AWS Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 423 138
Rank change year-on-year -16 -285 +265
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 118 376 1,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.53% 2.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% 1.93% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 85 178 283
10th Percentile - £43,421 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.30% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £88,250 £86,075 £91,250
UK median annual salary £66,763 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.98% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,233 19,440 22,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.94% 27.65% 36.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,693 12,245 8,229
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £63,495 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +25 39 £50,000 -25.93% 72
South West +63 24 £56,745 -12.70% 21
Midlands +61 22 £53,688 -32.76% 43
West Midlands +44 22 £53,688 -32.76% 30
South East +37 20 £66,500 -5.00% 66
North West -21 19 £50,000 -20.76% 50
Yorkshire +73 17 £52,500 -34.25% 19
East of England +55 8 £45,000 -35.71% 8
Scotland +94 4 £52,500 -24.77% 13
North East +45 3 £45,000 -43.64% 3
Northern Ireland +21 1 - - 7
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.54%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.69%) Confluence
3 2 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.85%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (52.54%) Azure
3 18 (15.25%) Serverless
4 17 (14.41%) GCP
5 14 (11.86%) SaaS
6 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.17%) Entra ID
7 11 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (8.47%) GitHub
9 9 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (7.63%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.08%) Amazon S3
12 6 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (5.08%) IaaS
13 4 (3.39%) Datadog
13 4 (3.39%) PaaS
13 4 (3.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.97%) Firewall
2 10 (8.47%) VLAN
2 10 (8.47%) WAN
3 7 (5.93%) VPN
4 6 (5.08%) LAN
5 5 (4.24%) DHCP
5 5 (4.24%) DNS
5 5 (4.24%) Network Security
5 5 (4.24%) SD-WAN
6 4 (3.39%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.39%) Internet
6 4 (3.39%) IPv4
7 3 (2.54%) DMZ
7 3 (2.54%) MPLS
7 3 (2.54%) OSPF
7 3 (2.54%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.69%) WLAN
9 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
1 7 (5.93%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.08%) Big Data
3 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.54%) Power BI
4 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.69%) MySQL
5 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.85%) DB2
6 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.78%) GitLab
3 7 (5.93%) Artifactory
3 7 (5.93%) Cucumber
3 7 (5.93%) git-flow
3 7 (5.93%) Gradle
4 2 (1.69%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) Git
5 1 (0.85%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Mocha
5 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.85%) Travis CI
General
1 30 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.64%) Finance
2 22 (18.64%) Law
3 13 (11.02%) Retail
4 12 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.47%) Banking
6 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.54%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.69%) Automotive
10 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Police
11 1 (0.85%) Advertising
11 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Electronics
11 1 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (22.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (21.19%) Architect
3 24 (20.34%) Security Engineer
4 20 (16.95%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (14.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 17 (14.41%) Lead
6 15 (12.71%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Senior
9 8 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) AWS Architect
11 6 (5.08%) AWS Solution Architect
12 5 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) Senior Architect
12 5 (4.24%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.24%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) Kafka
2 10 (8.47%) Spring Boot
3 8 (6.78%) RESTful
4 7 (5.93%) Drools
4 7 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.39%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.39%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.54%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.54%) Node.js
6 3 (2.54%) React
6 3 (2.54%) Spring
7 2 (1.69%) .NET
7 2 (1.69%) HTML
7 2 (1.69%) Vue
8 1 (0.85%) Akka
8 1 (0.85%) Middleware
8 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.85%) SAML
8 1 (0.85%) SOAP
8 1 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Cloud Security Posture
1 20 (16.95%) Security Posture
2 14 (11.86%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.17%) Management Information System
4 10 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (7.63%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.54%) PropTech
9 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.69%) Life Science
9 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.69%) PKI
10 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.85%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.85%) Robotics
10 1 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.80%) Windows
2 20 (16.95%) Linux
3 11 (9.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.54%) CentOS
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (55.08%) DevOps
2 48 (40.68%) CI/CD
3 35 (29.66%) Agile
4 34 (28.81%) Cloud Security
4 34 (28.81%) Roadmaps
5 27 (22.88%) Computer Science
5 27 (22.88%) Containerisation
5 27 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (22.03%) Security Operations
7 25 (21.19%) Data Engineering
7 25 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (21.19%) Technology Roadmap
8 20 (16.95%) Collaborative Culture
8 20 (16.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 19 (16.10%) Vulnerability Management
10 18 (15.25%) Security Monitoring
11 17 (14.41%) ITIL
11 17 (14.41%) Microservices
12 15 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (28.81%) Python
2 27 (22.88%) Java
3 23 (19.49%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.32%) Bash
5 10 (8.47%) SQL
6 8 (6.78%) C#
7 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.39%) R
9 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.85%) Delphi
10 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (33.90%) Azure Certification
2 31 (26.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 31 (26.27%) Degree
3 23 (19.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 16 (13.56%) Security Cleared
5 15 (12.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
8 9 (7.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (5.93%) OCP
9 7 (5.93%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (5.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (4.24%) CCNA
11 5 (4.24%) CISSP
11 5 (4.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (2.54%) CCNP
13 3 (2.54%) ISSAP
13 3 (2.54%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) GDPR
2 7 (5.93%) NIST
2 7 (5.93%) QA
3 6 (5.08%) HIPAA
3 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.69%) GRC
4 2 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (16.10%) Docker
2 15 (12.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.78%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.54%) Dovecot
6 3 (2.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (27.12%) Kubernetes
2 23 (19.49%) Terraform
3 19 (16.10%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.08%) Puppet
5 3 (2.54%) Grafana
5 3 (2.54%) Iperf
5 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.69%) Argo
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.69%) SCCM
6 2 (1.69%) SCOM
6 2 (1.69%) WSUS
7 1 (0.85%) Automic
7 1 (0.85%) Consul
7 1 (0.85%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) Google
3 8 (6.78%) VMware
4 7 (5.93%) Cisco
5 5 (4.24%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.39%) Databricks
6 4 (3.39%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.39%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.54%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.54%) IBM
7 3 (2.54%) Meraki
7 3 (2.54%) Okta
7 3 (2.54%) Oracle
7 3 (2.54%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.54%) Ruckus Wireless
7 3 (2.54%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.85%) Informatica