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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 427 747
Rank change year-on-year -202 +320 +24
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 145 267 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.54% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 1.55% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 62
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,688 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.75% -14.34% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% -2.11% -

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 19,365 17,240 22,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 34.94% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,181 7,834 12,972
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,518 £40,000
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
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 29 July 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 29 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 -198 134 £77,500 +13.10% 43
London +12 86 £100,000 +66.67% 27
UK excluding London -223 56 £75,000 +9.45% 18
Work from Home -188 37 £90,000 +40.05% 18
North of England -184 16 £80,000 +23.08% 10
Midlands -27 15 £75,000 +22.45% 2
West Midlands -21 14 £67,500 +10.20% 2
North West -140 13 - - 6
South West -58 8 £76,250 +11.27% 4
South East -32 7 £65,000 -28.77%
Wales - 7 £80,000 -
Yorkshire -27 3 £80,000 +6.67% 4
East of England -28 2 £87,500 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Scotland - 1 - - 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 4 (2.76%) SAS
2 3 (2.07%) JBoss
3 2 (1.38%) Apache
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Drupal
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.55%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (52.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 50 (34.48%) Serverless
4 47 (32.41%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (30.34%) Azure
6 36 (24.83%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (24.83%) GCP
7 32 (22.07%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (21.38%) Amazon S3
9 27 (18.62%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (12.41%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (12.41%) GitHub
11 17 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.34%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (10.34%) AWS Control Tower
13 11 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (6.21%) CloudFront
16 8 (5.52%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (4.83%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.93%) Network Security
2 5 (3.45%) Internet
3 4 (2.76%) VPN
4 3 (2.07%) Firewall
5 2 (1.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.69%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (26.90%) NoSQL
2 28 (19.31%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (8.28%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.14%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.45%) Big Data
7 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.69%) Adabas
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
9 1 (0.69%) Redis
9 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 35 (24.14%) GitLab
2 32 (22.07%) Cucumber
3 19 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.07%) JIRA
5 3 (2.07%) Maven
5 3 (2.07%) Selenium
5 3 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) Gatling
7 1 (0.69%) Git
7 1 (0.69%) JMeter
7 1 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (37.24%) Finance
2 26 (17.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (17.93%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.66%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Banking
5 10 (6.90%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.76%) Advertising
6 4 (2.76%) Billing
6 4 (2.76%) Military
6 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Retail
7 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Law
7 3 (2.07%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.38%) Games
8 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) iGaming
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 68 (46.90%) Senior
2 39 (26.90%) Architect
3 29 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 25 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (16.55%) Analyst
5 24 (16.55%) Senior Analyst
6 23 (15.86%) Consultant
7 19 (13.10%) Principal Engineer
7 19 (13.10%) Principal Java Engineer
7 19 (13.10%) Security Consultant
8 18 (12.41%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.66%) AWS Architect
9 14 (9.66%) Senior Security Consultant
10 10 (6.90%) Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.28%) Spring Boot
2 32 (22.07%) Spring
3 30 (20.69%) Kafka
4 22 (15.17%) AWS CDK
5 15 (10.34%) Node.js
6 12 (8.28%) .NET
7 10 (6.90%) REST
8 8 (5.52%) .NET Framework
9 7 (4.83%) ASP.NET
9 7 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (4.83%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (4.83%) Entity Framework
9 7 (4.83%) JWT
9 7 (4.83%) MediatR
9 7 (4.83%) OAuth
9 7 (4.83%) OAuth2
9 7 (4.83%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.83%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (4.83%) Swagger
10 6 (4.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (35.86%) Cloud Native
2 33 (22.76%) Onboarding
3 30 (20.69%) Public Cloud
4 29 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (20.00%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 21 (14.48%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (6.90%) Data Centre
8 8 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (4.83%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.14%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (3.45%) Data Structures
11 5 (3.45%) PKI
12 4 (2.76%) Blog
12 4 (2.76%) IVR
12 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
13 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.10%) Windows
2 14 (9.66%) Linux
3 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) AIX
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (56.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 74 (51.03%) Mentoring
3 66 (45.52%) AI
4 61 (42.07%) Agile
5 58 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 44 (30.34%) Architectural Patterns
7 43 (29.66%) Event-Driven
8 42 (28.97%) Microservices
9 36 (24.83%) CQRS
10 35 (24.14%) Cloud Security
11 34 (23.45%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (22.07%) BDD
13 30 (20.69%) Test Automation
14 29 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
14 29 (20.00%) Data Protection
14 29 (20.00%) Performance Testing
14 29 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
15 27 (18.62%) Cost Management
16 25 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
16 25 (17.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.52%) Java
2 41 (28.28%) Python
3 34 (23.45%) SQL
4 22 (15.17%) Bash
5 21 (14.48%) Ruby
6 15 (10.34%) PHP
7 14 (9.66%) Perl
8 12 (8.28%) C#
9 11 (7.59%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.21%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.14%) COBOL
11 6 (4.14%) Go
12 5 (3.45%) C++
12 5 (3.45%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.07%) Groovy
14 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.38%) Bicep
16 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.69%) Natural
Qualifications
1 145 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (19.31%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.03%) Degree
4 15 (10.34%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (8.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.83%) CISSP
9 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
10 4 (2.76%) ISSAP
10 4 (2.76%) ISSEP
11 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) GDPR
2 7 (4.83%) NCSC
3 6 (4.14%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (4.14%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) GxP
7 1 (0.69%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.34%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.45%) KVM
4 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 56 (38.62%) Terraform
2 13 (8.97%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.90%) Grafana
4 9 (6.21%) Ansible
5 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.07%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.07%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.07%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.69%) Argo
7 1 (0.69%) Consul
7 1 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.69%) Nagios
7 1 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.55%) Adobe
2 24 (16.55%) Apple
2 24 (16.55%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.21%) VMware
4 7 (4.83%) Avaya
4 7 (4.83%) Cisco
4 7 (4.83%) Genesys
4 7 (4.83%) Google
4 7 (4.83%) Oracle
4 7 (4.83%) SAP
5 4 (2.76%) Epicor
5 4 (2.76%) IFS
5 4 (2.76%) Infor
5 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.07%) Splunk
7 2 (1.38%) Zerto
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks
8 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds