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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 403 362
Rank change year-on-year +209 -41 -112
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 668 293 328
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.28% 0.59% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.81% 1.62% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 411 131 190
10th Percentile - - £44,900
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.20% -16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £30,500 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -53.08% -7.90% -8.93%

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 17,547 18,076 13,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.75% 36.31% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,065 7,252 9,481
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,150 £93,225 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
London +123 227 £71,750 -18.00% 124
North of England +126 215 £30,500 -32.22% 144
Yorkshire +64 123 £30,500 -32.22% 65
North West +79 68 £30,500 -48.09% 63
South East +56 65 £47,500 -10.46% 129
Midlands +54 56 £30,500 -44.55% 93
West Midlands +59 46 £30,500 -48.43% 52
South West +41 31 £30,500 -56.43% 59
East of England +34 31 £80,000 +48.84% 63
North East +30 24 £30,500 -32.22% 18
East Midlands -9 10 £51,058 -7.17% 38
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 30 (4.49%) WordPress
2 17 (2.54%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.54%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.40%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (1.35%) nginx
5 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.05%) Confluence
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.75%) Drupal
9 4 (0.60%) Apache
9 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 101 (15.12%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 668 (100.00%) AWS
2 432 (64.67%) Azure
3 247 (36.98%) GitHub
4 130 (19.46%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (15.27%) Serverless
6 76 (11.38%) GCP
7 74 (11.08%) Amazon S3
8 72 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (8.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (5.09%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (3.29%) SaaS
17 20 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
19 16 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
20 15 (2.25%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 227 (33.98%) Internet
2 33 (4.94%) Firewall
3 27 (4.04%) VPN
4 22 (3.29%) DNS
5 19 (2.84%) SSL
5 19 (2.84%) WAN
6 18 (2.69%) Remote Desktop
7 15 (2.25%) VoIP
8 14 (2.10%) LAN
8 14 (2.10%) SD-WAN
8 14 (2.10%) TCP/IP
8 14 (2.10%) VLAN
9 13 (1.95%) Broadband
10 12 (1.80%) Network Security
10 12 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.65%) DHCP
12 8 (1.20%) HTTP
13 7 (1.05%) FTP
13 7 (1.05%) SMTP
13 7 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.84%) Data Lake
2 38 (5.69%) DynamoDB
3 34 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (4.49%) Metadata
4 30 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.54%) DB2
7 15 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 8 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.90%) MySQL
11 5 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.75%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.45%) Big Data
12 3 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.15%) GIS
13 1 (0.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 251 (37.57%) Git
2 32 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.44%) GitLab
4 14 (2.10%) Cypress.io
4 14 (2.10%) JIRA
5 9 (1.35%) Maven
5 9 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.05%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.05%) Vagrant
7 5 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.75%) Vite
8 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.30%) MLflow
9 2 (0.30%) Subversion
10 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 245 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 227 (33.98%) Multimedia
3 101 (15.12%) French Language
4 93 (13.92%) Swedish Language
5 87 (13.02%) Finance
6 59 (8.83%) Banking
7 55 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (6.59%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.89%) Retail Banking
11 25 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (3.44%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.80%) Law
14 11 (1.65%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.50%) Publishing
15 10 (1.50%) Retail
16 9 (1.35%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.75%) Local Government
17 5 (0.75%) Police
18 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (33.98%) Trainee
2 134 (20.06%) Developer
3 123 (18.41%) Analyst
4 107 (16.02%) Trainee Developer
5 104 (15.57%) Architect
6 103 (15.42%) Software Developer
6 103 (15.42%) Trainee Software Developer
7 101 (15.12%) Service Analyst
7 101 (15.12%) Service Desk Analyst
8 65 (9.73%) Senior
9 30 (4.49%) Data Architect
10 27 (4.04%) Administrator
11 25 (3.74%) Trainee Administrator
11 25 (3.74%) Web Administrator
12 24 (3.59%) Lead
13 23 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.29%) Infrastructure Support
14 22 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.99%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (33.98%) CSS
1 227 (33.98%) HTML
2 27 (4.04%) React
3 21 (3.14%) Spring Boot
4 20 (2.99%) LDAP
5 19 (2.84%) AWS CDK
6 17 (2.54%) .NET
7 16 (2.40%) LAPP Stack
7 16 (2.40%) RESTful
7 16 (2.40%) WebSphere MQ
8 14 (2.10%) Jest
9 13 (1.95%) Spring
10 11 (1.65%) .NET Core
10 11 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.65%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.65%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (1.65%) Blazor
11 9 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (1.35%) Gherkin
12 8 (1.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
3 28 (4.19%) Public Cloud
4 23 (3.44%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.65%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.35%) PKI
9 7 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.05%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.90%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.75%) Clustering
11 5 (0.75%) Replication
11 5 (0.75%) Social Media
12 4 (0.60%) Blog
12 4 (0.60%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.60%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.23%) Windows
2 53 (7.93%) Linux
3 34 (5.09%) Unix
4 22 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.05%) VMS
7 5 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.30%) CentOS
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (42.66%) Mentoring
2 255 (38.17%) Cybersecurity
3 165 (24.70%) ITIL
4 117 (17.51%) Agile
5 112 (16.77%) ITSM
6 104 (15.57%) DevOps
7 96 (14.37%) CI/CD
8 91 (13.62%) Customer Service
9 87 (13.02%) Performance Metrics
10 78 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (10.33%) Migration
12 64 (9.58%) Microservices
13 62 (9.28%) TOGAF
14 61 (9.13%) Computer Science
15 60 (8.98%) Data Modelling
16 59 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (8.08%) Containerisation
18 46 (6.89%) Enterprise Architecture
19 45 (6.74%) Roadmaps
19 45 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 338 (50.60%) Python
2 273 (40.87%) JavaScript
3 120 (17.96%) R
4 75 (11.23%) Java
5 52 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 40 (5.99%) SQL
7 39 (5.84%) Bash
8 38 (5.69%) C#
9 25 (3.74%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.40%) Groovy
11 12 (1.80%) Go
12 3 (0.45%) Perl
13 2 (0.30%) C
13 2 (0.30%) Ruby
13 2 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Bicep
14 1 (0.15%) C++
14 1 (0.15%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 371 (55.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 364 (54.49%) Azure Certification
3 232 (34.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 193 (28.89%) Degree
5 109 (16.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 101 (15.12%) MCSE
7 49 (7.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 44 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (5.54%) Security Cleared
10 35 (5.24%) SC Cleared
11 29 (4.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 25 (3.74%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (2.99%) A+ Certification
15 18 (2.69%) CISSP
16 17 (2.54%) Master's Degree
17 13 (1.95%) CCNP
18 9 (1.35%) CISM
19 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
20 7 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (14.22%) QA
2 33 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (4.49%) NIST
4 24 (3.59%) SLA
5 23 (3.44%) GDPR
6 12 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.20%) Data Quality
10 7 (1.05%) NCSC
11 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.75%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.60%) GRC
13 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.15%) Basel III
15 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.15%) MiFID
15 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (11.23%) Docker
2 40 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.95%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.75%) DFS Replication
5 5 (0.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.60%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.60%) Postfix
6 4 (0.60%) Squid
7 3 (0.45%) KVM
7 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) iptables
8 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (10.33%) Terraform
2 52 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.04%) Ansible
4 18 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.10%) Grafana
6 9 (1.35%) Argo
6 9 (1.35%) HP Fortify
7 7 (1.05%) Kustomize
7 7 (1.05%) Nessus
7 7 (1.05%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.90%) Autotask
9 4 (0.60%) Cilium
10 2 (0.30%) Nagios
10 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Ganglia
11 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 443 (66.32%) Microsoft
2 117 (17.51%) ServiceNow
3 42 (6.29%) VMware
4 24 (3.59%) Google
4 24 (3.59%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.29%) IBM
6 17 (2.54%) Adobe
6 17 (2.54%) Apple
7 16 (2.40%) Cisco
8 15 (2.25%) SAP
9 10 (1.50%) Workday
10 5 (0.75%) Datto
10 5 (0.75%) Symantec
11 4 (0.60%) Ariba
11 4 (0.60%) Databricks
11 4 (0.60%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.60%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle
13 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.30%) Brocade