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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 430 774
Rank change year-on-year -201 +344 +20
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 143 268 103
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 42 37 67
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,834 £61,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.88% -23.75% +13.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £103,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% +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 19,213 17,595 25,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 35.73% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,057 7,824 16,255
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 £70,688
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 13 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 13 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 -177 134 £79,669 +31.68% 43
London +7 82 £100,000 +66.67% 27
UK excluding London -216 55 £77,500 +19.23% 25
Work from Home -161 38 £90,000 +50.00% 17
North of England -177 16 £80,000 +23.08% 7
Midlands -25 15 £75,000 +30.51% 2
West Midlands -15 14 £67,500 +17.46% 1
North West -139 13 - - 3
South West -61 8 £71,250 +3.98% 9
South East -17 7 £65,000 -12.46% 2
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -32 3 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East of England -21 2 £87,500 - 1
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 6 (4.20%) Confluence
2 4 (2.80%) Documentum
2 4 (2.80%) SAS
3 3 (2.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) JBoss
4 2 (1.40%) 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 (2.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.78%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 143 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (50.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 48 (33.57%) Serverless
4 45 (31.47%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (31.47%) Azure
5 37 (25.87%) GCP
6 36 (25.17%) Cloud Computing
7 34 (23.78%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (19.58%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (19.58%) Amazon S3
9 16 (11.19%) Amazon EventBridge
10 15 (10.49%) AWS Control Tower
10 15 (10.49%) GitHub
11 14 (9.79%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (6.99%) CloudFront
13 9 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (5.59%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (5.59%) PaaS
14 8 (5.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.78%) Network Security
2 5 (3.50%) Internet
3 3 (2.10%) Firewall
3 3 (2.10%) VPN
4 1 (0.70%) DNS
4 1 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 26 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.99%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.90%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.50%) Big Data
7 4 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.40%) 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 30 (20.98%) GitLab
2 28 (19.58%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.29%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.90%) JIRA
5 6 (4.20%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.10%) Maven
6 3 (2.10%) Selenium
6 3 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.40%) Git
8 1 (0.70%) Gatling
8 1 (0.70%) JMeter
8 1 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (34.27%) Finance
2 28 (19.58%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (13.29%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Banking
6 7 (4.90%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.80%) Advertising
8 4 (2.80%) Billing
8 4 (2.80%) Military
8 4 (2.80%) Retail
9 3 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.40%) Games
10 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) iGaming
11 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (44.06%) Senior
2 44 (30.77%) Architect
3 27 (18.88%) Solutions Architect
4 25 (17.48%) Java Engineer
5 24 (16.78%) Analyst
5 24 (16.78%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (15.38%) Consultant
7 18 (12.59%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (12.59%) Principal Java Engineer
7 18 (12.59%) Security Consultant
7 18 (12.59%) Senior Consultant
8 15 (10.49%) AWS Architect
9 14 (9.79%) Senior Security Consultant
10 8 (5.59%) AWS Solution Architect
10 8 (5.59%) Developer
11 7 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Lead
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.17%) Spring Boot
2 27 (18.88%) Kafka
2 27 (18.88%) Spring
3 22 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 15 (10.49%) Node.js
5 10 (6.99%) .NET
5 10 (6.99%) REST
6 7 (4.90%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (4.20%) .NET Framework
7 6 (4.20%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.50%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (3.50%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.50%) JWT
8 5 (3.50%) MediatR
8 5 (3.50%) Middleware
8 5 (3.50%) OAuth
8 5 (3.50%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.50%) OpenAPI
8 5 (3.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (33.57%) Cloud Native
2 33 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 26 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (18.18%) Public Cloud
4 25 (17.48%) e-Learning
5 23 (16.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 21 (14.69%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (6.99%) Data Centre
9 7 (4.90%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.20%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (4.20%) PKI
11 4 (2.80%) Blog
11 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.80%) IVR
11 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (2.10%) AI Agents
12 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.99%) Windows
2 15 (10.49%) Linux
3 2 (1.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) AIX
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (53.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 72 (50.35%) Mentoring
3 64 (44.76%) AI
4 59 (41.26%) Agile
5 53 (37.06%) CI/CD
6 44 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
7 39 (27.27%) Event-Driven
7 39 (27.27%) Microservices
8 33 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (22.38%) Cloud Security
10 30 (20.98%) CQRS
11 29 (20.28%) DevOps
12 28 (19.58%) BDD
12 28 (19.58%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (19.58%) Migration
13 27 (18.88%) Cost Management
13 27 (18.88%) Roadmaps
14 26 (18.18%) Data Protection
14 26 (18.18%) Performance Testing
14 26 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.36%) Java
2 42 (29.37%) Python
3 31 (21.68%) SQL
4 23 (16.08%) Bash
5 21 (14.69%) Ruby
6 15 (10.49%) PHP
7 14 (9.79%) Perl
8 12 (8.39%) C#
8 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.29%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.20%) C++
10 6 (4.20%) COBOL
10 6 (4.20%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (3.50%) Go
12 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
13 3 (2.10%) Groovy
14 2 (1.40%) Bicep
15 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.70%) Natural
Qualifications
1 142 (99.30%) AWS Certification
2 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.59%) Degree
4 14 (9.79%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (9.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
8 6 (4.20%) CISSP
9 4 (2.80%) CITP
9 4 (2.80%) ISSAP
9 4 (2.80%) ISSEP
10 3 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) GDPR
2 7 (4.90%) NCSC
3 6 (4.20%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.80%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.70%) GxP
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.70%) QA
7 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (11.19%) Docker
2 9 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.20%) KVM
4 3 (2.10%) iptables
5 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (37.76%) Terraform
2 12 (8.39%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.69%) Grafana
4 9 (6.29%) Ansible
5 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.80%) Puppet
8 3 (2.10%) 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 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.28%) ServiceNow
3 24 (16.78%) Adobe
3 24 (16.78%) Apple
4 10 (6.99%) VMware
5 7 (4.90%) Avaya
5 7 (4.90%) Cisco
5 7 (4.90%) Genesys
5 7 (4.90%) Google
5 7 (4.90%) SAP
6 6 (4.20%) Oracle
7 5 (3.50%) Pega
8 4 (2.80%) Epicor
8 4 (2.80%) IFS
8 4 (2.80%) Infor
8 4 (2.80%) OpenText
8 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.80%) YouTube
9 2 (1.40%) Splunk
9 2 (1.40%) Zerto