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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 431 728
Rank change year-on-year -211 +297 +33
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 146 264 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 1.54% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 61
10th Percentile £54,750 £55,688 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.75% -14.34% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% -2.11% -

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 19,581 17,170 21,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.90% 34.61% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,350 7,870 12,046
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,944
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -4.17%

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 August 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 August 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 -183 132 £78,750 +14.92% 80
London 0 85 £100,000 +66.67% 56
UK excluding London -224 56 £75,000 +9.45% 27
Work from Home -178 37 £90,000 +31.34% 42
North of England -184 16 £80,000 +23.08% 11
Midlands -31 14 £80,000 +30.61% 4
West Midlands -25 13 £85,000 +38.78% 4
North West -140 13 - - 6
South West -57 8 £76,250 +11.27% 6
South East -27 7 £65,000 -31.58% 4
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -31 3 £80,000 +6.67% 5
East of England -29 2 £87,500 -
Scotland - 2 - - 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 4 (2.74%) SAS
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.05%) JBoss
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.44%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (52.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (33.56%) Serverless
4 46 (31.51%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (31.51%) Azure
5 38 (26.03%) GCP
6 36 (24.66%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (21.92%) Cloud Computing
8 30 (20.55%) Amazon S3
9 27 (18.49%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (13.01%) GitHub
11 18 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.27%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (10.27%) AWS Control Tower
13 11 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.85%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (6.16%) CloudFront
16 8 (5.48%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (4.79%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.49%) Network Security
2 5 (3.42%) Internet
3 4 (2.74%) VPN
4 3 (2.05%) Firewall
5 2 (1.37%) DNS
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.08%) NoSQL
2 28 (19.18%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.53%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.74%) Big Data
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Adabas
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 37 (25.34%) GitLab
2 33 (22.60%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.01%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.42%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.05%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.05%) Maven
5 3 (2.05%) Selenium
5 3 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.37%) JIRA
7 1 (0.68%) Gatling
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 55 (37.67%) Finance
2 27 (18.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.59%) Social Skills
5 11 (7.53%) Banking
5 11 (7.53%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.74%) Billing
6 4 (2.74%) Law
6 4 (2.74%) Military
6 4 (2.74%) Retail
7 3 (2.05%) Advertising
7 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.37%) Games
8 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Legal
8 2 (1.37%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 70 (47.95%) Senior
2 40 (27.40%) Architect
3 30 (20.55%) Java Engineer
4 25 (17.12%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.44%) Analyst
5 24 (16.44%) Senior Analyst
6 23 (15.75%) Consultant
7 19 (13.01%) Principal Engineer
7 19 (13.01%) Principal Java Engineer
7 19 (13.01%) Security Consultant
8 18 (12.33%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.59%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (8.90%) AWS Architect
11 11 (7.53%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (6.16%) Developer
13 7 (4.79%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.79%) Senior Architect
13 7 (4.79%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.77%) Spring Boot
2 33 (22.60%) Spring
3 32 (21.92%) Kafka
4 22 (15.07%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.59%) Node.js
6 13 (8.90%) .NET
7 10 (6.85%) REST
8 8 (5.48%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.79%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.79%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (4.79%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (4.79%) Entity Framework
9 7 (4.79%) JWT
9 7 (4.79%) MediatR
9 7 (4.79%) OAuth
9 7 (4.79%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.79%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.79%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (4.79%) Swagger
10 6 (4.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.67%) Cloud Native
2 33 (22.60%) Onboarding
3 31 (21.23%) Public Cloud
4 30 (20.55%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (20.55%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 19 (13.01%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (6.85%) Data Centre
8 8 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (4.79%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.11%) Data Structures
10 6 (4.11%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.42%) PKI
11 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
12 4 (2.74%) Blog
12 4 (2.74%) IVR
12 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
13 3 (2.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
13 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.01%) Windows
2 14 (9.59%) Linux
3 3 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) AIX
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (56.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (51.37%) Mentoring
3 66 (45.21%) AI
4 61 (41.78%) Agile
5 59 (40.41%) CI/CD
6 44 (30.14%) Architectural Patterns
6 44 (30.14%) Event-Driven
6 44 (30.14%) Microservices
7 37 (25.34%) CQRS
8 36 (24.66%) Cloud Security
9 34 (23.29%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (22.60%) BDD
11 31 (21.23%) Test Automation
12 30 (20.55%) Cost Optimisation
12 30 (20.55%) Performance Testing
12 30 (20.55%) Threat Modelling
13 29 (19.86%) Data Protection
14 27 (18.49%) Cost Management
15 26 (17.81%) Identity Access Management
15 26 (17.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.89%) Java
2 42 (28.77%) Python
3 35 (23.97%) SQL
4 22 (15.07%) Bash
5 21 (14.38%) Ruby
6 15 (10.27%) PHP
7 14 (9.59%) Perl
8 12 (8.22%) C#
9 11 (7.53%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.16%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.11%) COBOL
11 6 (4.11%) Go
12 5 (3.42%) C++
12 5 (3.42%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.74%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.05%) Groovy
14 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.37%) Bicep
16 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.68%) Natural
Qualifications
1 146 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (19.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.27%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (9.59%) Degree
5 13 (8.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.79%) CISSP
8 6 (4.11%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.74%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.74%) ISSEP
10 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.68%) CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.22%) GDPR
2 7 (4.79%) HIPAA
2 7 (4.79%) NCSC
3 6 (4.11%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) GxP
7 1 (0.68%) NIST
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.27%) Docker
2 8 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.42%) KVM
4 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.37%) iptables
Systems Management
1 57 (39.04%) Terraform
2 13 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.53%) Grafana
4 9 (6.16%) Ansible
5 6 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.05%) HP Fortify
7 3 (2.05%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.05%) Puppet
8 2 (1.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.68%) Consul
9 1 (0.68%) Kibana
9 1 (0.68%) Nagios
9 1 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 41 (28.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.44%) Adobe
2 24 (16.44%) Apple
2 24 (16.44%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.16%) VMware
4 8 (5.48%) Google
5 7 (4.79%) Avaya
5 7 (4.79%) Cisco
5 7 (4.79%) Genesys
5 7 (4.79%) Oracle
5 7 (4.79%) SAP
6 4 (2.74%) Epicor
6 4 (2.74%) IFS
6 4 (2.74%) Infor
6 4 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.74%) Splunk
7 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.37%) Zerto
8 1 (0.68%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds