AWS Architect Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services Architect
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 383 424
Rank change year-on-year +35 +41 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 24 41 23
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.17% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 12 13
10th Percentile £79,125 £60,000 £72,750
25th Percentile £90,000 £61,875 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% +7.69%
75th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £116,500 £99,625 £114,500
England median annual salary £91,250 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +14.06% -3.03% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 12,574 14,421 16,898
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.70% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,342 8,340 13,617
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,322 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,344 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 London.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in London

AWS Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in London

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

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 6 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
Central London +51 7 £100,000 -11.11% 2
AWS Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, 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 London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 8 (33.33%) Serverless
3 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
4 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
6 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
6 5 (20.83%) Terraform
7 4 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (12.50%) AI
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
8 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 3 (12.50%) Degree
8 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 3 (12.50%) Docker
8 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
8 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Serverless
3 6 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.33%) Pulumi
6 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (4.17%) Azure
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DSL
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Advertising
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (29.17%) DevOps
2 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) AI
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Change Management
7 2 (8.33%) Cryptography
7 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
7 2 (8.33%) Data Security
7 2 (8.33%) Fintech
7 2 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Go
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) Rust
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) OSCP
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) SANS
5 1 (4.17%) SnowPro
5 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Basel III
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) MiFID
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
1 1 (4.17%) Refinitiv