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 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 290 441
Rank change year-on-year +14 +151 -278
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 641 459 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.08% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 2.69% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 358 143 322
10th Percentile - £44,000 £52,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £54,344 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -6.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £60,938 £94,375 £86,188
90th Percentile £83,640 £99,750 £102,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -38.27% -13.21% -

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 21,119 17,073 26,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.75% 40.12% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,316 7,069 17,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £40,221 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,043
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.77% -9.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,245 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.33% +2.49% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +12 580 £37,500 -48.28% 224
UK excluding London +23 412 £37,500 -38.27% 176
North of England -18 209 £31,500 -51.54% 60
Work from Home -45 201 £62,500 -8.79% 75
London +1 183 £55,000 -33.33% 85
Yorkshire +38 104 £37,500 -44.44% 21
North West -60 84 £31,500 -51.54% 30
Midlands +1 66 £32,000 -40.40% 28
West Midlands -10 60 £32,000 -40.40% 12
South East +11 40 £62,500 -14.38% 33
South West -55 37 £37,500 -33.91% 24
Scotland +19 23 £30,500 -41.90% 13
East of England -9 21 £37,500 -55.88% 11
North East -21 21 £30,500 -35.79% 9
Northern Ireland -29 11 £35,000 - 2
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 16
Wales - 5 £51,619 - 6

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 55 (8.58%) WordPress
2 54 (8.42%) Jupyter
3 13 (2.03%) Confluence
4 9 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.94%) Apache
5 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.62%) Documentum
7 3 (0.47%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) Drupal
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 65 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.58%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (3.74%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 641 (100.00%) AWS
2 345 (53.82%) Azure
3 200 (31.20%) GitHub
4 96 (14.98%) Serverless
5 93 (14.51%) GCP
6 83 (12.95%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (12.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (11.39%) Amazon S3
10 61 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
11 51 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (6.71%) AWS Step Functions
13 39 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (5.46%) Amazon ECR
16 32 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (4.84%) Apigee
18 23 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (2.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 171 (26.68%) Internet
2 29 (4.52%) Firewall
2 29 (4.52%) Network Security
3 19 (2.96%) VPN
4 18 (2.81%) Broadband
5 13 (2.03%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.56%) WAN
7 9 (1.40%) LAN
7 9 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.09%) IPv4
8 7 (1.09%) Wireless
9 5 (0.78%) DNS
10 4 (0.62%) DHCP
10 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.47%) VLAN
12 2 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
13 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.16%) OSPF
13 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.18%) DynamoDB
1 46 (7.18%) NoSQL
2 28 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (3.28%) Metadata
4 20 (3.12%) Data Lake
5 18 (2.81%) RDBMS
5 18 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.78%) Power BI
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.47%) Big Data
11 3 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.31%) GIS
12 2 (0.31%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.16%) Flink
13 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 184 (28.71%) Git
2 64 (9.98%) GitLab
3 55 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 54 (8.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 32 (4.99%) Cypress.io
5 32 (4.99%) Maven
6 31 (4.84%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.12%) Cucumber
8 19 (2.96%) TeamCity
9 18 (2.81%) Jaeger
10 14 (2.18%) JIRA
11 11 (1.72%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.62%) MLflow
13 3 (0.47%) Selenium
14 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.16%) Gatling
14 1 (0.16%) JMeter
14 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 176 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 171 (26.68%) Multimedia
3 121 (18.88%) Finance
4 76 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (11.54%) Retail
6 60 (9.36%) Manufacturing
7 49 (7.64%) French Language
8 43 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.62%) Banking
10 25 (3.90%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.50%) Swedish Language
12 14 (2.18%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.56%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.40%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.25%) Advertising
15 8 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.09%) Legal
17 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.78%) Publishing
18 4 (0.62%) Billing
Job Titles
1 222 (34.63%) Trainee
2 119 (18.56%) Developer
3 111 (17.32%) Analyst
4 90 (14.04%) Architect
5 73 (11.39%) Senior
6 68 (10.61%) Trainee Developer
7 65 (10.14%) Service Analyst
7 65 (10.14%) Service Desk Analyst
8 61 (9.52%) Administrator
9 56 (8.74%) Software Developer
10 55 (8.58%) Trainee Software Developer
11 53 (8.27%) Trainee Administrator
11 53 (8.27%) Web Administrator
12 51 (7.96%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 51 (7.96%) Programmer
12 51 (7.96%) Trainee Programmer
13 47 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (5.46%) Lead
15 28 (4.37%) Java Developer
16 26 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (26.99%) CSS
1 173 (26.99%) HTML
2 54 (8.42%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.42%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.42%) NumPy
2 54 (8.42%) Pandas
2 54 (8.42%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.42%) Streamlit
3 53 (8.27%) Spring Boot
4 33 (5.15%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.99%) Jest
6 31 (4.84%) Gherkin
7 29 (4.52%) React
8 22 (3.43%) Spring
9 21 (3.28%) Kafka
10 18 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
11 16 (2.50%) .NET
12 13 (2.03%) AWS CDK
12 13 (2.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 63 (9.83%) Algorithms
3 46 (7.18%) Public Cloud
4 32 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (4.37%) PKI
6 25 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.74%) e-Learning
8 21 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (3.28%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.18%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.78%) PACS
12 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.20%) Linux
2 35 (5.46%) Windows
3 23 (3.59%) Unix
4 16 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (31.98%) Mentoring
2 183 (28.55%) Cybersecurity
3 157 (24.49%) Agile
4 150 (23.40%) CI/CD
5 139 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (19.97%) AI
7 125 (19.50%) Customer Service
8 121 (18.88%) ITIL
9 109 (17.00%) DevOps
10 68 (10.61%) ITSM
11 67 (10.45%) Cost Optimisation
12 66 (10.30%) Data Privacy
12 66 (10.30%) Web Development
13 65 (10.14%) Machine Learning
13 65 (10.14%) Performance Metrics
14 61 (9.52%) LLM
15 60 (9.36%) Microservices
15 60 (9.36%) Visualisation
16 59 (9.20%) Migration
16 59 (9.20%) OO
Programming Languages
1 332 (51.79%) Python
2 217 (33.85%) JavaScript
3 104 (16.22%) Java
4 103 (16.07%) R
5 76 (11.86%) Bash
6 54 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 37 (5.77%) SQL
8 36 (5.62%) Go
9 32 (4.99%) Groovy
10 28 (4.37%) C#
11 25 (3.90%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.87%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.40%) C++
14 7 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.47%) Bicep
15 3 (0.47%) Ruby
16 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.16%) C
16 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 272 (42.43%) Azure Certification
2 261 (40.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 239 (37.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 125 (19.50%) Degree
5 101 (15.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.14%) MCSE
7 62 (9.67%) Security Cleared
8 39 (6.08%) SC Cleared
9 29 (4.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 28 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (3.28%) AWS Certified Developer
15 17 (2.65%) CISSP
16 14 (2.18%) CISM
17 10 (1.56%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.40%) CCNA
18 9 (1.40%) DV Cleared
19 8 (1.25%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.61%) QA
2 33 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.96%) NIST
4 15 (2.34%) SOC 2
5 12 (1.87%) GRC
6 11 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.56%) GDPR
8 8 (1.25%) NCSC
9 7 (1.09%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.94%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.78%) DICOM
12 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.47%) SLA
14 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.16%) COBIT
15 1 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 106 (16.54%) Docker
2 22 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.18%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.25%) vSphere
5 7 (1.09%) KVM
5 7 (1.09%) Squid
5 7 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.62%) iptables
7 2 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (19.03%) Terraform
2 85 (13.26%) Kubernetes
3 55 (8.58%) Ansible
4 38 (5.93%) Prometheus
5 35 (5.46%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.52%) Grafana
7 21 (3.28%) Argo
8 18 (2.81%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.87%) Cilium
10 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.25%) Packer
11 8 (1.25%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.09%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.78%) Puppet
15 1 (0.16%) Consul
15 1 (0.16%) QRadar
15 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 389 (60.69%) Microsoft
2 93 (14.51%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.40%) Adobe
3 41 (6.40%) Apple
4 34 (5.30%) Google
5 31 (4.84%) VMware
6 16 (2.50%) Databricks
7 13 (2.03%) Cisco
8 12 (1.87%) Oracle
8 12 (1.87%) Splunk
9 10 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.09%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.09%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.09%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.78%) SAP
11 5 (0.78%) Workday
12 4 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.62%) OpenText
12 4 (0.62%) Pega
12 4 (0.62%) YouTube