AWS Certification Jobs in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 173 219 71
Rank change year-on-year +46 -148 +191
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 23 28 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.39% 4.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.91% 1.47% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 23
10th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £71,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,144 £79,842 £66,700
Median % change year-on-year -25.92% +19.70% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,938 £107,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £97,500 - £93,700
England median annual salary £65,000 £79,842 £76,250
% change year-on-year -18.59% +4.71% +5.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,525 1,901 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.55% 26.26% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,277 969
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,475 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the West Midlands

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for AWS Certification in the West Midlands

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the West Midlands

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +27 12 £64,600 -35.40% 16
Solihull +11 4 £95,000 +35.71% 3
Herefordshire - 3 £40,000 -
Warwickshire - 3 £57,500 - 3
Staffordshire +15 2 £53,688 -2.39% 16
Shropshire - 1 - - 2
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (60.87%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (21.74%) SaaS
4 5 (21.74%) Serverless
5 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (17.39%) Route 53
6 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
8 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.35%) ShareGate
8 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) WAN
3 5 (21.74%) Internet
3 5 (21.74%) VLAN
3 5 (21.74%) VPN
4 4 (17.39%) HTTPS
4 4 (17.39%) LAN
4 4 (17.39%) MPLS
4 4 (17.39%) Network Security
4 4 (17.39%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (13.04%) WLAN
6 1 (4.35%) BGP
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.35%) OSPF
6 1 (4.35%) TACACS
6 1 (4.35%) VoIP
6 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) DB2
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Appium
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Mocha
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 7 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Police
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Network Architect
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Solution Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) ICT Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) Jest
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Operational Technology
1 3 (13.04%) PropTech
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
2 7 (30.43%) Cost Management
2 7 (30.43%) Identity Management
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (21.74%) Zero Trust
5 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
5 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
5 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
5 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
5 4 (17.39%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Azure Certification
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (34.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (17.39%) CCNP
4 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (17.39%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (17.39%) Degree
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (13.04%) CCIE
5 3 (13.04%) CCNA
5 3 (13.04%) CITP
5 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
6 2 (8.70%) A+ Certification
6 2 (8.70%) APMG
6 2 (8.70%) Cyber Scheme
6 2 (8.70%) GIAC
6 2 (8.70%) ISACA
6 2 (8.70%) SANS
6 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.35%) GRC
2 1 (4.35%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco
2 4 (17.39%) Meraki
3 1 (4.35%) Aruba
3 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk