AWS Architect Jobs

Amazon Web Services Architect
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Architect salary in the UK is £91,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 800 741
Rank change year-on-year +181 -59 +161
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 83 107 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 40 78 198
10th Percentile - £62,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £97,813 £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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £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 £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

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 31 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 31 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 +161 79 £90,000 +12.50% 50
Work from Home +128 52 £82,500 +3.13% 30
London +122 50 £60,000 -32.39% 19
UK excluding London +145 27 £95,000 +18.75% 31
North of England +46 12 £90,000 +12.50% 9
North West +10 10 £90,000 +1.69% 3
South West +101 6 £90,000 +12.50% 3
Midlands +62 6 £96,250 +20.31% 11
West Midlands - 6 £96,250 - 7
South East +58 3 £87,500 +29.63% 3
Yorkshire +56 2 £95,000 +18.75% 5

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (51.81%) DevOps
3 39 (46.99%) AWS Certification
3 39 (46.99%) Management Information System
4 36 (43.37%) Azure
4 36 (43.37%) Kubernetes
5 33 (39.76%) Docker
5 33 (39.76%) Containerisation
6 32 (38.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (38.55%) Cloud Security
7 31 (37.35%) CI/CD
7 31 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (34.94%) Serverless
9 28 (33.73%) GCP
10 26 (31.33%) Roadmaps
11 24 (28.92%) GDPR
11 24 (28.92%) TOGAF
11 24 (28.92%) Java
12 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
12 23 (27.71%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (27.71%) Microservices
13 22 (26.51%) Architectural Design
13 22 (26.51%) Technical Leadership
13 22 (26.51%) HIPAA
14 21 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (24.10%) Agile
15 20 (24.10%) Python
15 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
15 20 (24.10%) Terraform
16 19 (22.89%) Cloud Native

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 (2.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (43.37%) Azure
3 29 (34.94%) Serverless
4 28 (33.73%) GCP
5 23 (27.71%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (19.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (14.46%) AWS KMS
8 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
9 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (8.43%) SaaS
11 4 (4.82%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.20%) Amazon Cognito
14 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.66%) Network Security
2 11 (13.25%) Firewall
3 5 (6.02%) VPN
4 3 (3.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.02%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.61%) KDB
4 3 (3.61%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.41%) Flink
6 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.20%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) GitLab
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Back Office
6 1 (1.20%) Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) Kafka
2 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.41%) MACH
5 1 (1.20%) Laravel
5 1 (1.20%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 39 (46.99%) Management Information System
2 19 (22.89%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.25%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.43%) Public Cloud
5 6 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.61%) PropTech
7 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.41%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.20%) IoT
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
2 6 (7.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.81%) DevOps
2 33 (39.76%) Containerisation
3 32 (38.55%) Cloud Security
4 31 (37.35%) CI/CD
4 31 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (31.33%) Roadmaps
6 24 (28.92%) TOGAF
7 23 (27.71%) Microservices
8 22 (26.51%) Architectural Design
8 22 (26.51%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (24.10%) Agile
11 19 (22.89%) Data Protection
12 18 (21.69%) Cost Optimisation
12 18 (21.69%) Design Patterns
12 18 (21.69%) Mentoring
12 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
13 16 (19.28%) Security Architecture
14 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
14 15 (18.07%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) Java
2 20 (24.10%) Python
3 15 (18.07%) SQL
4 9 (10.84%) C#
5 3 (3.61%) Scala
6 2 (2.41%) Bash
6 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (46.99%) AWS Certification
2 32 (38.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
4 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
5 17 (20.48%) Degree
6 13 (15.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (13.25%) Azure Certification
8 6 (7.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.41%) CEH
10 2 (2.41%) CISM
10 2 (2.41%) CISSP
10 2 (2.41%) GIAC
10 2 (2.41%) ISSAP
10 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.41%) SANS
11 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.92%) GDPR
2 22 (26.51%) HIPAA
3 11 (13.25%) NIST
4 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.82%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.41%) COBIT
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.20%) GMP
System Software
1 33 (39.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (43.37%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.10%) Terraform
3 13 (15.66%) Grafana
3 13 (15.66%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.64%) Ansible
5 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Google
2 8 (9.64%) Oracle
3 6 (7.23%) IBM
3 6 (7.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.20%) Splunk