AWS Certification Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 137 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +92
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 14 22 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.61% 0.83% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.78% 2.65% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 8
10th Percentile £55,250 £68,750 £85,000
25th Percentile £71,563 £75,000 £86,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £96,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -1.54% +38.30%
75th Percentile £99,063 £123,750 £106,563
90th Percentile £142,000 - £115,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £96,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -11.46% -1.54% +47.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 503 830 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.99% 31.45% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 368 459 544
10th Percentile £39,400 £46,250 £37,150
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -9.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £121,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the City of London

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (14.29%) dbt
6 2 (14.29%) Fivetran
6 2 (14.29%) IaaS
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (7.14%) Dialogflow
7 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 1 (7.14%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) NAS
1 1 (7.14%) SAN
1 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
1 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jaeger
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Architect
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Lead
1 2 (14.29%) Senior
1 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Digital
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Risk Management
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Strategy
2 1 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
1 1 (7.14%) NLTK
1 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) AI
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) Data Security
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) SnowPro
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Basel III
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) MiFID
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) KVM
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Kustomize
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Bloomberg
3 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Refinitiv