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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 376 422
Rank change year-on-year +171 +46 -275
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 783 309 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.84% 1.80% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 482 162 288
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,813 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £103,575
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +0.80%

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 20,401 17,201 23,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.02% 39.17% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,094 7,407 16,128
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 March 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 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
England +172 683 £30,500 -52.79% 411
UK excluding London +185 493 £30,500 -41.90% 412
Work from Home +117 256 £75,000 +25.00% 59
North of England +107 247 £30,500 -34.41% 104
London +52 214 £57,500 -34.29% 94
Yorkshire +44 137 £30,500 -32.22% 44
North West +52 81 £30,500 -39.00% 46
Midlands +16 56 £30,500 -52.79% 71
South East +15 52 £56,250 -7.02% 81
West Midlands +26 45 £30,500 -52.79% 27
Scotland +18 43 £30,500 -41.90% 30
South West +1 39 £30,500 -35.79% 47
North East +4 29 £30,500 -32.22% 18
East of England +13 27 £80,000 +28.00% 48
Northern Ireland -7 25 - - 9
East Midlands -21 11 £51,058 -7.17% 42
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 31

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 50 (6.39%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.34%) WordPress
3 9 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.15%) Tomcat
3 9 (1.15%) WebSphere
4 8 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (0.89%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.64%) Apache
7 5 (0.64%) Drupal
7 5 (0.64%) nginx
8 4 (0.51%) Documentum
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 110 (14.05%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.51%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 783 (100.00%) AWS
2 449 (57.34%) Azure
3 283 (36.14%) GitHub
4 140 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (14.30%) Serverless
6 83 (10.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 80 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (10.09%) GCP
9 75 (9.58%) Amazon S3
10 56 (7.15%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 41 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
17 29 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.07%) Apigee
19 21 (2.68%) Entra ID
20 19 (2.43%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 255 (32.57%) Internet
2 28 (3.58%) Firewall
3 25 (3.19%) VPN
4 21 (2.68%) Broadband
5 19 (2.43%) Network Security
6 11 (1.40%) SSL
7 9 (1.15%) VLAN
7 9 (1.15%) WAN
8 8 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.89%) DNS
10 6 (0.77%) DHCP
10 6 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (0.77%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.51%) BGP
12 4 (0.51%) OSPF
12 4 (0.51%) VoIP
13 3 (0.38%) EIGRP
13 3 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.62%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.24%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.47%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.83%) Metadata
5 23 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.55%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.17%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.15%) DB2
12 5 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.64%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.51%) Big Data
14 3 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.26%) Power BI
16 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
16 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 273 (34.87%) Git
2 50 (6.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 43 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 41 (5.24%) GitLab
5 25 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.07%) Maven
6 24 (3.07%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.43%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.79%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.15%) JIRA
11 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.51%) MLflow
13 2 (0.26%) Selenium
14 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 255 (32.57%) Multimedia
2 245 (31.29%) Social Skills
3 149 (19.03%) Finance
4 110 (14.05%) French Language
5 79 (10.09%) Swedish Language
6 70 (8.94%) Retail
7 63 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.64%) Manufacturing
9 50 (6.39%) Banking
10 49 (6.26%) Financial Institution
11 48 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
12 24 (3.07%) Public Sector
13 21 (2.68%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.53%) Law
16 11 (1.40%) Publishing
17 9 (1.15%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.77%) Legal
19 5 (0.64%) Local Government
19 5 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 305 (38.95%) Trainee
2 160 (20.43%) Developer
3 133 (16.99%) Analyst
4 122 (15.58%) Trainee Developer
5 114 (14.56%) Architect
6 113 (14.43%) Software Developer
6 113 (14.43%) Trainee Software Developer
7 110 (14.05%) Service Analyst
7 110 (14.05%) Service Desk Analyst
8 50 (6.39%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 50 (6.39%) Programmer
8 50 (6.39%) Trainee Programmer
9 49 (6.26%) Senior
10 41 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (4.73%) Lead
12 36 (4.60%) Administrator
13 30 (3.83%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.70%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.70%) Web Administrator
15 21 (2.68%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (32.57%) CSS
1 255 (32.57%) HTML
2 52 (6.64%) NumPy
2 52 (6.64%) Pandas
3 51 (6.51%) Hugging Face
4 50 (6.39%) Matplotlib
4 50 (6.39%) scikit-learn
4 50 (6.39%) Streamlit
5 34 (4.34%) Spring Boot
6 26 (3.32%) React
7 25 (3.19%) AngularJS
7 25 (3.19%) Jest
8 24 (3.07%) Gherkin
9 19 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.30%) .NET
11 17 (2.17%) AWS CDK
12 15 (1.92%) RESTful
13 14 (1.79%) Kafka
14 11 (1.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.77%) Algorithms
3 40 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (4.73%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.81%) PKI
6 19 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.66%) e-Learning
9 12 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.15%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.02%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.64%) Clustering
14 5 (0.64%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.64%) PACS
14 5 (0.64%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.56%) Linux
2 47 (6.00%) Windows
3 39 (4.98%) Unix
4 14 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (39.08%) Mentoring
2 275 (35.12%) Cybersecurity
3 171 (21.84%) ITIL
4 162 (20.69%) Customer Service
5 153 (19.54%) Agile
6 129 (16.48%) DevOps
7 127 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 117 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 115 (14.69%) ITSM
10 113 (14.43%) AI
11 107 (13.67%) Performance Metrics
12 75 (9.58%) Migration
13 72 (9.20%) Data Privacy
14 71 (9.07%) Machine Learning
15 68 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
16 63 (8.05%) Containerisation
16 63 (8.05%) Microservices
17 61 (7.79%) Computer Science
18 60 (7.66%) TOGAF
19 57 (7.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 424 (54.15%) Python
2 310 (39.59%) JavaScript
3 133 (16.99%) R
4 88 (11.24%) Java
5 72 (9.20%) Bash
6 54 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.47%) C#
8 31 (3.96%) SQL
9 30 (3.83%) Go
10 27 (3.45%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.07%) Groovy
12 9 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.89%) Bicep
13 7 (0.89%) C++
14 6 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 401 (51.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 386 (49.30%) Azure Certification
3 315 (40.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 193 (24.65%) Degree
5 110 (14.05%) MCSE
6 106 (13.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 51 (6.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (6.26%) Security Cleared
9 40 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (4.60%) SC Cleared
11 31 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (3.07%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (2.94%) CISSP
14 21 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.17%) CISM
16 16 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (1.40%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.15%) DV Cleared
19 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
19 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (14.05%) QA
2 35 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.07%) NIST
4 18 (2.30%) GDPR
5 16 (2.04%) SLA
6 15 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.28%) NCSC
8 10 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.02%) GRC
11 7 (0.89%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.64%) DICOM
12 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.26%) GxP
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.13%) Basel III
14 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (13.41%) Docker
2 28 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.77%) KVM
6 5 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.51%) iptables
7 4 (0.51%) vSphere
8 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 110 (14.05%) Terraform
2 77 (9.83%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.87%) Ansible
4 38 (4.85%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.96%) Grafana
6 28 (3.58%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.55%) Argo
8 19 (2.43%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.28%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.02%) Cilium
10 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.51%) Puppet
13 3 (0.38%) Nessus
14 1 (0.13%) Autotask
14 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 508 (64.88%) Microsoft
2 121 (15.45%) ServiceNow
3 38 (4.85%) Google
4 37 (4.73%) VMware
5 17 (2.17%) Adobe
5 17 (2.17%) Apple
6 14 (1.79%) IBM
6 14 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.53%) SAP
8 11 (1.40%) Databricks
8 11 (1.40%) Workday
9 9 (1.15%) Cisco
10 5 (0.64%) Symantec
10 5 (0.64%) YouTube
11 4 (0.51%) OpenText
11 4 (0.51%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.51%) Pega
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle
12 3 (0.38%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg