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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 428 764
Rank change year-on-year -202 +336 +73
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 111 265 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.59% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 1.52% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 37 37 81
10th Percentile £50,750 £40,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -17.46% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £115,000
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 18,443 17,398 27,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.47% 38.52% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,713 7,385 17,210
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,671
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,890 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,738
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.29% -12.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 14 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 23 June 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 -197 106 £77,500 +21.57% 14
UK excluding London -209 54 £75,000 +9.45% 8
London -32 51 £90,000 +50.00% 9
Work from Home -145 38 £90,000 +50.00% 8
North of England -168 20 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Midlands -26 16 £62,500 +56.25% 2
West Midlands -12 15 £50,000 +25.00% 2
North West -118 13 - -
South West -58 8 £52,500 -23.39% 1
Yorkshire -26 7 £75,000 - 2
South East -23 4 £65,000 -12.46% 3
East of England -17 3 £97,500 -
Wales - 3 £80,000 -
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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.60%) Documentum
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.70%) JBoss
4 2 (1.80%) SAS
5 1 (0.90%) Camunda
5 1 (0.90%) Drupal
5 1 (0.90%) IIS
5 1 (0.90%) nginx
5 1 (0.90%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (21.62%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.90%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (44.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 44 (39.64%) Azure
4 35 (31.53%) GCP
5 29 (26.13%) Serverless
6 24 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (18.02%) Amazon S3
8 17 (15.32%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (12.61%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (11.71%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (7.21%) GitHub
12 8 (7.21%) PaaS
12 8 (7.21%) SaaS
13 7 (6.31%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (6.31%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (6.31%) CloudFront
13 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) Network Security
2 2 (1.80%) Internet
3 1 (0.90%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) NoSQL
2 18 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.31%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (6.31%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.70%) Big Data
6 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.90%) Adabas
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.90%) Metadata
8 1 (0.90%) Power BI
8 1 (0.90%) Redis
8 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) GitLab
2 25 (22.52%) Cucumber
3 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.31%) JIRA
5 5 (4.50%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.60%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.60%) Git
7 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.70%) Maven
7 3 (2.70%) Selenium
7 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.90%) Gatling
8 1 (0.90%) JMeter
8 1 (0.90%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (30.63%) Finance
2 25 (22.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.21%) Banking
6 6 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.50%) Advertising
8 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Billing
9 2 (1.80%) Games
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) iGaming
10 1 (0.90%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.90%) Publishing
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (38.74%) Senior
2 34 (30.63%) Architect
3 24 (21.62%) Analyst
3 24 (21.62%) Senior Analyst
4 22 (19.82%) Java Engineer
5 16 (14.41%) Principal Engineer
5 16 (14.41%) Principal Java Engineer
6 15 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (10.81%) AWS Architect
8 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Lead
9 6 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) AWS Solution Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Security Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.13%) Spring Boot
2 25 (22.52%) Kafka
3 24 (21.62%) Spring
4 9 (8.11%) Node.js
5 8 (7.21%) AWS CDK
6 5 (4.50%) .NET
7 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.60%) Middleware
8 3 (2.70%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.70%) Drools
8 3 (2.70%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.70%) Jest
8 3 (2.70%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (2.70%) XML
9 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.80%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.80%) JWT
9 2 (1.80%) MediatR
9 2 (1.80%) PySpark
9 2 (1.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 24 (21.62%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (20.72%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (19.82%) e-Learning
4 22 (19.82%) Public Cloud
5 11 (9.91%) Onboarding
6 10 (9.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (6.31%) Data Centre
8 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (4.50%) PKI
10 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
10 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (2.70%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.80%) Blog
12 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.80%) Digital Wallet
12 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Windows
2 13 (11.71%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) AIX
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) Mentoring
2 55 (49.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (43.24%) Agile
4 46 (41.44%) CI/CD
5 39 (35.14%) AI
6 34 (30.63%) Microservices
7 32 (28.83%) Architectural Patterns
8 29 (26.13%) Event-Driven
9 27 (24.32%) Cost Management
9 27 (24.32%) Cost Optimisation
9 27 (24.32%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (22.52%) BDD
11 24 (21.62%) CQRS
11 24 (21.62%) DevOps
11 24 (21.62%) FinOps
11 24 (21.62%) Software Licensing
12 23 (20.72%) Performance Testing
12 23 (20.72%) Test Automation
13 20 (18.02%) Migration
13 20 (18.02%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (41.44%) Java
2 29 (26.13%) Python
3 27 (24.32%) SQL
4 14 (12.61%) Bash
5 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.81%) C#
7 8 (7.21%) Kotlin
7 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.31%) Ruby
9 5 (4.50%) C++
9 5 (4.50%) Google Apps Script
9 5 (4.50%) PHP
9 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.60%) Perl
11 3 (2.70%) Go
11 3 (2.70%) Groovy
12 2 (1.80%) Bicep
12 2 (1.80%) COBOL
13 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.90%) Natural
Qualifications
1 110 (99.10%) AWS Certification
2 20 (18.02%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) Degree
4 12 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 12 (10.81%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (9.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.60%) CITP
9 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.90%) CISSP
11 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) GDPR
2 3 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) NCSC
3 2 (1.80%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (15.32%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.50%) KVM
4 4 (3.60%) iptables
5 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (31.53%) Terraform
2 12 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.91%) Grafana
4 10 (9.01%) Ansible
5 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.50%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.50%) Puppet
7 3 (2.70%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.90%) Consul
8 1 (0.90%) Kibana
8 1 (0.90%) Nagios
8 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 39 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 29 (26.13%) ServiceNow
3 24 (21.62%) Adobe
3 24 (21.62%) Apple
4 7 (6.31%) VMware
5 6 (5.41%) Google
6 5 (4.50%) Pega
6 5 (4.50%) SAP
7 4 (3.60%) OpenText
7 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 4 (3.60%) YouTube
8 3 (2.70%) Epicor
8 3 (2.70%) IFS
8 3 (2.70%) Infor
9 2 (1.80%) Splunk
9 2 (1.80%) Zerto
10 1 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.90%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.90%) UiPath