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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 672 692
Rank change year-on-year +50 +20 +200
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 31 27 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.050% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.054% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 23 6 18
10th Percentile - £67,213 £65,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.74% -18.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £89,688 £103,500
90th Percentile - £93,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +18.52% -15.63%

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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 9 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 14 January 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 +71 30 £85,000 -2.86% 7
UK excluding London +64 17 £80,000 - 3
North of England +24 17 £80,000 -8.57% 2
North West +32 14 £80,000 -8.57% 2
London +51 13 £100,000 +8.11% 5
Work from Home +55 10 £100,000 +21.21% 2
East Midlands - 5 - -
Midlands - 5 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £82,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) AI
3 9 (29.03%) Amazon Bedrock
3 9 (29.03%) Machine Learning
4 8 (25.81%) Python
5 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
5 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (19.35%) Azure
6 6 (19.35%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) GCP
6 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
6 6 (19.35%) Serverless
7 5 (16.13%) Agile
7 5 (16.13%) Business Transformation
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Docker
9 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
9 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (9.68%) Degree
10 2 (6.45%) Architectural Design
10 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
10 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (6.45%) Fintech
10 2 (6.45%) GDPR
10 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (6.45%) Java

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:

Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon Bedrock
3 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (32.26%) Public Sector
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) OAuth
1 1 (3.23%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Cloud Native
2 9 (29.03%) AI Agents
3 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) AI
2 9 (29.03%) Machine Learning
3 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
3 7 (22.58%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) Business Transformation
5 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Analytics
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.45%) Architectural Design
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
7 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (6.45%) Fintech
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.45%) Microservices
7 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Basel III
2 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.23%) MiFID
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg
1 1 (3.23%) Google
1 1 (3.23%) Refinitiv