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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 440 153
Rank change year-on-year +223 -287 +225
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 755 494 1,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.53% 0.52% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.17% 1.92% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 134 281 423
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £53,688 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.88% +0.89%
75th Percentile £93,438 £86,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.88% +0.89%

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 23,784 25,676 27,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 48.28% 26.78% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,582 15,760 12,803
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £38,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +163 267 £78,750 -7.35% 363
North of England +126 213 £65,000 -3.70% 89
North West +97 197 £56,250 -13.46% 51
South East +61 47 £85,000 +25.93% 127
South West +117 43 £56,745 -10.99% 35
East of England +72 37 £85,000 +21.43% 23
Midlands +52 33 £59,344 -18.15% 51
West Midlands +51 31 £59,344 -18.15% 32
Yorkshire +50 11 £65,000 -18.59% 31
North East +48 5 £47,500 -40.51% 7
East Midlands +40 2 - - 18
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 13 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 13 (1.72%) Confluence
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.66%) Apache
3 5 (0.66%) nginx
4 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.40%) SAS
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 755 (100.00%) AWS
2 346 (45.83%) Azure
3 274 (36.29%) GCP
4 215 (28.48%) Pulumi
5 121 (16.03%) Serverless
6 111 (14.70%) AWS Lambda
7 99 (13.11%) Amazon S3
8 74 (9.80%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (3.44%) SaaS
11 24 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (2.52%) AWS KMS
14 15 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (1.99%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.85%) IaaS
16 13 (1.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 287 (38.01%) Broadband
2 26 (3.44%) Firewall
3 19 (2.52%) DNS
4 18 (2.38%) Network Security
5 17 (2.25%) VPN
6 11 (1.46%) WAN
7 10 (1.32%) VLAN
8 8 (1.06%) DHCP
9 7 (0.93%) LAN
9 7 (0.93%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.79%) OSPF
11 5 (0.66%) FTP
11 5 (0.66%) HTTP
11 5 (0.66%) SMTP
11 5 (0.66%) SSH
12 4 (0.53%) BGP
12 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.53%) IPv4
12 4 (0.53%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (35.23%) NoSQL
2 222 (29.40%) Relational Database
3 217 (28.74%) RDBMS
4 84 (11.13%) DynamoDB
5 72 (9.54%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (4.64%) Data Lake
7 28 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (3.18%) Metadata
9 23 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (3.05%) Big Data
10 19 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.99%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.85%) MySQL
13 13 (1.72%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.06%) Power BI
16 7 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.93%) CockroachDB
16 7 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 215 (28.48%) Jaeger
2 26 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.52%) JIRA
4 18 (2.38%) Git
5 12 (1.59%) GitLab
6 5 (0.66%) JUnit
6 5 (0.66%) Vagrant
7 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.53%) Gradle
7 4 (0.53%) Maven
7 4 (0.53%) Mockito
7 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.53%) YouTrack
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.26%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 459 (60.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 97 (12.85%) Finance
3 88 (11.66%) Social Skills
4 56 (7.42%) Law
5 54 (7.15%) Banking
6 42 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (3.84%) Financial Institution
8 26 (3.44%) Marketing
9 25 (3.31%) Retail Banking
10 20 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.59%) Retail
12 9 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.06%) Legal
14 6 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.66%) Humanities
15 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.53%) Games
16 4 (0.53%) Wholesale Banking
17 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 298 (39.47%) Senior
2 267 (35.36%) Lead
3 217 (28.74%) Team Leader
4 204 (27.02%) Software Engineer
5 181 (23.97%) Senior Software Engineer
6 102 (13.51%) Architect
7 84 (11.13%) Developer
8 76 (10.07%) Senior Developer
9 72 (9.54%) AWS Developer
10 41 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (4.77%) AWS Architect
12 28 (3.71%) Cloud Architect
13 24 (3.18%) Data Architect
14 20 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (2.12%) AWS Solution Architect
15 16 (2.12%) Lead Software Engineer
16 15 (1.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (1.99%) Senior Architect
16 15 (1.99%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (30.73%) Elastic Stack
2 221 (29.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 181 (23.97%) Node.js
4 180 (23.84%) .NET
5 93 (12.32%) React
6 79 (10.46%) GraphQL
7 72 (9.54%) Serverless Framework
8 53 (7.02%) Kafka
9 17 (2.25%) Spring
10 13 (1.72%) RESTful
10 13 (1.72%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.19%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.19%) ARM Templates
11 9 (1.19%) HTML
12 7 (0.93%) CSS
13 6 (0.79%) HTML5
13 6 (0.79%) REST
13 6 (0.79%) Vue
14 5 (0.66%) AWS CDK
15 4 (0.53%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 182 (24.11%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (23.71%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (23.58%) Cyberattack
4 63 (8.34%) Cloud Native
5 48 (6.36%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.24%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.19%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.93%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.79%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.79%) Replication
14 4 (0.53%) Clustering
14 4 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.53%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 436 (57.75%) Linux
2 222 (29.40%) Unix
3 38 (5.03%) Windows
4 18 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.66%) VMS
8 3 (0.40%) AIX
8 3 (0.40%) CentOS
8 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (77.09%) Agile
2 521 (69.01%) Mentoring
3 327 (43.31%) DevOps
4 299 (39.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 290 (38.41%) Continuous Integration
6 289 (38.28%) Containerisation
7 243 (32.19%) High Availability
7 243 (32.19%) Roadmaps
8 240 (31.79%) Cost Optimisation
9 239 (31.66%) Software Engineering
10 236 (31.26%) Product Management
11 235 (31.13%) Microservices
12 231 (30.60%) Cloud Security
13 228 (30.20%) Resource Management
14 226 (29.93%) Performance Optimisation
15 223 (29.54%) Task Automation
16 219 (29.01%) GitOps
17 215 (28.48%) Budget Control
18 214 (28.34%) Machine Learning
19 202 (26.75%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 566 (74.97%) Python
2 483 (63.97%) JavaScript
3 474 (62.78%) Java
4 416 (55.10%) Go
5 237 (31.39%) Bash
6 183 (24.24%) C++
6 183 (24.24%) Rust
7 84 (11.13%) TypeScript
8 70 (9.27%) SQL
9 39 (5.17%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.38%) C#
11 8 (1.06%) Groovy
12 7 (0.93%) R
12 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.40%) PROC SQL
14 3 (0.40%) Scala
15 2 (0.26%) Perl
16 1 (0.13%) Bicep
16 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 272 (36.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 232 (30.73%) Security Cleared
3 187 (24.77%) AWS Certified Developer
4 181 (23.97%) DV Cleared
5 122 (16.16%) Azure Certification
6 97 (12.85%) Degree
7 48 (6.36%) SC Cleared
8 40 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 13 (1.72%) CISSP
14 11 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (1.06%) CCNA
16 7 (0.93%) CISM
16 7 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.70%) GDPR
2 29 (3.84%) HIPAA
3 25 (3.31%) NIST
4 17 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.25%) QA
5 10 (1.32%) SLA
6 9 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.93%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 285 (37.75%) Docker
2 32 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.79%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.79%) Postfix
6 5 (0.66%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.53%) HDFS
7 4 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.40%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 311 (41.19%) Kubernetes
2 287 (38.01%) Terraform
3 252 (33.38%) Ansible
4 249 (32.98%) Prometheus
5 222 (29.40%) Argo
6 215 (28.48%) Kustomize
7 27 (3.58%) Grafana
8 10 (1.32%) Puppet
9 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.06%) SCCM
11 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 5 (0.66%) SCOM
11 5 (0.66%) WSUS
12 4 (0.53%) Salt
13 3 (0.40%) Iperf
13 3 (0.40%) Kibana
13 3 (0.40%) logstash
13 3 (0.40%) Nessus
13 3 (0.40%) Oozie
13 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 273 (36.16%) Google
2 76 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.12%) VMware
4 15 (1.99%) Oracle
5 14 (1.85%) Cisco
6 12 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.19%) Databricks
8 8 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.79%) SAP
10 6 (0.79%) Splunk
11 4 (0.53%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.53%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.53%) Informatica
11 4 (0.53%) Meraki
11 4 (0.53%) New Relic
11 4 (0.53%) Symantec
11 4 (0.53%) Veritas
12 3 (0.40%) Okta
12 3 (0.40%) Ping Identity