AWS Certification Job Trends

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 260 474
Rank change year-on-year -87 +214 -79
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 584 575 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.16% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.88% 3.38% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 232 188 188
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £46,200
25th Percentile £33,750 £48,165 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £66,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -11.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,313 £84,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +2.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,281 17,017 20,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 34.25% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,151 7,626 9,988
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,170 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 September 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
England -85 542 £65,000 -5.14% 522
UK excluding London -147 301 £55,000 -12.00% 403
London 0 258 £80,000 +6.67% 257
Work from Home -149 174 £85,000 +19.30% 255
North of England -126 103 £52,500 -19.23% 87
Midlands -24 55 £37,500 -42.31% 42
North West -104 54 £34,500 -44.80% 46
South West -65 51 £60,500 +6.62% 102
South East -16 50 £62,250 -11.39% 67
West Midlands -16 47 £37,500 -42.31% 14
Yorkshire -47 27 £57,500 -11.54% 30
North East -42 22 £80,500 +89.41% 13
East of England -22 15 £37,500 -62.50% 29
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
East Midlands - 8 £37,500 - 28
Scotland +8 7 £31,250 +2.46% 37
Northern Ireland -78 7 £40,750 - 35

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 44 (7.53%) WordPress
2 20 (3.42%) Confluence
3 17 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (4.11%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 584 (100.00%) AWS
2 244 (41.78%) Azure
3 133 (22.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 114 (19.52%) GCP
5 103 (17.64%) GitHub
6 102 (17.47%) Serverless
7 84 (14.38%) Cloud Computing
8 83 (14.21%) Microsoft 365
9 82 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (13.70%) Amazon S3
11 68 (11.64%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (4.11%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (3.60%) OCI
18 20 (3.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 19 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
19 19 (3.25%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 77 (13.18%) Internet
2 71 (12.16%) Network Security
3 54 (9.25%) Firewall
4 29 (4.97%) WAN
5 27 (4.62%) VPN
6 23 (3.94%) SD-WAN
7 21 (3.60%) LAN
8 20 (3.42%) Software-Defined Networking
9 19 (3.25%) DNS
10 17 (2.91%) DHCP
11 14 (2.40%) TCP/IP
11 14 (2.40%) Wireless
12 9 (1.54%) VLAN
13 8 (1.37%) IPv4
14 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.68%) DMZ
17 3 (0.51%) 3GPP
17 3 (0.51%) BGP
17 3 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 48 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.14%) DynamoDB
4 17 (2.91%) Data Lake
4 17 (2.91%) Metadata
5 16 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.88%) Big Data
7 11 (1.88%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.20%) Power BI
9 7 (1.20%) SAP HANA
10 6 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.68%) GIS
13 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (12.67%) Git
2 73 (12.50%) GitLab
3 49 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 39 (6.68%) Cucumber
5 30 (5.14%) JIRA
6 18 (3.08%) Maven
7 16 (2.74%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.57%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.57%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.40%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.51%) Taiga
12 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.34%) Ant
13 2 (0.34%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.34%) git-flow
13 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
General
1 168 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 135 (23.12%) Finance
3 72 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.27%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.22%) Swedish Language
7 38 (6.51%) Banking
8 27 (4.62%) Retail
9 23 (3.94%) Aerospace
10 21 (3.60%) Financial Institution
11 19 (3.25%) French Language
12 14 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.23%) Law
14 12 (2.05%) Military
15 11 (1.88%) Marketing
16 10 (1.71%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.54%) Legal
18 7 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (1.03%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 139 (23.80%) Senior
2 129 (22.09%) Architect
3 99 (16.95%) Analyst
4 66 (11.30%) Service Analyst
4 66 (11.30%) Service Desk Analyst
5 62 (10.62%) Consultant
6 61 (10.45%) Trainee
7 52 (8.90%) Administrator
8 46 (7.88%) Developer
9 44 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (7.36%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.36%) Web Administrator
11 38 (6.51%) Java Engineer
12 37 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (5.31%) Security Consultant
14 29 (4.97%) Lead
15 28 (4.79%) Cloud Architect
15 28 (4.79%) Senior Analyst
16 27 (4.62%) AWS Architect
16 27 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (23.63%) Terraform
2 72 (12.33%) Spring Boot
3 64 (10.96%) CSS
3 64 (10.96%) HTML
4 56 (9.59%) Kafka
5 52 (8.90%) Spring
6 31 (5.31%) AWS CDK
7 21 (3.60%) .NET
7 21 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 21 (3.60%) Node.js
8 17 (2.91%) React
9 16 (2.74%) Jest
10 15 (2.57%) Gherkin
11 14 (2.40%) REST
12 11 (1.88%) Web Services
13 10 (1.71%) LangChain
13 10 (1.71%) LlamaIndex
13 10 (1.71%) OAuth
13 10 (1.71%) OpenAPI
13 10 (1.71%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 126 (21.58%) Cloud Native
2 93 (15.92%) Onboarding
3 50 (8.56%) Public Cloud
4 47 (8.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 45 (7.71%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (6.85%) e-Learning
7 36 (6.16%) Data Centre
8 34 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (3.60%) PKI
11 15 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
12 14 (2.40%) Algorithms
12 14 (2.40%) Blog
12 14 (2.40%) Management Information System
13 13 (2.23%) Mainframe
13 13 (2.23%) Security Posture
14 12 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 10 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.22%) Windows
2 40 (6.85%) Linux
3 22 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.34%) Solaris
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (35.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 190 (32.53%) CI/CD
3 179 (30.65%) Mentoring
4 169 (28.94%) Agile
5 164 (28.08%) AI
6 127 (21.75%) Cloud Security
7 120 (20.55%) ITIL
8 104 (17.81%) DevOps
9 99 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
10 88 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (13.70%) Microservices
12 80 (13.70%) Migration
13 79 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
14 77 (13.18%) Roadmaps
15 73 (12.50%) ITSM
16 72 (12.33%) Customer Service
17 67 (11.47%) Performance Metrics
18 64 (10.96%) Architectural Patterns
19 63 (10.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 187 (32.02%) Python
2 116 (19.86%) Java
3 84 (14.38%) JavaScript
4 71 (12.16%) SQL
5 60 (10.27%) Bash
6 48 (8.22%) R
7 30 (5.14%) Go
8 29 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 24 (4.11%) Ruby
10 22 (3.77%) PowerShell
11 19 (3.25%) C#
12 16 (2.74%) Groovy
13 15 (2.57%) PHP
14 14 (2.40%) Perl
15 8 (1.37%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.20%) C++
17 6 (1.03%) COBOL
18 5 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
19 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 2 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 160 (27.40%) Degree
2 159 (27.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 156 (26.71%) Azure Certification
4 146 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 128 (21.92%) Security Cleared
6 87 (14.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 76 (13.01%) SC Cleared
8 66 (11.30%) MCSE
9 52 (8.90%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (7.02%) CISSP
11 30 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (4.28%) DV Cleared
14 23 (3.94%) CCNP
15 22 (3.77%) Master's Degree
15 22 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (3.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.60%) CCNA
17 20 (3.42%) CISM
18 18 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.64%) QA
2 46 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.62%) GDPR
3 27 (4.62%) NIST
4 20 (3.42%) NCSC
4 20 (3.42%) SOC 2
5 13 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.23%) GRC
6 12 (2.05%) HIPAA
7 10 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
9 7 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.86%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.68%) SLA
13 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 65 (11.13%) Docker
2 27 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.28%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.37%) vSphere
5 6 (1.03%) KVM
6 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 46 (7.88%) Ansible
3 22 (3.77%) Grafana
4 16 (2.74%) Puppet
4 16 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.57%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.23%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.54%) Cilium
8 9 (1.54%) Packer
9 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.03%) Argo
10 6 (1.03%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.68%) Iperf
12 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.51%) QRadar
13 2 (0.34%) CASB
13 2 (0.34%) kaniko
14 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 234 (40.07%) Microsoft
2 94 (16.10%) ServiceNow
3 37 (6.34%) Oracle
3 37 (6.34%) VMware
4 30 (5.14%) Cisco
5 25 (4.28%) Apple
5 25 (4.28%) Google
5 25 (4.28%) Splunk
6 24 (4.11%) Adobe
7 18 (3.08%) SAP
8 17 (2.91%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.57%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.05%) Databricks
10 12 (2.05%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.20%) Avaya
12 7 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.20%) Genesys