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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

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RANK #52 / 100 DIVERSIFY DEMAND 88 2026-Q3 DATA
$360,866
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Your benchmark against real contributors — the median beside top-of-band, plus stacking uplift and vintage decay.

What the verdict means

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The analyst note

The read

This is the operations leg of AWS's associate trio — and the index itself flags its figure as suspiciously high for the tier. Take the headline with a pinch of salt.

Who holds it

Cloud operations engineers handling monitoring, patching, backup and cost hygiene across AWS estates — CloudWatch, Systems Manager, the unglamorous essentials that keep things running.

The case for the verdict

Operational cloud work is the most automatable layer of the stack, and AWS's own tooling roadmap is heading that way. Pair it with the DevOps Professional or a security cert to get clear of the automation path.

The risk

There are two risks pulling the same way. The salary figure will probably correct downward once fresher data lands, and the role itself sits right in the path of AIOps automation.

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Where it sits

Bottom half of the CertBueno Top 100.

This certification pays 16% above the rest of the Top 100.

Vendor

One of 11 AWS certifications in the Top 100 — ranked 10th among them.

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