AWS Certified Developer Job Trends in England

AWS Certified Developer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certified Developer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 645 714
Rank change year-on-year +38 +69 +206
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 28 12 38
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.046% 0.028% 0.057%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.071% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -7.06% +9.68%
75th Percentile £93,750 - £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,850 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £79,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +1.27% -7.06% +9.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

AWS Certified Developer 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 18,211 16,873 19,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.69% 39.56% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 7,466 6,790 13,619
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

AWS Certified Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS Certified Developer job vacancy trend in England

AWS Certified Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certified Developer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Developer in England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Developer in England

AWS Certified Developer
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 Certified Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 February 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 -8 19 £80,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 19 £80,000 - 1
London +25 7 £76,250 -3.48%
East of England +9 2 £100,000 -
AWS Certified Developer
UK

AWS Certified Developer
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 2 (7.14%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (92.86%) AWS Lambda
2 26 (92.86%) Serverless
3 23 (82.14%) Amazon S3
3 23 (82.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (75.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 14 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (46.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (46.43%) Azure
7 11 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (39.29%) GitHub
7 11 (39.29%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (28.57%) Apigee
9 3 (10.71%) CloudFront
9 3 (10.71%) Figma
10 2 (7.14%) Google Workspace
10 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (82.14%) DynamoDB
2 12 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (39.29%) NoSQL
3 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) Git
2 11 (39.29%) Cypress.io
3 8 (28.57%) GitLab
3 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (28.57%) Maven
3 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (10.71%) JIRA
5 3 (10.71%) Vite
6 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 2 (7.14%) Selenium
6 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Lead
4 7 (25.00%) AWS Developer
5 6 (21.43%) Technical Leader
6 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
7 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (14.29%) Senior
8 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (10.71%) DevOps Developer
8 3 (10.71%) Senior Manager
8 3 (10.71%) Senior Technical Manager
8 3 (10.71%) Serverless Developer
8 3 (10.71%) Technical Manager
9 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
9 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) React
2 13 (46.43%) AWS CDK
3 11 (39.29%) .NET
3 11 (39.29%) .NET Core
3 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET
3 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (39.29%) Blazor
3 11 (39.29%) Jest
3 11 (39.29%) RESTful
3 11 (39.29%) Spring Boot
4 10 (35.71%) AngularJS
5 8 (28.57%) Gherkin
6 6 (21.43%) Node.js
7 4 (14.29%) Spring
8 3 (10.71%) Next.js
9 2 (7.14%) Drools
9 2 (7.14%) Hugging Face
9 2 (7.14%) Kafka
9 2 (7.14%) Nuxt
9 2 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Agile
2 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
3 20 (71.43%) DevOps
4 15 (53.57%) Containerisation
4 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (46.43%) Microservices
7 11 (39.29%) Application Security
7 11 (39.29%) Deployment Automation
7 11 (39.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
8 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
8 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (10.71%) Logistics
10 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 11 (39.29%) SQL
4 8 (28.57%) Bash
4 8 (28.57%) Groovy
4 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.86%) Python
6 4 (14.29%) Kotlin
7 2 (7.14%) C#
7 2 (7.14%) C++
7 2 (7.14%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 9 (32.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (85.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) KVM
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (57.14%) Terraform
2 8 (28.57%) HP Fortify
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Google
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
1 2 (7.14%) VMware