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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 606 558
Rank change year-on-year +77 -48 +331
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 115 118 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.60% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 75 45 49
10th Percentile £63,750 £49,775 £44,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -1.27% +1.29%
75th Percentile £99,375 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,500 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.10% -7.71% +12.00%

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 19,625 19,618 15,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.22% 34.85% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,854 7,992 10,583
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,351 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +3.22% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 +82 104 £81,500 +7.95% 12
UK excluding London +63 62 £75,000 +16.10% 12
Work from Home +50 56 £75,000 -5.06% 8
London +44 40 £90,000 +5.88% 5
North of England +39 32 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Yorkshire +16 23 £75,000 - 2
East of England +25 13 £97,500 - 1
South East +36 9 £100,000 +88.50% 3
North West +34 5 - -
West Midlands +26 5 £57,468 -11.04% 1
Midlands +3 5 £57,468 -11.04% 1
North East - 4 £105,000 -
South West +11 2 £62,500 - 1
Scotland -4 1 - - 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 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (66.09%) Azure
3 45 (39.13%) Serverless
4 24 (20.87%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (20.00%) GCP
6 22 (19.13%) Amazon S3
7 21 (18.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (11.30%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (11.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (7.83%) SaaS
11 8 (6.96%) CloudFront
12 7 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.09%) IaaS
12 7 (6.09%) PaaS
13 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
14 5 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (4.35%) Figma
15 3 (2.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) VPN
2 9 (7.83%) WAN
3 8 (6.96%) LAN
3 8 (6.96%) SD-WAN
3 8 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (6.09%) Unified Communications
4 7 (6.09%) VoIP
5 6 (5.22%) Firewall
6 4 (3.48%) VLAN
7 3 (2.61%) Network Security
8 2 (1.74%) DNS
8 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.87%) MPLS
9 1 (0.87%) NAS
9 1 (0.87%) SAN
9 1 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.83%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.09%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.87%) Big Data
8 1 (0.87%) MySQL
8 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Git
1 9 (7.83%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.96%) GitLab
3 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.35%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) Vite
5 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.83%) Finance
3 11 (9.57%) Financial Institution
3 11 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Publishing
4 8 (6.96%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.09%) Banking
6 6 (5.22%) Law
7 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.87%) Electronics
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (52.17%) Architect
2 24 (20.87%) Senior
3 18 (15.65%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (13.91%) AWS Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Applications Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Head of IT
6 10 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 9 (7.83%) Software Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
9 7 (6.09%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (6.09%) Head of IT Operations
9 7 (6.09%) Head of Operations
9 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.09%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.22%) AWS Solution Architect
10 6 (5.22%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.22%) ERP Architect
10 6 (5.22%) SAP Architect
10 6 (5.22%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) Spring
1 10 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.35%) Jest
2 5 (4.35%) Next.js
2 5 (4.35%) React
3 4 (3.48%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.48%) RESTful
4 3 (2.61%) Kafka
5 2 (1.74%) .NET
5 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.74%) Node.js
6 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.87%) EDI
6 1 (0.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.35%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.09%) Operational Technology
5 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.48%) PKI
8 3 (2.61%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.74%) CMDB
9 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.74%) NHS
10 1 (0.87%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.13%) TOGAF
2 44 (38.26%) Computer Science
3 42 (36.52%) DevOps
4 36 (31.30%) Enterprise Architecture
5 35 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (30.43%) Microservices
6 33 (28.70%) Agile
6 33 (28.70%) Mentoring
7 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
7 31 (26.96%) Migration
7 31 (26.96%) Roadmaps
8 30 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (25.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (25.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (23.48%) High Availability
11 26 (22.61%) Application Security
11 26 (22.61%) ITIL
12 24 (20.87%) Collaborative Culture
12 24 (20.87%) Technology Roadmap
13 23 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.52%) Java
1 42 (36.52%) Python
2 29 (25.22%) TypeScript
3 27 (23.48%) C#
3 27 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.70%) Bash
4 10 (8.70%) SQL
5 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.87%) C++
6 1 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 115 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 55 (47.83%) Degree
3 53 (46.09%) Azure Certification
4 34 (29.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (27.83%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
8 12 (10.43%) Master's Degree
8 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
9 10 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (6.96%) CCNP
11 7 (6.09%) PMI Certification
11 7 (6.09%) PMP
12 5 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) CISSP
13 4 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (2.61%) CISA
14 3 (2.61%) ISSAP
14 3 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) NIST
2 13 (11.30%) GDPR
3 10 (8.70%) QA
4 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (3.48%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.74%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.87%) Basel III
8 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.87%) GAAP
8 1 (0.87%) MiFID
8 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.74%) KVM
5 2 (1.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) iptables
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (22.61%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.87%) Terraform
3 9 (7.83%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.61%) Nessus
5 3 (2.61%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (35.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) SAP
3 8 (6.96%) Cisco
3 8 (6.96%) Google
3 8 (6.96%) Workday
4 7 (6.09%) VMware
5 3 (2.61%) IBM
6 2 (1.74%) Databricks
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.87%) Palantir
7 1 (0.87%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.87%) Refinitiv