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 to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 795 711 845
Rank change year-on-year -84 +134 -257
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 101 265 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 72 223 275
10th Percentile £62,750 £70,250 £72,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £89,063 £110,625 £116,250
90th Percentile £104,500 £120,000 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -45 84 £80,000 -11.11% 20
UK excluding London -19 64 £80,000 -8.57% 9
Work from Home -2 41 £80,000 -11.11% 11
London +21 28 £75,000 -25.00% 14
South East +28 24 £67,500 -21.74% 1
South West -3 17 £80,000 -27.27% 2
Midlands +3 9 £80,000 -5.88%
East Midlands -10 8 £80,000 -
Scotland -57 7 £80,000 +2.56% 4
North of England +40 3 £80,000 -6.16% 2
Northern Ireland +32 3 £90,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire +87 2 £80,000 -11.11% 2
West Midlands +17 1 £100,000 +17.65%
North West +7 1 £80,000 -
East of England -2 1 £77,500 -11.43%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (38.61%) Security Cleared
3 38 (37.62%) Kubernetes
4 36 (35.64%) DevOps
5 35 (34.65%) Terraform
5 35 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (32.67%) Containerisation
7 31 (30.69%) Linux
8 28 (27.72%) Python
9 27 (26.73%) AWS Certification
10 26 (25.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (24.75%) Azure
12 24 (23.76%) Public Cloud
12 24 (23.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (22.77%) Ansible
13 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
14 22 (21.78%) Puppet
14 22 (21.78%) Cloud Native
15 21 (20.79%) Docker
15 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (19.80%) Microservices
16 20 (19.80%) IaaS
16 20 (19.80%) PaaS
16 20 (19.80%) Agile
17 19 (18.81%) GCP
17 19 (18.81%) Data Centre
18 18 (17.82%) Serverless
19 16 (15.84%) AWS Lambda
19 16 (15.84%) DV Cleared
20 15 (14.85%) Amazon RDS

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 6 (5.94%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (24.75%) Azure
3 20 (19.80%) IaaS
3 20 (19.80%) PaaS
4 19 (18.81%) GCP
5 18 (17.82%) Serverless
6 16 (15.84%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (14.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (14.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (13.86%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (13.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (11.88%) Amazon S3
10 9 (8.91%) CloudFront
10 9 (8.91%) Route 53
10 9 (8.91%) SaaS
11 5 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.95%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.96%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (3.96%) GitHub
12 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.99%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.93%) Big Data
3 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.94%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.99%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.99%) Impala
7 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.99%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.99%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Terragrunt
2 3 (2.97%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.99%) GitLab
3 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (4.95%) Billing
4 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.97%) Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Retail
7 2 (1.98%) Finance
8 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) .NET
2 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.99%) Kafka
3 1 (0.99%) Next.js
3 1 (0.99%) OAuth
3 1 (0.99%) React
3 1 (0.99%) REST
3 1 (0.99%) SOAP
3 1 (0.99%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.99%) XML
3 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Public Cloud
2 22 (21.78%) Cloud Native
3 19 (18.81%) Data Centre
4 12 (11.88%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (6.93%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.95%) Clustering
6 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.97%) Blog
8 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.69%) Linux
2 14 (13.86%) Windows
3 6 (5.94%) Mesosphere
4 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.64%) DevOps
2 35 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (32.67%) Containerisation
4 26 (25.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.80%) Agile
6 20 (19.80%) Microservices
7 15 (14.85%) Roadmaps
8 11 (10.89%) Architectural Patterns
8 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
8 11 (10.89%) Presales
9 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.91%) Data Protection
10 9 (8.91%) Project Delivery
10 9 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (6.93%) Design Patterns
11 7 (6.93%) Mentoring
11 7 (6.93%) Service Management
11 7 (6.93%) Waterfall
12 6 (5.94%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.72%) Python
2 8 (7.92%) C#
3 4 (3.96%) Bash
3 4 (3.96%) Java
3 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.98%) SQL
5 1 (0.99%) Go
5 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.73%) AWS Certification
3 24 (23.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
5 16 (15.84%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (9.90%) Degree
7 9 (8.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.99%) CISSP
9 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) NCSC
3 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (20.79%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (37.62%) Kubernetes
2 35 (34.65%) Terraform
3 23 (22.77%) Ansible
4 22 (21.78%) Puppet
5 6 (5.94%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (5.94%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.95%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (3.96%) Grafana
7 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) VMware
3 5 (4.95%) MuleSoft
3 5 (4.95%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) Cisco
5 1 (0.99%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.99%) Databricks
5 1 (0.99%) EMC
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) New Relic
5 1 (0.99%) Okta
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow