AWS Certification Jobs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 451 211
Rank change year-on-year +215 -240 +114
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 775 551 1,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 0.51% 1.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 1.95% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 154 304 434
10th Percentile £44,300 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.88% +0.89%
75th Percentile £87,188 £85,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,857 28,256 30,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 44.24% 26.17% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,746 16,999 14,248
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,954 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -11.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +8.62%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England +227 766 £70,000 -9.68% 1,811
Work from Home +225 588 £65,000 -18.59% 698
UK excluding London +191 393 £65,000 -7.14% 1,156
London +160 262 £75,000 -11.76% 866
North of England +134 219 £65,000 -7.14% 314
North West +106 198 £62,500 - 177
South East +73 51 £71,500 +4.00% 271
South West +118 45 £56,745 -12.70% 106
Midlands +53 39 £61,250 -15.52% 178
West Midlands +64 37 £61,250 -15.52% 122
East of England +58 37 £85,000 +21.43% 117
Yorkshire +50 16 £65,000 -18.59% 104
North East +46 5 £47,500 -40.51% 36
Scotland +63 4 £52,500 -24.46% 90
East Midlands +30 2 - - 55
Northern Ireland +28 1 - - 50

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (2.19%) Confluence
2 13 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.65%) Apache
5 4 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.52%) nginx
6 3 (0.39%) SAS
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 775 (100.00%) AWS
2 360 (46.45%) Azure
3 277 (35.74%) GCP
4 215 (27.74%) Pulumi
5 127 (16.39%) Serverless
6 116 (14.97%) AWS Lambda
7 104 (13.42%) Amazon S3
8 74 (9.55%) AWS Step Functions
9 33 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (3.74%) SaaS
11 26 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 23 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.84%) AWS KMS
14 20 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.06%) IaaS
17 15 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (1.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 287 (37.03%) Broadband
2 34 (4.39%) Firewall
3 26 (3.35%) DNS
4 21 (2.71%) Network Security
5 19 (2.45%) VPN
6 13 (1.68%) WAN
7 10 (1.29%) DHCP
7 10 (1.29%) VLAN
8 9 (1.16%) FTP
8 9 (1.16%) HTTP
8 9 (1.16%) LAN
8 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.16%) SMTP
8 9 (1.16%) SSH
9 7 (0.90%) OSPF
10 5 (0.65%) BGP
10 5 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.65%) IPv4
10 5 (0.65%) MPLS
11 4 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (34.58%) NoSQL
2 222 (28.65%) Relational Database
3 217 (28.00%) RDBMS
4 87 (11.23%) DynamoDB
5 72 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (4.52%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (3.10%) Metadata
9 23 (2.97%) Big Data
10 18 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (1.94%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.55%) MySQL
13 11 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.42%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.90%) CockroachDB
14 7 (0.90%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (27.74%) Jaeger
2 33 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.97%) JIRA
4 19 (2.45%) Git
5 17 (2.19%) GitLab
6 9 (1.16%) Vagrant
7 6 (0.77%) Selenium
8 5 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.65%) JUnit
8 5 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.52%) JMeter
9 4 (0.52%) Mockito
9 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.52%) YouTrack
10 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.39%) Gatling
11 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.26%) Gradle
11 2 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 461 (59.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 97 (12.52%) Finance
3 90 (11.61%) Social Skills
4 56 (7.23%) Law
5 53 (6.84%) Banking
6 42 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (3.74%) Financial Institution
8 26 (3.35%) Marketing
9 25 (3.23%) Retail Banking
10 24 (3.10%) Public Sector
11 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.55%) Retail
13 7 (0.90%) Legal
14 6 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.52%) Wholesale Banking
17 3 (0.39%) Advertising
18 2 (0.26%) Games
18 2 (0.26%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 302 (38.97%) Senior
2 267 (34.45%) Lead
3 216 (27.87%) Team Leader
4 204 (26.32%) Software Engineer
5 182 (23.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 102 (13.16%) Architect
7 84 (10.84%) Developer
8 75 (9.68%) Senior Developer
9 72 (9.29%) AWS Developer
10 41 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (4.65%) AWS Architect
12 29 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
13 24 (3.10%) Data Architect
14 23 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 17 (2.19%) AWS Solution Architect
18 17 (2.19%) Senior DevOps
19 16 (2.06%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (29.94%) Elastic Stack
2 221 (28.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 181 (23.35%) Node.js
4 178 (22.97%) .NET
5 90 (11.61%) React
6 78 (10.06%) GraphQL
7 72 (9.29%) Serverless Framework
8 52 (6.71%) Kafka
9 18 (2.32%) Spring
10 16 (2.06%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.55%) RESTful
12 9 (1.16%) ARM Templates
12 9 (1.16%) HTML
13 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.90%) CSS
15 6 (0.77%) AWS CDK
15 6 (0.77%) HTML5
15 6 (0.77%) REST
15 6 (0.77%) Vue
16 4 (0.52%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 182 (23.48%) Self-Motivation
2 179 (23.10%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (22.97%) Cyberattack
4 70 (9.03%) Cloud Native
5 46 (5.94%) Management Information System
6 33 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.29%) Replication
11 9 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.90%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.90%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
14 5 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 445 (57.42%) Linux
2 224 (28.90%) Unix
3 46 (5.94%) Windows
4 19 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (1.16%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.16%) VMS
7 4 (0.52%) CentOS
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (76.39%) Agile
2 521 (67.23%) Mentoring
3 339 (43.74%) DevOps
4 308 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 293 (37.81%) Containerisation
6 289 (37.29%) Continuous Integration
7 246 (31.74%) High Availability
8 242 (31.23%) Roadmaps
9 241 (31.10%) Cost Optimisation
10 240 (30.97%) Microservices
11 238 (30.71%) Software Engineering
12 236 (30.45%) Product Management
13 235 (30.32%) Cloud Security
14 228 (29.42%) Resource Management
15 223 (28.77%) Performance Optimisation
15 223 (28.77%) Task Automation
16 219 (28.26%) GitOps
17 215 (27.74%) Budget Control
18 214 (27.61%) Machine Learning
19 212 (27.35%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 578 (74.58%) Python
2 485 (62.58%) JavaScript
3 477 (61.55%) Java
4 418 (53.94%) Go
5 241 (31.10%) Bash
6 183 (23.61%) C++
6 183 (23.61%) Rust
7 87 (11.23%) TypeScript
8 75 (9.68%) SQL
9 49 (6.32%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.32%) C#
11 12 (1.55%) Groovy
12 7 (0.90%) R
12 7 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.65%) Perl
14 3 (0.39%) PROC SQL
14 3 (0.39%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 264 (34.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 247 (31.87%) Security Cleared
3 187 (24.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 183 (23.61%) DV Cleared
5 129 (16.65%) Azure Certification
6 103 (13.29%) Degree
7 61 (7.87%) SC Cleared
8 38 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (2.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 19 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 17 (2.19%) CISSP
12 11 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.29%) CISM
13 10 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (1.16%) CCNA
14 9 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.94%) GDPR
2 31 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 27 (3.48%) NIST
4 19 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.19%) QA
6 9 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (1.03%) SLA
8 7 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 292 (37.68%) Docker
2 34 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.94%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.16%) DFS Replication
6 8 (1.03%) Dovecot
6 8 (1.03%) Postfix
7 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.52%) HDFS
8 4 (0.52%) Squid
8 4 (0.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) KVM
Systems Management
1 319 (41.16%) Kubernetes
2 296 (38.19%) Terraform
3 258 (33.29%) Ansible
4 251 (32.39%) Prometheus
5 221 (28.52%) Argo
6 215 (27.74%) Kustomize
7 32 (4.13%) Grafana
8 10 (1.29%) Puppet
9 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.03%) SCCM
10 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 7 (0.90%) SCOM
10 7 (0.90%) WSUS
11 4 (0.52%) Nessus
11 4 (0.52%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.52%) Salt
12 3 (0.39%) Iperf
12 3 (0.39%) Kibana
12 3 (0.39%) logstash
12 3 (0.39%) Oozie
Vendors
1 271 (34.97%) Google
2 73 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.19%) Oracle
4 15 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 15 (1.94%) VMware
5 14 (1.81%) Cisco
6 13 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.03%) Databricks
9 6 (0.77%) CheckPoint
9 6 (0.77%) SAP
9 6 (0.77%) Splunk
10 5 (0.65%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.65%) Meraki
10 5 (0.65%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.52%) Informatica
11 4 (0.52%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.52%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.52%) Symantec
11 4 (0.52%) Veritas