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

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	399	219	450
Rank change year-on-year	-180	+231	-59
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification	516	694	325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.43%	1.42%	0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category	2.54%	4.13%	1.64%
Number of salaries quoted	181	258	159
10^th Percentile	£47,000	-	£42,500
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£28,250	£55,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£65,000	£72,500
Median % change year-on-year	+15.38%	-10.34%	-4.19%
75^th Percentile	£88,750	£80,938	£80,000
90^th Percentile	£105,000	£98,750	£97,100
UK excluding London median annual salary	£65,000	£51,058	£62,250
% change year-on-year	+27.31%	-17.98%	-4.23%

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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	20,280	16,817	19,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	17.02%	34.39%	28.19%
Number of salaries quoted	11,776	7,364	8,485
10^th Percentile	£32,000	£28,750	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£43,750	£36,250	£43,650
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£57,500
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-4.35%	-
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£73,750	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£97,500	£90,000	£90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,750	£47,500	£54,793
% change year-on-year	+17.37%	-13.31%	+4.37%

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 Salary Trend

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 16 October 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 16 October 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	-161	470	£77,500	+16.98%	522
UK excluding London	-232	243	£65,000	+27.31%	256
London	-44	242	£90,000	+20.00%	290
Work from Home	-183	153	£78,750	+5.00%	353
North of England	-171	76	£72,500	+52.63%	77
South East	-65	51	£65,000	-5.80%	32
South West	-55	47	£70,000	+37.10%	39
Midlands	-44	39	£73,750	+28.33%	41
North West	-141	37	£62,500	+104.92%	47
West Midlands	-43	34	£71,250	+24.05%	31
North East	-54	27	£80,500	+120.55%	19
East of England	-51	12	£82,500	-15.38%	7
Yorkshire	-67	12	£73,750	+13.46%	11
Wales	-	12	£80,000	-	11
East Midlands	-36	5	£73,750	-4.84%	10
Scotland	-11	3	-	-	34
Northern Ireland	-99	3	£42,500	-	15

AWS Certification Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, job vacancies citing AWS Certification also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for AWS Certification.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	516
2	Infrastructure as Code	42.6%	220
3	CI/CD	40.1%	207
4	Azure	37.2%	192
5	AI	35.3%	182
6	Agile	34.3%	177
7	Mentoring	33.5%	173
8	AWS Certified Solutions Architect	30.4%	157
9	Microsoft	29.1%	150
10	Python	27.7%	143
11	Terraform	27.1%	140
12	Degree	26.9%	139
13	AWS CloudFormation	26.6%	137
14	Security Cleared	25.4%	131
15	Cloud Security	24.8%	128
16	Java	23.1%	119
17	DevOps	22.1%	114
18	Azure Certification	21.5%	111
19	Continuous Improvement	21.3%	110
20	GCP	21.1%	109
21	Serverless	19.2%	99
22	Problem-Solving	18.8%	97
23	ITIL	17.2%	89
24	Microservices	16.5%	85
24	SQL	16.5%	85
26	Kubernetes	16.1%	83
26	Roadmaps	16.1%	83
28	Amazon S3	15.9%	82
28	Cloud Computing	15.9%	82
28	Cybersecurity	15.9%	82

AWS Certification Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS Certified Solutions Architect	30.4%	157
2	Degree	26.9%	139
3	Security Cleared	25.4%	131
4	Azure Certification	21.5%	111
5	SC Cleared	15.5%	80
6	Microsoft Certification	12.4%	64
7	CISSP	8.9%	46
8	Cisco Certification	8.1%	42
9	MCSE	7.8%	40
10	Computer Science Degree	6.2%	32
11	BPSS Clearance	5.8%	30
12	AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner	5.4%	28
13	DV Cleared	5.0%	26
13	TOGAF Certification	5.0%	26
15	CISM	3.7%	19
15	Master's Degree	3.7%	19
17	CCNA	3.5%	18
17	CCNP	3.5%	18
19	AWS Certified DevOps Engineer	3.1%	16
20	AWS Certified Developer	2.9%	15