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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 177 370
Rank change year-on-year -245 +193 +41
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 589 2,132 1,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 2.10% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.15% 6.44% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 312 484 683
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £91,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £114,750
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 27,444 33,124 42,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 32.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 14,907 18,785
10th Percentile £28,374 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -240 484 £79,842 +3.02% 313
UK excluding London -278 391 £70,000 - 216
Work from Home +13 268 £79,842 +6.46% 100
London -109 161 £89,750 +8.79% 145
North of England -201 105 £67,500 -15.63% 57
South East +2 95 £71,250 -5.00% 24
North West -168 77 £65,000 -16.13% 29
South West -51 68 £66,250 -1.85% 24
Midlands -192 46 £79,842 +22.83% 50
Scotland -116 44 £69,788 +7.37% 22
West Midlands -152 30 £79,842 +19.70% 38
Yorkshire -84 21 £79,842 -0.20% 18
Northern Ireland +41 16 £60,000 - 22
East Midlands -80 16 £87,500 +34.62% 12
East of England -75 10 £70,000 -17.65% 12
Wales +10 7 - - 6
North East +1 7 £79,842 +121.78% 10

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 (7.81%) WebLogic
2 16 (2.72%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.17%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 50 (8.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 589 (100.00%) AWS
2 324 (55.01%) Azure
3 99 (16.81%) GCP
4 97 (16.47%) Serverless
5 92 (15.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 83 (14.09%) Amazon EKS
7 80 (13.58%) Amazon S3
8 71 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
9 65 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (8.83%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (8.15%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (5.60%) SaaS
14 32 (5.43%) IaaS
14 32 (5.43%) PaaS
15 29 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (3.57%) Route 53
18 20 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
19 19 (3.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 101 (17.15%) DNS
2 84 (14.26%) TCP/IP
3 58 (9.85%) Firewall
4 47 (7.98%) BGP
4 47 (7.98%) SSL
5 43 (7.30%) DHCP
6 42 (7.13%) WAN
7 41 (6.96%) SD-WAN
8 31 (5.26%) HTTP
9 25 (4.24%) LAN
10 19 (3.23%) VPN
11 17 (2.89%) Network Security
11 17 (2.89%) Wireless
12 12 (2.04%) Unified Communications
13 11 (1.87%) Internet
14 10 (1.70%) VLAN
15 9 (1.53%) Structured Cabling
16 8 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
18 4 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.32%) Amazon RDS
2 63 (10.70%) Relational Database
3 53 (9.00%) Data Lake
4 47 (7.98%) RDBMS
5 46 (7.81%) Oracle Database
6 38 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (6.11%) NoSQL
8 35 (5.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 20 (3.40%) DynamoDB
10 19 (3.23%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.72%) MySQL
13 15 (2.55%) Big Data
14 14 (2.38%) Metadata
15 5 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.68%) GIS
16 4 (0.68%) MongoDB
17 3 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
18 2 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 52 (8.83%) Jenkins
2 48 (8.15%) Git
3 27 (4.58%) GitLab
4 12 (2.04%) JIRA
5 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.51%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.34%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.34%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 223 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 179 (30.39%) Finance
3 99 (16.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (12.56%) Presentation Skills
5 47 (7.98%) Law
6 40 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (6.79%) Public Sector
7 28 (4.75%) Banking
8 24 (4.07%) Retail
9 23 (3.90%) Marketing
10 17 (2.89%) Retail Banking
11 16 (2.72%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Games
14 3 (0.51%) Legal
14 3 (0.51%) Police
15 2 (0.34%) Military
15 2 (0.34%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 227 (38.54%) Architect
2 144 (24.45%) Lead
3 138 (23.43%) Senior
4 102 (17.32%) Solutions Architect
5 87 (14.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 75 (12.73%) Lead Architect
7 73 (12.39%) AWS Engineer
8 72 (12.22%) Security Architect
9 62 (10.53%) Consultant
9 62 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 52 (8.83%) Developer
11 51 (8.66%) Senior Architect
12 48 (8.15%) Cloud Architect
13 47 (7.98%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 40 (6.79%) Senior Consultant
15 35 (5.94%) Data Consultant
15 35 (5.94%) Senior Technology Consultant
15 35 (5.94%) Technology Consultant
16 31 (5.26%) Software Engineer
17 30 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.54%) Spring Boot
2 49 (8.32%) RabbitMQ
3 35 (5.94%) .NET
4 32 (5.43%) HTML
5 30 (5.09%) Node.js
5 30 (5.09%) OpenID
5 30 (5.09%) SAML
6 28 (4.75%) Web Services
7 27 (4.58%) Kafka
8 26 (4.41%) Spring
9 20 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.38%) JSON
11 14 (2.38%) REST
11 14 (2.38%) XML
12 13 (2.21%) RESTful
13 11 (1.87%) Apache Camel
14 10 (1.70%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.53%) .NET Framework
15 9 (1.53%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 103 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 98 (16.64%) Public Cloud
3 83 (14.09%) Management Information System
4 65 (11.04%) Data Centre
5 47 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (7.81%) Cyberattack
7 39 (6.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 27 (4.58%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (2.72%) Product Ownership
11 14 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (2.38%) Security Posture
12 12 (2.04%) iPhone
13 8 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (1.36%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.19%) PKI
14 7 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 135 (22.92%) Linux
2 76 (12.90%) Windows
3 49 (8.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (6.79%) Windows Server
5 25 (4.24%) Unix
6 9 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.19%) Solaris
7 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.02%) Mesosphere
9 5 (0.85%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (40.07%) Agile
2 176 (29.88%) DevOps
3 157 (26.66%) CI/CD
4 150 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (25.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 123 (20.88%) Roadmaps
7 113 (19.19%) Migration
8 94 (15.96%) SDLC
9 92 (15.62%) Information Security
10 91 (15.45%) Containerisation
11 88 (14.94%) Computer Science
12 82 (13.92%) Scrum
13 81 (13.75%) Cloud Security
14 79 (13.41%) Identity Management
15 78 (13.24%) Microservices
16 77 (13.07%) Actionable Insight
17 76 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
18 71 (12.05%) Mentoring
19 68 (11.54%) Kanban
20 67 (11.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 136 (23.09%) Python
2 87 (14.77%) Java
3 42 (7.13%) SQL
4 41 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 37 (6.28%) JavaScript
6 31 (5.26%) Bash
6 31 (5.26%) C#
7 16 (2.72%) Go
8 15 (2.55%) Groovy
9 11 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.36%) Perl
10 8 (1.36%) Ruby
10 8 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.68%) Bicep
11 4 (0.68%) C++
12 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 239 (40.58%) Azure Certification
2 208 (35.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 176 (29.88%) Security Cleared
4 139 (23.60%) SC Cleared
5 115 (19.52%) Degree
6 86 (14.60%) CISSP
7 81 (13.75%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (13.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (10.70%) CISM
10 54 (9.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 44 (7.47%) CCSP
12 43 (7.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 33 (5.60%) CCSK
14 32 (5.43%) DV Cleared
15 29 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
16 26 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (4.24%) CCNA
18 20 (3.40%) Master's Degree
19 19 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 18 (3.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.88%) NIST
2 50 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (4.92%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.72%) QA
5 14 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 7 (1.19%) GDPR
9 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.85%) GRC
9 5 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.85%) IASME
9 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.34%) NCSC
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
11 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 152 (25.81%) Docker
2 38 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 31 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 21 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.87%) KVM
6 10 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) HDFS
8 1 (0.17%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.17%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 173 (29.37%) Terraform
2 153 (25.98%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (5.09%) Ansible
5 25 (4.24%) Puppet
6 16 (2.72%) Consul
7 11 (1.87%) Grafana
8 10 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.70%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.85%) Suricata
12 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.34%) Argo
13 2 (0.34%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.34%) Istio
13 2 (0.34%) SCCM
13 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.17%) CASB
14 1 (0.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 106 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.66%) Oracle
3 50 (8.49%) Sparx
4 42 (7.13%) Google
5 34 (5.77%) VMware
6 30 (5.09%) Cisco
7 21 (3.57%) Adobe
8 13 (2.21%) Citrix
9 12 (2.04%) Apple
10 10 (1.70%) WSO2
11 9 (1.53%) Avaya
11 9 (1.53%) Splunk
12 8 (1.36%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.36%) Facebook
13 7 (1.19%) SAP
14 6 (1.02%) Meraki
14 6 (1.02%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.85%) Juniper
15 5 (0.85%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.68%) Databricks