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

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 437 157
Rank change year-on-year +207 -280 +227
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 746 496 1,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.52% 0.52% 2.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.12% 1.94% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 127 283 427
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £52,300
25th Percentile £52,469 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £93,125 £86,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 23,919 25,510 27,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 48.59% 26.93% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,681 15,773 12,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,734 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -8.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,847 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.14% -10.26% +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 11 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 11 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 +158 265 £80,000 -5.88% 305
North of England +128 210 £65,000 -3.70% 110
North West +91 196 £56,250 -13.46% 69
South East +38 46 £73,000 +8.15% 134
South West +119 42 £56,745 -10.99% 36
East of England +65 37 £85,000 +21.43% 25
Midlands +54 30 £53,688 -25.95% 53
West Midlands +58 28 £53,688 -25.95% 37
Yorkshire +46 10 £67,500 -15.46% 30
North East +46 4 £47,500 -40.51% 11
East Midlands +37 2 - - 15
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 (1.74%) Confluence
2 12 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.67%) Apache
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
5 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.27%) SAS
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
1 746 (100.00%) AWS
2 338 (45.31%) Azure
3 271 (36.33%) GCP
4 215 (28.82%) Pulumi
5 122 (16.35%) Serverless
6 111 (14.88%) AWS Lambda
7 99 (13.27%) Amazon S3
8 74 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (3.35%) SaaS
11 24 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (2.55%) AWS KMS
16 15 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.01%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (1.74%) IaaS
19 12 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 287 (38.47%) Broadband
2 27 (3.62%) Firewall
3 18 (2.41%) Network Security
4 17 (2.28%) DNS
4 17 (2.28%) VPN
5 11 (1.47%) WAN
6 10 (1.34%) VLAN
7 7 (0.94%) LAN
7 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.80%) DHCP
8 6 (0.80%) OSPF
9 5 (0.67%) FTP
9 5 (0.67%) HTTP
9 5 (0.67%) SMTP
9 5 (0.67%) SSH
10 4 (0.54%) BGP
10 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.54%) IPv4
10 4 (0.54%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (35.12%) NoSQL
2 221 (29.62%) Relational Database
3 216 (28.95%) RDBMS
4 84 (11.26%) DynamoDB
5 72 (9.65%) Elasticsearch
6 34 (4.56%) Data Lake
7 27 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (2.95%) Big Data
9 22 (2.95%) Metadata
10 17 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (1.88%) Hadoop
12 13 (1.74%) MySQL
13 12 (1.61%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.94%) CockroachDB
15 7 (0.94%) Power BI
16 6 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 215 (28.82%) Jaeger
2 26 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.55%) JIRA
4 17 (2.28%) Git
5 11 (1.47%) GitLab
6 5 (0.67%) JUnit
6 5 (0.67%) Vagrant
7 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.54%) Gradle
7 4 (0.54%) Maven
7 4 (0.54%) Mockito
7 4 (0.54%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.54%) YouTrack
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 457 (61.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 94 (12.60%) Finance
3 89 (11.93%) Social Skills
4 56 (7.51%) Law
5 52 (6.97%) Banking
6 42 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 26 (3.49%) Marketing
9 23 (3.08%) Retail Banking
10 19 (2.55%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.61%) Retail
12 9 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.07%) Legal
14 6 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.67%) Humanities
15 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.54%) Games
16 4 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
17 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 295 (39.54%) Senior
2 266 (35.66%) Lead
3 217 (29.09%) Team Leader
4 204 (27.35%) Software Engineer
5 181 (24.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 98 (13.14%) Architect
7 84 (11.26%) Developer
8 76 (10.19%) Senior Developer
9 73 (9.79%) AWS Developer
10 40 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (4.69%) AWS Architect
12 27 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
13 23 (3.08%) Data Architect
14 20 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (2.55%) AWS DevOps
16 16 (2.14%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (2.14%) Lead Software Engineer
17 15 (2.01%) AWS Solution Architect
18 14 (1.88%) Python Engineer
18 14 (1.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (31.10%) Elastic Stack
2 221 (29.62%) OpenTelemetry
3 181 (24.26%) Node.js
4 180 (24.13%) .NET
5 92 (12.33%) React
6 79 (10.59%) GraphQL
7 72 (9.65%) Serverless Framework
8 51 (6.84%) Kafka
9 15 (2.01%) Spring
10 12 (1.61%) RESTful
11 11 (1.47%) Spring Boot
12 9 (1.21%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.21%) ARM Templates
12 9 (1.21%) HTML
13 7 (0.94%) CSS
14 6 (0.80%) HTML5
14 6 (0.80%) REST
14 6 (0.80%) Vue
15 5 (0.67%) AWS CDK
16 4 (0.54%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 182 (24.40%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (23.99%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (23.86%) Cyberattack
4 61 (8.18%) Cloud Native
5 48 (6.43%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.89%) Public Cloud
7 22 (2.95%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.21%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.21%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.94%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.80%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.80%) Replication
14 4 (0.54%) Clustering
14 4 (0.54%) Mobile Games
14 4 (0.54%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 434 (58.18%) Linux
2 221 (29.62%) Unix
3 36 (4.83%) Windows
4 17 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.67%) VMS
8 4 (0.54%) AIX
8 4 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.40%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (77.21%) Agile
2 516 (69.17%) Mentoring
3 327 (43.83%) DevOps
4 295 (39.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 290 (38.87%) Continuous Integration
6 285 (38.20%) Containerisation
7 244 (32.71%) High Availability
8 243 (32.57%) Roadmaps
9 241 (32.31%) Cost Optimisation
10 237 (31.77%) Software Engineering
11 236 (31.64%) Product Management
12 232 (31.10%) Microservices
13 229 (30.70%) Cloud Security
14 228 (30.56%) Resource Management
15 226 (30.29%) Performance Optimisation
16 223 (29.89%) Task Automation
17 219 (29.36%) GitOps
18 215 (28.82%) Budget Control
19 213 (28.55%) Machine Learning
20 202 (27.08%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 560 (75.07%) Python
2 482 (64.61%) JavaScript
3 469 (62.87%) Java
4 414 (55.50%) Go
5 236 (31.64%) Bash
6 183 (24.53%) C++
6 183 (24.53%) Rust
7 83 (11.13%) TypeScript
8 66 (8.85%) SQL
9 36 (4.83%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.01%) C#
11 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.80%) Groovy
12 6 (0.80%) R
13 5 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.27%) Perl
14 2 (0.27%) PROC SQL
14 2 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (36.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 228 (30.56%) Security Cleared
3 188 (25.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 180 (24.13%) DV Cleared
5 116 (15.55%) Azure Certification
6 95 (12.73%) Degree
7 44 (5.90%) SC Cleared
8 41 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 18 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 12 (1.61%) CISSP
13 12 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.07%) CCNA
15 7 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.94%) MBA
16 6 (0.80%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.36%) GDPR
2 28 (3.75%) HIPAA
3 22 (2.95%) NIST
4 17 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.01%) QA
6 11 (1.47%) SLA
7 9 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 282 (37.80%) Docker
2 29 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.80%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.80%) Postfix
6 5 (0.67%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.40%) HDFS
8 3 (0.40%) Squid
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.13%) KVM
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 308 (41.29%) Kubernetes
2 284 (38.07%) Terraform
3 249 (33.38%) Ansible
3 249 (33.38%) Prometheus
4 222 (29.76%) Argo
5 215 (28.82%) Kustomize
6 27 (3.62%) Grafana
7 10 (1.34%) Puppet
8 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.94%) SCCM
10 4 (0.54%) Salt
11 3 (0.40%) Iperf
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 3 (0.40%) Nessus
11 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.40%) SCOM
11 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.40%) WSUS
12 2 (0.27%) Kibana
12 2 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 273 (36.60%) Google
2 72 (9.65%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.28%) VMware
4 15 (2.01%) Cisco
5 13 (1.74%) Oracle
6 10 (1.34%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.07%) Databricks
7 8 (1.07%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.80%) Splunk
10 5 (0.67%) SAP
11 4 (0.54%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.54%) Citrix
11 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.54%) Meraki
11 4 (0.54%) New Relic
11 4 (0.54%) Symantec
11 4 (0.54%) Veritas
12 3 (0.40%) Okta
12 3 (0.40%) Ping Identity