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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 550 675
Rank change year-on-year -45 +125 +219
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 103 99 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.60% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 69 49 74
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,070 £51,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,500 £79,375
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -4.88% +13.39%
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,750 £97,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £68,750
% change year-on-year +16.10% -6.04% +10.00%

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 21,005 16,593 23,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.47% 39.13% 27.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,422 7,538 16,402
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,629 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £59,400 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +8.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,384 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -18 95 £77,500 +3.33% 28
UK excluding London -25 55 £75,000 +16.10% 16
London -31 35 £88,750 +11.64% 14
Work from Home -3 34 £75,000 +5.56% 13
North of England -34 26 £75,000 - 6
Yorkshire -20 21 £75,000 - 4
East of England -6 14 £97,500 - 4
South West -27 5 £52,500 -26.32% 2
Midlands -37 5 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -6 4 £49,000 -24.15% 1
South East -24 4 £77,500 -6.06% 2
North East - 3 £105,000 -
North West -25 2 - - 2
Scotland -20 1 - - 1
East Midlands -39 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 (5.83%) Confluence
2 5 (4.85%) Apache
2 5 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.88%) Documentum
4 2 (1.94%) JBoss
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.97%) Camunda
5 1 (0.97%) Drupal
5 1 (0.97%) IIS
5 1 (0.97%) nginx
5 1 (0.97%) SAS
5 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.97%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (56.31%) Azure
3 41 (39.81%) Serverless
4 28 (27.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (21.36%) Amazon S3
6 21 (20.39%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (17.48%) GCP
8 13 (12.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (11.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (10.68%) PaaS
11 10 (9.71%) SaaS
12 9 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (6.80%) IaaS
15 6 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
15 6 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (5.83%) CloudFront
15 6 (5.83%) Entra ID
16 5 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) Network Security
2 2 (1.94%) VLAN
2 2 (1.94%) VPN
2 2 (1.94%) WAN
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) Firewall
3 1 (0.97%) LAN
3 1 (0.97%) MPLS
3 1 (0.97%) NAS
3 1 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.97%) SAN
3 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.97%) VSAN
3 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.50%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.85%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.91%) Big Data
7 3 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.97%) MySQL
8 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.97%) Power BI
8 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.97%) Redis
8 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) GitLab
1 13 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.71%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.74%) Git
4 7 (6.80%) JIRA
5 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.91%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.94%) Maven
7 2 (1.94%) Selenium
7 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.97%) Gatling
8 1 (0.97%) JMeter
8 1 (0.97%) Vagrant
General
1 58 (56.31%) Social Skills
2 35 (33.98%) Finance
3 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.68%) Publishing
5 10 (9.71%) Financial Institution
6 9 (8.74%) Banking
7 8 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.85%) Law
10 4 (3.88%) Advertising
11 3 (2.91%) Games
11 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.91%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.94%) Marketing
12 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.97%) Electronics
13 1 (0.97%) iGaming
13 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (56.31%) Architect
2 16 (15.53%) AWS Architect
3 15 (14.56%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (12.62%) Enterprise Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Applications Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Senior
6 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) ERP Architect
6 9 (8.74%) SAP Architect
6 9 (8.74%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 9 (8.74%) Software Architect
7 8 (7.77%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Head of Infrastructure
9 6 (5.83%) Lead
9 6 (5.83%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) Kafka
2 11 (10.68%) Spring Boot
3 9 (8.74%) Spring
4 5 (4.85%) Node.js
5 4 (3.88%) .NET
6 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.91%) PySpark
6 3 (2.91%) RESTful
7 2 (1.94%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.94%) Drools
7 2 (1.94%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.94%) Jest
7 2 (1.94%) XML
8 1 (0.97%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.97%) Memcached
8 1 (0.97%) Middleware
8 1 (0.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.01%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (17.48%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.77%) e-Learning
4 8 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.77%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.88%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.88%) PKI
7 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.94%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.97%) Blog
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.68%) Windows
2 8 (7.77%) Linux
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) TOGAF
2 39 (37.86%) Agile
3 36 (34.95%) Enterprise Architecture
3 36 (34.95%) Mentoring
4 35 (33.98%) CI/CD
4 35 (33.98%) Migration
5 33 (32.04%) Computer Science
5 33 (32.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (32.04%) Microservices
6 32 (31.07%) DevOps
7 30 (29.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (27.18%) Architectural Patterns
9 26 (25.24%) Data Modelling
10 24 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (21.36%) Application Security
11 22 (21.36%) Roadmaps
12 21 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (18.45%) EAI
13 19 (18.45%) Technology Roadmap
14 17 (16.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.81%) Python
2 37 (35.92%) Java
3 25 (24.27%) C#
3 25 (24.27%) JavaScript
4 22 (21.36%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.59%) SQL
6 11 (10.68%) Bash
7 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.85%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.91%) C++
9 3 (2.91%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.94%) Bicep
10 2 (1.94%) Groovy
11 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.97%) Go
11 1 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 102 (99.03%) AWS Certification
2 46 (44.66%) Degree
3 38 (36.89%) Azure Certification
4 33 (32.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 27 (26.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (16.50%) Security Cleared
8 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
9 7 (6.80%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (5.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Master's Degree
12 4 (3.88%) CITP
13 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.97%) CISA
15 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) QA
2 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.91%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) Basel III
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) MiFID
3 1 (0.97%) NCSC
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.88%) iptables
4 3 (2.91%) KVM
5 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (27.18%) Terraform
2 17 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.74%) Ansible
3 9 (8.74%) Grafana
4 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.85%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.85%) Puppet
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.94%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.97%) Consul
8 1 (0.97%) Nessus
8 1 (0.97%) Packer
8 1 (0.97%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 30 (29.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.65%) SAP
3 11 (10.68%) Workday
4 6 (5.83%) VMware
5 5 (4.85%) Google
5 5 (4.85%) Pega
5 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.88%) OpenText
6 4 (3.88%) YouTube
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle
8 1 (0.97%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.97%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.97%) Databricks
8 1 (0.97%) IBM
8 1 (0.97%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.97%) Palantir
8 1 (0.97%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.97%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.97%) UiPath
8 1 (0.97%) Zerto