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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 651 674
Rank change year-on-year +246 +23 +304
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 283 104 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.68% 0.52% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 55 44 46
10th Percentile £62,250 £49,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £54,063 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,875 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £63,550 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.02% -9.21% +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 16,822 19,873 17,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.40% 28.19% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,369 8,485 11,739
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,650 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% +5.00%

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 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 13 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 16 October 2025. 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 +283 276 £81,500 +25.38% 52
Work from Home +210 227 £81,500 +8.67% 54
UK excluding London +235 226 £75,000 +18.02% 37
North of England +167 197 £75,000 +20.00% 8
North West +142 184 £62,500 - 3
London +51 43 £81,500 -4.12% 23
Yorkshire +25 11 £75,000 - 2
South East +35 10 £100,000 +88.50% 15
East of England +14 9 £97,500 - 6
South West +48 6 £69,263 - 1
West Midlands +37 4 £61,250 -35.53% 7
Midlands +29 4 £61,250 -40.24% 7
North East - 2 £105,000 - 3

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 (1.41%) Apache
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) CMS
3 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) AWS
2 239 (84.45%) Azure
3 204 (72.08%) GCP
4 36 (12.72%) Serverless
5 27 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (8.13%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.89%) SaaS
9 10 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.83%) CloudFront
10 8 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.12%) GitHub
12 5 (1.77%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.77%) Figma
12 5 (1.77%) IaaS
12 5 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.24%) VPN
2 8 (2.83%) LAN
2 8 (2.83%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.83%) WAN
2 8 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.47%) Firewall
3 7 (2.47%) Unified Communications
3 7 (2.47%) VoIP
4 4 (1.41%) VLAN
5 3 (1.06%) Network Security
6 2 (0.71%) DNS
6 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) MPLS
7 1 (0.35%) NAS
7 1 (0.35%) SAN
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.01%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (2.47%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (1.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Git
2 7 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.12%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.12%) GitLab
4 5 (1.77%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.77%) JIRA
4 5 (1.77%) Vite
5 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
General
1 193 (68.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.95%) Finance
4 14 (4.95%) Law
5 9 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.83%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.83%) Marketing
6 8 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.12%) Publishing
9 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.41%) Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (73.14%) Senior
2 182 (64.31%) Software Engineer
3 178 (62.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 47 (16.61%) Architect
5 21 (7.42%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (7.07%) AWS Architect
7 16 (5.65%) Lead
8 13 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (4.24%) AWS Solution Architect
10 11 (3.89%) Senior Architect
10 11 (3.89%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.53%) DevOps Architect
11 10 (3.53%) TOGAF Architect
12 9 (3.18%) Head of IT
13 8 (2.83%) Infrastructure Architect
14 7 (2.47%) Developer
14 7 (2.47%) Head of IT Operations
14 7 (2.47%) Head of Operations
14 7 (2.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (62.90%) .NET
1 178 (62.90%) Node.js
2 11 (3.89%) Spring
2 11 (3.89%) Spring Boot
3 9 (3.18%) React
4 7 (2.47%) Kafka
5 5 (1.77%) Jest
5 5 (1.77%) Next.js
5 5 (1.77%) RESTful
6 4 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.41%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.41%) CSS
6 4 (1.41%) CSS3
6 4 (1.41%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.41%) HTML
6 4 (1.41%) HTML5
6 4 (1.41%) Material-UI
6 4 (1.41%) REST
6 4 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 178 (62.90%) Cyberattack
1 178 (62.90%) Linux Command Line
1 178 (62.90%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (12.01%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.30%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.47%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.06%) PKI
10 2 (0.71%) CMDB
10 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 185 (65.37%) Linux
2 11 (3.89%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (78.09%) Agile
2 208 (73.50%) Microservices
3 202 (71.38%) Mentoring
3 202 (71.38%) Software Engineering
4 191 (67.49%) Machine Learning
5 189 (66.78%) Cloud Security
6 184 (65.02%) Scrum
7 183 (64.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 183 (64.66%) User Experience
8 180 (63.60%) Data Engineering
9 46 (16.25%) DevOps
10 43 (15.19%) CI/CD
11 38 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (12.72%) TOGAF
13 33 (11.66%) Computer Science
13 33 (11.66%) Roadmaps
14 31 (10.95%) Containerisation
15 28 (9.89%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (8.48%) Enterprise Architecture
16 24 (8.48%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 218 (77.03%) Java
2 217 (76.68%) Python
3 195 (68.90%) JavaScript
4 182 (64.31%) Go
5 178 (62.90%) C++
5 178 (62.90%) Rust
6 25 (8.83%) SQL
7 19 (6.71%) C#
8 16 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.83%) Bash
10 6 (2.12%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 283 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 191 (67.49%) Security Cleared
3 189 (66.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 179 (63.25%) DV Cleared
5 42 (14.84%) Degree
6 41 (14.49%) Azure Certification
7 23 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (6.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (4.24%) SC Cleared
10 11 (3.89%) Master's Degree
10 11 (3.89%) PMI Certification
10 11 (3.89%) PMP
11 9 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (2.83%) CCNP
13 4 (1.41%) CISSP
13 4 (1.41%) ISSAP
14 3 (1.06%) MCP
14 3 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.71%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.42%) NIST
2 20 (7.07%) GDPR
3 12 (4.24%) HIPAA
4 8 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.47%) QA
6 4 (1.41%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) GAAP
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (10.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.71%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) iptables
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.54%) Terraform
3 8 (2.83%) Ansible
4 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.41%) Grafana
6 3 (1.06%) Nessus
6 3 (1.06%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.07%) Google
3 8 (2.83%) Cisco
4 6 (2.12%) VMware
5 5 (1.77%) SAP
5 5 (1.77%) Splunk
5 5 (1.77%) Workday
6 3 (1.06%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) Databricks
7 1 (0.35%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle
7 1 (0.35%) Pure Storage