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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 417 759
Rank change year-on-year -220 +342 +76
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 99 273 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.61% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.54% 1.58% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 38 39 82
10th Percentile £49,550 £41,000 £56,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £60,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -18.75% +13.88%
75th Percentile £88,410 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £102,725 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £68,750
% change year-on-year +9.45% -0.33% +10.00%

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 18,191 17,314 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 38.84% 25.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,561 7,341 17,226
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,584
90th Percentile £92,988 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,945 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.96% +1.89% -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 16 June 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 16 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 -235 94 £77,500 +19.23% 32
UK excluding London -196 55 £75,000 +9.45% 19
London -47 38 £77,500 +29.17% 25
Work from Home -153 36 £83,750 +39.58% 15
North of England -165 21 £77,500 +19.23% 2
Midlands -1 16 £49,500 +23.75% 2
West Midlands -11 15 £49,000 +22.50% 2
North West -120 13 - - 1
Yorkshire -31 7 £75,000 - 1
South West -58 6 £52,500 -23.39% 10
East of England -16 5 £97,500 - 1
South East -17 4 £65,000 -23.53% 3
Wales - 3 £80,000 - 1
North East - 1 £105,000 -
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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 5 (5.05%) Apache
2 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.04%) Documentum
4 3 (3.03%) JBoss
5 1 (1.01%) Camunda
5 1 (1.01%) Drupal
5 1 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (1.01%) nginx
5 1 (1.01%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (24.24%) Cloudability
2 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.01%) Magento
3 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (44.44%) Azure
3 42 (42.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (32.32%) GCP
5 25 (25.25%) Serverless
6 22 (22.22%) Amazon S3
7 21 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (8.08%) GitHub
11 8 (8.08%) PaaS
11 8 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (7.07%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (7.07%) CloudFront
12 7 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (7.07%) SaaS
13 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (5.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) DNS
2 1 (1.01%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.23%) NoSQL
2 19 (19.19%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.02%) Big Data
8 1 (1.01%) Adabas
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.01%) Metadata
8 1 (1.01%) Power BI
8 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (26.26%) GitLab
2 24 (24.24%) Cucumber
3 16 (16.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.07%) JIRA
5 6 (6.06%) Git
6 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.04%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.03%) Maven
7 3 (3.03%) Selenium
7 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.01%) Gatling
8 1 (1.01%) JMeter
8 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (29.29%) Finance
2 25 (25.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.09%) Banking
4 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.06%) Advertising
5 6 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Publishing
7 2 (2.02%) Games
7 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Law
8 1 (1.01%) Billing
8 1 (1.01%) iGaming
8 1 (1.01%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (38.38%) Senior
2 27 (27.27%) Architect
3 24 (24.24%) Analyst
3 24 (24.24%) Senior Analyst
4 21 (21.21%) Java Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Principal Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Principal Java Engineer
6 10 (10.10%) AWS Architect
7 8 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (6.06%) Lead
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.28%) Spring Boot
2 25 (25.25%) Kafka
3 23 (23.23%) Spring
4 8 (8.08%) Node.js
5 4 (4.04%) .NET
5 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.04%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.03%) Drools
6 3 (3.03%) Gherkin
6 3 (3.03%) Jest
6 3 (3.03%) PySpark
6 3 (3.03%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (3.03%) XML
7 2 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.02%) Middleware
7 2 (2.02%) OAuth
7 2 (2.02%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.02%) REST
7 2 (2.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (31.31%) Cloud Native
2 24 (24.24%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (21.21%) e-Learning
4 21 (21.21%) Public Cloud
5 9 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.04%) PKI
7 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.03%) Mainframe
8 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.02%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.01%) Robotics
10 1 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.11%) Linux
1 11 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.01%) AIX
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.57%) Mentoring
2 46 (46.46%) Agile
2 46 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 46 (46.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (33.33%) AI
4 30 (30.30%) Microservices
5 28 (28.28%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (28.28%) Event-Driven
6 27 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 27 (27.27%) Cost Management
6 27 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
7 24 (24.24%) BDD
7 24 (24.24%) FinOps
7 24 (24.24%) Software Licensing
8 23 (23.23%) CQRS
8 23 (23.23%) DevOps
9 22 (22.22%) Performance Testing
9 22 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 18 (18.18%) Coaching
10 18 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.37%) Java
2 26 (26.26%) SQL
3 22 (22.22%) Python
4 11 (11.11%) C#
4 11 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.10%) Bash
6 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.07%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.04%) C++
9 4 (4.04%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (3.03%) Groovy
10 3 (3.03%) Ruby
11 2 (2.02%) Bicep
11 2 (2.02%) COBOL
11 2 (2.02%) Go
12 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.01%) Natural
12 1 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (98.99%) AWS Certification
2 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.13%) Degree
4 12 (12.12%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 9 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
9 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) CITP
10 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) NCSC
3 2 (2.02%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.17%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) iptables
2 4 (4.04%) KVM
2 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (28.28%) Terraform
2 11 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.10%) Ansible
3 10 (10.10%) Grafana
4 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.05%) Puppet
6 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.03%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.01%) Consul
8 1 (1.01%) Kibana
8 1 (1.01%) Nagios
8 1 (1.01%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (37.37%) Microsoft
2 29 (29.29%) ServiceNow
3 24 (24.24%) Adobe
3 24 (24.24%) Apple
4 5 (5.05%) Google
4 5 (5.05%) Pega
4 5 (5.05%) VMware
5 4 (4.04%) OpenText
5 4 (4.04%) SAP
5 4 (4.04%) YouTube
6 3 (3.03%) Workday
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle
7 2 (2.02%) Splunk
7 2 (2.02%) Zerto
8 1 (1.01%) Commvault
8 1 (1.01%) Epicor
8 1 (1.01%) IFS
8 1 (1.01%) Infor
8 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.01%) TOWER Software