AWS Certification Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +38
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 21 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 2.43% 1.00% 1.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.71% 2.75% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,000 £82,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -63.53% +41.67% -
75th Percentile £33,000 £87,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £30,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -56.43% -6.67% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 196 109 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 22.71% 36.45% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 48 34 75
10th Percentile £31,700 - £29,996
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,112 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,733 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £91,875 £76,750
UK median annual salary £56,500 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.64% +5.51% -4.35%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
County Antrim -12 14 £31,000 -63.53% 5
County Armagh - 1 - -
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 19 (90.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (90.48%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
General
1 19 (90.48%) French Language
1 19 (90.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (57.14%) Swedish Language
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Analyst
1 19 (90.48%) Service Analyst
1 19 (90.48%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
2 1 (4.76%) Developer
2 1 (4.76%) Trainee
2 1 (4.76%) Trainee Developer
2 1 (4.76%) Trainee Web Developer
2 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) EDI
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) React
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SOAP
1 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Customer Service
1 19 (90.48%) ITIL
1 19 (90.48%) ITSM
1 19 (90.48%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (4.76%) AI
2 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
2 1 (4.76%) Data Governance
2 1 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (4.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (4.76%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (4.76%) LLM
2 1 (4.76%) Logistics
2 1 (4.76%) Observability
2 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
2 1 (4.76%) RBAC
2 1 (4.76%) Secrets Management
2 1 (4.76%) Semantic Search
2 1 (4.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (90.48%) Degree
2 19 (90.48%) MCSE
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (90.48%) QA
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (90.48%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI