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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 551 649
Rank change year-on-year -22 +98 +272
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 109 105 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% 0.61% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 75 46 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,013 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,250 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +1.69% +5.71%
75th Percentile £98,750 £88,438 £95,938
90th Percentile £101,050 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.10% -4.30% +10.20%

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 20,597 17,191 23,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.01% 39.34% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,264 7,437 16,118
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,375 £43,750 £38,750
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 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -16 101 £77,500 +10.71% 20
UK excluding London -9 58 £75,000 +16.10% 8
Work from Home -1 39 £75,000 +5.56% 10
London +1 38 £87,500 +10.76% 11
North of England -15 29 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Yorkshire -24 23 £75,000 - 1
East of England +7 14 £97,500 - 1
South East -18 5 £77,500 -6.06%
Midlands -24 5 £49,500 -23.37% 1
West Midlands -1 4 £49,000 -24.15% 1
South West -25 4 £52,500 -26.32% 3
North East - 4 £105,000 -
North West -16 2 - - 2
Scotland -14 1 - -
East Midlands -36 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 (4.59%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.67%) Documentum
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.83%) JBoss
5 1 (0.92%) Camunda
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (58.72%) Azure
3 43 (39.45%) Serverless
4 27 (24.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (19.27%) Amazon S3
5 21 (19.27%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (16.51%) GCP
7 12 (11.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (11.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (10.09%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (10.09%) PaaS
9 10 (9.17%) SaaS
10 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
11 7 (6.42%) IaaS
12 6 (5.50%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (4.59%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) VPN
2 4 (3.67%) Network Security
2 4 (3.67%) VLAN
3 3 (2.75%) Firewall
3 3 (2.75%) WAN
4 2 (1.83%) LAN
4 2 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.92%) DNS
5 1 (0.92%) MPLS
5 1 (0.92%) NAS
5 1 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.92%) SAN
5 1 (0.92%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.92%) VoIP
5 1 (0.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.68%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.34%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.75%) Big Data
7 3 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.92%) MySQL
8 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.92%) Power BI
8 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) GitLab
1 13 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.17%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.26%) Git
4 6 (5.50%) JIRA
5 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.83%) Maven
7 2 (1.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (55.96%) Social Skills
2 36 (33.03%) Finance
3 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.09%) Financial Institution
4 11 (10.09%) Publishing
5 9 (8.26%) Banking
5 9 (8.26%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Law
8 4 (3.67%) Advertising
9 3 (2.75%) Games
9 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.92%) Electronics
11 1 (0.92%) iGaming
11 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (55.05%) Architect
2 16 (14.68%) AWS Architect
3 15 (13.76%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (11.93%) Enterprise Architect
5 11 (10.09%) Applications Architect
6 10 (9.17%) Senior
6 10 (9.17%) Software Architect
7 9 (8.26%) ERP Architect
7 9 (8.26%) SAP Architect
7 9 (8.26%) SAP Enterprise Architect
8 8 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Head of Infrastructure
9 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.50%) Lead
10 6 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Lead Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.01%) Kafka
2 11 (10.09%) Spring Boot
3 9 (8.26%) Spring
4 5 (4.59%) Node.js
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.75%) PySpark
5 3 (2.75%) RESTful
6 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.83%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.83%) Drools
6 2 (1.83%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.83%) Jest
6 2 (1.83%) XML
7 1 (0.92%) Middleware
7 1 (0.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.86%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (16.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.34%) e-Learning
4 8 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.34%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.50%) PKI
6 5 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.67%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.92%) Blog
10 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.92%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.01%) Windows
2 7 (6.42%) Linux
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.45%) TOGAF
2 39 (35.78%) Agile
3 38 (34.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 38 (34.86%) Migration
4 37 (33.94%) Computer Science
4 37 (33.94%) Mentoring
5 35 (32.11%) Microservices
6 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
6 34 (31.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (30.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (29.36%) DevOps
9 30 (27.52%) Architectural Patterns
10 28 (25.69%) Data Modelling
11 26 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (22.94%) Application Security
13 23 (21.10%) Roadmaps
14 22 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (19.27%) EAI
16 20 (18.35%) Technology Roadmap
17 18 (16.51%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 43 (39.45%) Python
2 39 (35.78%) Java
3 27 (24.77%) C#
3 27 (24.77%) JavaScript
4 24 (22.02%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.84%) SQL
6 11 (10.09%) Bash
7 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.59%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.75%) C++
9 3 (2.75%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.83%) Bicep
10 2 (1.83%) Groovy
11 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 108 (99.08%) AWS Certification
2 50 (45.87%) Degree
3 42 (38.53%) Azure Certification
4 35 (32.11%) TOGAF Certification
5 30 (27.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (26.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (14.68%) Security Cleared
8 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
9 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (6.42%) Master's Degree
10 6 (5.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) CITP
11 4 (3.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.83%) CCNP
14 1 (0.92%) CCSP
14 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) GDPR
2 4 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (3.67%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) Basel III
5 1 (0.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (18.35%) Docker
2 7 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.67%) iptables
4 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.75%) KVM
4 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Terraform
2 17 (15.60%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.26%) Grafana
4 8 (7.34%) Ansible
5 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.67%) Puppet
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.75%) Nessus
7 3 (2.75%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.83%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 35 (32.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) SAP
3 11 (10.09%) Workday
4 8 (7.34%) VMware
5 5 (4.59%) Pega
5 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.67%) Google
6 4 (3.67%) OpenText
6 4 (3.67%) YouTube
7 3 (2.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle
9 1 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.92%) Cisco
9 1 (0.92%) Databricks
9 1 (0.92%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.92%) Palantir
9 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.92%) UiPath
9 1 (0.92%) Zerto