AWS Solution Architect Job Trends

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 15 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 637 712
Rank change year-on-year +4 +75 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 174 32 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.065% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.073% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 137 11 60
10th Percentile £75,000 - £78,750
25th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £120,000
90th Percentile - £101,250 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

AWS Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Solution Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Solution Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Solution Architect job vacancies in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Solution Architect over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 11 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 15 September 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 +13 162 £95,000 +11.76% 63
London +62 113 £93,750 -3.85% 49
UK excluding London -81 49 £95,000 +18.75% 13
North of England -49 34 £95,000 +18.75% 6
North West -19 28 £95,000 +18.75% 6
Work from Home -36 28 £95,000 -3.80% 10
Midlands - 14 £95,000 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £95,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 6 £90,000 -
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
South East - 2 £90,000 - 2

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2026, AWS Solution Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Solution Architect in the job title.

1 174 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (36.78%) Security Cleared
3 54 (31.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 36 (20.69%) SC Cleared
5 34 (19.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (8.05%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (7.47%) Degree
8 12 (6.90%) Analytics
8 12 (6.90%) Roadmaps
9 11 (6.32%) Computer Science
9 11 (6.32%) DevOps
9 11 (6.32%) Internet
9 11 (6.32%) Migration
10 10 (5.75%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.17%) DV Cleared
11 9 (5.17%) Mathematics
11 9 (5.17%) Systems Engineering
12 8 (4.60%) Data Engineering
12 8 (4.60%) Machine Learning
12 8 (4.60%) Serverless
12 8 (4.60%) Use Case
13 7 (4.02%) Agile
13 7 (4.02%) Microservices
14 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
14 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (3.45%) SAP
14 6 (3.45%) Thought Leadership
15 5 (2.87%) AI

AWS Solution Architect Skill Set
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 3 (1.72%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (8.05%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (4.60%) Serverless
4 5 (2.87%) Azure
5 3 (1.72%) AWS IoT
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (0.57%) Datadog
6 1 (0.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.32%) Internet
2 3 (1.72%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.30%) Big Data
2 3 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.72%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 6 (3.45%) Public Speaking
2 4 (2.30%) Finance
3 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (1.72%) Military
3 3 (1.72%) Retail
3 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.57%) Advertising
4 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.57%) Billing
4 1 (0.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.30%) .NET
2 3 (1.72%) Middleware
3 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.57%) Node.js
3 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.57%) REST
3 1 (0.57%) RESTful
3 1 (0.57%) Spring
3 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.05%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.02%) Blog
4 3 (1.72%) IoT
4 3 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.72%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 12 (6.90%) Analytics
2 12 (6.90%) Roadmaps
3 11 (6.32%) Computer Science
3 11 (6.32%) DevOps
3 11 (6.32%) Migration
4 10 (5.75%) Mentoring
5 9 (5.17%) Mathematics
5 9 (5.17%) Systems Engineering
6 8 (4.60%) Data Engineering
6 8 (4.60%) Machine Learning
6 8 (4.60%) Use Case
7 7 (4.02%) Agile
7 7 (4.02%) Microservices
8 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (3.45%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (2.87%) Cloud Security
9 5 (2.87%) Generative AI
9 5 (2.87%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (2.87%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.87%) Java
1 5 (2.87%) Python
2 3 (1.72%) Go
2 3 (1.72%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.72%) SQL
3 1 (0.57%) C#
3 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (36.78%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 34 (19.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (7.47%) Degree
5 9 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.15%) CISA
7 2 (1.15%) CISM
7 2 (1.15%) CISSP
7 2 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.15%) GCIH
7 2 (1.15%) GIAC
7 2 (1.15%) GSEC
7 2 (1.15%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.15%) GDPR
1 2 (1.15%) GRC
1 2 (1.15%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.15%) HITRUST
1 2 (1.15%) NIST
1 2 (1.15%) NIST 800
1 2 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (3.45%) SAP
2 3 (1.72%) VMware
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle
4 1 (0.57%) Netezza
4 1 (0.57%) Splunk
4 1 (0.57%) Teradata