AWS Solution Architect Jobs

Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)
UK

The median Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect) salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 842 901
Rank change year-on-year +171 +59 +186
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 21 54 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.055% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.058% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 5 33 80
10th Percentile - - £67,275
25th Percentile £92,500 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £101,250 £88,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +40.74% -20.59% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Solution Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Solution Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +154 21 £95,000 +18.75% 38
London +117 15 £108,750 +24.29% 19
Work from Home +182 12 £97,500 +21.88% 29
UK excluding London +175 6 £95,000 +40.74% 23
North of England +86 3 - - 10
Midlands +78 3 £95,000 +18.75% 5
North West +34 3 - - 9
West Midlands - 3 £95,000 - 2

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Solution Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (80.95%) Azure
3 16 (76.19%) GCP
4 14 (66.67%) Google
4 14 (66.67%) Management Information System
5 13 (61.90%) TOGAF
5 13 (61.90%) DevOps
5 13 (61.90%) Roadmaps
6 12 (57.14%) AWS Certification
7 10 (47.62%) Docker
7 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
8 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
8 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
8 9 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
9 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
10 7 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
10 7 (33.33%) ArchiMate
10 7 (33.33%) Scrum
10 7 (33.33%) SQL
10 7 (33.33%) UML
10 7 (33.33%) Python
10 7 (33.33%) Kanban
10 7 (33.33%) MODAF
10 7 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
11 6 (28.57%) NIST
11 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (80.95%) Azure
3 16 (76.19%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (14.29%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
1 13 (61.90%) Roadmaps
1 13 (61.90%) TOGAF
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (33.33%) ArchiMate
4 7 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 7 (33.33%) Kanban
4 7 (33.33%) MODAF
4 7 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (33.33%) Scrum
4 7 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
4 7 (33.33%) UML
4 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 9 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) GDPR
1 6 (28.57%) HIPAA
1 6 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Google
2 5 (23.81%) IBM
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk