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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 570 633
Rank change year-on-year +18 +63 +271
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 118 124 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.67% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 79 46 67
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,775 £48,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,669 £78,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% +11.79% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,438 £93,563
90th Percentile £102,400 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -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 20,115 18,491 21,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.17% 38.18% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,151 7,356 14,985
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.99%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +22 109 £79,669 +5.87% 19
UK excluding London +1 63 £75,000 +16.10% 15
Work from Home +30 47 £75,000 -5.06% 9
London +18 41 £84,500 +5.63% 9
North of England +7 34 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Yorkshire -4 28 £75,000 - 2
East of England +24 13 £97,500 -
South East 0 7 £100,000 +47.55% 4
Midlands -8 5 £49,500 -23.37% 3
West Midlands +9 4 £49,000 -24.15% 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
South West -20 3 £52,500 -26.32% 4
North West -7 2 - - 2
Scotland -4 1 - -
East Midlands -25 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 5 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.39%) Documentum
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.54%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.69%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) Camunda
5 1 (0.85%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (60.17%) Azure
3 50 (42.37%) Serverless
4 29 (24.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (21.19%) Amazon S3
5 25 (21.19%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (15.25%) GCP
7 13 (11.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (9.32%) PaaS
10 10 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (8.47%) SaaS
11 9 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.93%) CloudFront
12 7 (5.93%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.93%) IaaS
13 5 (4.24%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.39%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) VPN
2 5 (4.24%) WAN
3 4 (3.39%) Firewall
3 4 (3.39%) LAN
3 4 (3.39%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.39%) VLAN
3 4 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.54%) Network Security
4 3 (2.54%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.54%) VoIP
5 1 (0.85%) DNS
5 1 (0.85%) MPLS
5 1 (0.85%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.85%) SAN
5 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.93%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.69%) Big Data
6 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) GitLab
2 13 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.17%) Git
4 10 (8.47%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.78%) JIRA
6 7 (5.93%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.24%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.54%) Vite
9 2 (1.69%) Maven
9 2 (1.69%) Selenium
9 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (56.78%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.51%) Finance
3 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (9.32%) Financial Institution
5 11 (9.32%) Publishing
6 9 (7.63%) Banking
7 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.24%) Law
8 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.54%) Advertising
9 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.85%) Electronics
11 1 (0.85%) Games
11 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (53.39%) Architect
2 15 (12.71%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (11.86%) AWS Architect
4 13 (11.02%) Applications Architect
4 13 (11.02%) Enterprise Architect
4 13 (11.02%) Senior
5 11 (9.32%) Software Architect
6 9 (7.63%) ERP Architect
6 9 (7.63%) Lead
6 9 (7.63%) SAP Architect
6 9 (7.63%) SAP Enterprise Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Technical Leader
8 7 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Head of Infrastructure
8 7 (5.93%) Head of IT
8 7 (5.93%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 12 (10.17%) Kafka
2 12 (10.17%) Spring
3 5 (4.24%) Jest
3 5 (4.24%) Node.js
4 3 (2.54%) .NET
4 3 (2.54%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.54%) Next.js
4 3 (2.54%) PySpark
4 3 (2.54%) React
4 3 (2.54%) RESTful
5 2 (1.69%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.69%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.69%) Drools
5 2 (1.69%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.69%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (34.75%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (16.95%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (7.63%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.78%) e-Learning
6 5 (4.24%) PKI
6 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.39%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.85%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.32%) Windows
2 6 (5.08%) Linux
3 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.83%) TOGAF
2 45 (38.14%) Computer Science
3 43 (36.44%) Mentoring
4 41 (34.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 41 (34.75%) Migration
5 40 (33.90%) Agile
6 39 (33.05%) Microservices
7 37 (31.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (30.51%) DevOps
8 36 (30.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 35 (29.66%) CI/CD
10 32 (27.12%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (25.42%) Data Modelling
11 30 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (23.73%) Application Security
12 28 (23.73%) Roadmaps
13 25 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (20.34%) EAI
15 23 (19.49%) Technology Roadmap
16 21 (17.80%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.98%) Java
2 44 (37.29%) Python
3 32 (27.12%) JavaScript
3 32 (27.12%) TypeScript
4 29 (24.58%) C#
5 13 (11.02%) SQL
6 11 (9.32%) Bash
7 7 (5.93%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.39%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.69%) Bicep
9 2 (1.69%) C++
9 2 (1.69%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 117 (99.15%) AWS Certification
2 58 (49.15%) Degree
3 47 (39.83%) Azure Certification
4 39 (33.05%) TOGAF Certification
5 36 (30.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (27.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
8 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
9 9 (7.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (7.63%) Master's Degree
10 5 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (3.39%) CCNP
11 4 (3.39%) CITP
11 4 (3.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (2.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (2.54%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.54%) PMP
12 3 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) GDPR
3 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.39%) NIST
5 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) Basel III
6 1 (0.85%) GAAP
6 1 (0.85%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (17.80%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.54%) iptables
3 3 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.69%) KVM
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (21.19%) Terraform
2 16 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.63%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Grafana
5 5 (4.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.54%) Nessus
6 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.54%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.54%) Puppet
7 2 (1.69%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (33.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.17%) SAP
3 11 (9.32%) Workday
4 7 (5.93%) VMware
5 5 (4.24%) Pega
5 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.39%) OpenText
6 4 (3.39%) YouTube
7 3 (2.54%) Cisco
7 3 (2.54%) Google
7 3 (2.54%) IBM
8 2 (1.69%) Databricks
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle
9 1 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.85%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.85%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.85%) UiPath