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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 390 388
Rank change year-on-year +208 -2 -243
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 830 332 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 0.66% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.19% 1.76% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 490 150 299
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,313 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,800 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.93% -12.43% -4.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £84,959
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -22.22% -3.57%

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 19,797 18,881 21,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.27% 37.49% 28.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,885 7,371 14,882
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
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% -1.96%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +192 714 £30,500 -52.01% 355
UK excluding London +218 501 £30,500 -41.90% 346
Work from Home +136 301 £75,000 +25.00% 64
London +95 240 £61,250 -30.00% 99
North of England +118 236 £30,500 -32.22% 95
Yorkshire +46 132 £30,500 -32.22% 37
North West +81 76 £30,500 -41.90% 47
South East +46 65 £41,875 -21.07% 62
Midlands +40 56 £30,500 -44.55% 50
West Midlands +52 45 £30,500 -48.43% 22
Scotland +18 44 £30,500 -61.88% 27
South West +16 34 £30,500 -53.08% 51
Northern Ireland +12 32 - - 6
East of England +30 30 £82,500 +53.49% 40
North East +23 28 £30,500 -32.22% 12
East Midlands -15 11 £51,058 -7.17% 29
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 19

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 (4.10%) WordPress
2 16 (1.93%) Jupyter
3 13 (1.57%) Tomcat
3 13 (1.57%) WebSphere
4 12 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (1.20%) Confluence
6 9 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.72%) nginx
8 5 (0.60%) Apache
8 5 (0.60%) Drupal
9 4 (0.48%) Documentum
10 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 143 (17.23%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.05%) Chatbot
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Weka
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 830 (100.00%) AWS
2 491 (59.16%) Azure
3 306 (36.87%) GitHub
4 174 (20.96%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (15.06%) Serverless
6 89 (10.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (10.72%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (9.76%) Amazon S3
8 80 (9.64%) GCP
9 42 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (4.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 37 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (2.77%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.49%) Internet
2 33 (3.98%) Firewall
3 26 (3.13%) VPN
4 24 (2.89%) Broadband
4 24 (2.89%) Remote Desktop
5 18 (2.17%) Network Security
6 15 (1.81%) SSL
7 12 (1.45%) WAN
8 11 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.08%) DNS
9 9 (1.08%) VLAN
9 9 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.84%) VoIP
11 6 (0.72%) DHCP
11 6 (0.72%) LAN
11 6 (0.72%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.48%) BGP
13 4 (0.48%) OSPF
13 4 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.06%) DynamoDB
2 41 (4.94%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.46%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.61%) Metadata
5 27 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.41%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (1.57%) DB2
10 12 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.60%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.48%) Big Data
13 4 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 302 (36.39%) Git
2 44 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.34%) GitLab
4 22 (2.65%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.29%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.05%) Maven
6 17 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.93%) JIRA
7 16 (1.93%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.60%) Vite
12 4 (0.48%) MLflow
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 287 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.49%) Multimedia
3 143 (17.23%) French Language
4 121 (14.58%) Finance
5 119 (14.34%) Swedish Language
6 67 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (6.63%) Banking
8 49 (5.90%) Financial Institution
9 48 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (3.86%) Retail
11 25 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 25 (3.01%) Retail Banking
12 20 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.33%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.33%) Law
13 11 (1.33%) Publishing
14 6 (0.72%) Legal
14 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 294 (35.42%) Trainee
2 166 (20.00%) Analyst
3 164 (19.76%) Developer
4 143 (17.23%) Service Analyst
4 143 (17.23%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (16.14%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (15.06%) Software Developer
6 125 (15.06%) Trainee Software Developer
7 121 (14.58%) Architect
8 73 (8.80%) Senior
9 44 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (5.06%) Lead
11 35 (4.22%) Administrator
12 30 (3.61%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.49%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.49%) Web Administrator
14 27 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.89%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.49%) CSS
1 278 (33.49%) HTML
2 31 (3.73%) React
3 30 (3.61%) Spring Boot
4 22 (2.65%) Jest
5 20 (2.41%) AngularJS
6 19 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.29%) Hugging Face
6 19 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.17%) .NET
7 18 (2.17%) AWS CDK
7 18 (2.17%) NumPy
7 18 (2.17%) Pandas
8 17 (2.05%) Gherkin
9 16 (1.93%) Matplotlib
9 16 (1.93%) scikit-learn
9 16 (1.93%) Streamlit
10 15 (1.81%) Kafka
10 15 (1.81%) RESTful
11 14 (1.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 41 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (4.22%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.17%) PKI
7 16 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.08%) e-Learning
12 8 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.72%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.60%) Blog
14 5 (0.60%) Clustering
14 5 (0.60%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.60%) Security Posture
15 4 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.64%) Linux
2 59 (7.11%) Windows
3 44 (5.30%) Unix
4 18 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) CentOS
7 2 (0.24%) Debian
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (42.89%) Mentoring
2 300 (36.14%) Cybersecurity
3 211 (25.42%) ITIL
4 154 (18.55%) Agile
5 151 (18.19%) ITSM
6 143 (17.23%) Customer Service
7 138 (16.63%) DevOps
8 130 (15.66%) CI/CD
9 129 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 122 (14.70%) Performance Metrics
11 82 (9.88%) AI
12 79 (9.52%) Migration
13 70 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (8.31%) Containerisation
14 69 (8.31%) TOGAF
15 67 (8.07%) Roadmaps
16 66 (7.95%) Computer Science
16 66 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (7.95%) Microservices
17 61 (7.35%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 429 (51.69%) Python
2 340 (40.96%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.35%) R
4 92 (11.08%) Java
5 71 (8.55%) Bash
6 56 (6.75%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.70%) C#
8 34 (4.10%) SQL
9 33 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 29 (3.49%) Go
11 18 (2.17%) Groovy
12 11 (1.33%) Bicep
13 7 (0.84%) C++
13 7 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
16 1 (0.12%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 460 (55.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 425 (51.20%) Azure Certification
3 304 (36.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 225 (27.11%) Degree
5 143 (17.23%) MCSE
6 120 (14.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 56 (6.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 55 (6.63%) Security Cleared
9 47 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (5.06%) SC Cleared
11 31 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (3.37%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.13%) A+ Certification
14 25 (3.01%) CISSP
15 18 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (2.17%) CISM
16 17 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 16 (1.93%) Master's Degree
18 10 (1.20%) CCNP
18 10 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (15.54%) QA
2 34 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.25%) NIST
4 22 (2.65%) GDPR
5 20 (2.41%) SLA
6 14 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.20%) NCSC
9 9 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.96%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.96%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.60%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.48%) DICOM
12 4 (0.48%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) GxP
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) Basel III
14 1 (0.12%) GAAP
14 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 107 (12.89%) Docker
2 47 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.84%) KVM
6 5 (0.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.48%) vSphere
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) Postfix
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 110 (13.25%) Terraform
2 85 (10.24%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.14%) Ansible
4 35 (4.22%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.86%) Grafana
6 20 (2.41%) Argo
7 19 (2.29%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.05%) HP Fortify
9 9 (1.08%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.48%) Cilium
11 4 (0.48%) Nessus
12 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.24%) Puppet
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 540 (65.06%) Microsoft
2 157 (18.92%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.51%) VMware
4 39 (4.70%) Google
5 20 (2.41%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.17%) IBM
7 17 (2.05%) Adobe
7 17 (2.05%) Apple
8 15 (1.81%) SAP
9 12 (1.45%) Cisco
10 11 (1.33%) Workday
11 7 (0.84%) Databricks
12 5 (0.60%) Symantec
12 5 (0.60%) YouTube
13 4 (0.48%) OpenText
13 4 (0.48%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.48%) Pega
14 3 (0.36%) Ariba
14 3 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds