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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 214 207
Rank change year-on-year +49 -7 -126
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 55 29 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.70% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.99% 1.21% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38 13 8
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -29.03% +14.81%
75th Percentile £43,000 £66,050 £92,813
90th Percentile £63,057 - £98,250
England median annual salary £30,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -51.20% -13.79% -9.38%

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 2,757 2,401 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 35.31% 36.83% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 747 723 1,109
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +53 45 £30,500 -48.43% 48
East Midlands -7 10 £51,058 -7.17% 31
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 4 (7.27%) Confluence
1 4 (7.27%) nginx
2 2 (3.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (7.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (78.18%) Azure
3 29 (52.73%) GitHub
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (10.91%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (10.91%) AWS KMS
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.27%) Route 53
7 4 (7.27%) SaaS
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (50.91%) Internet
2 6 (10.91%) DNS
2 6 (10.91%) FTP
2 6 (10.91%) HTTP
2 6 (10.91%) SMTP
2 6 (10.91%) SSH
3 4 (7.27%) Firewall
3 4 (7.27%) IMAP
3 4 (7.27%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.82%) Broadband
4 1 (1.82%) LAN
4 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
4 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (60.00%) Git
2 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.91%) Vagrant
4 4 (7.27%) JIRA
5 2 (3.64%) Subversion
6 1 (1.82%) Jaeger
General
1 28 (50.91%) Multimedia
2 21 (38.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Retail
6 3 (5.45%) Law
7 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Advertising
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Finance
8 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Trainee
2 13 (23.64%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Software Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Trainee Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Trainee Software Developer
3 11 (20.00%) Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Senior
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Information Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Information Security Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Information Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Information Security Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Security Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Trainee Administrator
8 2 (3.64%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (50.91%) CSS
1 28 (50.91%) HTML
2 4 (7.27%) .NET
2 4 (7.27%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.82%) EDI
3 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.82%) Node.js
3 1 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Onboarding
1 8 (14.55%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.27%) Replication
3 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) VMS
2 6 (10.91%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (50.91%) Mentoring
3 11 (20.00%) DevOps
4 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.36%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (14.55%) AI
6 8 (14.55%) Client Onboarding
6 8 (14.55%) FinOps
6 8 (14.55%) Software Licensing
7 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.73%) Cloud Security
8 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (7.27%) Change Management
10 4 (7.27%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.27%) Patch Management
10 4 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (5.45%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) Python
2 30 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 15 (27.27%) R
4 6 (10.91%) C#
4 6 (10.91%) Groovy
5 5 (9.09%) Java
6 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.27%) SQL
7 2 (3.64%) Bash
7 2 (3.64%) Perl
7 2 (3.64%) Ruby
8 1 (1.82%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (61.82%) Azure Certification
2 29 (52.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (50.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
5 8 (14.55%) Degree
6 3 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.45%) CISM
6 3 (5.45%) CISSP
6 3 (5.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.82%) CBAP
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) GDPR
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.45%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) DFS Replication
2 4 (7.27%) Dovecot
2 4 (7.27%) Postfix
2 4 (7.27%) Squid
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Terraform
2 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.27%) Grafana
3 4 (7.27%) Nessus
3 4 (7.27%) Proxmox
4 3 (5.45%) Ansible
4 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.64%) Nagios
6 1 (1.82%) Argo
6 1 (1.82%) Autotask
6 1 (1.82%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 39 (70.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Adobe
2 8 (14.55%) Apple
3 4 (7.27%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle