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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 649 597
Rank change year-on-year +130 -52 +332
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 120 107 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% 0.52% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 68 43 45
10th Percentile £63,000 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,125 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.10% -7.71% +16.67%

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 17,270 20,435 15,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.00% 30.58% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,935 8,411 10,995
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £41,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,122 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.51% +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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +137 110 £81,500 +25.38% 27
UK excluding London +101 57 £75,000 +16.10% 14
Work from Home +81 52 £75,000 - 9
London +59 50 £92,500 +8.82% 16
North of England +49 30 £75,000 +27.66% 3
Yorkshire +31 19 £75,000 - 1
East of England +40 12 £97,500 - 4
North West +53 9 £62,500 +6.38% 2
South East +45 8 £100,000 +88.50% 6
West Midlands +54 5 £61,250 -5.19%
Midlands +52 5 £61,250 -5.19%
South West +16 2 £62,500 - 1
North East - 2 £105,000 -

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 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.50%) Apache
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.83%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (60.00%) Azure
3 42 (35.00%) Serverless
4 28 (23.33%) GCP
5 25 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (19.17%) Amazon S3
7 21 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (11.67%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (10.00%) SaaS
10 11 (9.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (6.67%) CloudFront
14 7 (5.83%) IaaS
14 7 (5.83%) PaaS
15 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
15 6 (5.00%) GitHub
16 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (4.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.00%) VPN
2 8 (6.67%) LAN
2 8 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 8 (6.67%) WAN
2 8 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (5.83%) Unified Communications
3 7 (5.83%) VoIP
4 6 (5.00%) Firewall
5 4 (3.33%) VLAN
6 3 (2.50%) Network Security
7 2 (1.67%) DNS
7 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.83%) MPLS
8 1 (0.83%) NAS
8 1 (0.83%) SAN
8 1 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (5.83%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (2.50%) Big Data
7 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Git
2 10 (8.33%) GitLab
3 8 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.83%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.17%) JIRA
5 5 (4.17%) Vite
6 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 41 (34.17%) Finance
3 14 (11.67%) Financial Institution
3 14 (11.67%) Law
4 13 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.67%) Banking
7 8 (6.67%) Marketing
7 8 (6.67%) Telecoms
8 7 (5.83%) Publishing
9 3 (2.50%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.83%) Electronics
11 1 (0.83%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (46.67%) Architect
2 29 (24.17%) Senior
3 20 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (14.17%) AWS Architect
5 14 (11.67%) Lead
6 10 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.50%) Applications Architect
7 9 (7.50%) AWS Solution Architect
7 9 (7.50%) Head of IT
8 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.83%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.83%) DevOps Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (5.83%) Head of Operations
9 7 (5.83%) Software Architect
9 7 (5.83%) Technical Leader
9 7 (5.83%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) Spring
1 13 (10.83%) Spring Boot
2 8 (6.67%) React
3 5 (4.17%) Jest
3 5 (4.17%) Kafka
3 5 (4.17%) Next.js
4 4 (3.33%) RESTful
5 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.50%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.50%) CSS
5 3 (2.50%) CSS3
5 3 (2.50%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.50%) HTML
5 3 (2.50%) HTML5
5 3 (2.50%) Material-UI
5 3 (2.50%) REST
5 3 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (2.50%) Vue
6 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (9.17%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.83%) Operational Technology
4 7 (5.83%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.33%) PKI
8 3 (2.50%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.67%) CMDB
9 2 (1.67%) NHS
9 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.83%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.17%) Windows
2 6 (5.00%) Linux
3 4 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.33%) DevOps
2 43 (35.83%) Agile
2 43 (35.83%) TOGAF
3 41 (34.17%) CI/CD
4 40 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (32.50%) Computer Science
6 36 (30.00%) Microservices
7 32 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 30 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 30 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 26 (21.67%) Containerisation
10 25 (20.83%) ITIL
10 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (20.00%) High Availability
11 24 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (19.17%) Collaborative Culture
12 23 (19.17%) Migration
12 23 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (19.17%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.33%) Java
2 45 (37.50%) Python
3 26 (21.67%) C#
3 26 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 25 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 21 (17.50%) SQL
6 10 (8.33%) Bash
7 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.33%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.50%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) C++
10 1 (0.83%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 51 (42.50%) Degree
3 50 (41.67%) Azure Certification
4 30 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (21.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 25 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 12 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
9 11 (9.17%) Master's Degree
10 10 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (8.33%) PMI Certification
10 10 (8.33%) PMP
11 8 (6.67%) CCNP
12 5 (4.17%) CISSP
13 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) ISSAP
14 3 (2.50%) CISA
14 3 (2.50%) MCP
14 3 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) NIST
2 16 (13.33%) GDPR
3 9 (7.50%) QA
4 8 (6.67%) Accessibility
5 7 (5.83%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.83%) Basel III
8 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.83%) GAAP
8 1 (0.83%) MiFID
8 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (24.17%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.67%) KVM
5 2 (1.67%) vSphere
6 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.83%) iptables
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 28 (23.33%) Terraform
3 8 (6.67%) Ansible
4 4 (3.33%) Grafana
4 4 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.50%) Nessus
5 3 (2.50%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.17%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) Cisco
4 7 (5.83%) SAP
4 7 (5.83%) VMware
5 6 (5.00%) Workday
6 3 (2.50%) IBM
6 3 (2.50%) Splunk
7 2 (1.67%) Databricks
7 2 (1.67%) Oracle
8 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.83%) Palantir
8 1 (0.83%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.83%) Refinitiv