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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 547 711
Rank change year-on-year -82 +164 +173
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 101 93 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.55% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 49 48 84
10th Percentile £51,000 £44,750 £59,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -14.34% +14.29%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £99,063
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,500 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +1.52% +8.00%

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 22,641 16,829 25,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.06% 39.58% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,909 7,685 17,263
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +4.06% -7.01%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -1.96%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -46 96 £77,500 +13.10% 11
UK excluding London -48 58 £75,000 +9.45% 5
Work from Home +4 39 £75,000 +16.10% 9
London -33 33 £82,500 +22.22% 5
North of England -41 29 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire -43 17 £75,000 -
Midlands -29 12 £49,500 -5.35% 1
West Midlands -16 11 £49,000 -6.31% 1
North West -17 10 - -
East of England -14 8 £97,500 - 3
South West -57 5 £52,500 -23.39%
South East -27 3 £77,500 -7.46% 1
North East - 2 £105,000 -
Scotland - 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 6 (5.94%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.96%) Documentum
4 3 (2.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.99%) Camunda
5 1 (0.99%) Drupal
5 1 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.99%) SAS
5 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.99%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (52.48%) Azure
3 34 (33.66%) Serverless
4 31 (30.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (28.71%) GCP
6 20 (19.80%) Amazon S3
6 20 (19.80%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (8.91%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (8.91%) PaaS
10 8 (7.92%) SaaS
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (4.95%) CloudFront
13 5 (4.95%) IaaS
13 5 (4.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) DNS
2 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
2 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (11.88%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (6.93%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.96%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.97%) Big Data
7 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.99%) MySQL
8 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.99%) Power BI
8 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.99%) Redis
8 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (16.83%) GitLab
2 15 (14.85%) Cucumber
3 13 (12.87%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.92%) Git
5 7 (6.93%) JIRA
6 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.96%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.97%) Maven
8 3 (2.97%) Selenium
8 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.99%) Gatling
9 1 (0.99%) JMeter
9 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.74%) Finance
3 19 (18.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.92%) Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Advertising
6 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.94%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.95%) Publishing
8 4 (3.96%) Law
8 4 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.97%) Games
9 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.98%) Marketing
10 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.99%) Billing
11 1 (0.99%) Electronics
11 1 (0.99%) iGaming
11 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (41.58%) Architect
2 27 (26.73%) Senior
3 17 (16.83%) Analyst
3 17 (16.83%) Senior Analyst
4 12 (11.88%) AWS Architect
4 12 (11.88%) Java Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (8.91%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Principal Java Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Applications Architect
8 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (6.93%) Lead
8 7 (6.93%) Software Architect
9 6 (5.94%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.94%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.95%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) Kafka
1 16 (15.84%) Spring Boot
2 13 (12.87%) Spring
3 7 (6.93%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.97%) .NET
5 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.97%) Drools
5 3 (2.97%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.97%) Jest
5 3 (2.97%) PySpark
5 3 (2.97%) XML
6 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.98%) RESTful
7 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.99%) Memcached
7 1 (0.99%) Middleware
7 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (30.69%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (19.80%) Cloud Native
3 14 (13.86%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (11.88%) e-Learning
4 12 (11.88%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.96%) PKI
8 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.97%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.98%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.99%) Robotics
10 1 (0.99%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Linux
1 9 (8.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (51.49%) Mentoring
2 36 (35.64%) Agile
3 35 (34.65%) CI/CD
3 35 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (28.71%) Architectural Patterns
4 29 (28.71%) Microservices
5 28 (27.72%) DevOps
5 28 (27.72%) Migration
5 28 (27.72%) TOGAF
6 27 (26.73%) Computer Science
7 24 (23.76%) AI
8 23 (22.77%) Enterprise Architecture
9 22 (21.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (20.79%) Data Modelling
11 20 (19.80%) Cost Optimisation
11 20 (19.80%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (18.81%) Cost Management
13 17 (16.83%) FinOps
13 17 (16.83%) Software Licensing
13 17 (16.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.63%) Java
2 36 (35.64%) Python
3 22 (21.78%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.80%) C#
5 19 (18.81%) TypeScript
6 18 (17.82%) SQL
7 11 (10.89%) Bash
8 7 (6.93%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.96%) C++
10 4 (3.96%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (2.97%) Groovy
12 2 (1.98%) Bicep
13 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.99%) Go
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (99.01%) AWS Certification
2 32 (31.68%) Degree
3 24 (23.76%) Azure Certification
4 22 (21.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 21 (20.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (17.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (14.85%) Security Cleared
8 9 (8.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (7.92%) SC Cleared
10 5 (4.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) CITP
11 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
12 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.99%) CCSP
14 1 (0.99%) CISA
14 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.99%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) Basel III
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) MiFID
3 1 (0.99%) NCSC
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (18.81%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) iptables
2 4 (3.96%) KVM
2 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (24.75%) Terraform
2 13 (12.87%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.90%) Grafana
4 8 (7.92%) Ansible
5 5 (4.95%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.95%) Puppet
6 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.97%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.99%) Consul
8 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 39 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.78%) ServiceNow
3 17 (16.83%) Adobe
3 17 (16.83%) Apple
4 6 (5.94%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) SAP
5 5 (4.95%) Pega
5 5 (4.95%) Workday
6 4 (3.96%) OpenText
6 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 4 (3.96%) YouTube
7 2 (1.98%) Databricks
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle
7 2 (1.98%) Zerto
8 1 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.99%) Palantir
8 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.99%) Splunk
8 1 (0.99%) UiPath