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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 423 141
Rank change year-on-year +142 -282 +254
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 363 386 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.52% 2.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 1.94% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 65 189 230
10th Percentile £41,750 £43,684 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £87,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.92% -4.69% +6.67%

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 21,361 19,849 21,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.83% 26.51% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,719 12,283 7,957
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

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 31 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 31 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 +106 208 £65,000 -3.70% 34
North West +75 195 £57,500 -11.54% 16
South East +31 46 £73,000 +4.29% 16
South West +111 39 £56,745 -12.70% 17
East of England +76 36 £85,000 +21.43% 7
Midlands +37 30 £53,688 -25.95% 18
West Midlands +45 28 £53,688 -25.95% 15
Yorkshire +43 10 £67,500 -15.46% 14
Scotland +78 3 £52,500 -20.15% 9
North East +46 3 £47,500 -40.51% 4
East Midlands +26 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland +25 1 - - 8
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 11 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.93%) Confluence
3 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.38%) nginx
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 363 (100.00%) AWS
2 248 (68.32%) Azure
3 200 (55.10%) GCP
4 65 (17.91%) Pulumi
5 37 (10.19%) Serverless
6 30 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (7.71%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (3.31%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.31%) SaaS
12 9 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.93%) Route 53
15 6 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.65%) IaaS
16 5 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (22.87%) Broadband
2 19 (5.23%) Firewall
3 10 (2.75%) DNS
3 10 (2.75%) VLAN
4 8 (2.20%) WAN
5 7 (1.93%) VPN
6 5 (1.38%) DHCP
6 5 (1.38%) FTP
6 5 (1.38%) HTTP
6 5 (1.38%) SMTP
6 5 (1.38%) SSH
7 4 (1.10%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.10%) Internet
7 4 (1.10%) IPv4
7 4 (1.10%) LAN
7 4 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.83%) DMZ
8 3 (0.83%) IMAP
8 3 (0.83%) OSPF
8 3 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (23.14%) NoSQL
2 69 (19.01%) Relational Database
3 65 (17.91%) RDBMS
4 19 (5.23%) DynamoDB
5 18 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (3.86%) Big Data
7 12 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.31%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.93%) MySQL
12 5 (1.38%) Power BI
13 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.55%) CockroachDB
16 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
16 1 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
16 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 65 (17.91%) Jaeger
2 15 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.93%) Git
3 7 (1.93%) JIRA
4 6 (1.65%) GitLab
5 5 (1.38%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.55%) Selenium
6 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.28%) Travis CI
General
1 246 (67.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (9.37%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.96%) Finance
3 18 (4.96%) Law
4 12 (3.31%) Retail
5 9 (2.48%) Public Sector
6 7 (1.93%) Banking
7 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.83%) Automotive
9 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Marketing
10 2 (0.55%) Police
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 205 (56.47%) Senior
2 176 (48.48%) Software Engineer
3 173 (47.66%) Senior Software Engineer
4 79 (21.76%) Lead
5 67 (18.46%) Team Leader
6 27 (7.44%) Architect
7 22 (6.06%) Developer
8 19 (5.23%) AWS Developer
9 18 (4.96%) Senior Developer
10 16 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.58%) AWS Architect
12 12 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) AWS Solution Architect
14 9 (2.48%) Data Analytics Director
15 8 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.20%) Security Engineer
15 8 (2.20%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (48.21%) Node.js
2 174 (47.93%) .NET
3 65 (17.91%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (17.91%) OpenTelemetry
4 25 (6.89%) React
5 23 (6.34%) Kafka
6 21 (5.79%) GraphQL
7 18 (4.96%) Serverless Framework
8 7 (1.93%) RESTful
9 6 (1.65%) Spring
9 6 (1.65%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.38%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.10%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.10%) HTML
12 3 (0.83%) LDAP
13 2 (0.55%) CSS
13 2 (0.55%) HTML5
13 2 (0.55%) PySpark
13 2 (0.55%) Vue
14 1 (0.28%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 173 (47.66%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (47.38%) Cyberattack
2 172 (47.38%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (7.71%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.38%) Replication
8 4 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.83%) PropTech
10 2 (0.55%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.55%) Life Science
10 2 (0.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 262 (72.18%) Linux
2 67 (18.46%) Unix
3 25 (6.89%) Windows
4 9 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.93%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.38%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.38%) VMS
7 3 (0.83%) CentOS
7 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (80.72%) Agile
2 271 (74.66%) Mentoring
3 199 (54.82%) Cloud Security
4 193 (53.17%) Microservices
5 190 (52.34%) Data Engineering
6 186 (51.24%) Machine Learning
7 185 (50.96%) Software Engineering
8 178 (49.04%) Scrum
9 176 (48.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 176 (48.48%) User Experience
10 128 (35.26%) DevOps
11 97 (26.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 94 (25.90%) Containerisation
13 84 (23.14%) Continuous Integration
13 84 (23.14%) Roadmaps
14 79 (21.76%) High Availability
15 75 (20.66%) CI/CD
16 72 (19.83%) Cost Optimisation
17 70 (19.28%) Performance Optimisation
17 70 (19.28%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 292 (80.44%) Python
2 267 (73.55%) Java
3 261 (71.90%) JavaScript
4 237 (65.29%) Go
5 172 (47.38%) C++
5 172 (47.38%) Rust
6 77 (21.21%) Bash
7 29 (7.99%) SQL
8 28 (7.71%) PowerShell
9 25 (6.89%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.75%) C#
11 5 (1.38%) Groovy
11 5 (1.38%) R
12 2 (0.55%) Perl
12 2 (0.55%) Scala
12 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (56.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 195 (53.72%) Security Cleared
3 176 (48.48%) AWS Certified Developer
4 174 (47.93%) DV Cleared
5 52 (14.33%) Azure Certification
6 41 (11.29%) Degree
7 19 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.68%) SC Cleared
9 15 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.75%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.38%) CISSP
15 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (1.10%) MCSA
15 4 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.83%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.79%) GDPR
2 12 (3.31%) HIPAA
3 10 (2.75%) NIST
4 9 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.20%) QA
6 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
8 2 (0.55%) NCSC
8 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (26.72%) Docker
2 17 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.65%) Dovecot
4 6 (1.65%) Postfix
4 6 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.38%) DFS Replication
6 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.83%) Squid
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 101 (27.82%) Kubernetes
2 84 (23.14%) Terraform
3 75 (20.66%) Ansible
3 75 (20.66%) Prometheus
4 67 (18.46%) Argo
5 65 (17.91%) Kustomize
6 9 (2.48%) Grafana
7 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.10%) Puppet
9 3 (0.83%) Iperf
9 3 (0.83%) Nessus
9 3 (0.83%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.55%) SCCM
10 2 (0.55%) SCOM
10 2 (0.55%) WSUS
11 1 (0.28%) Automic
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 88 (24.24%) Google
2 27 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.20%) Oracle
4 7 (1.93%) Databricks
5 6 (1.65%) VMware
6 5 (1.38%) Cisco
6 5 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.10%) SAP
8 3 (0.83%) Hitachi
8 3 (0.83%) IBM
8 3 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (0.83%) Okta
8 3 (0.83%) Ping Identity
8 3 (0.83%) Ruckus Wireless
8 3 (0.83%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.55%) Informatica
10 1 (0.28%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.28%) MicroStrategy