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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 406 273
Rank change year-on-year -60 -133 +117
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 352 420 1,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.72% 1.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.47% 2.18% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 151 283 666
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,306 £43,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £54,000 £56,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +14.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £106,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,750 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.08% -13.33% +25.00%

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 24,007 19,237 40,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.58% 32.77% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,741 11,603 17,784
10th Percentile £33,200 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,939 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.64% +5.00% +4.17%

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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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 -97 296 £70,000 -7.49% 139
UK excluding London -49 192 £59,750 -8.08% 66
Work from Home -23 149 £70,000 +1.82% 120
London -3 137 £78,250 -5.15% 76
North of England -25 49 £52,500 -19.23% 31
Midlands -2 46 £72,500 -3.33% 7
West Midlands -8 30 £72,500 -3.33% 6
South East -45 30 £53,050 -24.21% 9
Yorkshire +48 29 £45,000 -40.53% 19
Scotland +6 29 £70,000 +27.27% 7
North West -68 20 £63,750 +2.00% 8
East of England -37 17 £56,250 -33.82% 2
East Midlands -13 16 £78,750 +12.50% 1
South West -27 13 £63,750 +8.05% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £85,000 - 3
Wales +33 3 - - 1

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 (1.99%) Confluence
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.85%) Camunda
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) nginx
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 352 (100.00%) AWS
2 210 (59.66%) Azure
3 105 (29.83%) GCP
4 75 (21.31%) Serverless
5 72 (20.45%) Amazon S3
6 66 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (14.20%) Amazon EC2
9 42 (11.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (10.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 36 (10.23%) SaaS
12 32 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (7.67%) AWS CloudTrail
13 27 (7.67%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (5.68%) IaaS
14 20 (5.68%) OCI
14 20 (5.68%) PaaS
15 16 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (3.98%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (3.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.80%) Firewall
2 20 (5.68%) LAN
3 19 (5.40%) VPN
4 17 (4.83%) Network Security
5 14 (3.98%) DNS
5 14 (3.98%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.84%) Internet
7 9 (2.56%) VLAN
7 9 (2.56%) WAN
8 8 (2.27%) Broadband
9 7 (1.99%) DHCP
10 6 (1.70%) BGP
11 5 (1.42%) 5G
11 5 (1.42%) MPLS
11 5 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.85%) VoIP
14 2 (0.57%) TACACS
14 2 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.06%) Amazon RDS
2 43 (12.22%) Data Lake
3 26 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (6.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 18 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (3.98%) Data Vault
8 13 (3.69%) Electronic Patient Records
9 12 (3.41%) Big Data
10 10 (2.84%) Metadata
11 9 (2.56%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.27%) Data Mining
12 8 (2.27%) MySQL
12 8 (2.27%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
15 5 (1.42%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
17 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.67%) JIRA
3 15 (4.26%) Terragrunt
4 12 (3.41%) GitLab
4 12 (3.41%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.99%) Git
6 4 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.57%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.57%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.57%) MLflow
7 2 (0.57%) sqlmap
7 2 (0.57%) TensorBoard
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 140 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.72%) Finance
3 56 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (11.65%) Presentation Skills
6 32 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 29 (8.24%) Banking
8 22 (6.25%) Law
9 17 (4.83%) Retail Banking
10 16 (4.55%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.84%) Legal
11 10 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.84%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.27%) Back Office
12 8 (2.27%) Retail
13 4 (1.14%) Billing
13 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (30.11%) Architect
2 70 (19.89%) Senior
3 51 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (11.65%) AWS Engineer
4 41 (11.65%) Security Engineer
5 40 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (10.23%) AWS Architect
7 35 (9.94%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (9.66%) Lead
9 32 (9.09%) Consultant
10 30 (8.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 28 (7.95%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (7.67%) Cloud Architect
13 24 (6.82%) AWS Solution Architect
13 24 (6.82%) Data Architect
13 24 (6.82%) Data Consultant
13 24 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (6.82%) Senior Technology Consultant
13 24 (6.82%) Technology Consultant
14 19 (5.40%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.11%) Node.js
2 14 (3.98%) ARM Templates
3 11 (3.13%) .NET
4 8 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.27%) GraphQL
5 6 (1.70%) Kafka
5 6 (1.70%) Spring
5 6 (1.70%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.42%) Django
6 5 (1.42%) Flask
6 5 (1.42%) RESTful
6 5 (1.42%) Web Services
7 4 (1.14%) HTML
8 3 (0.85%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.85%) AWS SAM
8 3 (0.85%) EDI
8 3 (0.85%) FastAPI
8 3 (0.85%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.85%) OpenMP
9 2 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.24%) Data Centre
3 27 (7.67%) Management Information System
4 20 (5.68%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (4.55%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.26%) Cyberattack
8 14 (3.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 12 (3.41%) IoT
10 10 (2.84%) PropTech
10 10 (2.84%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.70%) Replication
13 5 (1.42%) Culture of Ownership
13 5 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.42%) PKI
14 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.34%) Linux
2 36 (10.23%) Windows
3 10 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.27%) Unix
5 4 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.14%) VMS
6 3 (0.85%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.57%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.57%) Solaris
7 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.28%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (34.94%) DevOps
2 102 (28.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 100 (28.41%) Agile
4 96 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (25.57%) CI/CD
6 85 (24.15%) Roadmaps
7 65 (18.47%) Computer Science
8 63 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (17.33%) Mentoring
10 57 (16.19%) Cloud Security
10 57 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 56 (15.91%) Containerisation
12 50 (14.20%) Migration
13 49 (13.92%) Artificial Intelligence
14 40 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (11.36%) Data Architecture
15 37 (10.51%) Information Security
16 36 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 35 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
18 34 (9.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 85 (24.15%) Python
2 27 (7.67%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.82%) Bash
4 23 (6.53%) Java
5 19 (5.40%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.98%) SQL
7 12 (3.41%) Go
8 6 (1.70%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.42%) Groovy
10 4 (1.14%) C
10 4 (1.14%) C#
10 4 (1.14%) C++
11 3 (0.85%) C-shell
11 3 (0.85%) Fortran
11 3 (0.85%) Rust
12 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 126 (35.80%) Azure Certification
2 110 (31.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 85 (24.15%) Security Cleared
4 83 (23.58%) Degree
5 77 (21.88%) SC Cleared
6 59 (16.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (11.08%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (10.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 33 (9.38%) Master's Degree
10 30 (8.52%) CISSP
11 27 (7.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (5.68%) CISM
13 19 (5.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (5.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (4.83%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 15 (4.26%) CCSP
18 14 (3.98%) CCNA
19 12 (3.41%) AWS Certified Developer
19 12 (3.41%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.39%) QA
3 25 (7.10%) NIST
4 16 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 15 (4.26%) IASME
6 7 (1.99%) GDPR
6 7 (1.99%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.99%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.70%) SLA
8 3 (0.85%) NCSC
9 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.57%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.28%) GxP
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 74 (21.02%) Docker
2 35 (9.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.98%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.42%) vSphere
5 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (25.00%) Terraform
2 70 (19.89%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.50%) Ansible
4 15 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (3.69%) Progress Chef
5 13 (3.69%) Puppet
6 7 (1.99%) CASB
7 6 (1.70%) Grafana
8 5 (1.42%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.85%) Kibana
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.57%) Consul
10 2 (0.57%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.57%) Suricata
11 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Nagios
11 1 (0.28%) SCCM
11 1 (0.28%) yum
Vendors
1 84 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.08%) Google
3 23 (6.53%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.97%) Oracle
4 21 (5.97%) VMware
5 18 (5.11%) Cisco
6 15 (4.26%) Databricks
7 12 (3.41%) Black Duck
7 12 (3.41%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.13%) IBM
9 8 (2.27%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.99%) SAP
10 7 (1.99%) Splunk
11 6 (1.70%) LogicMonitor
11 6 (1.70%) Remedy
11 6 (1.70%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.42%) Virgin Media
13 4 (1.14%) Meraki
14 3 (0.85%) Fortinet