AWS Certification Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 183 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +30
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 11 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.87% 0.91% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile - - £42,693
25th Percentile £29,000 £55,163 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £56,509 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.14% -13.06% -22.39%
75th Percentile £33,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £83,875
South East median annual salary £47,500 £53,050 £72,000
% change year-on-year -10.46% -26.32% -0.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,268 1,432 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.59% 33.30% 45.06%
Number of salaries quoted 496 564 962
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.61% +4.69%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +0.96%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Berkshire +4 11 £31,000 -62.42% 21
AWS Certification
South East

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (63.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) FTP
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
1 2 (18.18%) SMTP
1 2 (18.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Big Data
1 7 (63.64%) Data Lake
1 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (63.64%) Hadoop
1 7 (63.64%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (18.18%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Multimedia
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analytics Director
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Trainee
2 2 (18.18%) Trainee Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
1 7 (63.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) VMS
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) AI
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
2 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
2 7 (63.64%) Data Acquisition
2 7 (63.64%) Data Analytics
2 7 (63.64%) Data Architecture
2 7 (63.64%) Data Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Data Governance
2 7 (63.64%) Data Ingestion
2 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
2 7 (63.64%) Data Security
2 7 (63.64%) ETL
2 7 (63.64%) High Availability
2 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
2 7 (63.64%) Regulatory Compliance
2 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (63.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (81.82%) Degree
3 7 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (63.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (63.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) DFS Replication
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow