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 14 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
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 695 663
Rank change year-on-year +149 -32 +100
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 31 70 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.087% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.092% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 50 61
10th Percentile £78,750 £66,250 £71,250
25th Percentile £87,813 £66,563 £77,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £97,813 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,625 £87,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 35,542 76,310 48,855
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 94.88% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,265 53,235 29,153
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 14 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 14 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 +71 16 £90,000 +12.50% 7
North West +37 14 £90,000 +1.69% 2
South West +104 6 £90,000 +12.50% 1
Midlands +78 6 £96,250 +20.31% 9
West Midlands - 6 £96,250 - 5
South East +78 3 £87,500 +29.63% 6
Yorkshire +62 2 £95,000 +18.75% 4
AWS Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (61.29%) Azure
2 19 (61.29%) DevOps
2 19 (61.29%) Agile
3 17 (54.84%) GCP
4 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
5 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
5 15 (48.39%) AWS Certification
5 15 (48.39%) Docker
6 14 (45.16%) TOGAF
6 14 (45.16%) Cloud Native
7 13 (41.94%) Serverless
7 13 (41.94%) Enterprise Architecture
7 13 (41.94%) Management Information System
8 12 (38.71%) Java
8 12 (38.71%) SQL
8 12 (38.71%) Python
8 12 (38.71%) Google
8 12 (38.71%) GDPR
8 12 (38.71%) Roadmaps
9 11 (35.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (35.48%) Cloud Security
9 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
9 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
9 11 (35.48%) NoSQL
10 10 (32.26%) HIPAA
10 10 (32.26%) Microservices
10 10 (32.26%) NIST
10 10 (32.26%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (29.03%) 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 (6.45%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (61.29%) Azure
3 17 (54.84%) GCP
4 13 (41.94%) Serverless
5 10 (32.26%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (25.81%) Amazon S3
7 7 (22.58%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (12.90%) SaaS
10 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) Flink
5 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) DocumentDB
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) AWS CDK
1 3 (9.68%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) MACH
3 1 (3.23%) Laravel
3 1 (3.23%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Cloud Native
2 13 (41.94%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) PropTech
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Agile
1 19 (61.29%) DevOps
2 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
3 14 (45.16%) TOGAF
4 13 (41.94%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (38.71%) Roadmaps
6 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
6 11 (35.48%) Cloud Security
7 10 (32.26%) Microservices
8 9 (29.03%) Architectural Design
9 8 (25.81%) Data Management
9 8 (25.81%) Data Privacy
9 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (25.81%) Technology Roadmap
10 7 (22.58%) Design Patterns
10 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (19.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
1 12 (38.71%) Python
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) Scala
4 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) AWS Certification
2 11 (35.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (25.81%) Azure Certification
4 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
5 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) Degree
6 5 (16.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (6.45%) CEH
8 2 (6.45%) CISM
8 2 (6.45%) CISSP
8 2 (6.45%) GIAC
8 2 (6.45%) ISSAP
8 2 (6.45%) SANS
9 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) GDPR
2 10 (32.26%) HIPAA
2 10 (32.26%) NIST
3 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (12.90%) SOC 2
4 2 (6.45%) COBIT
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.23%) GMP
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Google