Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 172 377
Rank change year-on-year -251 +205 +19
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 564 2,335 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 2.23% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.07% 6.81% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 307 524 706
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £91,813
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 17 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 27 April 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 -271 464 £79,842 +6.46% 182
UK excluding London -287 373 £70,000 - 138
Work from Home -1 251 £76,375 +8.72% 96
London -122 153 £90,000 +10.77% 86
North of England -217 100 £67,500 -12.90% 33
South East +27 92 £70,000 -15.15% 12
North West -179 72 £63,103 -12.66% 17
South West -39 68 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Midlands -195 42 £79,842 +22.83% 29
Scotland -127 41 £69,788 +12.09% 23
West Midlands -154 27 £79,842 +19.70% 25
Yorkshire -90 20 £79,842 -0.20% 6
Northern Ireland +44 15 £60,000 - 24
East Midlands -81 15 £87,500 +34.62% 4
East of England -97 9 £70,000 -17.65% 5
North East +4 8 £79,842 +121.78% 11
Wales +18 6 - -

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 46 (8.16%) WebLogic
2 16 (2.84%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.53%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.35%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 50 (8.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 564 (100.00%) AWS
2 308 (54.61%) Azure
3 97 (17.20%) Serverless
4 93 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 89 (15.78%) GCP
6 85 (15.07%) Amazon EKS
7 78 (13.83%) Amazon S3
8 69 (12.23%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (8.69%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
12 40 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (6.03%) SaaS
14 31 (5.50%) IaaS
14 31 (5.50%) PaaS
15 27 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (4.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (3.72%) Route 53
17 18 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
17 18 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 101 (17.91%) DNS
2 84 (14.89%) TCP/IP
3 56 (9.93%) Firewall
4 47 (8.33%) BGP
4 47 (8.33%) SSL
5 43 (7.62%) DHCP
6 42 (7.45%) WAN
7 41 (7.27%) SD-WAN
8 31 (5.50%) HTTP
9 26 (4.61%) LAN
10 17 (3.01%) VPN
10 17 (3.01%) Wireless
11 14 (2.48%) Network Security
12 12 (2.13%) Unified Communications
13 10 (1.77%) VLAN
14 9 (1.60%) Internet
14 9 (1.60%) Structured Cabling
15 8 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
16 5 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
17 4 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (17.91%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (11.17%) Relational Database
3 47 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 46 (8.16%) Oracle Database
5 39 (6.91%) Data Lake
6 35 (6.21%) NoSQL
7 26 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.37%) DynamoDB
9 19 (3.37%) SQL Server
10 17 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (2.66%) Big Data
11 15 (2.66%) MySQL
12 12 (2.13%) Metadata
13 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
14 4 (0.71%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (8.69%) Jenkins
2 48 (8.51%) Git
3 26 (4.61%) GitLab
4 12 (2.13%) JIRA
5 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.35%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.35%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.18%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 223 (39.54%) Social Skills
2 162 (28.72%) Finance
3 91 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 62 (10.99%) Presentation Skills
5 43 (7.62%) Law
6 41 (7.27%) Public Sector
7 38 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (4.26%) Banking
8 24 (4.26%) Retail
9 22 (3.90%) Marketing
10 14 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.30%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.53%) Games
14 3 (0.53%) Police
15 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.35%) Military
15 2 (0.35%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 222 (39.36%) Architect
2 138 (24.47%) Lead
3 127 (22.52%) Senior
4 101 (17.91%) Solutions Architect
5 84 (14.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 75 (13.30%) Lead Architect
7 71 (12.59%) Security Architect
8 66 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
9 60 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 52 (9.22%) Developer
11 50 (8.87%) Consultant
12 49 (8.69%) Senior Architect
13 47 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
13 47 (8.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 29 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (5.14%) Java Developer
15 28 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
15 28 (4.96%) Software Engineer
16 27 (4.79%) AWS Architect
16 27 (4.79%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (12.23%) Spring Boot
2 49 (8.69%) RabbitMQ
3 32 (5.67%) .NET
3 32 (5.67%) HTML
4 30 (5.32%) Node.js
4 30 (5.32%) OpenID
4 30 (5.32%) SAML
5 28 (4.96%) Kafka
6 26 (4.61%) Spring
7 25 (4.43%) Web Services
8 20 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (3.37%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.48%) REST
10 14 (2.48%) RESTful
10 14 (2.48%) XML
11 13 (2.30%) JSON
12 11 (1.95%) Apache Camel
13 10 (1.77%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.60%) AWS CDK
15 8 (1.42%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 98 (17.38%) Public Cloud
2 97 (17.20%) Cloud Native
3 81 (14.36%) Management Information System
4 64 (11.35%) Data Centre
5 47 (8.33%) Cyberattack
5 47 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (6.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 28 (4.96%) Onboarding
8 20 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.48%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.30%) iPhone
11 12 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (2.13%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (1.42%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 133 (23.58%) Linux
2 76 (13.48%) Windows
3 48 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (7.09%) Windows Server
5 25 (4.43%) Unix
6 9 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.24%) Solaris
7 7 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.06%) Mesosphere
9 3 (0.53%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (39.89%) Agile
2 172 (30.50%) DevOps
3 153 (27.13%) CI/CD
4 152 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
5 144 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 112 (19.86%) Roadmaps
7 110 (19.50%) Migration
8 94 (16.67%) SDLC
9 93 (16.49%) Information Security
10 92 (16.31%) Containerisation
11 88 (15.60%) Computer Science
12 82 (14.54%) Scrum
13 80 (14.18%) Identity Management
14 79 (14.01%) Cloud Security
15 75 (13.30%) Actionable Insight
15 75 (13.30%) Cybersecurity
15 75 (13.30%) Microservices
16 73 (12.94%) Mentoring
17 69 (12.23%) Kanban
18 68 (12.06%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 134 (23.76%) Python
2 85 (15.07%) Java
3 40 (7.09%) SQL
4 37 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 36 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 30 (5.32%) Bash
6 30 (5.32%) C#
7 13 (2.30%) Go
7 13 (2.30%) Groovy
8 10 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.42%) Perl
9 8 (1.42%) Ruby
9 8 (1.42%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.71%) Bicep
10 4 (0.71%) C++
11 2 (0.35%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 224 (39.72%) Azure Certification
2 206 (36.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 176 (31.21%) Security Cleared
4 138 (24.47%) SC Cleared
5 116 (20.57%) Degree
6 85 (15.07%) CISSP
7 80 (14.18%) Cisco Certification
8 79 (14.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (11.35%) CISM
10 54 (9.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 44 (7.80%) CCSP
12 41 (7.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 33 (5.85%) CCSK
14 32 (5.67%) DV Cleared
15 30 (5.32%) AWS Certified Developer
16 26 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (4.43%) CCNA
18 20 (3.55%) Master's Degree
19 19 (3.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 19 (3.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.17%) NIST
2 45 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (4.96%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.84%) QA
5 14 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 7 (1.24%) GDPR
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.89%) GRC
9 5 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.89%) IASME
9 5 (0.89%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.53%) NCSC
12 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 152 (26.95%) Docker
2 38 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 31 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 21 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.95%) KVM
6 10 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.35%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.18%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 169 (29.96%) Terraform
2 150 (26.60%) Kubernetes
3 34 (6.03%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (5.14%) Ansible
5 22 (3.90%) Puppet
6 14 (2.48%) Consul
7 11 (1.95%) Grafana
8 10 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.60%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.53%) Suricata
12 2 (0.35%) Argo
12 2 (0.35%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.35%) Istio
12 2 (0.35%) SCCM
12 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.18%) CASB
Vendors
1 99 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.22%) Oracle
3 50 (8.87%) Sparx
4 39 (6.91%) Google
5 34 (6.03%) VMware
6 29 (5.14%) Cisco
7 21 (3.72%) Adobe
8 13 (2.30%) Citrix
9 12 (2.13%) Apple
10 10 (1.77%) WSO2
11 9 (1.60%) Avaya
12 8 (1.42%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.42%) Facebook
13 7 (1.24%) SAP
13 7 (1.24%) Splunk
14 6 (1.06%) Meraki
15 4 (0.71%) Databricks
15 4 (0.71%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
16 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics