AWS Certification Jobs in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 420 163
Rank change year-on-year +189 -257 +234
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 732 494 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.50% 0.55% 2.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.97% 1.99% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 128 282 433
10th Percentile £44,000 £53,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £60,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,125 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +0.81% +4.73%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £99,125 £102,250 £114,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% -3.13% +6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,632 24,771 28,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.31% 27.69% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,782 15,756 13,083
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,938 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in England.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +158 258 £82,500 -2.94% 141
North of England +119 208 £65,000 -3.70% 145
North West +83 195 £57,500 -11.54% 67
South East +39 46 £73,000 +4.29% 230
South West +104 39 £56,745 -12.70% 79
East of England +73 36 £85,000 +21.43% 85
Midlands +58 29 £53,688 -25.95% 113
West Midlands +47 27 £53,688 -25.95% 66
Yorkshire +47 10 £67,500 -15.46% 60
North East +43 3 £47,500 -40.51% 18
East Midlands +29 2 - - 40
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.37%) Confluence
3 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.55%) nginx
5 3 (0.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 732 (100.00%) AWS
2 334 (45.63%) Azure
3 263 (35.93%) GCP
4 215 (29.37%) Pulumi
5 119 (16.26%) Serverless
6 108 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (12.84%) Amazon S3
8 74 (10.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 24 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (2.73%) SaaS
11 20 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (2.60%) AWS KMS
13 15 (2.05%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.64%) IaaS
16 10 (1.37%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 287 (39.21%) Broadband
2 27 (3.69%) Firewall
3 21 (2.87%) Network Security
4 18 (2.46%) VPN
5 13 (1.78%) DNS
6 12 (1.64%) WAN
7 10 (1.37%) VLAN
8 8 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.96%) LAN
10 6 (0.82%) OSPF
11 5 (0.68%) DHCP
11 5 (0.68%) MPLS
12 4 (0.55%) BGP
12 4 (0.55%) FTP
12 4 (0.55%) HTTP
12 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.55%) Internet
12 4 (0.55%) SMTP
12 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (34.70%) NoSQL
2 219 (29.92%) Relational Database
3 215 (29.37%) RDBMS
4 80 (10.93%) DynamoDB
5 72 (9.84%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (4.92%) Data Lake
7 24 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (3.01%) Metadata
9 20 (2.73%) Big Data
10 18 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (1.91%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.64%) MySQL
14 11 (1.50%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.82%) Power BI
17 4 (0.55%) SQL Server
18 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
18 3 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 215 (29.37%) Jaeger
2 24 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.91%) Git
3 14 (1.91%) JIRA
4 11 (1.50%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) Gradle
5 5 (0.68%) Maven
6 4 (0.55%) Vagrant
7 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.27%) JUnit
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.27%) YouTrack
9 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
9 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 440 (60.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 82 (11.20%) Social Skills
3 81 (11.07%) Finance
4 43 (5.87%) Banking
5 40 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (5.19%) Law
7 26 (3.55%) Financial Institution
8 24 (3.28%) Retail Banking
9 20 (2.73%) Marketing
10 16 (2.19%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.64%) Retail
12 8 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.96%) Humanities
14 6 (0.82%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.82%) Legal
15 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.68%) Games
15 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Automotive
16 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 292 (39.89%) Senior
2 258 (35.25%) Lead
3 217 (29.64%) Team Leader
4 193 (26.37%) Software Engineer
5 179 (24.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 101 (13.80%) Architect
7 83 (11.34%) Developer
8 77 (10.52%) Senior Developer
9 73 (9.97%) AWS Developer
10 38 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (5.05%) AWS Architect
12 29 (3.96%) Cloud Architect
13 24 (3.28%) Data Architect
14 19 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (2.32%) AWS DevOps
16 16 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
17 15 (2.05%) Security Engineer
18 14 (1.91%) AWS Solution Architect
18 14 (1.91%) DevOps Engineer
19 13 (1.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (31.97%) Elastic Stack
2 219 (29.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 181 (24.73%) Node.js
4 180 (24.59%) .NET
5 87 (11.89%) React
6 77 (10.52%) GraphQL
7 72 (9.84%) Serverless Framework
8 47 (6.42%) Kafka
9 13 (1.78%) RESTful
10 12 (1.64%) Spring
11 9 (1.23%) ARM Templates
12 7 (0.96%) AngularJS
12 7 (0.96%) HTML
12 7 (0.96%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.68%) AWS CDK
13 5 (0.68%) CSS
13 5 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (0.55%) HTML5
14 4 (0.55%) REST
14 4 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 182 (24.86%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (24.45%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (24.32%) Cyberattack
4 57 (7.79%) Cloud Native
5 53 (7.24%) Management Information System
6 28 (3.83%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.73%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.68%) Mobile Games
12 4 (0.55%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.55%) Clustering
12 4 (0.55%) Data Fabric
12 4 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.55%) Replication
12 4 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 431 (58.88%) Linux
2 220 (30.05%) Unix
3 35 (4.78%) Windows
4 17 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.82%) VMS
7 5 (0.68%) AIX
7 5 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.41%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (76.37%) Agile
2 514 (70.22%) Mentoring
3 327 (44.67%) DevOps
4 290 (39.62%) Continuous Integration
5 286 (39.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 283 (38.66%) Containerisation
7 247 (33.74%) Roadmaps
8 244 (33.33%) High Availability
9 241 (32.92%) Cost Optimisation
10 235 (32.10%) Product Management
11 233 (31.83%) Cloud Security
12 231 (31.56%) Microservices
13 229 (31.28%) Resource Management
14 227 (31.01%) Performance Optimisation
15 223 (30.46%) Task Automation
16 222 (30.33%) Software Engineering
17 219 (29.92%) GitOps
18 215 (29.37%) Budget Control
19 205 (28.01%) Machine Learning
20 202 (27.60%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 548 (74.86%) Python
2 477 (65.16%) JavaScript
3 460 (62.84%) Java
4 405 (55.33%) Go
5 239 (32.65%) Bash
6 180 (24.59%) C++
6 180 (24.59%) Rust
7 83 (11.34%) TypeScript
8 53 (7.24%) SQL
9 36 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.91%) C#
11 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.68%) Groovy
12 5 (0.68%) R
13 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.41%) Scala
14 2 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) PROC SQL
15 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 266 (36.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 226 (30.87%) Security Cleared
3 186 (25.41%) AWS Certified Developer
4 180 (24.59%) DV Cleared
5 111 (15.16%) Azure Certification
6 89 (12.16%) Degree
7 42 (5.74%) SC Cleared
8 40 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (2.46%) Master's Degree
13 16 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 14 (1.91%) CISSP
15 13 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 8 (1.09%) CCNA
18 7 (0.96%) CCNP
18 7 (0.96%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.87%) GDPR
2 29 (3.96%) HIPAA
3 23 (3.14%) NIST
4 18 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.05%) QA
6 12 (1.64%) SLA
7 9 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.27%) COBIT
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.27%) GRC
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.27%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 281 (38.39%) Docker
2 27 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.68%) Dovecot
6 5 (0.68%) Postfix
7 4 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 2 (0.27%) Squid
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.14%) KVM
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 300 (40.98%) Kubernetes
2 277 (37.84%) Terraform
3 248 (33.88%) Prometheus
4 246 (33.61%) Ansible
5 223 (30.46%) Argo
6 215 (29.37%) Kustomize
7 25 (3.42%) Grafana
8 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.09%) Puppet
10 7 (0.96%) SCCM
11 3 (0.41%) Iperf
11 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) Istio
12 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.27%) Nessus
12 2 (0.27%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.27%) Salt
12 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 266 (36.34%) Google
2 75 (10.25%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.46%) VMware
4 17 (2.32%) Cisco
5 10 (1.37%) Oracle
6 9 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.09%) Databricks
8 7 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 7 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.68%) CheckPoint
9 5 (0.68%) Citrix
9 5 (0.68%) New Relic
10 4 (0.55%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.55%) Meraki
10 4 (0.55%) SAP
10 4 (0.55%) Splunk
10 4 (0.55%) Symantec
10 4 (0.55%) Veritas
11 3 (0.41%) Ruckus Wireless
11 3 (0.41%) SonicWALL