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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 365 453
Rank change year-on-year +135 +88 -307
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 760 299 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.72% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.38% 1.82% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 467 170 301
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £53,995 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £97,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,688 £70,000
% change year-on-year -43.19% -23.30% +3.70%

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 22,465 16,404 25,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 39.42% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,887 7,667 17,208
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £54,260
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +5.97% -5.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +137 681 £31,500 -51.24% 239
UK excluding London +154 490 £30,500 -43.19% 209
North of England +98 257 £30,500 -39.00% 56
Work from Home +52 218 £75,000 +25.00% 77
London +37 208 £37,500 -55.88% 76
Yorkshire +35 136 £30,500 -39.00% 21
North West +47 94 £30,500 -39.00% 24
Midlands +9 68 £30,500 -52.79% 25
West Midlands +11 58 £30,500 -52.79% 16
South East -12 46 £37,500 -43.61% 50
South West -32 37 £34,500 -39.20% 29
Scotland +7 35 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -7 27 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East of England -19 26 £37,500 -30.23% 29
Northern Ireland -24 16 £31,000 - 5
East Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 9
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 8

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 76 (10.00%) WordPress
2 54 (7.11%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.45%) Confluence
4 6 (0.79%) Apache
4 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.79%) Drupal
4 6 (0.79%) nginx
5 4 (0.53%) Documentum
6 3 (0.39%) JBoss
7 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 85 (11.18%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.24%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 760 (100.00%) AWS
2 439 (57.76%) Azure
3 296 (38.95%) GitHub
4 108 (14.21%) Serverless
5 105 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (11.84%) GCP
7 84 (11.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 84 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
8 76 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
10 50 (6.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 45 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (4.74%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (4.21%) Apigee
16 31 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.50%) Pulumi
18 18 (2.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 269 (35.39%) Internet
2 28 (3.68%) Firewall
3 23 (3.03%) Network Security
4 21 (2.76%) Broadband
5 19 (2.50%) VPN
6 8 (1.05%) WAN
7 7 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.79%) LAN
8 6 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.66%) DNS
9 5 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.53%) DHCP
10 4 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.53%) Wireless
11 3 (0.39%) IPv4
11 3 (0.39%) SSL
11 3 (0.39%) VLAN
12 2 (0.26%) BGP
12 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.84%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 28 (3.68%) Data Lake
3 28 (3.68%) Metadata
4 24 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.84%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.66%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.53%) Power BI
12 3 (0.39%) Big Data
12 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.26%) DB2
13 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 285 (37.50%) Git
2 54 (7.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.71%) GitLab
3 51 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.21%) Cypress.io
4 32 (4.21%) Maven
4 32 (4.21%) SonarQube
5 19 (2.50%) Jaeger
5 19 (2.50%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.71%) JIRA
7 11 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.53%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) JMeter
11 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 269 (35.39%) Multimedia
2 212 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.76%) Finance
4 77 (10.13%) French Language
5 75 (9.87%) Retail
6 68 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (7.76%) Manufacturing
8 47 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (5.39%) Banking
10 36 (4.74%) Financial Institution
10 36 (4.74%) Swedish Language
11 24 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.97%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.18%) Law
15 8 (1.05%) Advertising
16 6 (0.79%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.79%) Legal
16 6 (0.79%) Publishing
17 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 320 (42.11%) Trainee
2 160 (21.05%) Developer
3 117 (15.39%) Analyst
4 110 (14.47%) Trainee Developer
5 101 (13.29%) Architect
6 97 (12.76%) Software Developer
7 96 (12.63%) Trainee Software Developer
8 85 (11.18%) Service Analyst
8 85 (11.18%) Service Desk Analyst
9 78 (10.26%) Administrator
10 70 (9.21%) Trainee Administrator
10 70 (9.21%) Web Administrator
11 51 (6.71%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (6.71%) Programmer
11 51 (6.71%) Trainee Programmer
12 48 (6.32%) Senior
13 43 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (5.00%) Lead
15 27 (3.55%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.42%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (35.39%) CSS
1 269 (35.39%) HTML
2 54 (7.11%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.11%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.11%) NumPy
2 54 (7.11%) Pandas
2 54 (7.11%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.11%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.39%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.34%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.21%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.21%) Jest
5 32 (4.21%) React
6 19 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.37%) .NET
7 18 (2.37%) AWS CDK
8 16 (2.11%) RESTful
9 14 (1.84%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (1.58%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.63%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (4.61%) Public Cloud
4 24 (3.16%) PKI
5 23 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.97%) e-Learning
8 14 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.66%) Clustering
13 5 (0.66%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.66%) PACS
13 5 (0.66%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.53%) Blog
14 4 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.53%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.29%) Linux
2 32 (4.21%) Windows
3 30 (3.95%) Unix
4 10 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (36.58%) Mentoring
2 251 (33.03%) Cybersecurity
3 157 (20.66%) Agile
4 146 (19.21%) Customer Service
5 143 (18.82%) ITIL
6 134 (17.63%) CI/CD
7 129 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (16.58%) DevOps
9 120 (15.79%) AI
10 89 (11.71%) ITSM
11 87 (11.45%) Performance Metrics
12 84 (11.05%) Web Development
13 72 (9.47%) Data Privacy
14 71 (9.34%) Machine Learning
14 71 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (8.95%) Containerisation
15 68 (8.95%) Migration
16 60 (7.89%) Microservices
16 60 (7.89%) Visualisation
17 59 (7.76%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 435 (57.24%) Python
2 321 (42.24%) JavaScript
3 159 (20.92%) R
4 96 (12.63%) Java
5 81 (10.66%) Bash
6 59 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.61%) Go
8 32 (4.21%) Groovy
8 32 (4.21%) SQL
9 31 (4.08%) C#
10 22 (2.89%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.71%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.32%) C++
13 8 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.39%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 382 (50.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 377 (49.61%) Azure Certification
3 336 (44.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 157 (20.66%) Degree
5 96 (12.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 85 (11.18%) MCSE
7 63 (8.29%) Security Cleared
8 41 (5.39%) SC Cleared
9 39 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
11 31 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (3.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 27 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (2.76%) CISSP
15 17 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (2.24%) CISM
16 11 (1.45%) DV Cleared
16 11 (1.45%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.97%) QA
2 32 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.89%) NIST
4 15 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.97%) SOC 2
5 14 (1.84%) GDPR
6 11 (1.45%) GRC
7 9 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.18%) NCSC
8 8 (1.05%) SLA
9 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.66%) DICOM
11 5 (0.66%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.26%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.26%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) Basel III
13 1 (0.13%) COBIT
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 111 (14.61%) Docker
2 21 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.05%) KVM
5 5 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 5 (0.66%) vSphere
6 4 (0.53%) iptables
7 3 (0.39%) Squid
7 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 119 (15.66%) Terraform
2 79 (10.39%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.45%) Ansible
4 38 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.74%) HP Fortify
6 30 (3.95%) Grafana
7 20 (2.63%) Argo
8 19 (2.50%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.45%) Cilium
9 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.05%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.66%) Puppet
12 4 (0.53%) Packer
12 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.13%) Consul
14 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 496 (65.26%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.26%) Google
4 29 (3.82%) VMware
5 26 (3.42%) Adobe
5 26 (3.42%) Apple
6 15 (1.97%) Databricks
7 12 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.32%) Cisco
9 8 (1.05%) Oracle
9 8 (1.05%) Splunk
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Workday
12 5 (0.66%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.66%) Symantec
12 5 (0.66%) YouTube
13 4 (0.53%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.53%) IBM
13 4 (0.53%) OpenText
13 4 (0.53%) Pega