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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 373 436
Rank change year-on-year +164 +63 -295
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 807 300 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 0.73% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.86% 1.85% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 520 166 282
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,006 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £57,813 £89,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +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 20,899 16,228 23,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.22% 39.23% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,403 7,487 16,484
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -

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 24 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 24 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 +156 709 £31,000 -52.16% 269
UK excluding London +176 521 £30,500 -41.90% 250
North of England +112 258 £30,500 -34.41% 67
Work from Home +75 236 £75,000 +25.00% 59
London +44 216 £38,750 -55.07% 78
Yorkshire +52 141 £30,500 -32.22% 29
North West +51 88 £30,500 -39.00% 26
Midlands +16 66 £30,500 -52.79% 35
West Midlands +27 52 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East +2 50 £33,750 -44.67% 55
Scotland +18 45 £30,500 -41.90% 10
South West 0 42 £31,000 -34.74% 35
East of England +1 34 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East +4 29 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -16 21 £31,000 -63.53% 8
East Midlands -26 14 £51,058 -7.17% 18
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 12

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 78 (9.67%) WordPress
2 54 (6.69%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.99%) Confluence
4 8 (0.99%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.99%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (0.74%) Apache
6 6 (0.74%) Drupal
6 6 (0.74%) nginx
7 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.50%) Documentum
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 92 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (6.82%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 807 (100.00%) AWS
2 484 (59.98%) Azure
3 324 (40.15%) GitHub
4 119 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (13.63%) Serverless
6 84 (10.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 80 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (9.79%) GCP
9 75 (9.29%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.43%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
12 42 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
16 32 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (3.35%) Apigee
18 19 (2.35%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 298 (36.93%) Internet
2 29 (3.59%) Firewall
3 22 (2.73%) VPN
4 21 (2.60%) Broadband
4 21 (2.60%) Network Security
5 11 (1.36%) SSL
6 10 (1.24%) WAN
7 9 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.87%) DNS
9 6 (0.74%) DHCP
9 6 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.74%) VLAN
9 6 (0.74%) Wireless
10 5 (0.62%) LAN
11 4 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.37%) BGP
12 3 (0.37%) OSPF
12 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.25%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.58%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 33 (4.09%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.72%) Metadata
5 25 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.48%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.99%) DB2
11 6 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.50%) Power BI
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 1 (0.12%) GIS
15 1 (0.12%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 311 (38.54%) Git
2 54 (6.69%) Visual Studio Code
3 47 (5.82%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.58%) GitLab
5 27 (3.35%) Cypress.io
5 27 (3.35%) Maven
5 27 (3.35%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.35%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.86%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.24%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.24%) JIRA
9 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.50%) MLflow
11 2 (0.25%) Selenium
12 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.12%) Gatling
12 1 (0.12%) JMeter
12 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 298 (36.93%) Multimedia
2 229 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 152 (18.84%) Finance
4 92 (11.40%) French Language
5 74 (9.17%) Retail
6 63 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (6.94%) Manufacturing
8 55 (6.82%) Swedish Language
9 50 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (6.07%) Banking
11 47 (5.82%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.97%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.35%) Retail Banking
14 12 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.36%) Law
15 11 (1.36%) Publishing
16 8 (0.99%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.74%) Legal
18 5 (0.62%) Advertising
18 5 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 349 (43.25%) Trainee
2 170 (21.07%) Developer
3 125 (15.49%) Trainee Developer
4 115 (14.25%) Analyst
5 113 (14.00%) Architect
6 111 (13.75%) Software Developer
6 111 (13.75%) Trainee Software Developer
7 92 (11.40%) Service Analyst
7 92 (11.40%) Service Desk Analyst
8 79 (9.79%) Administrator
9 72 (8.92%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (8.92%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.32%) Programmer
10 51 (6.32%) Trainee Programmer
11 44 (5.45%) Senior
12 41 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.46%) Lead
14 30 (3.72%) Data Architect
15 24 (2.97%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (36.93%) CSS
1 298 (36.93%) HTML
2 54 (6.69%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.69%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.69%) NumPy
2 54 (6.69%) Pandas
2 54 (6.69%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.69%) Streamlit
3 36 (4.46%) Spring Boot
4 31 (3.84%) React
5 28 (3.47%) AngularJS
6 27 (3.35%) Gherkin
6 27 (3.35%) Jest
7 19 (2.35%) .NET
7 19 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.11%) AWS CDK
9 14 (1.73%) RESTful
9 14 (1.73%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (1.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.19%) Algorithms
3 37 (4.58%) Public Cloud
4 36 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.73%) PKI
6 21 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.86%) e-Learning
9 13 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (0.99%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.62%) Blog
15 5 (0.62%) Clustering
15 5 (0.62%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.62%) PACS
15 5 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.43%) Linux
2 43 (5.33%) Windows
3 36 (4.46%) Unix
4 14 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (37.17%) Mentoring
2 271 (33.58%) Cybersecurity
3 161 (19.95%) Agile
4 158 (19.58%) ITIL
5 153 (18.96%) Customer Service
6 129 (15.99%) CI/CD
6 129 (15.99%) DevOps
7 119 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 117 (14.50%) AI
9 96 (11.90%) ITSM
10 95 (11.77%) Performance Metrics
11 86 (10.66%) Web Development
12 76 (9.42%) Data Privacy
13 73 (9.05%) Machine Learning
14 71 (8.80%) Migration
15 69 (8.55%) Problem-Solving
16 63 (7.81%) Containerisation
17 61 (7.56%) Microservices
18 60 (7.43%) LLM
19 59 (7.31%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 471 (58.36%) Python
2 351 (43.49%) JavaScript
3 173 (21.44%) R
4 89 (11.03%) Java
5 75 (9.29%) Bash
6 55 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.21%) C#
8 31 (3.84%) Go
8 31 (3.84%) SQL
9 27 (3.35%) Groovy
9 27 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.99%) C++
12 7 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
13 6 (0.74%) Bicep
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.12%) PHP
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 427 (52.91%) Azure Certification
2 422 (52.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 364 (45.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 175 (21.69%) Degree
5 100 (12.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 92 (11.40%) MCSE
7 55 (6.82%) Security Cleared
8 48 (5.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 40 (4.96%) SC Cleared
10 37 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 33 (4.09%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (3.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 24 (2.97%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (2.60%) CISSP
15 18 (2.23%) CISM
16 16 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.99%) CCNP
18 8 (0.99%) DV Cleared
19 7 (0.87%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (12.02%) QA
2 32 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.73%) NIST
4 17 (2.11%) GDPR
5 16 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.86%) SLA
7 11 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.24%) NCSC
9 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.99%) GRC
11 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.62%) DICOM
11 5 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.25%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.25%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.12%) Basel III
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (13.01%) Docker
2 21 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.87%) KVM
5 5 (0.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.50%) iptables
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (14.25%) Terraform
2 77 (9.54%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.07%) Ansible
4 38 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.97%) Grafana
6 31 (3.84%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.48%) Argo
8 19 (2.35%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.99%) Cilium
10 8 (0.99%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.62%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Consul
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Nessus
14 1 (0.12%) Packer
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 530 (65.68%) Microsoft
2 102 (12.64%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.83%) Google
4 29 (3.59%) VMware
5 17 (2.11%) Adobe
5 17 (2.11%) Apple
6 14 (1.73%) Databricks
6 14 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.49%) SAP
8 11 (1.36%) Cisco
8 11 (1.36%) IBM
8 11 (1.36%) Workday
9 7 (0.87%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.62%) Symantec
10 5 (0.62%) YouTube
11 4 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.50%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.50%) OpenText
11 4 (0.50%) Pega
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle