AWS Certification Jobs 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 295 302
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 +68
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 40 95 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 1.64% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10 62 42
10th Percentile £53,750 £36,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,313 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £88,438 £83,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £95,875 £86,000 -
England median annual salary £68,525 £79,842 £77,500
% change year-on-year -14.17% +3.02% +6.90%

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 5,302 5,790 5,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.43% 34.43% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,445 3,640 2,557
10th Percentile £34,988 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the South East

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the South East.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in the South East

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
Surrey +61 17 - - 6
Hampshire +68 9 £66,500 -18.90% 6
Thames Valley +30 6 £85,000 +3.03% 16
Kent +29 5 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Berkshire +7 3 £87,500 +6.06% 11
Middlesex - 3 - - 12
Oxfordshire +33 2 £96,250 +113.89% 6
Buckinghamshire +33 1 £60,500 - 1
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (62.50%) Pulumi
3 9 (22.50%) Azure
4 6 (15.00%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) GitHub
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.50%) Serverless
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.50%) AWS IoT
9 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.50%) Datadog
9 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (62.50%) Broadband
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (70.00%) Relational Database
2 27 (67.50%) NoSQL
3 25 (62.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.50%) Big Data
5 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (62.50%) Jaeger
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.50%) git-flow
3 3 (7.50%) Gradle
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 26 (65.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Law
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (75.00%) Lead
2 28 (70.00%) Team Leader
3 3 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Data Analytics Director
4 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Architect
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Backend Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (17.50%) Kafka
3 3 (7.50%) Drools
3 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.50%) React
5 1 (2.50%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.50%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (67.50%) Linux
2 25 (62.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) Agile
2 33 (82.50%) High Availability
3 32 (80.00%) DevOps
4 30 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (72.50%) Containerisation
6 28 (70.00%) Mentoring
7 27 (67.50%) Cost Optimisation
7 27 (67.50%) Roadmaps
8 26 (65.00%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (62.50%) Budget Control
9 25 (62.50%) GitOps
9 25 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (62.50%) Product Management
9 25 (62.50%) Resource Management
9 25 (62.50%) Task Automation
10 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
11 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
11 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
12 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) Java
2 30 (75.00%) Python
3 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
4 25 (62.50%) Bash
4 25 (62.50%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.50%) OCP
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (77.50%) Kubernetes
1 31 (77.50%) Terraform
2 30 (75.00%) Ansible
3 27 (67.50%) Prometheus
4 26 (65.00%) Argo
5 25 (62.50%) Kustomize
6 2 (5.00%) Grafana
6 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Google
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) VMware