 49 80
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £98,750 £87,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -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 21,160 15,960 24,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.29% 39.00% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,620 7,524 16,882
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,368 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,553 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +4.85% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,175 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,400 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.02% +6.00% -

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -56 90 £77,500 +3.33% 22
UK excluding London -56 54 £75,000 +16.10% 14
Work from Home -12 31 £75,000 +16.10% 14
London -42 31 £87,500 +10.76% 11
North of England -46 25 £75,000 - 5
Yorkshire -35 20 £75,000 - 3
East of England -17 14 £97,500 - 3
Midlands -48 6 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -19 5 £49,000 -24.15% 1
South West -33 5 £52,500 -26.32% 2
North West -31 3 - - 2
South East -34 3 £77,500 -7.46% 2
North East - 2 £105,000 -
Scotland -26 1 - - 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
2 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.17%) Documentum
4 3 (3.13%) JBoss
5 1 (1.04%) Camunda
5 1 (1.04%) Drupal
5 1 (1.04%) IIS
5 1 (1.04%) nginx
5 1 (1.04%) SAS
5 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Cloudability
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (53.13%) Azure
3 37 (38.54%) Serverless
4 28 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (20.83%) Amazon S3
5 20 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (17.71%) GCP
7 11 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (11.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (10.42%) PaaS
8 10 (10.42%) SaaS
9 9 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (6.25%) IaaS
12 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (5.21%) CloudFront
12 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) DNS
2 1 (1.04%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.04%) VPN
2 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.13%) Big Data
6 3 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL
7 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.04%) Redis
7 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) GitLab
1 14 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.46%) Cucumber
3 9 (9.38%) Git
4 7 (7.29%) JIRA
5 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.13%) Maven
6 3 (3.13%) Selenium
6 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.04%) Gatling
7 1 (1.04%) JMeter
7 1 (1.04%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.33%) Finance
3 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.46%) Publishing
5 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 8 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.21%) Advertising
8 5 (5.21%) Law
9 3 (3.13%) Games
9 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.08%) Marketing
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.04%) Electronics
11 1 (1.04%) iGaming
11 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (55.21%) Architect
2 17 (17.71%) AWS Architect
3 13 (13.54%) Enterprise Architect
3 13 (13.54%) Senior
4 12 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.38%) Applications Architect
5 9 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) ERP Architect
5 9 (9.38%) SAP Architect
5 9 (9.38%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 8 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Software Architect
7 6 (6.25%) Lead
7 6 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.25%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.21%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Principal Java Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Head of Infrastructure
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.50%) Kafka
1 12 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 9 (9.38%) Spring
3 6 (6.25%) Node.js
4 4 (4.17%) .NET
4 4 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.13%) Drools
5 3 (3.13%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.13%) Jest
5 3 (3.13%) PySpark
5 3 (3.13%) RESTful
5 3 (3.13%) XML
6 2 (2.08%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.04%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.04%) Memcached
7 1 (1.04%) Middleware
7 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.29%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.46%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.33%) e-Learning
4 8 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.17%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.13%) PKI
7 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.08%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.63%) Agile
2 38 (39.58%) TOGAF
3 37 (38.54%) Mentoring
4 33 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 33 (34.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 31 (32.29%) Computer Science
5 31 (32.29%) Migration
6 30 (31.25%) DevOps
6 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (31.25%) Microservices
7 27 (28.13%) Architectural Patterns
8 26 (27.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 24 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (19.79%) Application Security
10 19 (19.79%) Roadmaps
11 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
12 17 (17.71%) EAI
13 16 (16.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (39.58%) Python
2 36 (37.50%) Java
3 24 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 23 (23.96%) C#
5 21 (21.88%) TypeScript
6 14 (14.58%) SQL
7 12 (12.50%) Bash
8 6 (6.25%) Kotlin
9 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.13%) C++
10 3 (3.13%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (3.13%) Groovy
11 2 (2.08%) Bicep
12 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.04%) Go
12 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 95 (98.96%) AWS Certification
2 43 (44.79%) Degree
3 31 (32.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 30 (31.25%) Azure Certification
5 24 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (21.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
9 8 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) CITP
11 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
12 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (1.04%) CCSP
14 1 (1.04%) CISA
14 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (1.04%) CISSP
14 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.04%) Basel III
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) MiFID
4 1 (1.04%) NCSC
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) Docker
2 4 (4.17%) iptables
3 3 (3.13%) KVM
3 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (26.04%) Terraform
2 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.38%) Grafana
4 8 (8.33%) Ansible
5 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.21%) Puppet
6 3 (3.13%) HP Fortify
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.04%) Consul
7 1 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.50%) SAP
3 11 (11.46%) Workday
4 8 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.21%) Google
5 5 (5.21%) Pega
6 4 (4.17%) OpenText
6 4 (4.17%) YouTube
7 3 (3.13%) Adobe
7 3 (3.13%) Apple
7 3 (3.13%) VMware
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle
8 2 (2.08%) Zerto
9 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.04%) Databricks
9 1 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.04%) Palantir
9 1 (1.04%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software