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 17 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 541 776
Rank change year-on-year -18 +235 -38
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 150 82 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 93 45 68
10th Percentile £75,000 - £62,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £89,063
90th Percentile - £101,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 79,728 37,132 89,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 89.29% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51,035 23,360 66,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

AWS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Architect job vacancies in the UK

AWS Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Architect over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 13 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 17 April 2026. 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 -27 129 £90,000 - 43
London +27 83 £90,000 +50.00% 26
UK excluding London -49 51 £90,000 -5.26% 24
Work from Home -20 32 £100,000 +44.93% 24
North of England -31 28 £90,000 - 5
North West +4 25 £90,000 - 5
Midlands -39 17 £95,000 -1.30% 3
East Midlands - 12 - -
Scotland - 8 - - 2
West Midlands -24 5 £95,000 -1.30% 3
East of England -21 4 £97,500 +65.68% 2
Yorkshire -57 3 £82,500 -13.16%
South East -36 2 £85,000 +8.97% 5

AWS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 April 2026, AWS Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Architect in the job title.

1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (22.00%) Security Cleared
3 29 (19.33%) Azure
3 29 (19.33%) Serverless
4 25 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 22 (14.67%) Python
6 21 (14.00%) CI/CD
6 21 (14.00%) Cloud Security
6 21 (14.00%) Degree
6 21 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (12.67%) Terraform
9 18 (12.00%) Kubernetes
10 17 (11.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (11.33%) DevSecOps
11 16 (10.67%) GCP
11 16 (10.67%) Migration
12 15 (10.00%) AWS Certification
12 15 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (10.00%) GitHub
13 14 (9.33%) Enterprise Architecture
13 14 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (9.33%) GitLab
13 14 (9.33%) Incident Response
13 14 (9.33%) Jenkins
13 14 (9.33%) Threat Modelling
14 13 (8.67%) AWS CDK
14 13 (8.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (8.67%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (8.67%) Blue Team

AWS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (19.33%) Azure
2 29 (19.33%) Serverless
3 17 (11.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (10.67%) GCP
5 15 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (10.00%) GitHub
6 14 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 13 (8.67%) Pulumi
8 5 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.67%) IaaS
9 4 (2.67%) PaaS
9 4 (2.67%) SaaS
9 4 (2.67%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.33%) dbt
10 2 (1.33%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.67%) DSL
2 3 (2.00%) Firewall
3 2 (1.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.00%) Big Data
2 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.00%) Metadata
2 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.67%) Power BI
4 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.33%) GitLab
1 14 (9.33%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (11.33%) Finance
2 11 (7.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.33%) Advertising
5 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.67%) Publishing
6 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Banking
7 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.67%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.67%) OAuth
2 1 (0.67%) OpenID
2 1 (0.67%) REST
2 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.33%) IoT
6 2 (1.33%) PKI
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Linux
1 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (14.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (14.00%) Cloud Security
1 21 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (11.33%) DevSecOps
4 16 (10.67%) Migration
5 14 (9.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 14 (9.33%) Incident Response
5 14 (9.33%) Threat Modelling
6 13 (8.67%) Blue Team
6 13 (8.67%) Containerisation
6 13 (8.67%) Cryptography
6 13 (8.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 13 (8.67%) Purple Team
6 13 (8.67%) Red Team
6 13 (8.67%) SBOM
7 12 (8.00%) Agile
8 11 (7.33%) Business Transformation
8 11 (7.33%) Data Governance
8 11 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.67%) Python
2 13 (8.67%) Go
2 13 (8.67%) Rust
3 3 (2.00%) Java
4 2 (1.33%) SQL
5 1 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.00%) Degree
4 15 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 13 (8.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (8.67%) OSCP
6 9 (6.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.00%) CISM
9 3 (2.00%) CISSP
10 2 (1.33%) CISA
10 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.67%) SANS
11 1 (0.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.67%) NIST
4 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) Basel III
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) MiFID
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 19 (12.67%) Terraform
2 18 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (2.67%) SAP
1 4 (2.67%) Workday
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.33%) Zerto
3 1 (0.67%) Alteryx
3 1 (0.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (0.67%) Cisco
3 1 (0.67%) Databricks
3 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle
3 1 (0.67%) Palantir
3 1 (0.67%) Refinitiv
3 1 (0.67%) Salesforce