AWS Architect Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in the City of London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 166 166
Rank change year-on-year +40 0 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 7 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £93,000 - £79,000
25th Percentile - £106,250 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £118,750 £126,250
90th Percentile £118,000 - £133,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,968 2,505 2,708
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.23% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,663 2,429
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% -2.67%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the City of London

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, AWS 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 across the City of London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Basel III
5 1 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Fivetran
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Data Sharing
4 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Fintech
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Basel III
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Bloomberg
1 1 (14.29%) Refinitiv