AWS Certification Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 289 449
Rank change year-on-year +41 +160 -285
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 594 435 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 1.12% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.72% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 352 158 269
10th Percentile - £42,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £68,525 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year -45.28% -14.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63,750 £91,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £35,250 £68,525 £75,000
% change year-on-year -48.56% -8.63% -3.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,717 16,021 23,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.41% 41.13% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,270 7,079 15,693
10th Percentile £29,625 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,215 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -6.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,833 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in England

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England -23 225 £30,500 -41.90% 70
London +4 187 £55,000 -34.33% 86
Yorkshire +36 116 £31,000 -40.95% 28
North West -70 86 £30,750 -46.52% 28
Midlands +8 65 £31,500 -41.33% 39
West Midlands +6 59 £31,000 -42.26% 18
South East +1 35 £62,500 -19.09% 54
South West -39 33 £37,500 -33.91% 30
North East -24 23 £30,500 -39.00% 14
East of England +6 20 £41,250 -36.54% 22
East Midlands - 6 £37,500 - 21
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 55 (9.26%) WordPress
2 48 (8.08%) Jupyter
3 12 (2.02%) Confluence
4 9 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 6 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.84%) Drupal
6 5 (0.84%) nginx
7 4 (0.67%) Documentum
8 3 (0.51%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (8.59%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (8.25%) Chatbot
3 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (3.70%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 594 (100.00%) AWS
2 332 (55.89%) Azure
3 200 (33.67%) GitHub
4 89 (14.98%) GCP
5 88 (14.81%) Serverless
6 76 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (11.62%) Amazon S3
8 68 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (8.92%) Cloud Computing
11 46 (7.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 42 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
13 37 (6.23%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (5.56%) Apigee
15 32 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (3.20%) Pulumi
19 15 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 174 (29.29%) Internet
2 22 (3.70%) Firewall
3 19 (3.20%) Broadband
4 18 (3.03%) Network Security
5 15 (2.53%) VPN
6 10 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.52%) WAN
8 8 (1.35%) LAN
9 6 (1.01%) Wireless
10 5 (0.84%) IPv4
11 4 (0.67%) DNS
12 3 (0.51%) DHCP
12 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.34%) BGP
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
13 2 (0.34%) OSPF
14 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
14 1 (0.17%) NGFW
14 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.08%) DynamoDB
2 43 (7.24%) NoSQL
3 23 (3.87%) Data Lake
3 23 (3.87%) Metadata
4 22 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (3.37%) RDBMS
5 20 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.84%) Power BI
10 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.51%) Big Data
11 3 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.34%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.17%) Flink
13 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 191 (32.15%) Git
2 56 (9.43%) GitLab
3 50 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 48 (8.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 33 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 33 (5.56%) Maven
5 33 (5.56%) SonarQube
6 19 (3.20%) Jaeger
7 17 (2.86%) Cucumber
8 14 (2.36%) JIRA
9 11 (1.85%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.67%) MLflow
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 174 (29.29%) Multimedia
2 158 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 107 (18.01%) Finance
4 74 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (10.61%) Retail
6 55 (9.26%) Manufacturing
7 43 (7.24%) French Language
8 41 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.89%) Banking
10 28 (4.71%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.86%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.02%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.85%) Swedish Language
14 8 (1.35%) Advertising
15 7 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.18%) Law
15 7 (1.18%) Legal
15 7 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.84%) Electronics
16 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (36.87%) Trainee
2 116 (19.53%) Developer
3 94 (15.82%) Analyst
4 79 (13.30%) Architect
5 68 (11.45%) Trainee Developer
6 63 (10.61%) Senior
7 62 (10.44%) Software Developer
8 61 (10.27%) Trainee Software Developer
9 58 (9.76%) Administrator
10 51 (8.59%) Service Analyst
10 51 (8.59%) Service Desk Analyst
11 50 (8.42%) Trainee Administrator
11 50 (8.42%) Web Administrator
12 45 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 45 (7.58%) Programmer
12 45 (7.58%) Trainee Programmer
13 39 (6.57%) Lead
14 36 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (4.71%) Java Developer
16 23 (3.87%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (29.46%) CSS
1 175 (29.46%) HTML
2 48 (8.08%) Hugging Face
2 48 (8.08%) Matplotlib
2 48 (8.08%) NumPy
2 48 (8.08%) Pandas
2 48 (8.08%) scikit-learn
2 48 (8.08%) Spring Boot
2 48 (8.08%) Streamlit
3 34 (5.72%) AngularJS
4 33 (5.56%) Gherkin
4 33 (5.56%) Jest
5 22 (3.70%) React
6 19 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (3.03%) Kafka
8 16 (2.69%) Spring
9 15 (2.53%) .NET
9 15 (2.53%) AWS CDK
10 12 (2.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 53 (8.92%) Cloud Native
3 40 (6.73%) Public Cloud
4 31 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.54%) e-Learning
8 20 (3.37%) PKI
9 17 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (2.69%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.18%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.84%) Clustering
13 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.84%) PACS
13 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.75%) Linux
2 24 (4.04%) Unix
3 21 (3.54%) Windows
4 7 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (35.19%) Mentoring
2 187 (31.48%) Cybersecurity
3 147 (24.75%) Agile
4 126 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 117 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 116 (19.53%) AI
7 114 (19.19%) DevOps
8 104 (17.51%) Customer Service
9 100 (16.84%) ITIL
10 66 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
11 62 (10.44%) Data Privacy
12 59 (9.93%) Machine Learning
13 57 (9.60%) Migration
13 57 (9.60%) Web Development
14 56 (9.43%) Containerisation
14 56 (9.43%) Microservices
15 54 (9.09%) Visualisation
16 53 (8.92%) ITSM
16 53 (8.92%) LLM
17 51 (8.59%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 318 (53.54%) Python
2 217 (36.53%) JavaScript
3 106 (17.85%) R
4 97 (16.33%) Java
5 77 (12.96%) Bash
6 55 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.89%) SQL
8 33 (5.56%) Groovy
9 31 (5.22%) Go
10 22 (3.70%) C#
10 22 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.01%) C++
13 4 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.51%) Bicep
15 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 262 (44.11%) Azure Certification
2 251 (42.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 237 (39.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 106 (17.85%) Degree
5 98 (16.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 51 (8.59%) MCSE
7 48 (8.08%) Security Cleared
8 37 (6.23%) SC Cleared
9 31 (5.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 29 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 29 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (4.04%) AWS Certified Developer
12 22 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (2.53%) CISSP
15 12 (2.02%) CISM
16 10 (1.68%) Master's Degree
17 8 (1.35%) CCNP
18 7 (1.18%) CCIE
18 7 (1.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.26%) QA
2 25 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.36%) NIST
4 12 (2.02%) GDPR
5 11 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.85%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.52%) NCSC
7 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.18%) GRC
9 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.01%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.01%) SLA
10 5 (0.84%) DICOM
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.17%) Basel III
13 1 (0.17%) COBIT
13 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 99 (16.67%) Docker
2 19 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.84%) Squid
4 5 (0.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (0.84%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.84%) vSphere
5 4 (0.67%) iptables
5 4 (0.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 108 (18.18%) Terraform
2 67 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 54 (9.09%) Ansible
4 37 (6.23%) HP Fortify
5 36 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 23 (3.87%) Grafana
7 20 (3.37%) Argo
8 19 (3.20%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.35%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.18%) Cilium
10 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.01%) Packer
12 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.84%) Puppet
12 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.84%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.17%) Consul
13 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 365 (61.45%) Microsoft
2 77 (12.96%) ServiceNow
3 39 (6.57%) Adobe
3 39 (6.57%) Apple
4 35 (5.89%) Google
5 27 (4.55%) VMware
6 17 (2.86%) Databricks
7 11 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.68%) Cisco
9 9 (1.52%) Splunk
10 8 (1.35%) Oracle
11 7 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.01%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.01%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.01%) SAP
13 5 (0.84%) Symantec
13 5 (0.84%) Workday
13 5 (0.84%) YouTube
14 4 (0.67%) OpenText
14 4 (0.67%) Pega