AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Job Trends

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 679 791
Rank change year-on-year +18 +112 +196
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 9 16 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.032% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.045% 0.086% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £47,300 £49,298 £53,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,775 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,525 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -22.03% -6.45%
75th Percentile £58,750 £78,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £82,975 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £53,050 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.63% -26.83% +51.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 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 19,840 18,686 21,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.20% 37.37% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,914 7,338 14,878
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in the UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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 +43 9 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Work from Home +43 6 £57,500 +8.39% 1
London +36 6 £57,500 -27.22%
UK excluding London +11 3 £49,000 -7.63% 2
Midlands - 3 £49,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £49,000 - 1

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (77.78%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Advertising
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) CentOS
1 2 (22.22%) Debian
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (22.22%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat