AWS Architect Jobs in London

Amazon Web Services Architect
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 461 507
Rank change year-on-year +121 +46 +195
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 52 31 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.13% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.14% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 117
10th Percentile - - £67,500
25th Percentile - £62,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £88,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% -11.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile £93,750 £108,438 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,250 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,325 22,537 31,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.40% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,851 16,746 23,073
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,108 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in London

AWS Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for AWS Architect in London

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in London

AWS Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South London - 3 £60,000 -
Central London +35 2 £112,500 +12.50% 4
AWS Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (59.62%) Management Information System
3 26 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 25 (48.08%) DevOps
5 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (46.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (44.23%) Kubernetes
7 22 (42.31%) Containerisation
7 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
8 21 (40.38%) Cloud Security
8 21 (40.38%) Docker
9 19 (36.54%) Azure
10 18 (34.62%) Software Engineering
11 17 (32.69%) Cost Optimisation
12 16 (30.77%) Architectural Design
12 16 (30.77%) Data Protection
12 16 (30.77%) Microservices
12 16 (30.77%) Terraform
13 15 (28.85%) GDPR
13 15 (28.85%) Serverless
13 15 (28.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (28.85%) HIPAA
13 15 (28.85%) Java
13 15 (28.85%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
14 14 (26.92%) Roadmaps
14 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
14 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
14 14 (26.92%) TOGAF
14 14 (26.92%) AWS Lambda

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 15 (28.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (28.85%) Serverless
4 14 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 13 (25.00%) GCP
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.77%) SaaS
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) Network Security
2 7 (13.46%) Firewall
3 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) KDB
1 3 (5.77%) Kdb+
1 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Metadata
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) GitLab
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Back Office
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Kafka
2 12 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 31 (59.62%) Management Information System
2 9 (17.31%) Data Centre
3 8 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 7 (13.46%) Public Cloud
5 6 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Educational Technology
6 2 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) DevOps
2 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (42.31%) CI/CD
3 22 (42.31%) Containerisation
4 21 (40.38%) Cloud Security
5 18 (34.62%) Software Engineering
6 17 (32.69%) Cost Optimisation
7 16 (30.77%) Architectural Design
7 16 (30.77%) Data Protection
7 16 (30.77%) Microservices
8 15 (28.85%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (26.92%) Roadmaps
9 14 (26.92%) TOGAF
10 13 (25.00%) Computer Science
10 13 (25.00%) Security Architecture
11 12 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (23.08%) High Availability
11 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
11 12 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (23.08%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Java
2 10 (19.23%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) SQL
4 3 (5.77%) C#
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 24 (46.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
4 13 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (25.00%) Degree
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.77%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.85%) GDPR
1 15 (28.85%) HIPAA
2 3 (5.77%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (40.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (44.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (30.77%) Terraform
3 13 (25.00%) Grafana
3 13 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.62%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Google
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle
3 6 (11.54%) IBM
3 6 (11.54%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk