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 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 804 730
Rank change year-on-year +177 -74 +150
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 84 106 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42 77 203
10th Percentile - £62,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +6.25%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 11 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 28 May 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 +151 80 £90,000 +12.50% 40
London +142 53 £60,000 -32.39% 21
Work from Home +130 52 £80,000 - 25
UK excluding London +153 25 £95,000 +18.75% 18
North of England +47 10 £90,000 +12.50% 8
North West +7 8 £90,000 +1.69% 7
South West +106 6 £90,000 +12.50% 1
Midlands +57 6 £96,250 +20.31% 8
West Midlands - 6 £96,250 - 5
South East +70 3 £87,500 +29.63% 1
Yorkshire +62 2 £95,000 +18.75% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (52.38%) DevOps
3 41 (48.81%) AWS Certification
4 39 (46.43%) Management Information System
5 38 (45.24%) Kubernetes
6 35 (41.67%) Azure
6 35 (41.67%) Containerisation
7 34 (40.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 34 (40.48%) Cloud Security
7 34 (40.48%) Docker
8 32 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (38.10%) CI/CD
9 31 (36.90%) Serverless
10 27 (32.14%) GCP
11 25 (29.76%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (29.76%) Roadmaps
12 24 (28.57%) GDPR
12 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
12 24 (28.57%) Java
13 23 (27.38%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (27.38%) Microservices
14 22 (26.19%) Architectural Design
14 22 (26.19%) TOGAF
14 22 (26.19%) Security Cleared
14 22 (26.19%) HIPAA
15 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
15 21 (25.00%) Data Protection
15 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (25.00%) Terraform
16 20 (23.81%) Cost Optimisation

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 2 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (41.67%) Azure
3 31 (36.90%) Serverless
4 27 (32.14%) GCP
5 25 (29.76%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (15.48%) AWS KMS
8 10 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 10 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (8.33%) SaaS
11 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.19%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.67%) Network Security
2 11 (13.10%) Firewall
3 5 (5.95%) VPN
4 3 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.95%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.57%) KDB
4 3 (3.57%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.38%) Flink
6 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.19%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.19%) Metadata
6 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.19%) MySQL
6 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) GitLab
2 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Back Office
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.24%) Kafka
2 12 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.57%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.38%) MACH
5 1 (1.19%) Laravel
5 1 (1.19%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 39 (46.43%) Management Information System
2 19 (22.62%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.10%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 6 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.57%) PropTech
7 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.38%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.19%) IoT
8 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (52.38%) DevOps
2 35 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 34 (40.48%) Cloud Security
4 32 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 32 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (29.76%) Roadmaps
6 23 (27.38%) Microservices
6 23 (27.38%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (26.19%) Architectural Design
7 22 (26.19%) TOGAF
8 21 (25.00%) Data Protection
8 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (23.81%) Cost Optimisation
10 19 (22.62%) Design Patterns
10 19 (22.62%) Mentoring
10 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
11 18 (21.43%) Agile
12 17 (20.24%) Security Architecture
13 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
13 16 (19.05%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.57%) Java
2 19 (22.62%) Python
3 14 (16.67%) SQL
4 8 (9.52%) C#
5 3 (3.57%) Scala
6 2 (2.38%) Bash
6 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (48.81%) AWS Certification
2 34 (40.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 22 (26.19%) Security Cleared
4 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 18 (21.43%) Degree
6 14 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (13.10%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.38%) CEH
10 2 (2.38%) CISM
10 2 (2.38%) CISSP
10 2 (2.38%) GIAC
10 2 (2.38%) ISSAP
10 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.38%) SANS
11 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.57%) GDPR
2 22 (26.19%) HIPAA
3 10 (11.90%) NIST
4 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.76%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.38%) COBIT
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.19%) GMP
6 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (40.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.00%) Terraform
3 14 (16.67%) Grafana
3 14 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 9 (10.71%) Ansible
5 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (21.43%) Google
2 8 (9.52%) Oracle
3 6 (7.14%) IBM
3 6 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.38%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk