AWS Certification Jobs in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 206 45
Rank change year-on-year +68 -161 +184
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 195 81 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.51% 0.79% 6.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.90% 3.37% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 45 59
10th Percentile £45,600 £47,500 £44,700
25th Percentile £45,750 £56,809 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +16.00%
75th Percentile £81,000 £83,125 £86,250
90th Percentile - £84,919 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £78,125 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.20% +0.81% +5.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,996 2,401 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 64.33% 23.49% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 1,646 913
10th Percentile £28,150 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58,943 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the North West

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the North West.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in the North West

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the North West

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Manchester +99 96 £50,000 -24.53% 61
Lancashire -16 70 - - 39
Cheshire +26 28 £80,000 +45.45% 24
Cumbria - 1 - -
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.54%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.03%) nginx
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) AWS
2 189 (96.92%) Azure
3 179 (91.79%) GCP
4 5 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.54%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.54%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.51%) GitHub
8 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.51%) SaaS
8 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.10%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.54%) Power BI
2 3 (1.54%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.51%) Big Data
3 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Jaeger
1 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
General
1 175 (89.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (4.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.56%) Finance
4 3 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.03%) Automotive
5 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 180 (92.31%) Senior
2 172 (88.21%) Senior Software Engineer
2 172 (88.21%) Software Engineer
3 9 (4.62%) Architect
4 8 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (3.08%) Lead
6 6 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Architect
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Solution Architect
7 5 (2.56%) DevOps Architect
7 5 (2.56%) Senior Architect
7 5 (2.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.56%) TOGAF Architect
8 4 (2.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.05%) Team Leader
9 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (1.03%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (1.03%) Data Engineer
10 2 (1.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (89.23%) .NET
2 173 (88.72%) Node.js
3 3 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.51%) Kafka
4 1 (0.51%) PySpark
4 1 (0.51%) React
4 1 (0.51%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 172 (88.21%) Cyberattack
1 172 (88.21%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (88.21%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.03%) Life Science
6 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (92.31%) Linux
2 3 (1.54%) CentOS
2 3 (1.54%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (94.36%) Agile
2 179 (91.79%) Mentoring
3 178 (91.28%) Microservices
4 175 (89.74%) Cloud Security
5 174 (89.23%) Data Engineering
6 172 (88.21%) Machine Learning
6 172 (88.21%) Scrum
6 172 (88.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 172 (88.21%) Software Engineering
6 172 (88.21%) User Experience
7 17 (8.72%) DevOps
8 15 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 14 (7.18%) CI/CD
10 13 (6.67%) Roadmaps
11 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (4.10%) TOGAF
13 6 (3.08%) Architectural Design
13 6 (3.08%) Data Management
13 6 (3.08%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 185 (94.87%) Python
2 184 (94.36%) Java
3 176 (90.26%) JavaScript
4 175 (89.74%) Go
5 172 (88.21%) C++
5 172 (88.21%) Rust
6 8 (4.10%) SQL
7 6 (3.08%) Bash
8 5 (2.56%) C#
9 3 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 182 (93.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (88.21%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (88.21%) DV Cleared
2 172 (88.21%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.56%) Degree
5 3 (1.54%) Linux+ Certification
5 3 (1.54%) RHCE
6 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) GDPR
1 8 (4.10%) HIPAA
2 5 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 14 (7.18%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.54%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.54%) Postfix
3 3 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.56%) Terraform
3 4 (2.05%) Argo
4 3 (1.54%) Ansible
4 3 (1.54%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Automic
5 1 (0.51%) Consul
5 1 (0.51%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (5.13%) Google
2 6 (3.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.54%) Hitachi
3 3 (1.54%) Okta
3 3 (1.54%) Ping Identity
3 3 (1.54%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.54%) VMware
4 2 (1.03%) IBM
5 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.51%) Databricks
5 1 (0.51%) Informatica
5 1 (0.51%) SAP