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 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 419 696
Rank change year-on-year -213 +277 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 160 278 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.56% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.78% 1.64% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38 48 52
10th Percentile £60,625 £58,900 £43,228
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,438 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -11.67%
75th Percentile £100,625 £97,500 £93,156
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% -20.00%

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 20,536 16,948 20,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.87% 34.33% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,230 7,485 9,750
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £37,170 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -225 142 £90,000 +20.00% 164
London -6 97 £97,500 +20.74% 116
UK excluding London -275 55 £80,000 +6.67% 64
Work from Home -195 39 £90,000 +10.43% 71
Midlands -32 16 £82,500 +26.92% 9
North of England -193 15 £65,000 -13.33% 16
West Midlands -28 13 £85,000 +30.77% 5
North West -148 13 £55,000 -13.73% 10
South East -53 7 £65,000 -33.33% 8
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 3
South West -75 6 £90,000 +31.34% 13
East Midlands - 3 £80,000 - 4
Scotland - 3 - - 7
Yorkshire -45 2 £75,000 - 5
East of England -34 1 £100,000 - 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 (2.50%) SAS
2 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Drupal
3 1 (0.63%) IIS
3 1 (0.63%) JBoss
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (15.00%) Cloudability
2 6 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (54.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 53 (33.13%) Azure
4 49 (30.63%) Serverless
5 46 (28.75%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (25.63%) GCP
7 33 (20.63%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (20.00%) Amazon S3
8 32 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
9 24 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (11.88%) GitHub
12 17 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (9.38%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (9.38%) AWS Control Tower
14 14 (8.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (4.38%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.50%) Network Security
2 7 (4.38%) Firewall
3 5 (3.13%) Internet
4 3 (1.88%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.88%) DNS
4 3 (1.88%) LAN
4 3 (1.88%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.88%) VPN
4 3 (1.88%) WAN
4 3 (1.88%) Wireless
5 2 (1.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.13%) NoSQL
2 28 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.63%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.38%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.88%) Big Data
7 3 (1.88%) Metadata
8 1 (0.63%) Adabas
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.63%) Power BI
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (28.13%) GitLab
2 41 (25.63%) Cucumber
3 14 (8.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.63%) Gatling
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) JMeter
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (43.75%) Finance
2 28 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.88%) Banking
5 17 (10.63%) Financial Institution
6 15 (9.38%) Social Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.13%) Law
9 4 (2.50%) Billing
9 4 (2.50%) Military
9 4 (2.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.88%) Marketing
10 3 (1.88%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.25%) Advertising
11 2 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.25%) Legal
11 2 (1.25%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (47.50%) Senior
2 47 (29.38%) Architect
3 40 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 30 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (16.25%) Consultant
6 24 (15.00%) Analyst
6 24 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
7 23 (14.38%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (14.38%) Principal Java Engineer
8 21 (13.13%) Security Consultant
9 19 (11.88%) Senior Consultant
10 17 (10.63%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (8.75%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (8.13%) AWS Architect
13 8 (5.00%) Senior Architect
14 7 (4.38%) Developer
14 7 (4.38%) Lead
14 7 (4.38%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.38%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 6 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.38%) Terraform
2 51 (31.88%) Spring Boot
3 44 (27.50%) Spring
4 43 (26.88%) Kafka
5 22 (13.75%) AWS CDK
6 14 (8.75%) .NET
7 12 (7.50%) Node.js
8 10 (6.25%) REST
9 8 (5.00%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (4.38%) Entity Framework
10 7 (4.38%) JWT
10 7 (4.38%) MediatR
10 7 (4.38%) OAuth
10 7 (4.38%) OAuth2
10 7 (4.38%) OpenAPI
10 7 (4.38%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (4.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (43.13%) Cloud Native
2 43 (26.88%) Public Cloud
3 40 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (25.00%) e-Learning
4 34 (21.25%) Onboarding
5 23 (14.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 23 (14.38%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (6.88%) Data Centre
6 11 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (5.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (5.00%) PKI
9 7 (4.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (4.38%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.38%) Mainframe
9 7 (4.38%) Security Posture
10 6 (3.75%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.50%) Blog
12 4 (2.50%) IVR
12 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.25%) Windows
2 13 (8.13%) Linux
3 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 80 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 76 (47.50%) AI
4 72 (45.00%) Agile
5 67 (41.88%) CI/CD
6 57 (35.63%) Microservices
7 55 (34.38%) Event-Driven
8 47 (29.38%) CQRS
9 45 (28.13%) Architectural Patterns
10 41 (25.63%) BDD
10 41 (25.63%) Test Automation
11 40 (25.00%) Performance Testing
12 39 (24.38%) Cloud Security
13 38 (23.75%) Cybersecurity
14 34 (21.25%) Threat Modelling
15 32 (20.00%) Data Protection
16 30 (18.75%) Coaching
16 30 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
16 30 (18.75%) Roadmaps
17 27 (16.88%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (47.50%) Java
2 49 (30.63%) SQL
3 41 (25.63%) Python
4 21 (13.13%) Ruby
5 16 (10.00%) Bash
6 15 (9.38%) PHP
7 14 (8.75%) Perl
8 12 (7.50%) C#
9 9 (5.63%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.75%) COBOL
10 6 (3.75%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.13%) C++
11 5 (3.13%) Go
12 4 (2.50%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.63%) Bicep
14 1 (0.63%) Groovy
14 1 (0.63%) Natural
Qualifications
1 160 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 27 (16.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.75%) Degree
4 13 (8.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (8.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (7.50%) CISSP
6 11 (6.88%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
9 5 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.50%) ISSAP
10 4 (2.50%) ISSEP
11 3 (1.88%) CCIE
11 3 (1.88%) CCNP
11 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.63%) CCSP
12 1 (0.63%) CISM
12 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.00%) GDPR
2 10 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.00%) NCSC
4 6 (3.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.50%) GRC
6 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.63%) GxP
8 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (7.50%) Docker
1 12 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.13%) KVM
3 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.63%) Ansible
3 7 (4.38%) Grafana
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) Argo
6 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) Consul
7 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.63%) Kibana
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.00%) Adobe
2 24 (15.00%) Apple
2 24 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 13 (8.13%) VMware
4 11 (6.88%) Cisco
5 10 (6.25%) Google
6 9 (5.63%) Oracle
7 7 (4.38%) Avaya
7 7 (4.38%) Genesys
7 7 (4.38%) SAP
8 5 (3.13%) Splunk
9 4 (2.50%) Epicor
9 4 (2.50%) IFS
9 4 (2.50%) Infor
9 4 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.88%) Databricks
10 3 (1.88%) Juniper
10 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.88%) Zscaler