AWS Certified Solutions Architect Jobs

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 725 882
Rank change year-on-year +264 +157 +22
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 268 185 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.18% 0.084%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.00% 0.67% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 43 84 49
10th Percentile £42,250 £57,000 £45,700
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +14.29% -20.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £99,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £115,000 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,525 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +8.00% -12.28%

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 26,899 27,630 32,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.19% 27.05% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,865 17,234 14,697
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £31,973
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,501 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Salary trend for AWS Certified Solutions Architect in the UK

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 +265 267 £68,525 -19.38% 84
Work from Home +213 221 £64,263 -8.20% 158
UK excluding London +271 204 £68,525 +1.52% 36
North of England +183 183 £70,000 +7.69% 9
North West +124 182 £65,000 - 5
London +120 56 £60,000 -33.33% 52
South West +115 9 £68,525 +9.64% 7
South East +60 5 £85,000 +25.93% 5
West Midlands +56 4 £40,000 -61.90% 5
Midlands +43 4 £40,000 -61.90% 6
East of England - 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +58 1 £75,000 - 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 2 (0.75%) Confluence
1 2 (0.75%) nginx
2 1 (0.37%) Apache
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 268 (100.00%) AWS
2 237 (88.43%) Azure
3 208 (77.61%) GCP
4 28 (10.45%) Serverless
5 22 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.22%) AWS KMS
8 8 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.99%) SaaS
9 7 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.61%) GitHub
10 6 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.87%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.87%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.49%) IaaS
12 4 (1.49%) PaaS
13 3 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.97%) Network Security
2 5 (1.87%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.34%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.24%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.87%) MySQL
3 5 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.12%) Big Data
4 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.75%) Power BI
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.37%) DB2
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.37%) HBase
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.36%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.61%) Git
3 5 (1.87%) Gradle
3 5 (1.87%) Maven
4 4 (1.49%) GitLab
5 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
6 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Travis CI
General
1 182 (67.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.60%) Finance
4 7 (2.61%) Humanities
4 7 (2.61%) Retail
5 6 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.87%) Games
6 5 (1.87%) Law
7 4 (1.49%) Marketing
8 3 (1.12%) Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Legal
8 3 (1.12%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.75%) Automotive
9 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 196 (73.13%) Senior
2 180 (67.16%) Software Engineer
3 178 (66.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 55 (20.52%) Architect
5 34 (12.69%) AWS Architect
6 25 (9.33%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (8.21%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.48%) AWS Solution Architect
8 12 (4.48%) Lead
9 11 (4.10%) Senior Architect
9 11 (4.10%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (2.99%) DevOps Architect
12 8 (2.99%) TOGAF Architect
13 7 (2.61%) Infrastructure Architect
13 7 (2.61%) Infrastructure Manager
14 6 (2.24%) Developer
14 6 (2.24%) Kubernetes Architect
15 5 (1.87%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (67.54%) .NET
2 178 (66.42%) Node.js
3 26 (9.70%) Kafka
4 19 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.10%) RESTful
6 7 (2.61%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.61%) React
7 5 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.87%) Spring
8 4 (1.49%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.75%) HTML
10 1 (0.37%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.37%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.37%) CSS
10 1 (0.37%) CSS3
10 1 (0.37%) HTML5
10 1 (0.37%) Middleware
10 1 (0.37%) REST
10 1 (0.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 181 (67.54%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (66.79%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (66.42%) Cyberattack
4 31 (11.57%) Cloud Native
5 26 (9.70%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.48%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.87%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.75%) Life Science
10 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 186 (69.40%) Linux
2 5 (1.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (82.09%) Microservices
2 215 (80.22%) Cloud Security
3 204 (76.12%) Agile
4 203 (75.75%) Software Engineering
5 200 (74.63%) Mentoring
6 185 (69.03%) Machine Learning
7 184 (68.66%) Data Engineering
8 182 (67.91%) Scrum
9 180 (67.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 178 (66.42%) User Experience
11 55 (20.52%) CI/CD
12 52 (19.40%) Containerisation
13 49 (18.28%) DevOps
14 31 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (9.70%) Architectural Design
15 26 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (9.70%) TOGAF
16 25 (9.33%) Event-Driven
16 25 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (8.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 218 (81.34%) Java
2 206 (76.87%) Python
3 179 (66.79%) C++
3 179 (66.79%) Go
3 179 (66.79%) JavaScript
4 178 (66.42%) Rust
5 17 (6.34%) SQL
6 12 (4.48%) C#
7 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.49%) Bash
9 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
11 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 267 (99.63%) AWS Certification
2 201 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 180 (67.16%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (66.42%) DV Cleared
5 34 (12.69%) Azure Certification
6 29 (10.82%) Degree
7 20 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (7.46%) SC Cleared
8 13 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (4.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.61%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.12%) CISSP
10 3 (1.12%) ISSAP
11 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.75%) CCSK
12 1 (0.37%) CRISC
12 1 (0.37%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.07%) GDPR
2 25 (9.33%) HIPAA
3 15 (5.60%) NIST
4 10 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.61%) QA
6 6 (2.24%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.12%) NCSC
8 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) COBIT
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 43 (16.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.94%) Terraform
3 23 (8.58%) Prometheus
4 18 (6.72%) Grafana
5 10 (3.73%) Ansible
6 5 (1.87%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Automic
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (10.82%) Google
2 21 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.87%) New Relic
4 3 (1.12%) Databricks
4 3 (1.12%) Hitachi
4 3 (1.12%) IBM
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle
5 2 (0.75%) Splunk
6 1 (0.37%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.37%) Sybase
6 1 (0.37%) VMware