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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 416 757
Rank change year-on-year -214 +341 +89
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 101 273 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.62% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 1.57% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 41 40 85
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,763 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% -16.55% +13.48%
75th Percentile £83,640 £88,125 £98,750
90th Percentile £101,750 £97,750 £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 19,918 17,340 26,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.49% 39.59% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,356 7,251 17,156
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%

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 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Top 16 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 5 June 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 -201 96 £75,000 +15.38% 22
UK excluding London -189 60 £75,000 +9.45% 7
Work from Home -149 36 £75,000 +25.00% 10
London -42 35 £71,250 +18.75% 13
North of England -178 24 £75,000 +15.38%
Midlands -21 16 £49,500 +23.75% 2
West Midlands -24 15 £49,000 +22.50% 2
North West -130 13 - -
Yorkshire -34 9 £75,000 -
East of England -17 7 £97,500 - 1
South East -35 5 £71,250 -16.18% 3
South West -54 5 £52,500 -23.39%
Wales - 2 £55,500 - 1
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 (5.94%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.96%) Documentum
4 3 (2.97%) JBoss
5 1 (0.99%) Camunda
5 1 (0.99%) Drupal
5 1 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 24 (23.76%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.99%) Magento
3 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (47.52%) Azure
3 39 (38.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (31.68%) GCP
5 27 (26.73%) Serverless
6 21 (20.79%) Amazon S3
6 21 (20.79%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (11.88%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (9.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (7.92%) PaaS
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (6.93%) GitHub
11 7 (6.93%) SaaS
12 6 (5.94%) CloudFront
12 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) DNS
2 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
2 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.78%) NoSQL
2 18 (17.82%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.92%) DynamoDB
4 7 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.98%) Big Data
7 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.99%) Adabas
8 1 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.99%) Power BI
8 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (23.76%) GitLab
2 23 (22.77%) Cucumber
3 13 (12.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.93%) JIRA
5 6 (5.94%) Git
6 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.96%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.97%) Maven
7 3 (2.97%) Selenium
7 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.99%) Gatling
8 1 (0.99%) JMeter
8 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (28.71%) Finance
2 26 (25.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (24.75%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Banking
5 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.94%) Advertising
6 6 (5.94%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.95%) Publishing
8 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.97%) Law
8 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Games
9 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Billing
10 1 (0.99%) iGaming
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (37.62%) Senior
2 29 (28.71%) Architect
3 24 (23.76%) Analyst
3 24 (23.76%) Senior Analyst
4 20 (19.80%) Java Engineer
5 14 (13.86%) Principal Engineer
5 14 (13.86%) Principal Java Engineer
6 11 (10.89%) AWS Architect
7 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.94%) Lead
9 6 (5.94%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.95%) ERP Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.95%) SAP Architect
10 5 (4.95%) SAP Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.74%) Spring Boot
2 24 (23.76%) Kafka
3 22 (21.78%) Spring
4 8 (7.92%) Node.js
5 5 (4.95%) .NET
6 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.97%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.97%) Drools
7 3 (2.97%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.97%) Jest
7 3 (2.97%) PySpark
7 3 (2.97%) XML
8 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.98%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.98%) JWT
8 2 (1.98%) MediatR
8 2 (1.98%) OAuth
8 2 (1.98%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.71%) Cloud Native
2 26 (25.74%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (21.78%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (19.80%) e-Learning
4 20 (19.80%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.96%) PKI
6 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.97%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.98%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.99%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.99%) Robotics
9 1 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Linux
1 9 (8.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) AIX
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (55.45%) Mentoring
2 45 (44.55%) Agile
3 43 (42.57%) CI/CD
3 43 (42.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (30.69%) AI
5 30 (29.70%) Microservices
6 28 (27.72%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (26.73%) Architectural Patterns
7 27 (26.73%) Cost Optimisation
7 27 (26.73%) Event-Driven
8 26 (25.74%) Cost Management
9 24 (23.76%) FinOps
9 24 (23.76%) Software Licensing
10 23 (22.77%) BDD
10 23 (22.77%) DevOps
11 22 (21.78%) CQRS
11 22 (21.78%) Performance Testing
12 21 (20.79%) Test Automation
13 20 (19.80%) Migration
14 19 (18.81%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.62%) Java
2 25 (24.75%) SQL
3 24 (23.76%) Python
4 14 (13.86%) C#
5 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.91%) Bash
8 7 (6.93%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.96%) C++
10 4 (3.96%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (2.97%) Groovy
12 2 (1.98%) Bicep
12 2 (1.98%) Ruby
13 1 (0.99%) COBOL
13 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.99%) Go
13 1 (0.99%) Natural
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (99.01%) AWS Certification
2 20 (19.80%) Degree
3 15 (14.85%) TOGAF Certification
4 14 (13.86%) Azure Certification
5 13 (12.87%) Security Cleared
6 11 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (9.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (5.94%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) CITP
9 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.98%) NCSC
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 16 (15.84%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) iptables
2 4 (3.96%) KVM
2 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (25.74%) Terraform
2 10 (9.90%) Grafana
2 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.91%) Ansible
4 5 (4.95%) Progress Chef
4 5 (4.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.95%) Puppet
5 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.97%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.99%) Consul
7 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (37.62%) Microsoft
2 29 (28.71%) ServiceNow
3 24 (23.76%) Adobe
3 24 (23.76%) Apple
4 5 (4.95%) Google
4 5 (4.95%) Pega
4 5 (4.95%) SAP
4 5 (4.95%) Workday
5 4 (3.96%) OpenText
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
5 4 (3.96%) YouTube
6 2 (1.98%) Zerto
7 1 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.99%) Databricks
7 1 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.99%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle
7 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.99%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.99%) UiPath