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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 684 689
Rank change year-on-year +270 +5 +294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 276 102 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.63% 0.49% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 46 53 56
10th Percentile £58,500 £43,955 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,813 £56,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £79,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.67% -0.31%
75th Percentile £96,563 £92,125 £88,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +17.65%

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 16,905 20,671 19,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.41% 26.65% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,421 9,821 12,508
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -3.88% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 12 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 September 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 +286 271 £75,000 -4.00% 47
Work from Home +228 222 £80,000 +14.29% 24
UK excluding London +244 217 £75,000 +25.00% 33
North of England +167 192 £75,000 +20.00% 5
North West +144 186 £63,750 +2.00%
London +87 46 £80,000 -7.25% 27
South East +41 9 £97,500 +116.67% 22
South West +77 7 £68,525 - 3
Yorkshire +20 6 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands +51 5 £65,000 -38.10%
Midlands +42 5 £65,000 -38.10%
East of England -2 4 - - 2

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.45%) Apache
2 2 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 276 (100.00%) AWS
2 230 (83.33%) Azure
3 208 (75.36%) GCP
4 40 (14.49%) Serverless
5 33 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (7.61%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (4.71%) SaaS
9 11 (3.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.54%) CloudFront
11 6 (2.17%) GitHub
12 5 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.81%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.81%) Figma
12 5 (1.81%) IaaS
12 5 (1.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.62%) Network Security
2 9 (3.26%) VPN
3 6 (2.17%) LAN
3 6 (2.17%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.17%) Unified Communications
3 6 (2.17%) VoIP
3 6 (2.17%) WAN
3 6 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.81%) Firewall
5 2 (0.72%) DNS
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.88%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.54%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.17%) Big Data
7 4 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.36%) DB2
8 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.26%) Git
2 8 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.81%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.81%) GitLab
4 5 (1.81%) JIRA
4 5 (1.81%) Vite
5 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
General
1 193 (69.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 35 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.97%) Finance
4 15 (5.43%) Law
5 10 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.26%) Marketing
7 7 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.81%) Legal
9 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.09%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 210 (76.09%) Senior
2 182 (65.94%) Software Engineer
3 178 (64.49%) Senior Software Engineer
4 48 (17.39%) Architect
5 24 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (7.97%) AWS Architect
7 17 (6.16%) Lead
8 15 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (5.07%) Senior Architect
9 14 (5.07%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (4.71%) AWS Solution Architect
11 12 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
11 12 (4.35%) TOGAF Architect
12 9 (3.26%) Technical Leader
13 8 (2.90%) Infrastructure Architect
14 7 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.54%) Developer
15 6 (2.17%) Head of IT Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (64.86%) .NET
2 178 (64.49%) Node.js
3 12 (4.35%) Kafka
4 10 (3.62%) Spring
4 10 (3.62%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.26%) React
6 8 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.17%) RESTful
8 5 (1.81%) HTML
8 5 (1.81%) Jest
8 5 (1.81%) Next.js
9 4 (1.45%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.45%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.45%) CSS
9 4 (1.45%) CSS3
9 4 (1.45%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.45%) Material-UI
9 4 (1.45%) REST
9 4 (1.45%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 179 (64.86%) Linux Command Line
1 179 (64.86%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (64.49%) Cyberattack
3 38 (13.77%) Cloud Native
4 19 (6.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.17%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.72%) CMDB
10 2 (0.72%) NHS
11 1 (0.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 187 (67.75%) Linux
2 7 (2.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (79.35%) Agile
2 214 (77.54%) Microservices
3 207 (75.00%) Software Engineering
4 203 (73.55%) Mentoring
5 199 (72.10%) Cloud Security
6 193 (69.93%) Machine Learning
7 185 (67.03%) Scrum
8 183 (66.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 183 (66.30%) User Experience
9 181 (65.58%) Data Engineering
10 54 (19.57%) CI/CD
10 54 (19.57%) DevOps
11 43 (15.58%) Containerisation
12 41 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (12.32%) TOGAF
14 31 (11.23%) Computer Science
15 29 (10.51%) Roadmaps
16 26 (9.42%) Architectural Design
17 25 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
18 23 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 221 (80.07%) Java
2 217 (78.62%) Python
3 190 (68.84%) JavaScript
4 182 (65.94%) Go
5 178 (64.49%) C++
5 178 (64.49%) Rust
6 27 (9.78%) SQL
7 16 (5.80%) C#
8 12 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.26%) Bash
10 6 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.72%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 275 (99.64%) AWS Certification
2 196 (71.01%) Security Cleared
3 190 (68.84%) AWS Certified Developer
4 179 (64.86%) DV Cleared
5 37 (13.41%) Degree
6 36 (13.04%) Azure Certification
7 21 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (5.43%) SC Cleared
9 14 (5.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (3.62%) PMI Certification
10 10 (3.62%) PMP
11 8 (2.90%) Master's Degree
12 7 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (2.17%) CCNP
14 4 (1.45%) CISSP
14 4 (1.45%) ISSAP
15 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.72%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.78%) GDPR
2 26 (9.42%) NIST
3 20 (7.25%) HIPAA
4 9 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.26%) QA
5 8 (2.90%) SOC 2
6 7 (2.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.72%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) GAAP
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (13.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) iptables
3 1 (0.36%) KVM
3 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.96%) Terraform
3 10 (3.62%) Grafana
3 10 (3.62%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Nessus
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (9.78%) Google
2 24 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.54%) Cisco
4 5 (1.81%) Splunk
5 2 (0.72%) IBM
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle
5 2 (0.72%) VMware
6 1 (0.36%) Databricks
6 1 (0.36%) Extreme Networks