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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 429 141
Rank change year-on-year +153 -288 +257
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 364 386 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.52% 2.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.72% 1.96% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 70 187 236
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,619 £44,375
25th Percentile £45,875 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,438 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,250 £88,250 £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 21,171 19,670 21,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.45% 26.71% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,608 12,252 8,060
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £28,500
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 £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 28 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 28 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 +111 208 £65,000 -3.70% 70
North West +68 195 £65,000 - 48
South East +43 48 £73,000 +4.29% 26
South West +116 38 £56,745 -12.70% 18
East of England +70 37 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Midlands +33 29 £53,688 -27.20% 46
West Midlands +54 27 £53,688 -25.95% 40
Yorkshire +49 10 £67,500 -15.46% 16
Scotland +80 3 £52,500 -23.91% 24
North East +44 3 £47,500 -40.51% 6
East Midlands +22 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland +26 1 - - 10
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 (3.02%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.65%) Confluence
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.10%) nginx
4 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 364 (100.00%) AWS
2 248 (68.13%) Azure
3 200 (54.95%) GCP
4 65 (17.86%) Pulumi
5 38 (10.44%) Serverless
6 31 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.95%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.57%) SaaS
11 12 (3.30%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.65%) IaaS
14 6 (1.65%) Route 53
15 5 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (22.80%) Broadband
2 19 (5.22%) Firewall
3 10 (2.75%) VLAN
4 9 (2.47%) DNS
5 8 (2.20%) WAN
6 7 (1.92%) VPN
7 5 (1.37%) DHCP
8 4 (1.10%) FTP
8 4 (1.10%) HTTP
8 4 (1.10%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.10%) IPv4
8 4 (1.10%) LAN
8 4 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.10%) SMTP
8 4 (1.10%) SSH
9 3 (0.82%) DMZ
9 3 (0.82%) Internet
9 3 (0.82%) OSPF
9 3 (0.82%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (22.80%) NoSQL
2 67 (18.41%) Relational Database
3 65 (17.86%) RDBMS
4 19 (5.22%) DynamoDB
5 18 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (3.85%) Big Data
7 12 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.30%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.37%) MySQL
11 5 (1.37%) Power BI
12 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.27%) Impala
15 1 (0.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 65 (17.86%) Jaeger
2 14 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.65%) Git
3 6 (1.65%) GitLab
3 6 (1.65%) JIRA
4 4 (1.10%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 245 (67.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (9.34%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.95%) Finance
4 16 (4.40%) Law
5 13 (3.57%) Retail
6 11 (3.02%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.37%) Banking
7 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.82%) Automotive
8 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.82%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.55%) Marketing
9 2 (0.55%) Police
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 204 (56.04%) Senior
2 175 (48.08%) Software Engineer
3 173 (47.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 80 (21.98%) Lead
5 68 (18.68%) Team Leader
6 28 (7.69%) Architect
7 22 (6.04%) Developer
8 19 (5.22%) AWS Developer
9 18 (4.95%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.30%) AWS Architect
11 12 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.47%) Data Analytics Director
14 8 (2.20%) AWS Solution Architect
14 8 (2.20%) Security Engineer
15 7 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (1.92%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (48.08%) Node.js
2 174 (47.80%) .NET
3 65 (17.86%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (17.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 23 (6.32%) React
5 21 (5.77%) GraphQL
5 21 (5.77%) Kafka
6 18 (4.95%) Serverless Framework
7 7 (1.92%) RESTful
8 4 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.10%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.10%) Spring
8 4 (1.10%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.82%) HTML
10 2 (0.55%) LDAP
10 2 (0.55%) PySpark
10 2 (0.55%) Vue
11 1 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.27%) Plotly
11 1 (0.27%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 174 (47.80%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (47.25%) Cyberattack
2 172 (47.25%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.10%) Replication
7 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.82%) PropTech
9 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.55%) Life Science
9 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.55%) PKI
9 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 262 (71.98%) Linux
2 67 (18.41%) Unix
3 24 (6.59%) Windows
4 9 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.10%) VMS
7 3 (0.82%) CentOS
7 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (80.22%) Agile
2 272 (74.73%) Mentoring
3 198 (54.40%) Cloud Security
4 192 (52.75%) Microservices
5 190 (52.20%) Data Engineering
6 186 (51.10%) Machine Learning
7 183 (50.27%) Software Engineering
8 177 (48.63%) Scrum
9 176 (48.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 174 (47.80%) User Experience
11 129 (35.44%) DevOps
12 100 (27.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 96 (26.37%) Containerisation
14 84 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
14 84 (23.08%) Roadmaps
15 80 (21.98%) High Availability
16 73 (20.05%) CI/CD
16 73 (20.05%) Cost Optimisation
17 70 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
17 70 (19.23%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 292 (80.22%) Python
2 265 (72.80%) Java
3 259 (71.15%) JavaScript
4 237 (65.11%) Go
5 172 (47.25%) C++
5 172 (47.25%) Rust
6 77 (21.15%) Bash
7 28 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 25 (6.87%) SQL
9 24 (6.59%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.47%) C#
11 5 (1.37%) R
12 4 (1.10%) Groovy
13 2 (0.55%) Perl
13 2 (0.55%) Scala
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (56.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 195 (53.57%) Security Cleared
3 175 (48.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 174 (47.80%) DV Cleared
5 52 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 41 (11.26%) Degree
7 20 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.67%) SC Cleared
9 15 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.75%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (1.37%) CISSP
15 5 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (1.10%) MCSA
17 3 (0.82%) ISSAP
17 3 (0.82%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.49%) GDPR
2 11 (3.02%) HIPAA
3 9 (2.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (2.47%) NIST
4 8 (2.20%) QA
5 7 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.55%) GRC
7 2 (0.55%) NCSC
7 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 95 (26.10%) Docker
2 17 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.37%) Dovecot
5 5 (1.37%) Postfix
6 4 (1.10%) DFS Replication
6 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.55%) Squid
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 100 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 85 (23.35%) Terraform
3 76 (20.88%) Ansible
4 74 (20.33%) Prometheus
5 67 (18.41%) Argo
6 65 (17.86%) Kustomize
7 8 (2.20%) Grafana
8 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.37%) Puppet
10 3 (0.82%) Iperf
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.55%) Nessus
11 2 (0.55%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.55%) SCCM
11 2 (0.55%) SCOM
11 2 (0.55%) WSUS
12 1 (0.27%) Consul
12 1 (0.27%) Oozie
12 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (23.90%) Google
2 29 (7.97%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.65%) Databricks
3 6 (1.65%) Oracle
3 6 (1.65%) VMware
4 5 (1.37%) Cisco
4 5 (1.37%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.10%) SAP
5 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.82%) Hitachi
6 3 (0.82%) IBM
6 3 (0.82%) Okta
6 3 (0.82%) Ping Identity
6 3 (0.82%) Ruckus Wireless
6 3 (0.82%) SonicWALL
7 2 (0.55%) Informatica
7 2 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.27%) Meraki