AWS Architect Jobs

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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 798 725 902
Rank change year-on-year -73 +177 -289
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 109 225 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 79 196 250
10th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £113,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £127,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -79 91 £80,000 -11.11% 26
UK excluding London -46 66 £80,000 -5.88% 8
Work from Home -28 45 £80,000 -11.11% 12
London +23 34 £90,000 -10.00% 15
South East -1 23 £67,500 -20.59% 1
South West -28 17 £80,000 -27.27% 1
East Midlands -13 9 £80,000 - 1
Midlands -15 9 £80,000 -5.88% 2
Scotland -59 8 £75,000 +20.00% 1
North of England +25 5 £80,000 -6.16% 3
Northern Ireland +23 3 £90,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire +57 2 £80,000 -11.11%
North West -7 2 £88,500 +10.63% 2
East of England -12 1 £77,500 -11.43% 1
North East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (37.61%) Security Cleared
3 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
4 39 (35.78%) DevOps
4 39 (35.78%) Containerisation
5 38 (34.86%) Terraform
6 36 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (28.44%) Python
8 30 (27.52%) Linux
8 30 (27.52%) Azure
9 29 (26.61%) AWS Certification
10 26 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (22.94%) Ansible
11 25 (22.94%) Docker
11 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
12 24 (22.02%) GCP
12 24 (22.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (21.10%) Public Cloud
14 22 (20.18%) Cloud Native
14 22 (20.18%) IaaS
14 22 (20.18%) PaaS
14 22 (20.18%) Puppet
15 20 (18.35%) Agile
15 20 (18.35%) Data Centre
15 20 (18.35%) Serverless
16 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (17.43%) Microservices
17 18 (16.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
19 16 (14.68%) Enterprise Cloud

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 (5.50%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (27.52%) Azure
3 24 (22.02%) GCP
4 22 (20.18%) IaaS
4 22 (20.18%) PaaS
5 20 (18.35%) Serverless
6 18 (16.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (12.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (12.84%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (12.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (11.93%) Amazon S3
10 12 (11.01%) SaaS
11 9 (8.26%) CloudFront
11 9 (8.26%) Route 53
12 5 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.59%) GitHub
13 4 (3.67%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (3.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.92%) DNS
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.26%) Big Data
3 8 (7.34%) DynamoDB
3 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.75%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.83%) Looker
8 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.83%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.92%) Impala
9 1 (0.92%) NewSQL
9 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.92%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Terragrunt
2 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.75%) JIRA
2 3 (2.75%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.83%) Git
3 2 (1.83%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.92%) GitLab
General
1 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Billing
5 4 (3.67%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Finance
7 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) .NET
2 4 (3.67%) Kafka
3 3 (2.75%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.83%) SOAP
4 2 (1.83%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.92%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.92%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.92%) J2EE
5 1 (0.92%) JSON
5 1 (0.92%) Next.js
5 1 (0.92%) OAuth
5 1 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.92%) React
5 1 (0.92%) REST
5 1 (0.92%) Spring
5 1 (0.92%) Spring Integration
5 1 (0.92%) Web Services
5 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Public Cloud
2 22 (20.18%) Cloud Native
3 20 (18.35%) Data Centre
4 16 (14.68%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (6.42%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.59%) Clustering
6 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.75%) Blog
8 1 (0.92%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.92%) DataPower
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.52%) Linux
2 14 (12.84%) Windows
3 6 (5.50%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.78%) Containerisation
1 39 (35.78%) DevOps
2 36 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (23.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (18.35%) Agile
5 19 (17.43%) Microservices
5 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
7 12 (11.01%) Architectural Patterns
7 12 (11.01%) CI/CD
8 11 (10.09%) Computer Science
8 11 (10.09%) Presales
8 11 (10.09%) Project Delivery
9 9 (8.26%) Data Protection
9 9 (8.26%) Design Patterns
9 9 (8.26%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.34%) Analytics
10 8 (7.34%) Contract Negotiation
10 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (7.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) Python
2 9 (8.26%) C#
3 6 (5.50%) Java
4 5 (4.59%) SQL
5 4 (3.67%) Bash
5 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.83%) Scala
7 1 (0.92%) Go
7 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.61%) AWS Certification
3 25 (22.94%) SC Cleared
4 24 (22.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (14.68%) DV Cleared
6 12 (11.01%) Degree
7 11 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (8.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) NCSC
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (22.94%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 38 (34.86%) Terraform
3 25 (22.94%) Ansible
4 22 (20.18%) Puppet
5 6 (5.50%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (5.50%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.59%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (3.67%) Grafana
7 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.42%) VMware
3 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.59%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.75%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.75%) Google
6 2 (1.83%) Hortonworks
6 2 (1.83%) Okta
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle
7 1 (0.92%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco
7 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.92%) EMC
7 1 (0.92%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) New Relic
7 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.92%) TSYS