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 £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 863 1148
Rank change year-on-year +19 +285 -281
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Solution Architect 63 84 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.089% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.097% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 41 76 93
10th Percentile - £65,000 £70,900
25th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £81,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +22.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,938 £117,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.12% +21.43% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Solution Architect in the UK

AWS Solution Architect
Top 13 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 June 2024. 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 +5 49 £80,000 -5.88% 10
UK excluding London -21 42 £68,750 -19.12% 4
Work from Home +34 28 £80,000 -5.88% 6
South East +7 22 £67,500 -20.59% 1
London +84 15 £90,000 +5.88% 4
Midlands -10 7 £80,000 -10.36% 1
East Midlands -12 7 £80,000 -20.00% 1
Scotland -60 7 £70,000 +12.00% 1
North of England +32 3 £80,000 +1.59% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 -
Yorkshire +62 1 £80,000 +3.23%
North West -5 1 £80,000 -
North East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 63 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (39.68%) AWS Certification
2 25 (39.68%) Azure
3 23 (36.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 22 (34.92%) Kubernetes
4 22 (34.92%) Docker
5 18 (28.57%) GCP
5 18 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 17 (26.98%) DevOps
6 17 (26.98%) Serverless
6 17 (26.98%) Containerisation
7 16 (25.40%) Agile
8 15 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (23.81%) Terraform
9 14 (22.22%) Data Centre
9 14 (22.22%) Microservices
10 13 (20.63%) Python
10 13 (20.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
12 11 (17.46%) Project Delivery
12 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (15.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
13 10 (15.87%) Degree
13 10 (15.87%) Computer Science
13 10 (15.87%) Virtual Private Cloud

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (39.68%) Azure
3 18 (28.57%) GCP
4 17 (26.98%) Serverless
5 15 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (20.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
7 10 (15.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (14.29%) CloudFront
8 9 (14.29%) Route 53
8 9 (14.29%) SaaS
9 5 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (7.94%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (6.35%) IaaS
10 4 (6.35%) PaaS
11 3 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.59%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.70%) Big Data
2 8 (12.70%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.17%) Looker
4 2 (3.17%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) TeamCity
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Billing
4 1 (1.59%) Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Finance
4 1 (1.59%) Marketing
4 1 (1.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) .NET
2 3 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.59%) JSON
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) SOAP
4 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 6 (9.52%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Containerisation
1 17 (26.98%) DevOps
2 16 (25.40%) Agile
3 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (22.22%) Microservices
5 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
6 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (17.46%) Project Delivery
7 10 (15.87%) Computer Science
7 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
9 7 (11.11%) Presales
9 7 (11.11%) Waterfall
10 6 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 6 (9.52%) Design Patterns
10 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.52%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) Python
2 7 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (39.68%) AWS Certification
2 23 (36.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 18 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 10 (15.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (15.87%) Degree
5 9 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 22 (34.92%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.81%) Terraform
3 9 (14.29%) Ansible
4 6 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (9.52%) Progress Chef
4 6 (9.52%) Puppet
5 3 (4.76%) Grafana
5 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) VMware
3 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.94%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.17%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Hortonworks
6 1 (1.59%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) EMC
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow