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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 432 717
Rank change year-on-year -214 +285 +14
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 149 264 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 1.52% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 38 43 63
10th Percentile £55,125 £56,188 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.11% +1.61%
75th Percentile £91,875 £86,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% +3.85%

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 19,829 17,417 21,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.65% 34.89% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,551 7,850 11,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £37,500 £41,250
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 £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -189 131 £82,500 +19.11% 73
London -5 86 £100,000 +48.15% 53
UK excluding London -241 55 £77,500 +10.71% 25
Work from Home -183 36 £90,000 +31.34% 37
North of England -191 16 £67,500 -3.57% 9
West Midlands -18 13 £85,000 +38.78% 5
Midlands -19 13 £85,000 +38.78% 5
North West -136 13 £55,000 -13.73% 5
South East -30 7 £65,000 -31.58% 1
South West -61 7 £90,000 +31.34% 6
Wales - 7 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -34 3 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Scotland - 3 - - 2
East of England -22 2 £87,500 -

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 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.68%) SAS
2 3 (2.01%) JBoss
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Drupal
4 1 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (16.11%) Cloudability
2 6 (4.03%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (52.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (34.23%) Serverless
4 48 (32.21%) AWS Lambda
5 47 (31.54%) Azure
6 40 (26.85%) GCP
7 36 (24.16%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (21.48%) Amazon S3
8 32 (21.48%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (17.45%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (13.42%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (12.75%) GitHub
12 18 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (10.07%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (10.07%) AWS Control Tower
14 13 (8.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.71%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.37%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (5.37%) CloudFront
17 7 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (19.46%) Network Security
2 5 (3.36%) Internet
3 4 (2.68%) Firewall
4 3 (2.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) DNS
5 1 (0.67%) LAN
5 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.67%) WAN
5 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.19%) NoSQL
2 30 (20.13%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (7.38%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.36%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.68%) Big Data
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.67%) Adabas
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.67%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) Redis
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (25.50%) GitLab
2 33 (22.15%) Cucumber
3 18 (12.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.36%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.01%) Maven
5 3 (2.01%) Selenium
5 3 (2.01%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.34%) JIRA
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) Gatling
7 1 (0.67%) JMeter
7 1 (0.67%) Vagrant
General
1 57 (38.26%) Finance
2 28 (18.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (16.78%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.40%) Social Skills
5 12 (8.05%) Banking
5 12 (8.05%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.36%) Law
6 5 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Billing
7 4 (2.68%) Military
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
8 3 (2.01%) Advertising
8 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.01%) Marketing
8 3 (2.01%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.34%) Games
9 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) iGaming
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (46.98%) Senior
2 42 (28.19%) Architect
3 30 (20.13%) Java Engineer
4 27 (18.12%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (16.78%) Consultant
6 24 (16.11%) Analyst
6 24 (16.11%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (14.09%) Security Consultant
8 18 (12.08%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (12.08%) Principal Java Engineer
8 18 (12.08%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.40%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (8.72%) AWS Architect
11 12 (8.05%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Developer
13 7 (4.70%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.70%) Lead
13 7 (4.70%) Senior Architect
13 7 (4.70%) Senior Developer
14 6 (4.03%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.86%) Spring Boot
2 34 (22.82%) Spring
3 33 (22.15%) Kafka
4 22 (14.77%) AWS CDK
5 14 (9.40%) .NET
5 14 (9.40%) Node.js
6 10 (6.71%) REST
7 8 (5.37%) .NET Framework
8 7 (4.70%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.70%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (4.70%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (4.70%) Entity Framework
8 7 (4.70%) JWT
8 7 (4.70%) MediatR
8 7 (4.70%) OAuth
8 7 (4.70%) OAuth2
8 7 (4.70%) OpenAPI
8 7 (4.70%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (4.70%) Swagger
9 6 (4.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (36.91%) Cloud Native
2 34 (22.82%) Onboarding
3 31 (20.81%) Public Cloud
4 30 (20.13%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (20.13%) e-Learning
5 23 (15.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 18 (12.08%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
8 8 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
9 7 (4.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (4.70%) Mainframe
10 6 (4.03%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (4.03%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (4.03%) Security Posture
11 5 (3.36%) PKI
11 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
12 4 (2.68%) Blog
12 4 (2.68%) IVR
12 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.08%) Windows
2 13 (8.72%) Linux
3 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.67%) AIX
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (56.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (51.01%) Mentoring
3 67 (44.97%) AI
4 62 (41.61%) Agile
5 58 (38.93%) CI/CD
6 45 (30.20%) Microservices
7 44 (29.53%) Event-Driven
8 43 (28.86%) Architectural Patterns
9 38 (25.50%) Cloud Security
10 37 (24.83%) CQRS
11 35 (23.49%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (22.15%) BDD
12 33 (22.15%) Threat Modelling
13 32 (21.48%) Data Protection
14 31 (20.81%) Cost Optimisation
14 31 (20.81%) Test Automation
15 30 (20.13%) Performance Testing
16 27 (18.12%) Coaching
16 27 (18.12%) Cost Management
16 27 (18.12%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (45.64%) Java
2 44 (29.53%) Python
3 36 (24.16%) SQL
4 21 (14.09%) Ruby
5 20 (13.42%) Bash
6 15 (10.07%) PHP
7 14 (9.40%) Perl
8 12 (8.05%) C#
9 11 (7.38%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.04%) Kotlin
11 6 (4.03%) COBOL
11 6 (4.03%) Go
12 5 (3.36%) C++
12 5 (3.36%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.01%) Groovy
15 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.67%) Natural
15 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 149 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 28 (18.79%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.07%) AWS Certified Developer
3 15 (10.07%) Degree
4 13 (8.72%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.37%) CISSP
5 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.68%) ISSAP
8 4 (2.68%) ISSEP
9 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.07%) GDPR
2 10 (6.71%) HIPAA
3 7 (4.70%) NCSC
4 6 (4.03%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.34%) GRC
7 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.67%) GxP
8 1 (0.67%) NIST
8 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (10.74%) Docker
2 9 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.36%) KVM
4 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.67%) iptables
5 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (38.93%) Terraform
2 15 (10.07%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.71%) Grafana
4 9 (6.04%) Ansible
5 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.01%) Argo
6 3 (2.01%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.67%) Consul
8 1 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) Nagios
8 1 (0.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (28.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.11%) Adobe
2 24 (16.11%) Apple
2 24 (16.11%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.71%) VMware
4 9 (6.04%) Google
4 9 (6.04%) Oracle
5 8 (5.37%) Cisco
6 7 (4.70%) Avaya
6 7 (4.70%) Genesys
6 7 (4.70%) SAP
7 5 (3.36%) Splunk
8 4 (2.68%) Epicor
8 4 (2.68%) IFS
8 4 (2.68%) Infor
8 4 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.01%) OutSystems
9 3 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.34%) Zerto