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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 403 372
Rank change year-on-year +222 -31 -196
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 816 325 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 0.62% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 1.66% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 481 146 273
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,800 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.93% -7.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,775 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.21% -18.81% -7.14%

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 19,445 19,551 19,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.02% 37.14% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,819 7,513 13,544
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £72,754
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.63%

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 January 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 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
England +209 703 £30,500 -51.20% 391
UK excluding London +212 485 £30,500 -42.21% 391
Work from Home +154 306 £75,000 +25.00% 116
London +108 245 £67,500 -21.74% 98
North of England +129 225 £30,500 -32.22% 94
Yorkshire +61 130 £30,500 -32.22% 38
North West +82 69 £30,500 -48.09% 42
South East +59 65 £40,625 -23.42% 85
Midlands +45 56 £30,500 -44.55% 49
West Midlands +58 46 £30,500 -48.43% 19
Scotland +24 42 £30,500 -61.88% 32
South West +23 32 £30,500 -56.43% 52
Northern Ireland +15 31 - - 6
East of England +26 30 £82,500 +53.49% 52
North East +23 26 £30,500 -32.22% 15
East Midlands -14 10 £51,058 -7.17% 30
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 26

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 34 (4.17%) WordPress
2 17 (2.08%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.08%) WebSphere
3 16 (1.96%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (1.35%) Confluence
5 8 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.98%) nginx
6 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.61%) Drupal
7 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (17.03%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 816 (100.00%) AWS
2 496 (60.78%) Azure
3 306 (37.50%) GitHub
4 172 (21.08%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (15.32%) Serverless
6 89 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (10.42%) Amazon S3
8 80 (9.80%) GCP
9 43 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
11 37 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
16 21 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (34.07%) Internet
2 35 (4.29%) Firewall
3 28 (3.43%) VPN
4 24 (2.94%) Broadband
4 24 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.33%) SSL
6 17 (2.08%) Network Security
7 16 (1.96%) DNS
8 15 (1.84%) WAN
9 12 (1.47%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.35%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.35%) VLAN
11 10 (1.23%) VoIP
11 10 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (1.10%) LAN
13 8 (0.98%) DHCP
14 6 (0.74%) HTTP
14 6 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.61%) SSH
15 5 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.27%) DynamoDB
2 39 (4.78%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.53%) Data Lake
4 34 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (3.68%) Metadata
7 23 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.45%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.08%) DB2
10 16 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) MySQL
15 2 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.25%) Power BI
15 2 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 303 (37.13%) Git
2 49 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.04%) GitLab
4 20 (2.45%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.33%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.08%) JIRA
7 15 (1.84%) Maven
7 15 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.61%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.61%) Vite
11 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 2 (0.25%) Subversion
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 290 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 278 (34.07%) Multimedia
3 139 (17.03%) French Language
4 119 (14.58%) Swedish Language
5 106 (12.99%) Finance
6 68 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (7.35%) Banking
8 50 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (6.13%) Financial Institution
9 26 (3.19%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.19%) Retail Banking
10 24 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.72%) Retail
12 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.47%) Law
13 11 (1.35%) Publishing
14 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.74%) Legal
16 5 (0.61%) Local Government
16 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 278 (34.07%) Trainee
2 162 (19.85%) Analyst
2 162 (19.85%) Developer
3 139 (17.03%) Service Analyst
3 139 (17.03%) Service Desk Analyst
4 134 (16.42%) Trainee Developer
5 125 (15.32%) Software Developer
5 125 (15.32%) Trainee Software Developer
6 119 (14.58%) Architect
7 75 (9.19%) Senior
8 46 (5.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (5.27%) Lead
10 33 (4.04%) Administrator
11 30 (3.68%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.55%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.55%) Web Administrator
13 27 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.94%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 22 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
16 20 (2.45%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (34.07%) CSS
1 278 (34.07%) HTML
2 31 (3.80%) React
3 26 (3.19%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.57%) AWS CDK
4 21 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (2.45%) Jest
6 19 (2.33%) LDAP
6 19 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.21%) .NET
8 17 (2.08%) AngularJS
9 16 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
9 16 (1.96%) WebSphere MQ
10 15 (1.84%) Gherkin
10 15 (1.84%) RESTful
11 12 (1.47%) Kafka
11 12 (1.47%) Spring
12 11 (1.35%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.35%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (4.04%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.21%) PKI
8 11 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.74%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.74%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Clustering
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.49%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.78%) Linux
2 71 (8.70%) Windows
3 49 (6.00%) Unix
4 22 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.61%) VMS
7 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Debian
9 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (43.38%) Mentoring
2 301 (36.89%) Cybersecurity
3 210 (25.74%) ITIL
4 153 (18.75%) Agile
5 148 (18.14%) ITSM
6 141 (17.28%) DevOps
7 128 (15.69%) CI/CD
8 127 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 123 (15.07%) Customer Service
10 119 (14.58%) Performance Metrics
11 79 (9.68%) Migration
12 73 (8.95%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (8.58%) Containerisation
14 69 (8.46%) TOGAF
15 68 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (8.09%) Microservices
16 66 (8.09%) Roadmaps
17 65 (7.97%) Computer Science
18 61 (7.48%) AI
19 60 (7.35%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 420 (51.47%) Python
2 341 (41.79%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.65%) R
4 93 (11.40%) Java
5 70 (8.58%) Bash
6 56 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.15%) C#
8 36 (4.41%) SQL
9 34 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.31%) Go
11 20 (2.45%) Groovy
12 10 (1.23%) Bicep
13 7 (0.86%) C++
13 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.25%) C
15 2 (0.25%) Perl
15 2 (0.25%) Ruby
15 2 (0.25%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 456 (55.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 428 (52.45%) Azure Certification
3 287 (35.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 227 (27.82%) Degree
5 139 (17.03%) MCSE
6 116 (14.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 60 (7.35%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 47 (5.76%) SC Cleared
10 46 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 33 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.19%) A+ Certification
14 24 (2.94%) CISSP
15 19 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (2.08%) CISM
16 17 (2.08%) Master's Degree
17 16 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 11 (1.35%) CCNP
19 10 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.32%) QA
2 34 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.31%) NIST
4 24 (2.94%) SLA
5 22 (2.70%) GDPR
6 14 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.23%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.98%) Data Quality
11 7 (0.86%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) GRC
14 2 (0.25%) DICOM
14 2 (0.25%) GxP
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.12%) MiFID
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (12.99%) Docker
2 49 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.86%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.37%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.37%) Postfix
8 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 110 (13.48%) Terraform
2 86 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 50 (6.13%) Ansible
4 34 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.92%) Grafana
6 21 (2.57%) Argo
7 19 (2.33%) Kustomize
8 15 (1.84%) HP Fortify
9 9 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.74%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Autotask
14 2 (0.25%) Nagios
14 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 524 (64.22%) Microsoft
2 157 (19.24%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.62%) VMware
4 39 (4.78%) Google
5 24 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.70%) IBM
7 17 (2.08%) Adobe
7 17 (2.08%) Apple
8 15 (1.84%) SAP
9 13 (1.59%) Cisco
10 11 (1.35%) Workday
11 6 (0.74%) Databricks
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle
12 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 5 (0.61%) YouTube
13 4 (0.49%) OpenText
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) Pega
14 3 (0.37%) Jaspersoft
14 3 (0.37%) OpenAI