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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 425 787
Rank change year-on-year -181 +362 +17
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 142 267 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 1.52% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 40 38 67
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% -20.31% +13.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £103,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £66,763 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.08% -4.63% +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 19,098 17,555 25,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.33% 35.72% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,977 7,801 16,254
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,613
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -182 134 £79,669 +27.47% 38
London -3 84 £100,000 +66.67% 14
UK excluding London -214 54 £77,500 +16.08% 30
Work from Home -171 37 £90,000 +50.00% 26
North of England -177 16 £80,000 +23.08% 11
Midlands -22 15 £75,000 +30.51% 4
West Midlands -21 14 £67,500 +17.46% 3
North West -130 13 - - 5
South West -62 8 £71,250 +3.98% 3
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 3
South East -21 6 £65,000 -25.71% 6
Yorkshire -30 3 £80,000 +6.67% 5
East of England -24 2 £87,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) SAS
3 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.11%) Documentum
3 3 (2.11%) JBoss
4 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.70%) Camunda
5 1 (0.70%) Drupal
5 1 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.70%) nginx
5 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.90%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 142 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (51.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 48 (33.80%) Serverless
4 45 (31.69%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (30.99%) Azure
6 36 (25.35%) GCP
7 35 (24.65%) Cloud Computing
8 34 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (19.72%) Amazon S3
10 27 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (11.27%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (10.56%) AWS Control Tower
12 15 (10.56%) GitHub
13 14 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (7.04%) CloudFront
15 9 (6.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (5.63%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.63%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (4.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.90%) Network Security
2 5 (3.52%) Internet
3 3 (2.11%) Firewall
3 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 1 (0.70%) DNS
4 1 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (24.65%) NoSQL
2 25 (17.61%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.04%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.93%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.52%) Big Data
7 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.70%) Adabas
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.70%) Metadata
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) Redis
9 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (22.54%) GitLab
2 30 (21.13%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.23%) JIRA
4 6 (4.23%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.11%) Maven
5 3 (2.11%) Selenium
5 3 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.41%) Git
7 1 (0.70%) Gatling
7 1 (0.70%) JMeter
7 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 50 (35.21%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 24 (16.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.27%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Banking
6 8 (5.63%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.82%) Advertising
7 4 (2.82%) Billing
7 4 (2.82%) Military
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Retail
8 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.41%) Games
9 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) iGaming
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (45.07%) Senior
2 41 (28.87%) Architect
3 27 (19.01%) Java Engineer
4 26 (18.31%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.90%) Analyst
5 24 (16.90%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (15.49%) Consultant
7 19 (13.38%) Principal Engineer
7 19 (13.38%) Principal Java Engineer
8 18 (12.68%) Security Consultant
8 18 (12.68%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.86%) AWS Architect
9 14 (9.86%) Senior Security Consultant
10 8 (5.63%) AWS Solution Architect
10 8 (5.63%) Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Lead
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.76%) Spring Boot
2 29 (20.42%) Kafka
2 29 (20.42%) Spring
3 22 (15.49%) AWS CDK
4 15 (10.56%) Node.js
5 10 (7.04%) REST
6 9 (6.34%) .NET
7 7 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (4.23%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.23%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.52%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (3.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.52%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.52%) JWT
9 5 (3.52%) MediatR
9 5 (3.52%) OAuth
9 5 (3.52%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.52%) OpenAPI
9 5 (3.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (34.51%) Cloud Native
2 33 (23.24%) Onboarding
3 28 (19.72%) Public Cloud
4 27 (19.01%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (19.01%) e-Learning
5 23 (16.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 21 (14.79%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (7.04%) Data Centre
7 10 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (4.93%) Mainframe
9 6 (4.23%) Digital Wallet
9 6 (4.23%) PKI
10 4 (2.82%) Blog
10 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.82%) IVR
10 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
11 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
11 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.08%) Windows
2 15 (10.56%) Linux
3 2 (1.41%) Unix
3 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (54.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 72 (50.70%) Mentoring
3 64 (45.07%) AI
4 59 (41.55%) Agile
5 54 (38.03%) CI/CD
6 45 (31.69%) Architectural Patterns
7 40 (28.17%) Event-Driven
7 40 (28.17%) Microservices
8 33 (23.24%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (22.54%) CQRS
10 31 (21.83%) Cloud Security
11 30 (21.13%) BDD
12 28 (19.72%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (19.72%) Test Automation
13 27 (19.01%) Cost Management
13 27 (19.01%) Performance Testing
14 26 (18.31%) Data Protection
14 26 (18.31%) DevOps
14 26 (18.31%) Migration
14 26 (18.31%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.37%) Java
2 42 (29.58%) Python
3 33 (23.24%) SQL
4 23 (16.20%) Bash
5 21 (14.79%) Ruby
6 15 (10.56%) PHP
7 14 (9.86%) Perl
8 12 (8.45%) JavaScript
9 11 (7.75%) C#
10 9 (6.34%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.23%) C++
11 6 (4.23%) COBOL
11 6 (4.23%) Google Apps Script
12 5 (3.52%) Go
13 4 (2.82%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.11%) Groovy
15 2 (1.41%) Bicep
16 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.70%) Natural
Qualifications
1 141 (99.30%) AWS Certification
2 29 (20.42%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.97%) Degree
4 14 (9.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (9.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.23%) CISSP
8 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.82%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.82%) ISSEP
10 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.11%) CITP
10 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.34%) GDPR
2 7 (4.93%) NCSC
3 6 (4.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.82%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.70%) GxP
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (11.27%) Docker
2 9 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.23%) KVM
4 3 (2.11%) iptables
5 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (37.32%) Terraform
2 12 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.75%) Grafana
4 9 (6.34%) Ansible
5 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.82%) Puppet
8 3 (2.11%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.70%) Consul
9 1 (0.70%) Kibana
9 1 (0.70%) Nagios
9 1 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 39 (27.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.72%) ServiceNow
3 24 (16.90%) Adobe
3 24 (16.90%) Apple
4 10 (7.04%) VMware
5 7 (4.93%) Avaya
5 7 (4.93%) Cisco
5 7 (4.93%) Genesys
5 7 (4.93%) Google
5 7 (4.93%) SAP
6 6 (4.23%) Oracle
7 4 (2.82%) Epicor
7 4 (2.82%) IFS
7 4 (2.82%) Infor
7 4 (2.82%) Pega
7 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.11%) OpenText
8 3 (2.11%) YouTube
9 2 (1.41%) Splunk
9 2 (1.41%) Zerto