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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 421 714
Rank change year-on-year -206 +293 +9
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 155 270 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.78% 1.57% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 39 45 59
10th Percentile £55,500 £56,516 £48,320
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £93,125 £93,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +20.00% -10.71%

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 19,804 17,222 21,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.40% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,771 7,837 11,401
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,241 £36,925 £41,250
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +17.35% -5.77% -0.95%

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 27 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 27 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 -211 137 £85,000 +13.33% 27
London -3 91 £97,500 +24.20% 17
UK excluding London -251 56 £77,500 +3.33% 14
Work from Home -199 39 £90,000 +20.00% 15
Midlands -19 16 £82,500 +34.69% 3
North of England -192 14 £55,000 -26.67% 5
West Midlands -26 13 £85,000 +38.78% 2
North West -137 13 £55,000 -13.73% 3
South East -30 7 £65,000 -31.58%
South West -72 7 £90,000 +31.34% 6
Wales - 7 £80,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 1
Scotland - 3 - -
East of England -32 2 £87,500 -
Yorkshire -38 1 - - 2

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 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.58%) SAS
2 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Drupal
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
3 1 (0.65%) JBoss
3 1 (0.65%) nginx
3 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.48%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.87%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.65%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (52.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (32.90%) Serverless
4 49 (31.61%) Azure
5 48 (30.97%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (25.81%) GCP
7 34 (21.94%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (20.65%) Amazon S3
8 32 (20.65%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (16.77%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (12.26%) GitHub
12 18 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (9.68%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (9.68%) AWS Control Tower
14 13 (8.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.16%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (5.16%) CloudFront
17 7 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.71%) Network Security
2 5 (3.23%) Firewall
2 5 (3.23%) Internet
3 3 (1.94%) VPN
4 2 (1.29%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.29%) LAN
4 2 (1.29%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.29%) WAN
4 2 (1.29%) Wireless
5 1 (0.65%) DHCP
5 1 (0.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (29.68%) NoSQL
2 30 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.81%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.58%) Big Data
6 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.94%) Metadata
8 1 (0.65%) Adabas
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.65%) Power BI
8 1 (0.65%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 40 (25.81%) GitLab
2 35 (22.58%) Cucumber
3 16 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.29%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) Gatling
6 1 (0.65%) JMeter
6 1 (0.65%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.65%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (40.65%) Finance
2 28 (18.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.32%) Banking
5 14 (9.03%) Financial Institution
5 14 (9.03%) Social Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.23%) Law
8 4 (2.58%) Billing
8 4 (2.58%) Military
8 4 (2.58%) Retail
9 3 (1.94%) Advertising
9 3 (1.94%) Marketing
9 3 (1.94%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.29%) Games
10 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Legal
10 2 (1.29%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.65%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 72 (46.45%) Senior
2 46 (29.68%) Architect
3 34 (21.94%) Java Engineer
4 28 (18.06%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (16.13%) Consultant
6 24 (15.48%) Analyst
6 24 (15.48%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (13.55%) Security Consultant
8 20 (12.90%) Principal Engineer
8 20 (12.90%) Principal Java Engineer
9 18 (11.61%) Senior Consultant
10 15 (9.68%) AWS Architect
11 14 (9.03%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (9.03%) Senior Security Consultant
12 7 (4.52%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (4.52%) Developer
12 7 (4.52%) Lead
12 7 (4.52%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.52%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (37.42%) Terraform
2 45 (29.03%) Spring Boot
3 38 (24.52%) Spring
4 37 (23.87%) Kafka
5 22 (14.19%) AWS CDK
6 14 (9.03%) .NET
7 12 (7.74%) Node.js
8 10 (6.45%) REST
9 8 (5.16%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (4.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (4.52%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.52%) JWT
10 7 (4.52%) MediatR
10 7 (4.52%) OAuth
10 7 (4.52%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.52%) OpenAPI
10 7 (4.52%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (4.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 35 (22.58%) Public Cloud
3 34 (21.94%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (21.94%) e-Learning
3 34 (21.94%) Onboarding
4 23 (14.84%) Enterprise Cloud
5 20 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (7.10%) Data Centre
7 9 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (5.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (4.52%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (4.52%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.52%) Mainframe
9 7 (4.52%) Security Posture
10 6 (3.87%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (3.87%) PKI
11 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.58%) Blog
12 4 (2.58%) IVR
13 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.61%) Windows
2 13 (8.39%) Linux
3 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.29%) Unix
5 1 (0.65%) AIX
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (58.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (49.03%) Mentoring
3 69 (44.52%) AI
4 66 (42.58%) Agile
5 64 (41.29%) CI/CD
6 50 (32.26%) Microservices
7 49 (31.61%) Event-Driven
8 43 (27.74%) Architectural Patterns
9 41 (26.45%) CQRS
10 39 (25.16%) Cloud Security
11 37 (23.87%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (22.58%) BDD
12 35 (22.58%) Test Automation
13 34 (21.94%) Performance Testing
13 34 (21.94%) Threat Modelling
14 32 (20.65%) Data Protection
15 31 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
16 28 (18.06%) DevOps
16 28 (18.06%) Roadmaps
17 27 (17.42%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (45.16%) Java
2 44 (28.39%) Python
3 42 (27.10%) SQL
4 21 (13.55%) Ruby
5 18 (11.61%) Bash
6 15 (9.68%) PHP
7 14 (9.03%) Perl
8 12 (7.74%) C#
9 9 (5.81%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.52%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.87%) COBOL
11 6 (3.87%) Go
12 5 (3.23%) C++
12 5 (3.23%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.65%) Groovy
14 1 (0.65%) Natural
14 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 155 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 29 (18.71%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.68%) Degree
4 13 (8.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (8.39%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.45%) CISSP
6 8 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.52%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.58%) ISSAP
8 4 (2.58%) ISSEP
9 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.29%) CCIE
10 2 (1.29%) CCNP
11 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.32%) GDPR
2 10 (6.45%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.16%) NCSC
4 6 (3.87%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.94%) GRC
6 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.29%) NIST
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.65%) GxP
8 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (9.03%) Docker
2 10 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.23%) KVM
4 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.65%) iptables
Systems Management
1 15 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.45%) Grafana
3 9 (5.81%) Ansible
4 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.94%) Argo
6 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.29%) Puppet
7 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.65%) Consul
7 1 (0.65%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) Nagios
7 1 (0.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.48%) Adobe
2 24 (15.48%) Apple
2 24 (15.48%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.10%) VMware
4 9 (5.81%) Cisco
4 9 (5.81%) Google
4 9 (5.81%) Oracle
5 7 (4.52%) Avaya
5 7 (4.52%) Genesys
5 7 (4.52%) SAP
6 5 (3.23%) Splunk
7 4 (2.58%) Epicor
7 4 (2.58%) IFS
7 4 (2.58%) Infor
7 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.94%) Databricks
8 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.94%) OutSystems
8 3 (1.94%) Red Hat