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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 418 177
Rank change year-on-year +181 -241 +197
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 741 597 2,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 0.60% 2.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.74% 2.17% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 143 321 473
10th Percentile £44,000 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £93,125 £86,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £101,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.93% - +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 27,030 27,479 32,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.52% 27.46% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,867 17,208 14,714
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,680
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £42,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,250 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 23 May 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 23 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
England +196 729 £72,500 -9.20% 979
Work from Home +213 588 £68,525 -11.58% 800
UK excluding London +140 363 £60,250 -13.93% 782
London +167 256 £82,500 -2.94% 343
North of England +110 209 £65,000 -3.70% 183
North West +76 195 £65,000 - 92
South East +43 45 £73,000 +0.69% 215
South West +102 37 £56,745 -12.70% 80
East of England +65 37 £85,000 +21.43% 86
Midlands +46 29 £53,688 -28.42% 130
West Midlands +59 27 £53,688 -25.95% 88
Yorkshire +50 11 £65,000 -18.59% 63
Scotland +78 5 £52,500 -24.46% 55
North East +43 3 £47,500 -40.51% 28
East Midlands +19 2 - - 36
Northern Ireland +23 1 - - 28

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 11 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.21%) Confluence
3 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
4 4 (0.54%) nginx
5 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 741 (100.00%) AWS
2 338 (45.61%) Azure
3 263 (35.49%) GCP
4 215 (29.01%) Pulumi
5 130 (17.54%) Serverless
6 117 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
7 95 (12.82%) Amazon S3
8 75 (10.12%) AWS Step Functions
9 29 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (2.83%) AWS KMS
13 21 (2.83%) SaaS
14 18 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (2.02%) Entra ID
17 12 (1.62%) IaaS
17 12 (1.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 287 (38.73%) Broadband
2 31 (4.18%) Firewall
3 24 (3.24%) Network Security
4 18 (2.43%) VPN
5 13 (1.75%) DNS
6 12 (1.62%) WAN
7 10 (1.35%) VLAN
8 8 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.94%) LAN
10 6 (0.81%) OSPF
11 5 (0.67%) DHCP
11 5 (0.67%) IPv4
11 5 (0.67%) MPLS
12 4 (0.54%) BGP
12 4 (0.54%) FTP
12 4 (0.54%) HTTP
12 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.54%) SMTP
12 4 (0.54%) SSH
12 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (33.20%) NoSQL
2 219 (29.55%) Relational Database
3 215 (29.01%) RDBMS
4 83 (11.20%) DynamoDB
5 72 (9.72%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (4.86%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.10%) Metadata
8 22 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (2.16%) Big Data
11 13 (1.75%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.35%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.35%) MySQL
14 6 (0.81%) Power BI
15 5 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.54%) SQL Server
17 3 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 215 (29.01%) Jaeger
2 23 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.75%) Git
4 12 (1.62%) JIRA
5 11 (1.48%) GitLab
6 5 (0.67%) Gradle
6 5 (0.67%) Maven
7 4 (0.54%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) JMeter
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.13%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 433 (58.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 81 (10.93%) Social Skills
3 75 (10.12%) Finance
4 42 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.99%) Banking
6 26 (3.51%) Law
7 25 (3.37%) Financial Institution
7 25 (3.37%) Retail Banking
8 19 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.43%) Marketing
10 14 (1.89%) Retail
11 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.94%) Humanities
13 6 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.67%) Games
14 5 (0.67%) Legal
14 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.40%) Automotive
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 294 (39.68%) Senior
2 254 (34.28%) Lead
3 218 (29.42%) Team Leader
4 188 (25.37%) Software Engineer
5 179 (24.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 108 (14.57%) Architect
7 83 (11.20%) Developer
8 77 (10.39%) Senior Developer
9 73 (9.85%) AWS Developer
10 41 (5.53%) AWS Architect
11 40 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (3.37%) Data Architect
14 21 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
17 16 (2.16%) Security Engineer
18 14 (1.89%) AWS Solution Architect
18 14 (1.89%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (32.12%) Elastic Stack
2 217 (29.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 181 (24.43%) Node.js
4 180 (24.29%) .NET
5 83 (11.20%) React
6 76 (10.26%) GraphQL
7 72 (9.72%) Serverless Framework
8 45 (6.07%) Kafka
9 13 (1.75%) RESTful
10 9 (1.21%) ARM Templates
10 9 (1.21%) Spring
11 7 (0.94%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.67%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.67%) HTML
12 5 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (0.54%) Spring Boot
14 3 (0.40%) CSS
14 3 (0.40%) PySpark
14 3 (0.40%) REST
14 3 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 182 (24.56%) Self-Motivation
2 180 (24.29%) Linux Command Line
3 178 (24.02%) Cyberattack
4 55 (7.42%) Management Information System
5 54 (7.29%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.91%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.43%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (0.67%) Mobile Games
13 4 (0.54%) Clustering
13 4 (0.54%) Data Fabric
13 4 (0.54%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.54%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.54%) Replication
13 4 (0.54%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 435 (58.70%) Linux
2 222 (29.96%) Unix
3 37 (4.99%) Windows
4 17 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.81%) VMS
7 5 (0.67%) AIX
7 5 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.40%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (74.36%) Agile
2 517 (69.77%) Mentoring
3 336 (45.34%) DevOps
4 292 (39.41%) Continuous Integration
5 289 (39.00%) Containerisation
6 287 (38.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 248 (33.47%) Roadmaps
8 246 (33.20%) Cost Optimisation
8 246 (33.20%) High Availability
9 237 (31.98%) Cloud Security
10 236 (31.85%) Product Management
11 231 (31.17%) Resource Management
12 230 (31.04%) Microservices
12 230 (31.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 223 (30.09%) Task Automation
14 219 (29.55%) GitOps
15 217 (29.28%) Software Engineering
16 215 (29.01%) Budget Control
17 202 (27.26%) Data Engineering
17 202 (27.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 548 (73.95%) Python
2 475 (64.10%) JavaScript
3 459 (61.94%) Java
4 402 (54.25%) Go
5 241 (32.52%) Bash
6 179 (24.16%) C++
6 179 (24.16%) Rust
7 84 (11.34%) TypeScript
8 45 (6.07%) SQL
9 37 (4.99%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.75%) C#
11 6 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.67%) Groovy
12 5 (0.67%) R
13 3 (0.40%) Scala
14 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.13%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) PROC SQL
15 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 267 (36.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 232 (31.31%) Security Cleared
3 184 (24.83%) AWS Certified Developer
4 180 (24.29%) DV Cleared
5 111 (14.98%) Azure Certification
6 90 (12.15%) Degree
7 46 (6.21%) SC Cleared
8 41 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (3.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 16 (2.16%) CISSP
13 15 (2.02%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (1.08%) CCNA
17 7 (0.94%) CISM
17 7 (0.94%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.67%) GDPR
2 30 (4.05%) HIPAA
3 22 (2.97%) NIST
4 19 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.02%) QA
6 12 (1.62%) SLA
7 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.40%) NCSC
11 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.27%) COBIT
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.27%) GRC
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 284 (38.33%) Docker
2 26 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 5 (0.67%) Postfix
7 4 (0.54%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 2 (0.27%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 300 (40.49%) Kubernetes
2 278 (37.52%) Terraform
3 249 (33.60%) Ansible
4 248 (33.47%) Prometheus
5 223 (30.09%) Argo
6 215 (29.01%) Kustomize
7 27 (3.64%) Grafana
8 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.08%) Puppet
10 7 (0.94%) SCCM
11 3 (0.40%) Iperf
11 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) CASB
12 2 (0.27%) Istio
12 2 (0.27%) linkerd
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.27%) Nessus
12 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.27%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 262 (35.36%) Google
2 80 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.43%) Cisco
3 18 (2.43%) VMware
4 10 (1.35%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.21%) Databricks
6 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
6 7 (0.94%) Oracle
6 7 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.81%) SAP
8 5 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 5 (0.67%) Citrix
8 5 (0.67%) New Relic
9 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.54%) Informatica
9 4 (0.54%) Meraki
9 4 (0.54%) Symantec
9 4 (0.54%) Veritas
10 3 (0.40%) Hitachi
10 3 (0.40%) IBM