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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 728 871
Rank change year-on-year +272 +143 +33
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Solutions Architect 269 187 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.18% 0.084%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.00% 0.68% 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% -18.84%
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% -10.71%

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 26,956 27,701 32,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.14% 26.99% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,881 17,227 14,614
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,555 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -10.74% +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 29 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 29 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 +278 268 £68,525 -19.38% 77
Work from Home +205 222 £64,263 -8.20% 142
UK excluding London +273 205 £68,525 +1.52% 28
North of England +184 184 £70,000 +7.69% 5
North West +138 183 £65,000 - 3
London +98 56 £60,000 -33.33% 51
South West +114 9 £68,525 +9.64% 6
South East +69 5 £85,000 +25.93% 4
West Midlands +48 4 £40,000 -61.90% 4
Midlands +43 4 £40,000 -61.90% 5
East of England - 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +54 1 £75,000 - 1

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 (0.74%) Apache
1 2 (0.74%) Confluence
1 2 (0.74%) nginx
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 269 (100.00%) AWS
2 237 (88.10%) Azure
3 208 (77.32%) GCP
4 29 (10.78%) Serverless
5 23 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.20%) AWS KMS
8 9 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.97%) GitHub
9 8 (2.97%) SaaS
10 7 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.86%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.86%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.86%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.49%) IaaS
13 4 (1.49%) PaaS
14 3 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.95%) Network Security
2 5 (1.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.69%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.23%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.86%) MySQL
3 5 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.49%) Big Data
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.37%) DB2
7 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.37%) HBase
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.35%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.97%) Git
3 5 (1.86%) Gradle
3 5 (1.86%) Maven
4 4 (1.49%) GitLab
5 2 (0.74%) 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
1 183 (68.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (15.99%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.95%) Finance
4 7 (2.60%) Humanities
4 7 (2.60%) Retail
5 6 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.23%) Law
5 6 (2.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.86%) Games
6 5 (1.86%) Marketing
7 3 (1.12%) Banking
7 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.12%) Legal
7 3 (1.12%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.74%) Automotive
8 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 197 (73.23%) Senior
2 180 (66.91%) Software Engineer
3 178 (66.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 55 (20.45%) Architect
5 34 (12.64%) AWS Architect
6 24 (8.92%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.83%) Lead
9 12 (4.46%) AWS Solution Architect
9 12 (4.46%) Senior Architect
9 12 (4.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.09%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.35%) DevOps Architect
12 9 (3.35%) TOGAF Architect
13 7 (2.60%) Developer
13 7 (2.60%) Infrastructure Architect
13 7 (2.60%) Infrastructure Manager
14 5 (1.86%) Software Developer
14 5 (1.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (67.29%) .NET
2 178 (66.17%) Node.js
3 26 (9.67%) Kafka
4 19 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.09%) RESTful
6 8 (2.97%) React
7 7 (2.60%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.86%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.86%) Spring
9 3 (1.12%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.12%) HTML
10 2 (0.74%) Bootstrap
10 2 (0.74%) CSS
10 2 (0.74%) CSS3
10 2 (0.74%) HTML5
10 2 (0.74%) Material-UI
10 2 (0.74%) REST
10 2 (0.74%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 181 (67.29%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (66.54%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (66.17%) Cyberattack
4 32 (11.90%) Cloud Native
5 26 (9.67%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.86%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.74%) Life Science
10 2 (0.74%) 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 (69.14%) Linux
2 5 (1.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (82.16%) Microservices
2 214 (79.55%) Cloud Security
3 206 (76.58%) Agile
4 204 (75.84%) Software Engineering
5 200 (74.35%) Mentoring
6 186 (69.14%) Machine Learning
7 184 (68.40%) Data Engineering
8 182 (67.66%) Scrum
9 180 (66.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 178 (66.17%) User Experience
11 56 (20.82%) CI/CD
12 53 (19.70%) Containerisation
13 50 (18.59%) DevOps
14 32 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (10.04%) Architectural Design
15 27 (10.04%) TOGAF
16 26 (9.67%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (9.67%) Technical Leadership
17 25 (9.29%) Event-Driven
18 24 (8.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 219 (81.41%) Java
2 208 (77.32%) Python
3 180 (66.91%) JavaScript
4 179 (66.54%) C++
4 179 (66.54%) Go
5 178 (66.17%) Rust
6 19 (7.06%) SQL
7 13 (4.83%) C#
8 5 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.49%) Bash
10 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.74%) Bicep
12 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.37%) Scala
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 268 (99.63%) AWS Certification
2 201 (74.72%) Security Cleared
3 181 (67.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (66.17%) DV Cleared
5 34 (12.64%) Azure Certification
6 30 (11.15%) Degree
7 21 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (7.43%) SC Cleared
9 13 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (4.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.60%) Postgraduate
11 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.12%) CISSP
11 3 (1.12%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.74%) CCSK
13 1 (0.37%) CRISC
13 1 (0.37%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.41%) GDPR
2 26 (9.67%) HIPAA
3 16 (5.95%) NIST
4 10 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.60%) QA
6 6 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.12%) NCSC
8 2 (0.74%) 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 (15.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.27%) Terraform
3 23 (8.55%) Prometheus
4 18 (6.69%) Grafana
5 9 (3.35%) Ansible
6 5 (1.86%) 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 (10.78%) Google
2 21 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.86%) New Relic
4 3 (1.12%) Databricks
4 3 (1.12%) Hitachi
4 3 (1.12%) IBM
4 3 (1.12%) Oracle
4 3 (1.12%) Splunk
5 1 (0.37%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.37%) Sybase
5 1 (0.37%) VMware