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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 423 170
Rank change year-on-year +11 -253 +201
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 294 570 2,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.58% 2.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.15% 2.08% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 172 311 517
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £60,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £89,063 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £99,875 £103,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,344 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.37% - +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 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 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 30 April 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 +38 283 £65,000 -18.59% 380
London +114 168 £85,000 -5.56% 213
Work from Home +90 149 £60,000 -23.81% 281
UK excluding London -16 120 £54,344 -22.37% 189
North of England +23 39 £50,000 -25.93% 70
South West +72 24 £56,745 -12.70% 19
West Midlands +46 23 £59,144 -25.92% 27
Midlands +41 23 £59,144 -25.92% 38
South East +42 21 £66,500 -5.00% 29
North West -20 19 £50,000 -20.76% 47
Yorkshire +67 17 £52,500 -34.25% 20
East of England +56 8 £45,000 -35.71% 7
Scotland +90 4 £52,500 -24.77% 12
North East +47 3 £45,000 -43.64% 3
Northern Ireland +22 1 - - 7

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 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.70%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) AWS
2 155 (52.72%) Azure
3 83 (28.23%) GCP
4 56 (19.05%) Serverless
5 43 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.46%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.46%) SaaS
10 17 (5.78%) GitHub
11 16 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.44%) AWS KMS
11 16 (5.44%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (5.10%) Entra ID
13 13 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.08%) Snowflake
15 11 (3.74%) IaaS
16 10 (3.40%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.63%) Firewall
2 30 (10.20%) Network Security
3 16 (5.44%) VPN
4 13 (4.42%) WAN
5 10 (3.40%) VLAN
6 8 (2.72%) DNS
6 8 (2.72%) LAN
7 7 (2.38%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.04%) Internet
8 6 (2.04%) MPLS
9 5 (1.70%) DHCP
9 5 (1.70%) IPv4
10 4 (1.36%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.36%) OSPF
10 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.36%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.36%) WLAN
11 3 (1.02%) DMZ
11 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.22%) Data Lake
2 23 (7.82%) Metadata
3 20 (6.80%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.40%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.40%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.06%) Big Data
8 9 (3.06%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.72%) MySQL
9 8 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.38%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.36%) Power BI
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.68%) Tableau
14 1 (0.34%) DB2
14 1 (0.34%) HBase
Development Applications
1 24 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.76%) GitLab
2 14 (4.76%) Gradle
3 8 (2.72%) Artifactory
3 8 (2.72%) Cucumber
3 8 (2.72%) git-flow
4 7 (2.38%) Git
4 7 (2.38%) Maven
5 6 (2.04%) JIRA
6 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.34%) JUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Mocha
7 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.34%) TestRail
7 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 85 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 76 (25.85%) Finance
3 52 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.95%) Banking
5 34 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (8.84%) Retail Banking
7 25 (8.50%) Law
8 24 (8.16%) Financial Institution
9 18 (6.12%) Public Sector
10 14 (4.76%) Marketing
10 14 (4.76%) Retail
11 7 (2.38%) Humanities
11 7 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.04%) Games
13 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.36%) Legal
15 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (37.07%) Architect
2 41 (13.95%) Senior
3 39 (13.27%) Lead
3 39 (13.27%) Solutions Architect
4 36 (12.24%) AWS Architect
4 36 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (11.56%) Cloud Architect
6 33 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (11.22%) Security Engineer
7 26 (8.84%) Data Architect
8 21 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 14 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) AWS Solution Architect
12 11 (3.74%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (3.74%) Senior Architect
12 11 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (3.74%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.29%) Kafka
2 25 (8.50%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (5.10%) RESTful
4 14 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (3.74%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.40%) AWS CDK
7 9 (3.06%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.06%) Spring
8 8 (2.72%) Drools
8 8 (2.72%) React
9 5 (1.70%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (1.36%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.36%) TensorFlow
11 3 (1.02%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.02%) HTML
11 3 (1.02%) Node.js
11 3 (1.02%) NumPy
11 3 (1.02%) Pandas
11 3 (1.02%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.73%) Management Information System
2 42 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 32 (10.88%) Security Posture
4 28 (9.52%) Data Centre
5 20 (6.80%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (4.42%) Public Cloud
7 12 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.04%) Mobile Games
11 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.36%) Clustering
12 4 (1.36%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.36%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (1.02%) PropTech
14 2 (0.68%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.63%) Linux
2 36 (12.24%) Windows
3 21 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.38%) AIX
5 7 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.04%) Unix
7 5 (1.70%) VMS
8 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.02%) CentOS
9 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (44.22%) DevOps
2 114 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 81 (27.55%) Agile
4 71 (24.15%) Cloud Security
4 71 (24.15%) Containerisation
5 67 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (21.09%) Computer Science
7 59 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (18.03%) Migration
9 51 (17.35%) Microservices
10 50 (17.01%) Mentoring
11 48 (16.33%) Roadmaps
12 44 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (13.95%) ITIL
13 41 (13.95%) TOGAF
14 38 (12.93%) Data Management
15 37 (12.59%) Data Privacy
16 36 (12.24%) Collaborative Culture
16 36 (12.24%) Cost Management
17 35 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 82 (27.89%) Python
2 61 (20.75%) Java
3 34 (11.56%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.20%) Bash
4 30 (10.20%) SQL
5 12 (4.08%) C#
6 11 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.70%) Go
10 4 (1.36%) R
11 2 (0.68%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) Delphi
12 1 (0.34%) Rust
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 102 (34.69%) Azure Certification
2 91 (30.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 84 (28.57%) Degree
4 47 (15.99%) Security Cleared
5 40 (13.61%) SC Cleared
6 36 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (10.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 30 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (8.84%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (6.80%) CISSP
12 15 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (4.76%) Master's Degree
14 13 (4.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.06%) CCNA
15 9 (3.06%) CCSP
16 8 (2.72%) CCNP
16 8 (2.72%) OCP
16 8 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.93%) GDPR
2 26 (8.84%) HIPAA
3 24 (8.16%) NIST
4 18 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (4.76%) SLA
6 13 (4.42%) QA
7 8 (2.72%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.04%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (2.04%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.02%) NCSC
10 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.68%) COBIT
10 2 (0.68%) GRC
10 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 63 (21.43%) Docker
2 25 (8.50%) Active Directory
3 19 (6.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.06%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (1.02%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.02%) Postfix
8 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 88 (29.93%) Kubernetes
2 73 (24.83%) Terraform
3 45 (15.31%) Ansible
4 27 (9.18%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.48%) Grafana
6 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.06%) SCCM
7 8 (2.72%) Argo
8 7 (2.38%) Puppet
9 5 (1.70%) CASB
9 5 (1.70%) Istio
9 5 (1.70%) linkerd
10 3 (1.02%) Iperf
10 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.68%) SCOM
11 2 (0.68%) WSUS
12 1 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 49 (16.67%) Google
3 22 (7.48%) VMware
4 20 (6.80%) Cisco
5 12 (4.08%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.38%) Citrix
6 7 (2.38%) Databricks
7 6 (2.04%) New Relic
7 6 (2.04%) Oracle
7 6 (2.04%) SAP
8 5 (1.70%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.70%) Meraki
9 4 (1.36%) IBM
9 4 (1.36%) SonicWALL
9 4 (1.36%) Symantec
9 4 (1.36%) Veritas
10 3 (1.02%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.02%) Hitachi
10 3 (1.02%) Informatica