AWS Certification Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 128 309
Rank change year-on-year -55 +181 -236
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 161 207 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 2.54% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.93% 5.73% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 100 20 59
10th Percentile - £45,675 £52,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £45,313 £75,625 £84,919
90th Percentile £64,125 £78,975 -
England median annual salary £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,268 3,612 3,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.43% 44.33% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,612 1,214 2,658
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -12.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the North of England

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Yorkshire +31 76 £37,500 -42.31% 24
North West -75 68 £37,500 -33.33% 28
North East -33 17 £37,500 -21.05% 7
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (17.39%) Jupyter
2 15 (9.32%) WordPress
3 3 (1.86%) JBoss
4 2 (1.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (17.39%) Chatbot
2 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (7.45%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (52.80%) Azure
3 46 (28.57%) GitHub
4 40 (24.84%) Serverless
5 34 (21.12%) Amazon S3
5 34 (21.12%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (19.88%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (19.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (18.63%) Cloud Computing
9 29 (18.01%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (16.77%) Amazon ECR
10 27 (16.77%) Apigee
11 22 (13.66%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (7.45%) GCP
14 6 (3.73%) Entra ID
15 3 (1.86%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.86%) Google Workspace
16 2 (1.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 42 (26.09%) Internet
2 5 (3.11%) Firewall
3 3 (1.86%) DNS
3 3 (1.86%) VPN
4 2 (1.24%) DHCP
4 2 (1.24%) LAN
4 2 (1.24%) Network Security
4 2 (1.24%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.62%) BGP
5 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.62%) OSPF
5 1 (0.62%) VLAN
5 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.11%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (1.86%) Metadata
3 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.24%) GIS
5 1 (0.62%) Power BI
5 1 (0.62%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (26.71%) Git
2 28 (17.39%) Cypress.io
2 28 (17.39%) GitLab
2 28 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 28 (17.39%) Maven
2 28 (17.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 27 (16.77%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.86%) Selenium
5 2 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.24%) JIRA
General
1 42 (26.09%) Multimedia
2 32 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.63%) Finance
4 28 (17.39%) Manufacturing
4 28 (17.39%) Retail
5 15 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Swedish Language
8 4 (2.48%) French Language
9 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Legal
10 2 (1.24%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 70 (43.48%) Trainee
2 47 (29.19%) Developer
3 28 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 28 (17.39%) Programmer
3 28 (17.39%) Trainee Programmer
4 27 (16.77%) Analyst
5 26 (16.15%) Java Developer
6 17 (10.56%) Senior
6 17 (10.56%) Trainee Developer
7 16 (9.94%) Software Developer
8 15 (9.32%) Administrator
8 15 (9.32%) Trainee Administrator
8 15 (9.32%) Trainee Software Developer
8 15 (9.32%) Web Administrator
9 12 (7.45%) Architect
9 12 (7.45%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (5.59%) AWS Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Service Analyst
10 9 (5.59%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (27.33%) CSS
1 44 (27.33%) HTML
2 30 (18.63%) AngularJS
2 30 (18.63%) Spring Boot
3 28 (17.39%) Hugging Face
3 28 (17.39%) Jest
3 28 (17.39%) Matplotlib
3 28 (17.39%) NumPy
3 28 (17.39%) Pandas
3 28 (17.39%) scikit-learn
3 28 (17.39%) Streamlit
4 27 (16.77%) Gherkin
5 7 (4.35%) Node.js
6 5 (3.11%) React
7 3 (1.86%) .NET
7 3 (1.86%) Drools
7 3 (1.86%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.86%) Spring
7 3 (1.86%) Swagger
7 3 (1.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.63%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.11%) PACS
3 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.06%) Mentoring
2 48 (29.81%) AI
3 47 (29.19%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (24.22%) Agile
4 39 (24.22%) Customer Service
5 37 (22.98%) ITIL
6 36 (22.36%) CI/CD
7 33 (20.50%) DevOps
8 29 (18.01%) Visualisation
9 28 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 28 (17.39%) Data Privacy
9 28 (17.39%) LLM
9 28 (17.39%) Machine Learning
9 28 (17.39%) Neural Network
9 28 (17.39%) OO
9 28 (17.39%) OOP
9 28 (17.39%) Prompt Engineering
9 28 (17.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 28 (17.39%) Sentiment Analysis
9 28 (17.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 85 (52.80%) Python
2 53 (32.92%) JavaScript
3 36 (22.36%) Java
4 34 (21.12%) TypeScript
5 28 (17.39%) Bash
5 28 (17.39%) Groovy
6 25 (15.53%) R
7 7 (4.35%) SQL
8 6 (3.73%) C#
9 5 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 77 (47.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 66 (40.99%) Azure Certification
3 61 (37.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 35 (21.74%) Degree
5 23 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (13.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (13.66%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
7 14 (8.70%) Security Cleared
8 9 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (5.59%) MCSE
9 6 (3.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.86%) IIBA
12 2 (1.24%) CCNA
12 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.62%) CCNP
13 1 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) QA
2 5 (3.11%) DICOM
2 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.86%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (19.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (16.77%) HP Fortify
2 13 (8.07%) Terraform
3 5 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 108 (67.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 15 (9.32%) Adobe
3 15 (9.32%) Apple
4 3 (1.86%) Google
4 3 (1.86%) Splunk
4 3 (1.86%) VMware
5 2 (1.24%) Cisco
6 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.62%) Databricks