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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 284 482
Rank change year-on-year -30 +198 -329
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 560 483 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.07% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 2.78% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 286 143 318
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £73,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.31% -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 18,397 17,348 27,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 38.58% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,688 7,371 17,279
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,749
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,138 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.70% +0.28% -4.76%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -38 512 £38,750 -44.64% 193
UK excluding London -50 326 £37,500 -42.31% 186
London +4 198 £65,000 -16.13% 68
Work from Home -55 189 £62,500 -3.85% 59
North of England -59 148 £37,500 -42.31% 43
North West -70 67 £37,500 -25.00% 22
Yorkshire +15 66 £37,500 -42.31% 18
Midlands +4 55 £37,500 -36.81% 24
West Midlands -5 49 £37,500 -36.81% 12
South West -54 41 £52,500 -7.48% 28
South East -9 34 £62,500 -12.59% 54
East of England -4 15 £37,500 -55.88% 19
North East -35 15 £37,500 -21.05% 4
Scotland +13 14 £31,250 -40.48% 6
Northern Ireland -20 10 £39,000 - 10
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 5
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 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 54 (9.64%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.86%) WordPress
3 17 (3.04%) Confluence
4 9 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.71%) Documentum
8 3 (0.54%) JBoss
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.36%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (11.79%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.82%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.29%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 560 (100.00%) AWS
2 242 (43.21%) Azure
3 128 (22.86%) GitHub
4 94 (16.79%) GCP
5 87 (15.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 83 (14.82%) Serverless
7 81 (14.46%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (13.39%) Cloud Computing
9 68 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (11.96%) Amazon S3
11 52 (9.29%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.07%) AWS Step Functions
14 32 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (5.54%) Amazon ECR
16 27 (4.82%) Apigee
17 25 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (3.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 96 (17.14%) Internet
2 37 (6.61%) Network Security
3 34 (6.07%) Firewall
4 20 (3.57%) VPN
5 18 (3.21%) Broadband
6 16 (2.86%) WAN
7 15 (2.68%) Software-Defined Networking
8 14 (2.50%) SD-WAN
9 13 (2.32%) LAN
10 12 (2.14%) DNS
11 11 (1.96%) DHCP
12 9 (1.61%) TCP/IP
13 8 (1.43%) IPv4
13 8 (1.43%) Wireless
14 6 (1.07%) VLAN
15 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (0.54%) Wireshark
17 2 (0.36%) BGP
17 2 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
17 2 (0.36%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.39%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.79%) DynamoDB
3 28 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.75%) Metadata
5 20 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.21%) RDBMS
6 18 (3.21%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.89%) Big Data
9 5 (0.89%) Power BI
10 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.54%) Redis
11 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 105 (18.75%) Git
2 66 (11.79%) GitLab
3 55 (9.82%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 28 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 28 (5.00%) Maven
6 27 (4.82%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.29%) Cucumber
8 20 (3.57%) JIRA
9 19 (3.39%) TeamCity
10 18 (3.21%) Jaeger
11 15 (2.68%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.54%) Selenium
13 2 (0.36%) MLflow
14 1 (0.18%) Gatling
14 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.18%) Taiga
14 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 152 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 127 (22.68%) Finance
3 92 (16.43%) Multimedia
4 78 (13.93%) Retail
5 61 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (10.54%) Manufacturing
7 39 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (6.96%) French Language
8 33 (5.89%) Banking
9 27 (4.82%) Swedish Language
10 24 (4.29%) Financial Institution
10 24 (4.29%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.25%) Advertising
13 6 (1.07%) Legal
13 6 (1.07%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.89%) Billing
15 4 (0.71%) Automotive
15 4 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 143 (25.54%) Trainee
2 100 (17.86%) Analyst
3 93 (16.61%) Architect
4 84 (15.00%) Senior
5 74 (13.21%) Developer
6 66 (11.79%) Service Analyst
6 66 (11.79%) Service Desk Analyst
7 51 (9.11%) Administrator
7 51 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.11%) Programmer
7 51 (9.11%) Trainee Programmer
8 45 (8.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (7.68%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.68%) Web Administrator
10 34 (6.07%) Lead
11 31 (5.54%) Trainee Developer
12 27 (4.82%) Software Developer
13 26 (4.64%) Java Developer
13 26 (4.64%) Senior Analyst
13 26 (4.64%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (16.79%) CSS
1 94 (16.79%) HTML
2 59 (10.54%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.64%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.64%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.64%) NumPy
3 54 (9.64%) Pandas
3 54 (9.64%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.64%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 31 (5.54%) Spring
6 28 (5.00%) Jest
7 27 (4.82%) Gherkin
7 27 (4.82%) Kafka
8 19 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
9 18 (3.21%) React
10 14 (2.50%) Node.js
11 10 (1.79%) .NET
11 10 (1.79%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.25%) Algorithms
3 37 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (5.18%) PKI
6 28 (5.00%) e-Learning
7 27 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (4.64%) Onboarding
9 24 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (3.57%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.25%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.89%) PACS
14 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.36%) Linux
2 39 (6.96%) Windows
3 20 (3.57%) Unix
4 17 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (27.86%) Agile
2 150 (26.79%) CI/CD
3 148 (26.43%) Mentoring
4 144 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (23.93%) AI
6 122 (21.79%) Customer Service
7 120 (21.43%) ITIL
8 104 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
9 100 (17.86%) DevOps
10 75 (13.39%) Machine Learning
11 69 (12.32%) ITSM
12 66 (11.79%) Performance Metrics
13 65 (11.61%) Cloud Security
14 62 (11.07%) Data Privacy
15 61 (10.89%) LLM
16 59 (10.54%) Microservices
16 59 (10.54%) OO
16 59 (10.54%) Visualisation
17 58 (10.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 57 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 258 (46.07%) Python
2 131 (23.39%) JavaScript
3 107 (19.11%) Java
4 76 (13.57%) Bash
5 61 (10.89%) R
6 44 (7.86%) TypeScript
7 43 (7.68%) SQL
8 39 (6.96%) Go
9 28 (5.00%) Groovy
10 27 (4.82%) PowerShell
11 20 (3.57%) C#
12 11 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.43%) C++
13 8 (1.43%) Ruby
14 6 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.71%) Bicep
16 3 (0.54%) PHP
17 2 (0.36%) COBOL
17 2 (0.36%) Perl
18 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 185 (33.04%) Azure Certification
2 179 (31.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 163 (29.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 131 (23.39%) Degree
5 109 (19.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 71 (12.68%) Security Cleared
7 66 (11.79%) MCSE
8 44 (7.86%) SC Cleared
9 32 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (3.21%) CISSP
15 15 (2.68%) CCNA
16 14 (2.50%) CISM
17 13 (2.32%) CCNP
18 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
19 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
20 9 (1.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.14%) QA
2 37 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.21%) NIST
3 18 (3.21%) SOC 2
4 14 (2.50%) GDPR
5 13 (2.32%) GRC
6 12 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.79%) NCSC
9 8 (1.43%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.89%) DICOM
12 4 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.54%) SLA
14 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.18%) COBIT
15 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 91 (16.25%) Docker
2 21 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.43%) Squid
4 8 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.43%) vSphere
5 6 (1.07%) KVM
6 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.71%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (22.50%) Terraform
2 84 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.18%) Ansible
4 38 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 31 (5.54%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.82%) Grafana
7 20 (3.57%) Argo
8 18 (3.21%) Kustomize
9 13 (2.32%) Cilium
10 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.61%) Packer
12 8 (1.43%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.43%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.07%) Puppet
15 2 (0.36%) Iperf
15 2 (0.36%) QRadar
16 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
16 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 292 (52.14%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.96%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.25%) Google
4 31 (5.54%) Apple
4 31 (5.54%) VMware
5 30 (5.36%) Adobe
6 18 (3.21%) Oracle
6 18 (3.21%) Splunk
7 16 (2.86%) Cisco
7 16 (2.86%) Databricks
8 11 (1.96%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.79%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.43%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.43%) SAP
12 5 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.71%) OpenText
13 4 (0.71%) Pega
13 4 (0.71%) YouTube
14 3 (0.54%) Infor