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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 786 747 868
Rank change year-on-year -39 +121 -264
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 102 249 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73 209 263
10th Percentile £63,000 £68,780 £70,650
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 £90,000 £112,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £130,000
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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -58 85 £80,000 -11.11% 22
UK excluding London -36 65 £80,000 -8.57% 10
Work from Home -14 41 £80,000 -11.11% 17
London +20 28 £87,500 -12.50% 14
South East +15 23 £67,500 -21.74% 1
South West -24 19 £80,000 -27.27% 1
Midlands +1 9 £80,000 -5.88% 2
East Midlands -9 8 £80,000 - 1
Scotland -54 7 £80,000 +14.29% 4
North of England +31 3 £80,000 -11.11% 2
Northern Ireland +28 3 £90,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire +75 2 £80,000 -11.11% 2
West Midlands +5 1 £100,000 +17.65% 1
North West +1 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 8 May 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.

1 102 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 40 (39.22%) Kubernetes
3 38 (37.25%) DevOps
3 38 (37.25%) Terraform
4 37 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (34.31%) Containerisation
6 32 (31.37%) Linux
7 30 (29.41%) Python
8 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (25.49%) AWS Certification
10 25 (24.51%) Public Cloud
10 25 (24.51%) Azure
10 25 (24.51%) Ansible
11 24 (23.53%) Puppet
11 24 (23.53%) Cloud Native
12 23 (22.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 22 (21.57%) PaaS
13 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
13 22 (21.57%) IaaS
14 21 (20.59%) Docker
15 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (19.61%) GCP
16 19 (18.63%) Data Centre
16 19 (18.63%) Agile
17 18 (17.65%) DV Cleared
17 18 (17.65%) Microservices
18 17 (16.67%) Serverless
19 16 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
19 16 (15.69%) AWS Lambda

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 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (24.51%) Azure
3 22 (21.57%) IaaS
3 22 (21.57%) PaaS
4 20 (19.61%) GCP
5 17 (16.67%) Serverless
6 16 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (13.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (13.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.82%) CloudFront
9 9 (8.82%) Route 53
9 9 (8.82%) SaaS
10 5 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (4.90%) GitHub
11 4 (3.92%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.86%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.98%) Firewall
2 1 (0.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.86%) Big Data
3 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.98%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.98%) Impala
7 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.98%) MySQL
7 1 (0.98%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.98%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Terragrunt
2 3 (2.94%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 13 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (4.90%) Billing
4 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.94%) Banking
5 3 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (2.94%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.98%) Kafka
3 1 (0.98%) Next.js
3 1 (0.98%) OAuth
3 1 (0.98%) React
3 1 (0.98%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Public Cloud
2 24 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 19 (18.63%) Data Centre
4 14 (13.73%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (6.86%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.90%) Clustering
6 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.94%) Blog
8 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.98%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.37%) Linux
2 14 (13.73%) Windows
3 6 (5.88%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.25%) DevOps
2 37 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (34.31%) Containerisation
4 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.63%) Agile
7 18 (17.65%) Microservices
8 15 (14.71%) Roadmaps
9 11 (10.78%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (10.78%) Presales
10 10 (9.80%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.82%) CI/CD
11 9 (8.82%) Data Protection
11 9 (8.82%) Project Delivery
11 9 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (6.86%) Design Patterns
12 7 (6.86%) Service Management
12 7 (6.86%) Waterfall
13 6 (5.88%) Configuration Management
13 6 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (7.84%) C#
3 4 (3.92%) Bash
3 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.94%) Java
5 2 (1.96%) SQL
6 1 (0.98%) Go
6 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.49%) AWS Certification
3 23 (22.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
5 18 (17.65%) DV Cleared
6 11 (10.78%) Degree
7 10 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (8.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.98%) CISSP
10 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) NCSC
3 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (20.59%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (39.22%) Kubernetes
2 38 (37.25%) Terraform
3 25 (24.51%) Ansible
4 24 (23.53%) Puppet
5 6 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.90%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (3.92%) Grafana
7 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) VMware
3 5 (4.90%) MuleSoft
3 5 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.96%) Okta
5 1 (0.98%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco
5 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.98%) Databricks
5 1 (0.98%) EMC
5 1 (0.98%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) Informatica
5 1 (0.98%) New Relic
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow