AWS Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 711 642
Rank change year-on-year +157 -69 +124
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 29 67 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.085% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.089% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 47 62
10th Percentile £78,750 - £71,375
25th Percentile £87,813 £66,250 £78,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -7.25% +7.81%
75th Percentile £97,813 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,625 - £115,000
UK median annual salary £91,250 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +14.06% -11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,927 74,928 49,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.84% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,460 52,327 29,289
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the UK excluding London

AWS Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North of England +69 14 £90,000 +12.50% 21
North West +18 12 £90,000 +1.69% 13
South West +99 6 £90,000 +12.50% 3
Midlands +76 6 £96,250 +20.31% 10
West Midlands - 6 £96,250 - 6
South East +67 3 £87,500 +29.63% 5
Yorkshire +62 2 £95,000 +18.75% 7
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) DevOps
3 17 (58.62%) Azure
3 17 (58.62%) Agile
4 15 (51.72%) GCP
4 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
5 14 (48.28%) Containerisation
5 14 (48.28%) AWS Certification
5 14 (48.28%) Docker
6 13 (44.83%) Serverless
6 13 (44.83%) Cloud Native
7 12 (41.38%) TOGAF
8 11 (37.93%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (37.93%) Management Information System
8 11 (37.93%) Java
8 11 (37.93%) SQL
8 11 (37.93%) Python
8 11 (37.93%) GDPR
8 11 (37.93%) Roadmaps
8 11 (37.93%) Cloud Security
9 10 (34.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
9 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
9 10 (34.48%) Google
9 10 (34.48%) NoSQL
10 9 (31.03%) HIPAA
10 9 (31.03%) Microservices
10 9 (31.03%) NIST
11 8 (27.59%) Architectural Design

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (6.90%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (58.62%) Azure
3 15 (51.72%) GCP
4 13 (44.83%) Serverless
5 10 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
7 7 (24.14%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (13.79%) SaaS
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) Flink
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) DocumentDB
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) MACH
3 1 (3.45%) Laravel
3 1 (3.45%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (37.93%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.34%) PropTech
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) IoT
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) DevOps
2 17 (58.62%) Agile
3 14 (48.28%) Containerisation
4 12 (41.38%) TOGAF
5 11 (37.93%) Cloud Security
5 11 (37.93%) Enterprise Architecture
5 11 (37.93%) Roadmaps
6 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
7 9 (31.03%) Microservices
8 8 (27.59%) Architectural Design
8 8 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (24.14%) Data Management
9 7 (24.14%) Data Privacy
9 7 (24.14%) Design Patterns
9 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (24.14%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Java
1 11 (37.93%) Python
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) AWS Certification
2 10 (34.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Azure Certification
3 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
4 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (17.24%) Degree
6 4 (13.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
8 2 (6.90%) CEH
8 2 (6.90%) CISM
8 2 (6.90%) CISSP
8 2 (6.90%) GIAC
8 2 (6.90%) ISSAP
8 2 (6.90%) SANS
9 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) GDPR
2 9 (31.03%) HIPAA
2 9 (31.03%) NIST
3 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (13.79%) SOC 2
4 2 (6.90%) COBIT
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.45%) GMP
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Google