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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 569 611
Rank change year-on-year +51 +42 +284
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 117 125 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.64% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 80 49 63
10th Percentile £61,500 £45,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,834 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £99,063 £88,750 £93,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +19.97% -4.30% +12.50%

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 19,465 19,525 19,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.97% 37.35% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 7,488 13,713
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.63%

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 January 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 27 January 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 +38 105 £79,669 +5.52% 24
UK excluding London +42 58 £77,500 +19.97% 17
Work from Home +55 54 £75,000 -5.06% 17
London +35 41 £81,500 -4.12% 10
North of England +36 32 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Yorkshire +10 27 £75,000 -
East of England +31 13 £97,500 -
South East +14 8 £100,000 +88.50% 7
North East - 4 £105,000 -
West Midlands +18 3 £47,000 -27.24% 3
Midlands -8 3 £47,000 -27.24% 4
North West +19 1 - - 2
South West -6 1 £52,500 -26.32% 3
Scotland -11 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 (3.42%) Confluence
1 4 (3.42%) Documentum
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) Apache
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (60.68%) Azure
3 52 (44.44%) Serverless
4 27 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (21.37%) Amazon S3
5 25 (21.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (14.53%) GCP
7 13 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (7.69%) PaaS
9 9 (7.69%) SaaS
10 8 (6.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (6.84%) CloudFront
11 7 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.98%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (4.27%) Figma
12 5 (4.27%) IaaS
13 4 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) VPN
2 7 (5.98%) WAN
3 6 (5.13%) Firewall
3 6 (5.13%) LAN
3 6 (5.13%) SD-WAN
3 6 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (4.27%) Unified Communications
4 5 (4.27%) VoIP
5 4 (3.42%) VLAN
6 3 (2.56%) Network Security
7 2 (1.71%) DNS
7 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.85%) MPLS
8 1 (0.85%) NAS
8 1 (0.85%) SAN
8 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (5.13%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.85%) Big Data
8 1 (0.85%) MySQL
8 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Git
2 10 (8.55%) GitLab
2 10 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.69%) JIRA
4 7 (5.98%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.27%) Vite
6 2 (1.71%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (58.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.21%) Finance
3 12 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (9.40%) Financial Institution
4 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.40%) Publishing
5 8 (6.84%) Banking
6 6 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Law
8 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Advertising
9 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.85%) Games
10 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (53.85%) Architect
2 16 (13.68%) Senior
3 15 (12.82%) AWS Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.26%) Lead
6 11 (9.40%) Software Architect
6 11 (9.40%) Technical Leader
7 9 (7.69%) ERP Architect
7 9 (7.69%) Head of IT
7 9 (7.69%) SAP Architect
7 9 (7.69%) SAP Enterprise Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Head of Infrastructure
8 7 (5.98%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.55%) Spring
1 10 (8.55%) Spring Boot
2 8 (6.84%) Kafka
3 5 (4.27%) Jest
3 5 (4.27%) Next.js
3 5 (4.27%) React
4 4 (3.42%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.56%) .NET
5 3 (2.56%) PySpark
5 3 (2.56%) RESTful
6 2 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.71%) Node.js
7 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (14.53%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.27%) e-Learning
6 5 (4.27%) Operational Technology
6 5 (4.27%) PKI
6 5 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.27%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.56%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.26%) Windows
2 6 (5.13%) Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.74%) TOGAF
2 45 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 41 (35.04%) Migration
4 40 (34.19%) Enterprise Architecture
5 39 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 38 (32.48%) Agile
6 38 (32.48%) DevOps
7 36 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (30.77%) Microservices
8 34 (29.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (27.35%) CI/CD
9 32 (27.35%) Roadmaps
10 30 (25.64%) Application Security
10 30 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (23.93%) Data Modelling
12 27 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (21.37%) Technology Roadmap
15 24 (20.51%) EAI
15 24 (20.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.61%) Python
2 43 (36.75%) Java
3 33 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 32 (27.35%) JavaScript
5 29 (24.79%) C#
6 9 (7.69%) Bash
6 9 (7.69%) SQL
7 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.71%) C++
8 2 (1.71%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 59 (50.43%) Degree
3 47 (40.17%) Azure Certification
4 40 (34.19%) TOGAF Certification
5 37 (31.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (26.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (12.82%) Security Cleared
8 10 (8.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (8.55%) Master's Degree
8 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
9 7 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) CCNP
11 5 (4.27%) PMI Certification
11 5 (4.27%) PMP
12 4 (3.42%) CITP
12 4 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (2.56%) CISA
13 3 (2.56%) CISSP
13 3 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.98%) GDPR
4 6 (5.13%) NIST
5 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) Basel III
7 1 (0.85%) GAAP
7 1 (0.85%) MiFID
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (18.80%) Docker
2 6 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.71%) KVM
5 1 (0.85%) iptables
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (19.66%) Terraform
2 20 (17.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.98%) Ansible
4 5 (4.27%) Grafana
5 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.56%) Nessus
6 3 (2.56%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (34.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) SAP
3 11 (9.40%) Workday
4 7 (5.98%) VMware
5 5 (4.27%) Cisco
6 4 (3.42%) OpenText
6 4 (3.42%) Pega
6 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.42%) YouTube
7 3 (2.56%) Google
7 3 (2.56%) IBM
8 2 (1.71%) Databricks
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle
9 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.85%) Palantir
9 1 (0.85%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.85%) Refinitiv