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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 398 325
Rank change year-on-year +225 -73 -204
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 473 165 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.13% 0.46% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.39% 1.19% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 343 82 142
10th Percentile £27,750 - £42,798
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £52,775 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.21% -18.81% -10.34%
75th Percentile £53,951 £66,050 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £30,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -53.08% -7.14% -9.68%

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 13,964 13,908 10,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.27% 38.48% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,081 5,323 6,882
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,457 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +7.21% +2.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,498 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.47% -

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +137 217 £30,500 -32.22% 73
Yorkshire +54 124 £30,500 -32.22% 30
North West +76 68 £30,500 -48.09% 32
South East +59 65 £47,500 -10.46% 67
Midlands +47 55 £30,500 -44.55% 39
West Midlands +62 45 £30,500 -48.43% 14
Scotland +29 41 £30,500 -54.81% 18
South West +31 32 £30,500 -56.43% 38
Northern Ireland +18 30 - - 2
East of England +27 29 £80,000 +48.84% 36
North East +28 25 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East Midlands -9 10 £51,058 -7.17% 25
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 20
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 30 (6.34%) WordPress
2 9 (1.90%) nginx
3 5 (1.06%) Drupal
4 4 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 63 (13.32%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.42%) Weka
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 473 (100.00%) AWS
2 353 (74.63%) Azure
3 243 (51.37%) GitHub
4 85 (17.97%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (11.84%) Serverless
6 35 (7.40%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (4.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.75%) Amazon EventBridge
15 12 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
18 9 (1.90%) Apigee
18 9 (1.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 235 (49.68%) Internet
2 15 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
3 12 (2.54%) VPN
4 11 (2.33%) DNS
5 10 (2.11%) Firewall
6 9 (1.90%) WAN
7 8 (1.69%) LAN
7 8 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.48%) Unified Communications
8 7 (1.48%) VoIP
9 6 (1.27%) FTP
9 6 (1.27%) HTTP
9 6 (1.27%) SMTP
9 6 (1.27%) SSH
9 6 (1.27%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.06%) DHCP
11 4 (0.85%) IMAP
11 4 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.29%) DynamoDB
2 16 (3.38%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.06%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.42%) Metadata
6 2 (0.42%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 246 (52.01%) Git
2 26 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.38%) GitLab
4 9 (1.90%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.90%) Maven
4 9 (1.90%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.27%) Vagrant
6 4 (0.85%) JIRA
7 2 (0.42%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.42%) Subversion
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 235 (49.68%) Multimedia
2 168 (35.52%) Social Skills
3 63 (13.32%) French Language
4 57 (12.05%) Swedish Language
5 22 (4.65%) Finance
6 21 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.11%) Publishing
10 8 (1.69%) Law
11 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.06%) Legal
13 5 (1.06%) Local Government
13 5 (1.06%) Police
14 4 (0.85%) Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Retail
15 2 (0.42%) Automotive
15 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 235 (49.68%) Trainee
2 128 (27.06%) Developer
3 111 (23.47%) Trainee Developer
4 104 (21.99%) Software Developer
4 104 (21.99%) Trainee Software Developer
5 84 (17.76%) Analyst
6 63 (13.32%) Service Analyst
6 63 (13.32%) Service Desk Analyst
7 52 (10.99%) Architect
8 26 (5.50%) Administrator
9 25 (5.29%) Trainee Administrator
9 25 (5.29%) Web Administrator
10 24 (5.07%) Senior
11 18 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.17%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
13 13 (2.75%) Applications Architect
14 12 (2.54%) Lead
15 11 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
15 11 (2.33%) Head of IT
15 11 (2.33%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (49.68%) CSS
1 235 (49.68%) HTML
2 20 (4.23%) React
3 16 (3.38%) .NET
4 12 (2.54%) RESTful
5 11 (2.33%) .NET Core
5 11 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.33%) ASP.NET
5 11 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 11 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 11 (2.33%) Blazor
6 9 (1.90%) Gherkin
6 9 (1.90%) Jest
6 9 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.48%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (0.85%) Kafka
8 4 (0.85%) LDAP
9 3 (0.63%) Node.js
10 2 (0.42%) Pandas
10 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.81%) Public Cloud
5 8 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.48%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.85%) Replication
8 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.63%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.42%) PKI
11 1 (0.21%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.21%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.21%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.21%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.86%) Windows
2 19 (4.02%) Linux
3 8 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.27%) VMS
5 4 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.85%) Unix
6 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (54.76%) Mentoring
2 250 (52.85%) Cybersecurity
3 91 (19.24%) ITIL
4 71 (15.01%) ITSM
5 66 (13.95%) DevOps
6 54 (11.42%) Customer Service
7 53 (11.21%) Agile
8 52 (10.99%) CI/CD
9 51 (10.78%) Performance Metrics
10 47 (9.94%) TOGAF
11 46 (9.73%) Microservices
12 45 (9.51%) Computer Science
13 44 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
15 41 (8.67%) Application Security
16 39 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 37 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (7.40%) Migration
18 35 (7.40%) Stakeholder Management
19 32 (6.77%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 285 (60.25%) Python
2 263 (55.60%) JavaScript
3 124 (26.22%) R
4 46 (9.73%) Java
5 40 (8.46%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.77%) C#
7 21 (4.44%) Bash
8 20 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.23%) SQL
9 15 (3.17%) Groovy
10 2 (0.42%) Go
10 2 (0.42%) Perl
10 2 (0.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.21%) Bicep
11 1 (0.21%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 336 (71.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 303 (64.06%) Azure Certification
3 240 (50.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 115 (24.31%) Degree
5 63 (13.32%) MCSE
6 60 (12.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 42 (8.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 34 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (4.44%) SC Cleared
9 21 (4.44%) Security Cleared
10 18 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 17 (3.59%) A+ Certification
12 16 (3.38%) Master's Degree
13 14 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (2.11%) CISSP
15 8 (1.69%) PMI Certification
16 7 (1.48%) CCNP
16 7 (1.48%) CISM
16 7 (1.48%) PMP
17 6 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.57%) QA
2 16 (3.38%) NIST
3 15 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (2.11%) GDPR
6 9 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.06%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.85%) NCSC
8 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.63%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.42%) GxP
10 2 (0.42%) SLA
10 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (9.30%) Docker
2 22 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.85%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.85%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.85%) Postfix
5 4 (0.85%) Squid
6 3 (0.63%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) iptables
7 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 30 (6.34%) Terraform
2 22 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.75%) Ansible
4 9 (1.90%) HP Fortify
5 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.48%) Grafana
7 4 (0.85%) Argo
7 4 (0.85%) Nessus
7 4 (0.85%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.42%) Nagios
9 1 (0.21%) Autotask
9 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 367 (77.59%) Microsoft
2 67 (14.16%) ServiceNow
3 23 (4.86%) VMware
4 17 (3.59%) Adobe
4 17 (3.59%) Apple
5 11 (2.33%) SAP
6 10 (2.11%) Cisco
6 10 (2.11%) Google
6 10 (2.11%) Workday
7 4 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle
10 1 (0.21%) Ariba
10 1 (0.21%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.21%) Imperva
10 1 (0.21%) Okta
10 1 (0.21%) Qualys
10 1 (0.21%) Thales
10 1 (0.21%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.21%) Veeam