AWS Certification Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 262 211
Rank change year-on-year +52 -51 +147
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 65 40 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.63% 0.43% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.97% 1.00% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 30 22 39
10th Percentile £28,175 £37,875 £40,650
25th Percentile £29,188 £42,500 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,050 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% -28.31% -1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £60,776 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,250 £86,800
England median annual salary £30,500 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -51.20% -16.67% -6.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,298 3,985 3,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.83% 43.10% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,801 1,961
10th Percentile £27,767 £35,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £37,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.21% +1.92%
75th Percentile £66,370 £76,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the South East

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Kent +23 35 £31,500 -55.00% 8
Hampshire +30 14 £33,750 -36.38% 9
Surrey +13 9 £100,000 - 5
West Sussex +3 3 £30,000 -20.00% 5
Thames Valley -2 3 £31,000 -47.01% 9
Berkshire -4 2 £31,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £77,500 +28.10% 2
East Sussex - 1 £30,500 - 2
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (50.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (55.38%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (46.15%) Azure
4 10 (15.38%) GitHub
5 3 (4.62%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.54%) Datadog
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) Internet
2 10 (15.38%) VPN
3 9 (13.85%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (10.77%) LAN
4 7 (10.77%) SD-WAN
4 7 (10.77%) Unified Communications
4 7 (10.77%) VoIP
4 7 (10.77%) WAN
4 7 (10.77%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.15%) Firewall
6 3 (4.62%) DHCP
6 3 (4.62%) DNS
6 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.62%) VLAN
7 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 35 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 33 (50.77%) French Language
3 31 (47.69%) Swedish Language
4 11 (16.92%) Multimedia
5 7 (10.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Automotive
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (50.77%) Analyst
1 33 (50.77%) Service Analyst
1 33 (50.77%) Service Desk Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) Trainee
3 9 (13.85%) Senior
3 9 (13.85%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Head of IT
4 7 (10.77%) Head of IT Operations
4 7 (10.77%) Head of Operations
4 7 (10.77%) Trainee Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Trainee Software Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.62%) Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Trainee Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) CSS
1 11 (16.92%) HTML
2 2 (3.08%) React
2 2 (3.08%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.54%) .NET
3 1 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
1 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) ITIL
2 40 (61.54%) ITSM
3 24 (36.92%) Customer Service
3 24 (36.92%) Performance Metrics
4 20 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 18 (27.69%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (24.62%) Business Continuity
7 11 (16.92%) DevOps
8 10 (15.38%) Logistics
9 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
11 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (10.77%) High Availability
11 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Management
11 7 (10.77%) Problem Management
11 7 (10.77%) Resource Management
11 7 (10.77%) Service Delivery
11 7 (10.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) JavaScript
1 11 (16.92%) Python
2 4 (6.15%) R
3 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) C#
4 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 48 (73.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (50.77%) MCSE
3 32 (49.23%) Degree
4 26 (40.00%) Azure Certification
5 11 (16.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (13.85%) A+ Certification
6 9 (13.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (10.77%) CCNP
8 7 (10.77%) Master's Degree
8 7 (10.77%) PMI Certification
8 7 (10.77%) PMP
9 3 (4.62%) CISSP
9 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
9 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
10 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.54%) CCSP
11 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (38.46%) QA
2 10 (15.38%) NIST
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Argo
2 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 33 (50.77%) ServiceNow
3 9 (13.85%) VMware
4 7 (10.77%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.54%) Imperva
5 1 (1.54%) Okta
5 1 (1.54%) Qualys
5 1 (1.54%) Thales
5 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro