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 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 401 738
Rank change year-on-year -215 +337 +140
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 99 263 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.60% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 1.52% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 40 44 80
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £58,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £68,525 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -14.34% +13.88%
75th Percentile £90,938 £85,625 £100,625
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.45% +1.52% +8.00%

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 21,112 17,276 25,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.22% 39.70% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,045 7,562 17,195
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,025 £28,266
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,043
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.77% -9.21%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,719 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.31% +4.00% -3.05%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -191 94 £76,250 +11.27% 14
UK excluding London -187 60 £75,000 +9.45% 5
Work from Home -120 41 £75,000 +25.00% 10
London -51 31 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North of England -162 28 £75,000 +7.14%
Midlands -21 16 £49,500 +23.75%
West Midlands -18 15 £49,000 +22.50%
Yorkshire -41 13 £75,000 -
North West -120 13 - -
East of England -8 7 £97,500 -
South West -54 5 £52,500 -23.39% 1
South East -23 3 £77,500 -8.82% 4
North East - 2 £105,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.01%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (52.53%) Azure
3 32 (32.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 32 (32.32%) GCP
4 29 (29.29%) Serverless
5 19 (19.19%) Amazon S3
5 19 (19.19%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (9.09%) PaaS
7 9 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (8.08%) SaaS
9 7 (7.07%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (5.05%) CloudFront
11 5 (5.05%) IaaS
11 5 (5.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) DNS
2 1 (1.01%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (14.14%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.03%) Big Data
6 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.01%) MySQL
7 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.01%) Power BI
7 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.01%) Redis
7 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) GitLab
2 17 (17.17%) Cucumber
3 12 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.07%) Git
4 7 (7.07%) JIRA
5 5 (5.05%) 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%) Social Skills
2 26 (26.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (23.23%) Finance
4 6 (6.06%) Advertising
4 6 (6.06%) Banking
4 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.05%) Publishing
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.03%) Law
6 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Games
7 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Billing
8 1 (1.01%) iGaming
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.35%) Architect
2 33 (33.33%) Senior
3 24 (24.24%) Analyst
3 24 (24.24%) Senior Analyst
4 14 (14.14%) Java Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 11 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) Principal Java Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (7.07%) Lead
7 7 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.07%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.06%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.05%) Applications Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.05%) SAP Architect
9 5 (5.05%) SAP Enterprise Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.18%) Kafka
1 18 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 15 (15.15%) Spring
3 7 (7.07%) Node.js
4 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.03%) .NET
5 3 (3.03%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.03%) Drools
5 3 (3.03%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.03%) Jest
5 3 (3.03%) PySpark
5 3 (3.03%) XML
6 2 (2.02%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.02%) RESTful
7 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.01%) Memcached
7 1 (1.01%) Middleware
7 1 (1.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (29.29%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (21.21%) Cloud Native
3 16 (16.16%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (14.14%) e-Learning
4 14 (14.14%) Public Cloud
5 7 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) PKI
6 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.03%) Low-Code
7 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.02%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (1.01%) Robotics
9 1 (1.01%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Linux
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.58%) Mentoring
2 37 (37.37%) Agile
3 36 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (34.34%) CI/CD
5 30 (30.30%) AI
6 27 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 27 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
6 27 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (26.26%) Cost Management
7 26 (26.26%) Microservices
8 24 (24.24%) DevOps
8 24 (24.24%) FinOps
8 24 (24.24%) Software Licensing
9 23 (23.23%) Migration
10 22 (22.22%) Computer Science
10 22 (22.22%) TOGAF
11 18 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
11 18 (18.18%) Event-Driven
12 17 (17.17%) Data Modelling
12 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.34%) Java
2 29 (29.29%) Python
3 20 (20.20%) SQL
4 18 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 16 (16.16%) C#
6 15 (15.15%) TypeScript
7 9 (9.09%) Bash
8 7 (7.07%) Kotlin
9 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.04%) C++
10 4 (4.04%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (3.03%) Groovy
12 2 (2.02%) Bicep
13 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (1.01%) Go
13 1 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (98.99%) AWS Certification
2 25 (25.25%) Degree
3 18 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 18 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
4 16 (16.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
7 9 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
9 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) CITP
9 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
10 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.02%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (16.16%) 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 24 (24.24%) Terraform
2 10 (10.10%) Grafana
2 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.08%) Ansible
4 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.05%) Puppet
5 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.03%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.01%) Consul
7 1 (1.01%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (42.42%) 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%) SAP
4 5 (5.05%) Workday
5 4 (4.04%) OpenText
5 4 (4.04%) VMware
5 4 (4.04%) YouTube
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle
6 2 (2.02%) Zerto
7 1 (1.01%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.01%) Databricks
7 1 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.01%) Splunk
7 1 (1.01%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.01%) UiPath