AWS Architect Jobs

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 704 883
Rank change year-on-year -12 +179 -209
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 126 184 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 106 160 239
10th Percentile £66,875 £67,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,188 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £157,500 £120,250 £126,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year -8.57% +22.81% -10.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -25 108 £90,000 - 15
Work from Home +20 71 £90,000 -5.26% 12
London +34 58 £105,000 +2.44% 10
UK excluding London -40 55 £80,000 -8.57% 5
South West -8 17 £80,000 -27.27%
South East +7 14 £76,250 -10.29% 1
Midlands -21 9 £80,000 +3.23% 2
Scotland -35 9 £70,000 +12.00%
East Midlands -23 8 £80,000 +5.96% 1
North of England +4 5 £80,000 -11.11% 2
North West -9 3 £88,500 +10.63% 1
Yorkshire +53 1 £80,000 -11.11% 1
West Midlands -8 1 £75,000 -7.69% 1
East of England -10 1 £77,500 -11.43%
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (49.21%) Python
3 44 (34.92%) GCP
4 39 (30.95%) Java
5 38 (30.16%) Agile
6 35 (27.78%) Security Cleared
6 35 (27.78%) Finance
6 35 (27.78%) DevOps
7 34 (26.98%) Migration
7 34 (26.98%) Banking
8 33 (26.19%) SQL
8 33 (26.19%) Containerisation
9 32 (25.40%) Azure
10 31 (24.60%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (24.60%) Snowflake
10 31 (24.60%) Amazon Athena
11 30 (23.81%) Line Management
11 30 (23.81%) Kubernetes
11 30 (23.81%) Terraform
12 28 (22.22%) Software Engineering
12 28 (22.22%) JavaScript
13 27 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 27 (21.43%) Data Lake
14 26 (20.63%) Apache Airflow
14 26 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (20.63%) Apache
15 25 (19.84%) Reuters
15 25 (19.84%) Bloomberg
15 25 (19.84%) Front Office
15 25 (19.84%) Fixed Income

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (20.63%) Apache
1 26 (20.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (34.92%) GCP
3 32 (25.40%) Azure
4 31 (24.60%) Amazon EC2
4 31 (24.60%) Snowflake
5 25 (19.84%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (19.84%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (19.84%) dbt
6 22 (17.46%) IaaS
6 22 (17.46%) PaaS
7 21 (16.67%) Serverless
8 14 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (10.32%) SaaS
10 9 (7.14%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.97%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.79%) DNS
2 1 (0.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.60%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 25 (19.84%) Apache Arrow
3 25 (19.84%) Apache Ignite
3 25 (19.84%) Dremio
4 9 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.35%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.56%) Big Data
7 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.17%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.38%) MySQL
9 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.59%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.59%) OLAP
10 2 (1.59%) OLTP
10 2 (1.59%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.17%) JIRA
2 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
2 4 (3.17%) Terragrunt
3 2 (1.59%) Git
3 2 (1.59%) Spinnaker
General
1 35 (27.78%) Finance
2 34 (26.98%) Banking
3 25 (19.84%) Front Office
3 25 (19.84%) Investment Banking
4 13 (10.32%) Social Skills
5 7 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Billing
7 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.59%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.84%) gRPC
1 25 (19.84%) NumPy
1 25 (19.84%) Pandas
1 25 (19.84%) Protocol Buffers
1 25 (19.84%) PySpark
1 25 (19.84%) SciPy
2 13 (10.32%) .NET
3 10 (7.94%) Kafka
4 6 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (4.76%) Web Services
5 5 (3.97%) REST
6 4 (3.17%) RESTful
7 3 (2.38%) Next.js
7 3 (2.38%) OAuth
7 3 (2.38%) React
7 3 (2.38%) SOAP
7 3 (2.38%) Spring
8 2 (1.59%) IBM Integration Bus
8 2 (1.59%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (19.84%) Derivative
2 25 (19.84%) Equities
2 25 (19.84%) Fixed Income
2 25 (19.84%) Hedge funds
3 22 (17.46%) Cloud Native
4 19 (15.08%) Public Cloud
5 16 (12.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (7.14%) Data Centre
7 7 (5.56%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.59%) Clustering
9 2 (1.59%) DataPower
9 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Windows
3 2 (1.59%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.16%) Agile
2 35 (27.78%) DevOps
3 34 (26.98%) Migration
4 33 (26.19%) Containerisation
5 30 (23.81%) Line Management
6 28 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 26 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (19.84%) Asset Management
9 22 (17.46%) Microservices
10 18 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (13.49%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.52%) Design Patterns
12 12 (9.52%) Project Delivery
13 11 (8.73%) Analytics
13 11 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (7.94%) Machine Learning
15 9 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
15 9 (7.14%) Contract Negotiation
15 9 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (49.21%) Python
2 39 (30.95%) Java
3 33 (26.19%) SQL
4 28 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.84%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.73%) C#
7 4 (3.17%) Bash
7 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.59%) Scala
9 1 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.87%) AWS Certification
3 19 (15.08%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.70%) DV Cleared
5 15 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.35%) Degree
7 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) GDPR
1 4 (3.17%) NCSC
1 4 (3.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (13.49%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 30 (23.81%) Terraform
2 21 (16.67%) Ansible
3 18 (14.29%) Puppet
4 3 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Bloomberg
1 25 (19.84%) Reuters
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.76%) Oracle
3 6 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.97%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.17%) Okta
6 3 (2.38%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.38%) Databricks
6 3 (2.38%) Google
6 3 (2.38%) VMware
7 2 (1.59%) Hortonworks
7 2 (1.59%) IBM
7 2 (1.59%) TSYS
8 1 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) EMC
8 1 (0.79%) Informatica
8 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow