1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Holders of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate bring in an average salary of $125,871, according to the survey, up from $114,935 last year.
The baseline certification was introduced in mid-2013 and is intended for people with experience distributing applications and systems on the AWS platform.
The certification addresses topics such as designing on AWS, selecting the appropriate AWS services for a situation, ingress and egress of data to and from AWS, estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control measures.
AWS has rolled out four additional certifications since it introduced the Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. Each brought in an average salary of more than $100,000, according to Global Knowledge, but none received enough responses to make the list.
