AWS Certification Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 192 274
Rank change year-on-year +10 +82 -204
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 70 24 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.57% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.13% 1.22% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 51 21 26
10th Percentile - £40,000 £51,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £83,671
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -22.79% +28.72%
75th Percentile £41,250 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £53,951 £97,500 £107,500
England median annual salary £31,500 £64,600 £79,842
% change year-on-year -51.24% -19.09% +6.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,279 1,962 2,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.89% 40.23% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 893 796 1,852
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,688 £31,551
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -4.35%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the Midlands

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
West Midlands +5 60 £30,500 -52.79% 17
East Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 9
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (12.86%) Jupyter
2 8 (11.43%) WordPress
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Chatbot
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (71.43%) Azure
3 34 (48.57%) GitHub
4 9 (12.86%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (11.43%) GCP
6 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.29%) Serverless
8 3 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.86%) SaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.43%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 32 (45.71%) Internet
2 1 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.43%) Power BI
2 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
2 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (51.43%) Git
2 9 (12.86%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Jaeger
General
1 32 (45.71%) Multimedia
2 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (15.71%) Retail
5 10 (14.29%) Finance
5 10 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Advertising
6 3 (4.29%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Swedish Language
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (55.71%) Trainee
2 18 (25.71%) Analyst
3 15 (21.43%) Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Software Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Trainee Software Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Administrator
5 8 (11.43%) Senior
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (11.43%) Trainee Administrator
5 8 (11.43%) Web Administrator
6 7 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 7 (10.00%) Programmer
6 7 (10.00%) Trainee Programmer
7 4 (5.71%) Architect
7 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (45.71%) CSS
1 32 (45.71%) HTML
2 9 (12.86%) Hugging Face
2 9 (12.86%) Matplotlib
2 9 (12.86%) NumPy
2 9 (12.86%) Pandas
2 9 (12.86%) scikit-learn
2 9 (12.86%) Streamlit
3 2 (2.86%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.43%) Node.js
4 1 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Algorithms
2 8 (11.43%) Onboarding
2 8 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (47.14%) Mentoring
3 23 (32.86%) AI
4 15 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
5 14 (20.00%) FinOps
5 14 (20.00%) Software Licensing
6 11 (15.71%) Customer Service
7 9 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Conversational UI
7 9 (12.86%) Data Privacy
7 9 (12.86%) LLM
7 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
7 9 (12.86%) Neural Network
7 9 (12.86%) OO
7 9 (12.86%) OOP
7 9 (12.86%) Prompt Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 9 (12.86%) Sentiment Analysis
7 9 (12.86%) Visualisation
7 9 (12.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) Python
2 34 (48.57%) JavaScript
3 19 (27.14%) R
4 2 (2.86%) Bash
4 2 (2.86%) C#
4 2 (2.86%) Java
5 1 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (1.43%) Go
5 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.43%) SQL
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (58.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 35 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 34 (48.57%) Azure Certification
4 11 (15.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Degree
5 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.86%) CISM
7 2 (2.86%) CISSP
7 2 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Terraform
2 4 (5.71%) Ansible
2 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) Argo
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (1.43%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 59 (84.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.00%) Adobe
2 14 (20.00%) Apple
3 8 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) Informatica
4 1 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds