AWS Architect Jobs

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 692 694 735
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 -52
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 77 72 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 243
10th Percentile £60,500 £65,000 £67,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £93,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.44% +3.89%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £117,250 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

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 60,439 63,647 101,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 95.34% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 27,854 47,336 66,038
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,831 £33,135
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £52,600
% change year-on-year +7.38% -4.94% +5.20%

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 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 12 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 23 January 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
England +25 65 £80,000 - 23
Work from Home +86 53 £78,000 -9.57% 14
London +45 41 £80,000 -11.11% 20
UK excluding London -18 29 £80,000 - 3
South West +28 11 £85,000 +6.25%
South East -10 7 £77,500 +14.81%
Scotland +30 5 £80,000 -8.57%
East Midlands +4 3 - - 1
Midlands -2 3 - - 1
East of England -16 2 £74,425 -35.28%
North of England +11 1 £87,500 - 2
North West -21 1 £87,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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 featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (48.05%) AWS Certification
3 35 (45.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 33 (42.86%) Serverless
5 30 (38.96%) Security Cleared
5 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
5 30 (38.96%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (35.06%) DevOps
7 26 (33.77%) Amazon S3
8 24 (31.17%) SC Cleared
8 24 (31.17%) Containerisation
9 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
9 23 (29.87%) GCP
9 23 (29.87%) Azure
9 23 (29.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (27.27%) Mentoring
12 20 (25.97%) Docker
12 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
12 20 (25.97%) TOGAF
13 19 (24.68%) Terraform
14 18 (23.38%) Cloud Security
15 17 (22.08%) Management Information System
16 16 (20.78%) Python
17 15 (19.48%) Ansible
18 14 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (18.18%) SaaS
18 14 (18.18%) Cloud Native
18 14 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
18 14 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification

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 3 (3.90%) Confluence
1 3 (3.90%) nginx
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (42.86%) Serverless
3 30 (38.96%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (33.77%) Amazon S3
5 23 (29.87%) Azure
5 23 (29.87%) GCP
6 14 (18.18%) SaaS
7 13 (16.88%) Snowflake
8 11 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (12.99%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (12.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (10.39%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (5.19%) AWS KMS
13 4 (5.19%) IaaS
13 4 (5.19%) PaaS
14 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
14 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) Network Security
3 2 (2.60%) Internet
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (14.29%) Data Vault
2 11 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
3 10 (12.99%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (6.49%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.60%) Flink
6 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.30%) Big Data
7 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) GitLab
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Finance
3 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Legal
4 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) GraphQL
2 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.90%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.30%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) Laravel
5 1 (1.30%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) Symfony
5 1 (1.30%) Vue
5 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.08%) Management Information System
2 14 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 10 (12.99%) Public Cloud
4 8 (10.39%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) IoT
6 4 (5.19%) Replication
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.30%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.58%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) DevOps
2 24 (31.17%) Containerisation
3 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
3 23 (29.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 20 (25.97%) TOGAF
7 18 (23.38%) Cloud Security
8 14 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (16.88%) Analytics
9 13 (16.88%) Roadmaps
10 12 (15.58%) Agile
10 12 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
12 10 (12.99%) ArchiMate
12 10 (12.99%) UML
13 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (10.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.78%) Python
2 5 (6.49%) SQL
3 3 (3.90%) Bash
3 3 (3.90%) Java
4 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) PHP
4 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (48.05%) AWS Certification
2 35 (45.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 30 (38.96%) Security Cleared
4 24 (31.17%) SC Cleared
5 14 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 10 (12.99%) DV Cleared
8 8 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (10.39%) Degree
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) GDPR
1 3 (3.90%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) GMP
2 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (25.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
2 19 (24.68%) Terraform
3 15 (19.48%) Ansible
4 6 (7.79%) Grafana
4 6 (7.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.19%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.19%) Puppet
6 3 (3.90%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Databricks
2 8 (10.39%) Google
3 7 (9.09%) Oracle
4 4 (5.19%) IBM
4 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) Hitachi