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 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 634 586
Rank change year-on-year +92 -48 +332
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 112 108 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.54% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 67 45 43
10th Percentile £63,750 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £68,750
% change year-on-year +16.10% -6.04% +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 18,818 19,958 15,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.37% 32.13% 31.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,836 8,256 10,944
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +5.00%

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 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 13 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 13 December 2025. 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 +110 102 £81,500 +16.43% 155
UK excluding London +88 55 £75,000 +16.10% 161
Work from Home +71 52 £75,000 -1.64% 72
London +67 44 £92,500 +8.82% 13
North of England +49 29 £75,000 +27.66% 38
Yorkshire +12 21 £75,000 - 17
East of England +31 11 £97,500 - 24
South East +44 8 £100,000 +88.50% 36
North West +42 6 - - 18
West Midlands +30 5 £61,250 -5.19% 13
Midlands +24 5 £61,250 -5.19% 26
South West +25 2 £62,500 - 19
North East - 2 £105,000 - 3

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 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (63.39%) Azure
3 42 (37.50%) Serverless
4 24 (21.43%) GCP
5 23 (20.54%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 21 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.61%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (9.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (8.93%) SaaS
10 9 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (7.14%) CloudFront
12 7 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.25%) IaaS
12 7 (6.25%) PaaS
13 6 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
14 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.46%) Figma
15 4 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) VPN
2 8 (7.14%) LAN
2 8 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 8 (7.14%) WAN
2 8 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (6.25%) Unified Communications
3 7 (6.25%) VoIP
4 6 (5.36%) Firewall
5 4 (3.57%) VLAN
6 3 (2.68%) Network Security
7 2 (1.79%) DNS
7 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.89%) MPLS
8 1 (0.89%) NAS
8 1 (0.89%) SAN
8 1 (0.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.79%) Big Data
7 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.89%) MySQL
8 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) GitLab
2 9 (8.04%) Git
3 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.46%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.46%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.46%) JIRA
5 5 (4.46%) Vite
6 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (49.11%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.25%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Financial Institution
4 11 (9.82%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (7.14%) Banking
7 8 (7.14%) Law
7 8 (7.14%) Telecoms
8 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (5.36%) Publishing
10 4 (3.57%) Marketing
11 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.89%) Electronics
12 1 (0.89%) Games
12 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.89%) Legal
12 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (49.11%) Architect
2 27 (24.11%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (13.39%) AWS Architect
5 10 (8.93%) Applications Architect
5 10 (8.93%) Lead
6 9 (8.04%) Head of IT
7 8 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (7.14%) Software Architect
8 7 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Head of Infrastructure
8 7 (6.25%) Head of IT Operations
8 7 (6.25%) Head of Operations
8 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) Spring
1 13 (11.61%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.36%) React
3 5 (4.46%) Jest
3 5 (4.46%) Kafka
3 5 (4.46%) Next.js
4 4 (3.57%) RESTful
5 3 (2.68%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.89%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.89%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.89%) CSS3
7 1 (0.89%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.89%) HTML5
7 1 (0.89%) Material-UI
7 1 (0.89%) Node.js
7 1 (0.89%) REST
7 1 (0.89%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.21%) Cloud Native
1 26 (23.21%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 7 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.46%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.57%) PKI
7 3 (2.68%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.79%) CMDB
8 2 (1.79%) NHS
8 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.89%) Blog
9 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.82%) Windows
2 6 (5.36%) Linux
3 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.39%) DevOps
2 41 (36.61%) TOGAF
3 39 (34.82%) Computer Science
4 37 (33.04%) Agile
4 37 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (32.14%) Microservices
6 35 (31.25%) CI/CD
7 32 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 32 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 28 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 26 (23.21%) Migration
10 24 (21.43%) High Availability
10 24 (21.43%) ITIL
10 24 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (20.54%) Collaborative Culture
12 22 (19.64%) Application Security
12 22 (19.64%) Containerisation
13 21 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 44 (39.29%) Java
2 42 (37.50%) Python
3 27 (24.11%) TypeScript
4 26 (23.21%) C#
4 26 (23.21%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.29%) SQL
6 10 (8.93%) Bash
7 6 (5.36%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.89%) C++
9 1 (0.89%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 49 (43.75%) Azure Certification
2 49 (43.75%) Degree
3 30 (26.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (24.11%) TOGAF Certification
5 26 (23.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
7 12 (10.71%) SC Cleared
8 10 (8.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (8.93%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (8.93%) Master's Degree
9 8 (7.14%) CCNP
9 8 (7.14%) PMI Certification
9 8 (7.14%) PMP
10 5 (4.46%) CISSP
11 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.68%) CISA
12 3 (2.68%) ISSAP
12 3 (2.68%) MCP
12 3 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.18%) NIST
2 14 (12.50%) GDPR
3 9 (8.04%) QA
4 8 (7.14%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.46%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.89%) Basel III
7 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.89%) GAAP
7 1 (0.89%) MiFID
7 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (24.11%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.79%) KVM
5 2 (1.79%) vSphere
6 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.89%) iptables
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.43%) Terraform
3 8 (7.14%) Ansible
4 4 (3.57%) Grafana
4 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.68%) Nessus
5 3 (2.68%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) Google
3 8 (7.14%) Cisco
4 7 (6.25%) SAP
4 7 (6.25%) VMware
5 6 (5.36%) Workday
6 3 (2.68%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) Databricks
7 2 (1.79%) Oracle
8 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.89%) Palantir
8 1 (0.89%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.89%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.89%) Splunk