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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 642 630
Rank change year-on-year +91 -12 +294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 115 113 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% 0.58% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 61 46 48
10th Percentile £63,750 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +0.67% -2.30%
75th Percentile £98,750 £86,875 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,625 £118,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.10% -0.62% +4.00%

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 16,590 19,627 16,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 29.15% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,715 7,999 11,378
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,227 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +2.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 9 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 9 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 +98 107 £81,500 +8.67% 96
UK excluding London +72 56 £75,000 +16.10% 71
London +66 50 £87,000 +2.35% 46
Work from Home +61 50 £79,250 +5.67% 59
North of England +49 27 £75,000 +27.66% 11
Yorkshire +26 15 £75,000 - 4
East of England +33 11 £97,500 - 9
North West +26 10 £62,500 +6.38% 5
South East +38 9 £100,000 +88.50% 37
Midlands +38 5 £61,250 -15.28% 8
West Midlands +33 5 £61,250 -5.19% 6
South West +32 4 £72,500 - 4
North East - 2 £105,000 - 2

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 (3.48%) Apache
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) CMS
3 1 (0.87%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (59.13%) Azure
3 40 (34.78%) Serverless
4 29 (25.22%) GCP
5 27 (23.48%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (20.87%) Amazon S3
7 17 (14.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (12.17%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (11.30%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (10.43%) SaaS
11 11 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (6.96%) CloudFront
14 7 (6.09%) GitHub
15 6 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
15 6 (5.22%) IaaS
15 6 (5.22%) PaaS
16 5 (4.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) VPN
2 8 (6.96%) LAN
2 8 (6.96%) SD-WAN
2 8 (6.96%) WAN
2 8 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (6.09%) Firewall
3 7 (6.09%) Unified Communications
3 7 (6.09%) VoIP
4 4 (3.48%) VLAN
5 3 (2.61%) Network Security
6 2 (1.74%) DNS
6 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.87%) MPLS
7 1 (0.87%) NAS
7 1 (0.87%) SAN
7 1 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.91%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.09%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (6.09%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.48%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (3.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 8 (6.96%) GitLab
2 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.22%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.35%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) Vite
5 4 (3.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.91%) Finance
3 16 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (13.91%) Law
4 12 (10.43%) Financial Institution
5 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (7.83%) Marketing
7 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
8 7 (6.09%) Publishing
8 7 (6.09%) Telecoms
9 6 (5.22%) Banking
10 4 (3.48%) Legal
11 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Games
12 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (43.48%) Architect
2 29 (25.22%) Senior
3 19 (16.52%) AWS Architect
3 19 (16.52%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (13.91%) Lead
5 11 (9.57%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (8.70%) AWS Solution Architect
7 9 (7.83%) Head of IT
7 9 (7.83%) Senior Architect
7 9 (7.83%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.96%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) DevOps Architect
8 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (6.96%) TOGAF Architect
9 7 (6.09%) Applications Architect
9 7 (6.09%) Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Head of IT Operations
9 7 (6.09%) Head of Operations
9 7 (6.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.43%) Spring
1 12 (10.43%) Spring Boot
2 9 (7.83%) React
3 7 (6.09%) Kafka
4 5 (4.35%) Jest
4 5 (4.35%) Next.js
5 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.48%) Bootstrap
5 4 (3.48%) CSS
5 4 (3.48%) CSS3
5 4 (3.48%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.48%) HTML
5 4 (3.48%) HTML5
5 4 (3.48%) Material-UI
5 4 (3.48%) REST
5 4 (3.48%) RESTful
5 4 (3.48%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (3.48%) Vue
6 2 (1.74%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 33 (28.70%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.52%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (10.43%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.09%) Operational Technology
4 7 (6.09%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.48%) PKI
7 4 (3.48%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.74%) CMDB
9 2 (1.74%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.74%) NHS
9 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.87%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Windows
2 8 (6.96%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) DevOps
2 44 (38.26%) Agile
3 42 (36.52%) CI/CD
4 41 (35.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (33.91%) TOGAF
6 35 (30.43%) Computer Science
7 32 (27.83%) Microservices
8 30 (26.09%) Roadmaps
9 29 (25.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 28 (24.35%) Containerisation
10 28 (24.35%) Enterprise Architecture
11 27 (23.48%) Mentoring
12 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (20.00%) High Availability
13 23 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
14 22 (19.13%) ITIL
14 22 (19.13%) Software Engineering
15 21 (18.26%) Architectural Design
15 21 (18.26%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.26%) Java
2 43 (37.39%) Python
3 24 (20.87%) SQL
4 23 (20.00%) C#
5 22 (19.13%) JavaScript
6 20 (17.39%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.83%) Bash
8 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.35%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.48%) Go
11 2 (1.74%) Scala
12 1 (0.87%) C++
12 1 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 115 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 47 (40.87%) Degree
3 46 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 26 (22.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (19.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (19.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
7 12 (10.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
8 11 (9.57%) Master's Degree
8 11 (9.57%) PMI Certification
8 11 (9.57%) PMP
9 10 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (6.96%) CCNP
11 5 (4.35%) CISSP
12 4 (3.48%) ISSAP
13 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.61%) CISA
13 3 (2.61%) MCP
13 3 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.39%) NIST
2 17 (14.78%) GDPR
3 9 (7.83%) HIPAA
3 9 (7.83%) QA
4 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
5 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.61%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.87%) GAAP
8 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (25.22%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.74%) KVM
5 2 (1.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.87%) iptables
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.09%) Terraform
3 8 (6.96%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.61%) Nessus
5 3 (2.61%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (31.30%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.39%) Google
3 8 (6.96%) Cisco
4 7 (6.09%) VMware
5 6 (5.22%) SAP
5 6 (5.22%) Workday
6 5 (4.35%) Splunk
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.87%) Databricks
8 1 (0.87%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle
8 1 (0.87%) Pure Storage