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 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 430 780
Rank change year-on-year -204 +350 +48
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 120 263 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.57% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.64% 1.50% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 77
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,625 £55,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -20.31% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,813 £98,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% -2.11% +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 18,722 17,518 26,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.45% 37.73% 25.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,865 7,505 16,943
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,501
25th Percentile £42,850 £38,750 £38,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,945
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.88% -11.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -4.76%

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 30 June 2026.

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 30 June 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 -200 113 £79,669 +27.47% 13
London -20 60 £96,250 +60.42% 6
UK excluding London -205 54 £75,000 +9.45% 9
Work from Home -159 37 £90,000 +50.00% 8
North of England -195 18 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Midlands -25 16 £62,500 +56.25% 1
West Midlands -13 15 £50,000 +25.00% 1
North West -128 13 - -
South West -62 8 £52,500 -23.39%
Yorkshire -27 5 £75,000 - 2
Wales - 5 £80,000 - 1
South East -23 4 £65,000 -12.46% 5
East of England -19 3 £97,500 -
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) Apache
2 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.33%) Documentum
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.50%) JBoss
4 2 (1.67%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) Camunda
5 1 (0.83%) Drupal
5 1 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (20.00%) Cloudability
2 4 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 42 (35.00%) Azure
4 35 (29.17%) GCP
5 32 (26.67%) Serverless
6 29 (24.17%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (18.33%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (18.33%) Amazon S3
8 18 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (8.33%) GitHub
10 9 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.50%) Amazon EventBridge
10 9 (7.50%) CloudFront
10 9 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.67%) PaaS
11 8 (6.67%) SaaS
12 7 (5.83%) AWS Control Tower
12 7 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.67%) Network Security
2 2 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.67%) NoSQL
2 20 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (5.83%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.50%) Big Data
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.83%) Adabas
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.83%) Metadata
8 1 (0.83%) Power BI
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (23.33%) GitLab
2 26 (21.67%) Cucumber
3 19 (15.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.83%) JIRA
5 5 (4.17%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.33%) Git
7 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.50%) Maven
7 3 (2.50%) Selenium
7 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.83%) Gatling
8 1 (0.83%) JMeter
8 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 40 (33.33%) Finance
2 25 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (17.50%) Social Skills
4 19 (15.83%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.67%) Banking
6 6 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.17%) Advertising
8 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Retail
9 2 (1.67%) Billing
9 2 (1.67%) Games
9 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) iGaming
10 1 (0.83%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.83%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (37.50%) Senior
2 38 (31.67%) Architect
3 24 (20.00%) Analyst
3 24 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 23 (19.17%) Java Engineer
5 18 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (14.17%) Principal Engineer
6 17 (14.17%) Principal Java Engineer
7 13 (10.83%) AWS Architect
8 9 (7.50%) Consultant
8 9 (7.50%) Security Consultant
9 8 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Lead
11 6 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Lead Architect
11 6 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Senior Security Consultant
12 5 (4.17%) Technical Architect
12 5 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 26 (21.67%) Kafka
3 25 (20.83%) Spring
4 12 (10.00%) AWS CDK
5 11 (9.17%) Node.js
6 5 (4.17%) .NET
6 5 (4.17%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.33%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.33%) Middleware
7 4 (3.33%) REST
8 3 (2.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.50%) Drools
8 3 (2.50%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.50%) Jest
8 3 (2.50%) XML
9 2 (1.67%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.67%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.67%) OAuth
9 2 (1.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (34.17%) Cloud Native
2 24 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 23 (19.17%) e-Learning
3 23 (19.17%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (8.33%) Data Centre
6 10 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (4.17%) Mainframe
7 5 (4.17%) PKI
8 4 (3.33%) Digital Wallet
8 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.67%) Blog
10 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.00%) Windows
2 15 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
3 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) AIX
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.17%) Mentoring
2 63 (52.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (42.50%) Agile
4 49 (40.83%) CI/CD
5 44 (36.67%) AI
6 36 (30.00%) Microservices
7 35 (29.17%) Architectural Patterns
8 32 (26.67%) Event-Driven
9 29 (24.17%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (22.50%) Cost Management
10 27 (22.50%) Cost Optimisation
11 26 (21.67%) BDD
12 25 (20.83%) CQRS
12 25 (20.83%) DevOps
13 24 (20.00%) FinOps
13 24 (20.00%) Performance Testing
13 24 (20.00%) Software Licensing
13 24 (20.00%) Test Automation
14 23 (19.17%) TOGAF
15 22 (18.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.83%) Java
2 29 (24.17%) Python
3 28 (23.33%) SQL
4 16 (13.33%) Bash
5 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.17%) Ruby
6 10 (8.33%) C#
7 8 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 7 (5.83%) PHP
9 6 (5.00%) Perl
9 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.17%) C++
10 5 (4.17%) Google Apps Script
10 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.33%) COBOL
12 3 (2.50%) Go
12 3 (2.50%) Groovy
13 2 (1.67%) Bicep
14 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.83%) Natural
Qualifications
1 119 (99.17%) AWS Certification
2 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 12 (10.00%) Degree
5 10 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.33%) CITP
8 3 (2.50%) CISSP
8 3 (2.50%) ISSAP
8 3 (2.50%) ISSEP
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) NCSC
2 4 (3.33%) GDPR
2 4 (3.33%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) GxP
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (14.17%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.17%) KVM
4 4 (3.33%) iptables
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (34.17%) Terraform
2 12 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.17%) Ansible
3 11 (9.17%) Grafana
4 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.17%) Puppet
6 3 (2.50%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.83%) Consul
7 1 (0.83%) Kibana
7 1 (0.83%) Nagios
7 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 29 (24.17%) ServiceNow
3 24 (20.00%) Adobe
3 24 (20.00%) Apple
4 7 (5.83%) VMware
5 6 (5.00%) Google
6 5 (4.17%) Pega
6 5 (4.17%) SAP
7 4 (3.33%) OpenText
7 4 (3.33%) Oracle
7 4 (3.33%) YouTube
8 3 (2.50%) Epicor
8 3 (2.50%) IFS
8 3 (2.50%) Infor
9 2 (1.67%) Splunk
9 2 (1.67%) Zerto
10 1 (0.83%) Databricks
10 1 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.83%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.83%) Workday