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 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 729 879
Rank change year-on-year -74 +150 -275
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Architect 106 236 369
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 77 203 252
10th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £71,375
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 £112,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £127,500
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 96,812 89,556 159,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.45% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,148 56,816 85,173
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Architect in the UK

AWS Architect
Top 14 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 27 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 -48 88 £80,000 -11.11% 36
UK excluding London -27 66 £80,000 -5.88% 23
Work from Home -27 43 £80,000 -11.11% 16
London 0 31 £88,750 -11.25% 23
South East +4 23 £67,500 -20.59% 11
South West -25 18 £80,000 -27.27% 2
Midlands -10 9 £80,000 -5.88% 3
East Midlands -13 9 £80,000 - 2
Scotland -58 8 £75,000 +20.00% 1
North of England +37 4 £80,000 -6.16% 6
Northern Ireland +25 3 £90,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire +63 2 £80,000 -11.11% 3
North West +4 2 £88,500 +10.63% 3
East of England -11 1 £77,500 -11.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (38.68%) Kubernetes
3 40 (37.74%) Security Cleared
4 39 (36.79%) Terraform
4 39 (36.79%) DevOps
4 39 (36.79%) Containerisation
5 37 (34.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (30.19%) Python
7 31 (29.25%) Linux
8 28 (26.42%) Azure
8 28 (26.42%) AWS Certification
9 27 (25.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (24.53%) Ansible
11 25 (23.58%) Docker
12 24 (22.64%) Public Cloud
13 23 (21.70%) Cloud Native
13 23 (21.70%) Puppet
13 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
13 23 (21.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (20.75%) PaaS
14 22 (20.75%) GCP
14 22 (20.75%) IaaS
15 19 (17.92%) Microservices
15 19 (17.92%) Data Centre
15 19 (17.92%) Agile
15 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (16.98%) Serverless
16 18 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (16.04%) DV Cleared
18 16 (15.09%) 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 (5.66%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (26.42%) Azure
3 22 (20.75%) GCP
3 22 (20.75%) IaaS
3 22 (20.75%) PaaS
4 18 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (16.98%) Serverless
5 16 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (11.32%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.43%) SaaS
9 9 (8.49%) CloudFront
9 9 (8.49%) Route 53
10 5 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (4.72%) GitHub
11 4 (3.77%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.60%) Network Security
2 1 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (0.94%) DNS
2 1 (0.94%) Firewall
2 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.15%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.49%) Big Data
3 8 (7.55%) DynamoDB
3 8 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.89%) Looker
7 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.89%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.94%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.94%) MySQL
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Terragrunt
2 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.89%) Git
3 2 (1.89%) JIRA
3 2 (1.89%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.94%) GitLab
General
1 15 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.72%) Billing
5 4 (3.77%) Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.83%) Retail
7 2 (1.89%) Finance
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.43%) .NET
2 4 (3.77%) Kafka
3 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.94%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.94%) J2EE
5 1 (0.94%) Next.js
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth
5 1 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.94%) React
5 1 (0.94%) SOAP
5 1 (0.94%) Spring
5 1 (0.94%) Spring Integration
5 1 (0.94%) Web Services
5 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Public Cloud
2 23 (21.70%) Cloud Native
3 19 (17.92%) Data Centre
4 16 (15.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (6.60%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.72%) Clustering
6 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.83%) Blog
8 1 (0.94%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.94%) DataPower
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.25%) Linux
2 14 (13.21%) Windows
3 6 (5.66%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.79%) Containerisation
1 39 (36.79%) DevOps
2 37 (34.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (25.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (17.92%) Agile
4 19 (17.92%) Microservices
4 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.15%) Roadmaps
6 12 (11.32%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.38%) Architectural Patterns
7 11 (10.38%) Presales
8 10 (9.43%) Computer Science
8 10 (9.43%) Project Delivery
9 9 (8.49%) Data Protection
9 9 (8.49%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (7.55%) Contract Negotiation
10 8 (7.55%) Design Patterns
11 7 (6.60%) Analytics
11 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (6.60%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.19%) Python
2 9 (8.49%) C#
3 6 (5.66%) Java
4 5 (4.72%) SQL
5 4 (3.77%) Bash
5 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (0.94%) Go
7 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (37.74%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.42%) AWS Certification
3 23 (21.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
4 17 (16.04%) DV Cleared
5 11 (10.38%) Degree
6 10 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (8.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.94%) CISSP
9 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) NCSC
3 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (23.58%) Docker
2 6 (5.66%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (38.68%) Kubernetes
2 39 (36.79%) Terraform
3 26 (24.53%) Ansible
4 23 (21.70%) Puppet
5 6 (5.66%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (5.66%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.72%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (3.77%) Grafana
7 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.60%) VMware
3 5 (4.72%) MuleSoft
3 5 (4.72%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.83%) Cloudera
4 3 (2.83%) Google
5 2 (1.89%) Hortonworks
5 2 (1.89%) Okta
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.94%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco
6 1 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.94%) EMC
6 1 (0.94%) IBM
6 1 (0.94%) Informatica
6 1 (0.94%) New Relic
6 1 (0.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.94%) TSYS