AWS Certification Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 269 477
Rank change year-on-year -33 +208 -351
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 346 296 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 1.00% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.69% 2.36% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 228 72 189
10th Percentile - £41,375 £43,684
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £78,750 £84,919
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,874 12,523 19,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.26% 42.23% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,351 5,018 12,298
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,833
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.17% -10.28%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 -56 163 £37,500 -42.31% 52
Yorkshire +20 76 £37,500 -42.31% 22
North West -77 70 £37,500 -33.33% 24
Midlands +9 58 £37,500 -36.81% 24
West Midlands +4 52 £37,500 -36.81% 13
South West -47 38 £50,000 -11.89% 29
South East -4 36 £62,500 -26.47% 41
Scotland +34 17 £31,000 -40.95% 7
North East -29 17 £37,500 -21.05% 6
East of England -13 14 £37,500 -55.88% 12
Northern Ireland -20 11 £39,000 - 1
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 4
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 11
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 49 (14.16%) Jupyter
2 36 (10.40%) WordPress
3 7 (2.02%) Confluence
4 3 (0.87%) Apache
4 3 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 49 (14.16%) Chatbot
2 38 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (6.94%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) AWS
2 189 (54.62%) Azure
3 111 (32.08%) GitHub
4 60 (17.34%) Serverless
5 52 (15.03%) Amazon S3
5 52 (15.03%) Cloud Computing
6 51 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (12.72%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (11.85%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (11.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (9.54%) GCP
10 31 (8.96%) Amazon ECR
11 29 (8.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 27 (7.80%) Apigee
13 24 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 91 (26.30%) Internet
2 19 (5.49%) Firewall
3 14 (4.05%) VPN
4 10 (2.89%) Network Security
5 7 (2.02%) DNS
6 6 (1.73%) DHCP
7 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.45%) VLAN
7 5 (1.45%) WAN
8 4 (1.16%) IPv4
8 4 (1.16%) LAN
8 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.58%) BGP
10 2 (0.58%) Broadband
10 2 (0.58%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.29%) DMZ
11 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.12%) DynamoDB
2 17 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.73%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.87%) Metadata
6 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.87%) Power BI
7 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.58%) GIS
7 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.58%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.29%) Adabas
8 1 (0.29%) Big Data
8 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (28.03%) Git
2 49 (14.16%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (13.01%) Jenkins
4 36 (10.40%) GitLab
5 28 (8.09%) Cypress.io
5 28 (8.09%) Maven
6 27 (7.80%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.89%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.31%) JIRA
9 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.87%) Selenium
10 2 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.58%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.29%) Gatling
11 1 (0.29%) JMeter
11 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (26.30%) Multimedia
2 89 (25.72%) Social Skills
3 58 (16.76%) Finance
4 57 (16.47%) Retail
5 49 (14.16%) Manufacturing
6 41 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (5.78%) French Language
8 18 (5.20%) Swedish Language
9 16 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.76%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.16%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.87%) Advertising
13 3 (0.87%) Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Legal
13 3 (0.87%) Publishing
14 2 (0.58%) Billing
14 2 (0.58%) Law
15 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 137 (39.60%) Trainee
2 75 (21.68%) Analyst
3 69 (19.94%) Developer
4 47 (13.58%) Senior
5 46 (13.29%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 46 (13.29%) Programmer
5 46 (13.29%) Trainee Programmer
6 43 (12.43%) Administrator
7 38 (10.98%) Service Analyst
7 38 (10.98%) Service Desk Analyst
8 35 (10.12%) Architect
8 35 (10.12%) Trainee Administrator
8 35 (10.12%) Web Administrator
9 34 (9.83%) Trainee Developer
10 30 (8.67%) Software Developer
11 29 (8.38%) Trainee Software Developer
12 26 (7.51%) Java Developer
13 24 (6.94%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (26.88%) CSS
1 93 (26.88%) HTML
2 49 (14.16%) Hugging Face
2 49 (14.16%) Matplotlib
2 49 (14.16%) NumPy
2 49 (14.16%) Pandas
2 49 (14.16%) scikit-learn
2 49 (14.16%) Streamlit
3 36 (10.40%) Spring Boot
4 30 (8.67%) AngularJS
5 28 (8.09%) Jest
6 27 (7.80%) Gherkin
7 11 (3.18%) React
8 10 (2.89%) Node.js
9 9 (2.60%) .NET
10 8 (2.31%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.02%) Spring
12 6 (1.73%) boto
12 6 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
13 5 (1.45%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.74%) Algorithms
2 14 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.89%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.31%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.02%) PKI
7 6 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.45%) PACS
8 5 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.87%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.87%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.58%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.94%) Linux
2 18 (5.20%) Windows
3 10 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) AIX
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (30.92%) Cybersecurity
2 106 (30.64%) AI
3 105 (30.35%) Mentoring
4 89 (25.72%) Customer Service
5 80 (23.12%) CI/CD
6 72 (20.81%) ITIL
7 61 (17.63%) Agile
8 59 (17.05%) DevOps
9 53 (15.32%) OO
10 52 (15.03%) Machine Learning
11 51 (14.74%) LLM
12 50 (14.45%) OOP
12 50 (14.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 50 (14.45%) Visualisation
13 49 (14.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 49 (14.16%) Data Privacy
13 49 (14.16%) Neural Network
13 49 (14.16%) Prompt Engineering
13 49 (14.16%) Sentiment Analysis
13 49 (14.16%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 182 (52.60%) Python
2 107 (30.92%) JavaScript
3 57 (16.47%) R
4 49 (14.16%) Java
5 48 (13.87%) Bash
6 36 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 28 (8.09%) Groovy
8 16 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 14 (4.05%) C#
10 11 (3.18%) Go
10 11 (3.18%) SQL
11 6 (1.73%) Ruby
12 4 (1.16%) Bicep
13 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.58%) COBOL
15 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.29%) C
15 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.29%) Natural
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 147 (42.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 146 (42.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 141 (40.75%) Azure Certification
4 78 (22.54%) Degree
5 56 (16.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (10.98%) MCSE
7 33 (9.54%) Security Cleared
8 30 (8.67%) SC Cleared
9 26 (7.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 22 (6.36%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (5.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (2.02%) CCNA
16 6 (1.73%) CISM
16 6 (1.73%) CISSP
16 6 (1.73%) Master's Degree
17 4 (1.16%) OSCP
17 4 (1.16%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.27%) QA
2 16 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.60%) NCSC
3 9 (2.60%) NIST
4 7 (2.02%) GDPR
4 7 (2.02%) ISO 9001
5 6 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.45%) DICOM
7 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (16.18%) Docker
2 10 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.16%) iptables
4 4 (1.16%) Squid
4 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.16%) vSphere
5 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (12.72%) Terraform
2 33 (9.54%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.80%) HP Fortify
4 26 (7.51%) Ansible
5 16 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.34%) Grafana
7 8 (2.31%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.45%) Argo
8 5 (1.45%) Packer
8 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.45%) Puppet
9 4 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.58%) QRadar
11 1 (0.29%) Consul
11 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.29%) Iperf
Vendors
1 235 (67.92%) Microsoft
2 62 (17.92%) ServiceNow
3 34 (9.83%) Adobe
3 34 (9.83%) Apple
4 19 (5.49%) VMware
5 9 (2.60%) Splunk
6 7 (2.02%) Google
7 6 (1.73%) Cisco
8 5 (1.45%) Oracle
9 4 (1.16%) Databricks
9 4 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.87%) SAP
10 3 (0.87%) Workday
11 1 (0.29%) EMC
11 1 (0.29%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.29%) Informatica
11 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.29%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.29%) TOWER Software