AWS Architect Jobs in England

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 747 701
Rank change year-on-year +151 -46 +150
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 79 88 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 41 65 189
10th Percentile - £62,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £103,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,182 81,825 80,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,287 60,848 51,240
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in England

AWS Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
London +142 54 £60,000 -31.43% 48
North of England +57 9 £90,000 +12.50% 66
North West +5 7 £90,000 +1.69% 32
South West +89 6 £90,000 +12.50% 32
West Midlands +73 6 £96,250 -3.75% 33
Midlands +54 6 £96,250 +20.31% 56
South East +71 2 £87,500 +29.63% 70
Yorkshire +67 2 £95,000 +18.75% 28
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, AWS 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 across the England region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (53.16%) DevOps
3 40 (50.63%) Management Information System
4 39 (49.37%) AWS Certification
5 36 (45.57%) Kubernetes
6 35 (44.30%) Containerisation
7 34 (43.04%) Cloud Security
8 33 (41.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (41.77%) Docker
8 33 (41.77%) Azure
9 31 (39.24%) CI/CD
10 28 (35.44%) Serverless
11 25 (31.65%) GDPR
11 25 (31.65%) GCP
12 24 (30.38%) Microservices
12 24 (30.38%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
13 23 (29.11%) Architectural Design
13 23 (29.11%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (29.11%) Roadmaps
13 23 (29.11%) Java
13 23 (29.11%) HIPAA
14 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
14 22 (27.85%) TOGAF
14 22 (27.85%) Terraform
15 21 (26.58%) Cost Optimisation
15 21 (26.58%) Data Protection
15 21 (26.58%) SC Cleared
16 20 (25.32%) Software Engineering

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.53%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (41.77%) Azure
3 28 (35.44%) Serverless
4 25 (31.65%) GCP
5 24 (30.38%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (22.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (17.72%) AWS KMS
8 8 (10.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.86%) SaaS
10 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.53%) AWS Direct Connect
13 1 (1.27%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudTrail
13 1 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) Network Security
2 11 (13.92%) Firewall
3 5 (6.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.80%) KDB
3 3 (3.80%) Kdb+
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.53%) Flink
5 1 (1.27%) Metadata
5 1 (1.27%) MySQL
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) GitLab
2 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Back Office
6 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) Kafka
2 13 (16.46%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.80%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.80%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.53%) MACH
5 1 (1.27%) Laravel
5 1 (1.27%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 40 (50.63%) Management Information System
2 19 (24.05%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.92%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.86%) Public Cloud
5 6 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.80%) PropTech
7 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.53%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.27%) IoT
8 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
1 6 (7.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) DevOps
2 35 (44.30%) Containerisation
3 34 (43.04%) Cloud Security
4 33 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (39.24%) CI/CD
6 24 (30.38%) Microservices
7 23 (29.11%) Architectural Design
7 23 (29.11%) Roadmaps
7 23 (29.11%) Technical Leadership
8 22 (27.85%) TOGAF
9 21 (26.58%) Cost Optimisation
9 21 (26.58%) Data Protection
10 20 (25.32%) Design Patterns
10 20 (25.32%) Software Engineering
11 18 (22.78%) Security Architecture
11 18 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (21.52%) Computer Science
12 17 (21.52%) Incident Response
12 17 (21.52%) Mentoring
13 16 (20.25%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.11%) Java
2 18 (22.78%) Python
3 13 (16.46%) SQL
4 8 (10.13%) C#
5 2 (2.53%) Bash
5 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.53%) Scala
6 1 (1.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (49.37%) AWS Certification
2 33 (41.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
4 21 (26.58%) SC Cleared
5 19 (24.05%) Degree
6 15 (18.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (13.92%) Azure Certification
8 5 (6.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.53%) CEH
10 2 (2.53%) CISM
10 2 (2.53%) CISSP
10 2 (2.53%) GIAC
10 2 (2.53%) ISSAP
10 2 (2.53%) SANS
11 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.65%) GDPR
2 23 (29.11%) HIPAA
3 10 (12.66%) NIST
4 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.06%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.53%) COBIT
5 2 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.27%) GMP
6 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (41.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (45.57%) Kubernetes
2 22 (27.85%) Terraform
3 15 (18.99%) Grafana
3 15 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 9 (11.39%) Ansible
5 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Google
2 8 (10.13%) Oracle
3 6 (7.59%) IBM
3 6 (7.59%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.27%) Splunk