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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 427 137
Rank change year-on-year +143 -290 +265
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 348 374 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 0.53% 2.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.61% 1.93% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 81 184 247
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,520 £43,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £57,500 £56,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,745 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,875 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +3.33%

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 21,564 19,427 21,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.66% 27.38% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,967 12,192 8,044
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £51,959
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.77% +3.92%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.40% +8.36%

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 16 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 16 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 +125 214 £52,500 -22.22% 80
North West +80 194 £57,500 -11.54% 50
South East +43 39 £77,250 +8.42% 78
East of England +65 32 £85,000 +21.43% 13
South West +101 31 £56,745 -12.70% 24
Midlands +42 27 £53,688 -32.76% 46
West Midlands +50 25 £53,688 -32.76% 39
Yorkshire +62 16 £55,000 -31.11% 24
Scotland +69 4 £52,500 -24.77% 25
North East +42 4 £47,500 -40.51% 6
East Midlands +17 2 - - 7
Northern Ireland +24 1 - - 11
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 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.44%) Confluence
3 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.86%) nginx
4 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.29%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 348 (100.00%) AWS
2 240 (68.97%) Azure
3 193 (55.46%) GCP
4 65 (18.68%) Pulumi
5 20 (5.75%) Serverless
6 14 (4.02%) SaaS
7 13 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.72%) GitHub
12 6 (1.72%) IaaS
13 5 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (18.68%) Broadband
2 27 (7.76%) Firewall
3 10 (2.87%) VLAN
4 8 (2.30%) DNS
4 8 (2.30%) WAN
5 7 (2.01%) VPN
6 5 (1.44%) DHCP
6 5 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.15%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.15%) IPv4
7 4 (1.15%) LAN
8 3 (0.86%) DMZ
8 3 (0.86%) FTP
8 3 (0.86%) HTTP
8 3 (0.86%) Network Security
8 3 (0.86%) OSPF
8 3 (0.86%) SMTP
8 3 (0.86%) SSH
8 3 (0.86%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (21.26%) NoSQL
2 67 (19.25%) Relational Database
3 65 (18.68%) RDBMS
4 8 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.01%) Big Data
6 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.15%) Power BI
6 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.86%) MySQL
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.29%) HBase
8 1 (0.29%) Impala
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (18.68%) Jaeger
2 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.30%) GitLab
4 5 (1.44%) Git
4 5 (1.44%) JIRA
5 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.86%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.57%) git-flow
6 2 (0.57%) Gradle
7 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.29%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.29%) Maven
7 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
General
1 243 (69.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (7.76%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.89%) Finance
4 15 (4.31%) Law
5 13 (3.74%) Retail
6 9 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.44%) Banking
8 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.86%) Automotive
9 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Legal
11 1 (0.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 183 (52.59%) Senior
2 176 (50.57%) Software Engineer
3 172 (49.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 81 (23.28%) Lead
5 70 (20.11%) Team Leader
6 25 (7.18%) Architect
7 19 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (4.89%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (2.87%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 9 (2.59%) AWS Architect
13 9 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.30%) AWS DevOps
15 7 (2.01%) AWS Solution Architect
16 6 (1.72%) Senior DevOps
17 5 (1.44%) Azure Engineer
17 5 (1.44%) Cloud Architect
17 5 (1.44%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (50.29%) Node.js
2 174 (50.00%) .NET
3 65 (18.68%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (18.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (4.02%) Kafka
5 8 (2.30%) RESTful
6 5 (1.44%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.15%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.15%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.86%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.86%) React
8 3 (0.86%) Spring
9 2 (0.57%) Drools
9 2 (0.57%) HTML
9 2 (0.57%) PySpark
9 2 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.57%) Vue
10 1 (0.29%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.29%) REST
10 1 (0.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 174 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (49.43%) Cyberattack
2 172 (49.43%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.74%) Cloud Security Posture
4 13 (3.74%) Security Posture
5 10 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.86%) PropTech
9 3 (0.86%) Replication
10 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Life Science
10 2 (0.57%) PKI
11 1 (0.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 261 (75.00%) Linux
2 67 (19.25%) Unix
3 24 (6.90%) Windows
4 11 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.86%) CentOS
7 3 (0.86%) VMS
7 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (77.01%) Agile
2 253 (72.70%) Mentoring
3 204 (58.62%) Cloud Security
4 191 (54.89%) Data Engineering
4 191 (54.89%) Microservices
5 184 (52.87%) Software Engineering
6 178 (51.15%) Machine Learning
6 178 (51.15%) Scrum
7 176 (50.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 172 (49.43%) User Experience
9 129 (37.07%) DevOps
10 95 (27.30%) Containerisation
11 94 (27.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (26.72%) Roadmaps
13 74 (21.26%) High Availability
14 72 (20.69%) Cost Optimisation
15 70 (20.11%) Performance Optimisation
16 69 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
16 69 (19.83%) Product Management
16 69 (19.83%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 272 (78.16%) Python
2 265 (76.15%) Java
3 241 (69.25%) JavaScript
4 237 (68.10%) Go
5 172 (49.43%) C++
5 172 (49.43%) Rust
6 77 (22.13%) Bash
7 27 (7.76%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.74%) SQL
9 9 (2.59%) C#
10 5 (1.44%) R
10 5 (1.44%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.86%) Groovy
12 2 (0.57%) Perl
12 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) Delphi
13 1 (0.29%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 201 (57.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 193 (55.46%) Security Cleared
3 175 (50.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 174 (50.00%) DV Cleared
5 45 (12.93%) Azure Certification
6 34 (9.77%) Degree
7 16 (4.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (4.31%) SC Cleared
9 13 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.44%) CISSP
13 5 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.86%) CCNA
15 3 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
15 3 (0.86%) MCSA
15 3 (0.86%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.16%) GDPR
2 9 (2.59%) HIPAA
3 8 (2.30%) NIST
3 8 (2.30%) QA
4 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (25.86%) Docker
2 17 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.30%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.15%) Dovecot
5 4 (1.15%) Postfix
5 4 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.86%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.29%) HDFS
7 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 97 (27.87%) Kubernetes
2 86 (24.71%) Terraform
3 79 (22.70%) Ansible
4 73 (20.98%) Prometheus
5 68 (19.54%) Argo
6 65 (18.68%) Kustomize
7 7 (2.01%) Grafana
8 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.72%) Puppet
9 3 (0.86%) Iperf
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) SCCM
10 2 (0.57%) SCOM
10 2 (0.57%) WSUS
11 1 (0.29%) Automic
11 1 (0.29%) Consul
11 1 (0.29%) Nessus
11 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (22.70%) Google
2 31 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.30%) VMware
4 5 (1.44%) Cisco
4 5 (1.44%) Databricks
4 5 (1.44%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.15%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.15%) SAP
5 4 (1.15%) SonicWALL
6 3 (0.86%) Hitachi
6 3 (0.86%) IBM
6 3 (0.86%) Okta
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle
6 3 (0.86%) Ping Identity
6 3 (0.86%) Ruckus Wireless
6 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.57%) Informatica
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe
8 1 (0.29%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.29%) MicroStrategy