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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 285 480
Rank change year-on-year -17 +195 -325
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 561 489 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.07% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.80% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 280 148 307
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £69,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.04% -7.33% -0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £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 18,589 17,460 26,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 38.33% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,802 7,441 16,995
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £78,800 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 27 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 27 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 -49 513 £40,000 -42.03% 241
UK excluding London -50 318 £37,500 -42.31% 216
London +5 207 £75,000 -3.23% 75
Work from Home -71 181 £67,500 +3.85% 59
North of England -63 141 £37,500 -42.31% 53
North West -76 66 £37,500 -25.00% 25
Yorkshire +9 60 £37,500 -42.31% 23
Midlands -12 53 £37,500 -31.82% 31
West Midlands -2 48 £37,500 -31.82% 17
South West -50 41 £52,500 -7.48% 27
South East -11 35 £62,500 -17.49% 65
North East -29 15 £37,500 -21.05% 8
East of England -8 14 £37,500 -55.88% 28
Scotland +22 13 £31,500 -40.00% 7
Wales - 11 £53,310 - 5
Northern Ireland -23 10 £39,000 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 14

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 (9.63%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.84%) WordPress
3 17 (3.03%) Confluence
4 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.07%) Apache
7 4 (0.71%) Documentum
8 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 3 (0.53%) 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 74 (13.19%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.80%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.28%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 561 (100.00%) AWS
2 225 (40.11%) Azure
3 124 (22.10%) GitHub
4 96 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (16.58%) GCP
6 89 (15.86%) Microsoft 365
7 88 (15.69%) Cloud Computing
8 83 (14.80%) Serverless
9 72 (12.83%) Amazon S3
9 72 (12.83%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (6.24%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (5.70%) Amazon ECR
15 28 (4.99%) Apigee
16 25 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 20 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 91 (16.22%) Internet
2 43 (7.66%) Network Security
3 34 (6.06%) Firewall
4 20 (3.57%) VPN
5 16 (2.85%) WAN
6 15 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.50%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.32%) LAN
9 12 (2.14%) Broadband
9 12 (2.14%) DNS
10 11 (1.96%) DHCP
11 9 (1.60%) TCP/IP
12 8 (1.43%) IPv4
12 8 (1.43%) Wireless
13 6 (1.07%) VLAN
14 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
16 2 (0.36%) BGP
16 2 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
16 2 (0.36%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.49%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.77%) DynamoDB
3 30 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.74%) Metadata
6 12 (2.14%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.25%) Big Data
9 6 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.89%) Power BI
11 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 98 (17.47%) Git
2 68 (12.12%) GitLab
3 59 (10.52%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.17%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.17%) Maven
6 28 (4.99%) SonarQube
7 25 (4.46%) Cucumber
8 20 (3.57%) JIRA
9 19 (3.39%) TeamCity
10 15 (2.67%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.14%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.53%) 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
1 148 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 131 (23.35%) Finance
3 86 (15.33%) Multimedia
4 79 (14.08%) Retail
5 59 (10.52%) Manufacturing
6 48 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (6.95%) French Language
8 38 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (6.24%) Swedish Language
10 32 (5.70%) Banking
10 32 (5.70%) Public Sector
11 23 (4.10%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.25%) Advertising
15 5 (0.89%) Legal
15 5 (0.89%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.71%) Automotive
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
16 4 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 137 (24.42%) Trainee
2 102 (18.18%) Analyst
3 93 (16.58%) Architect
4 88 (15.69%) Senior
5 74 (13.19%) Service Analyst
5 74 (13.19%) Service Desk Analyst
6 72 (12.83%) Developer
7 51 (9.09%) Administrator
7 51 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.09%) Programmer
7 51 (9.09%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (7.66%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.66%) Web Administrator
9 42 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.35%) Lead
11 28 (4.99%) Trainee Developer
12 27 (4.81%) Java Developer
13 26 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
14 25 (4.46%) Consultant
15 24 (4.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (15.69%) CSS
1 88 (15.69%) HTML
2 63 (11.23%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.63%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.63%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.63%) NumPy
3 54 (9.63%) Pandas
3 54 (9.63%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.63%) Streamlit
4 33 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 32 (5.70%) Spring
6 29 (5.17%) Jest
7 28 (4.99%) Gherkin
7 28 (4.99%) Kafka
8 18 (3.21%) React
9 16 (2.85%) Node.js
10 14 (2.50%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (1.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.23%) Algorithms
3 33 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.70%) Public Cloud
5 31 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (5.17%) e-Learning
7 28 (4.99%) PKI
8 27 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (4.63%) Data Centre
10 25 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.43%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.43%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.25%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.07%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.45%) Linux
2 41 (7.31%) Windows
3 17 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.67%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) 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
1 152 (27.09%) Agile
1 152 (27.09%) CI/CD
2 147 (26.20%) Mentoring
3 145 (25.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (25.49%) AI
5 130 (23.17%) Customer Service
6 128 (22.82%) ITIL
7 95 (16.93%) Cybersecurity
7 95 (16.93%) DevOps
8 81 (14.44%) Machine Learning
9 76 (13.55%) ITSM
10 75 (13.37%) Cloud Security
11 74 (13.19%) Performance Metrics
12 61 (10.87%) Data Privacy
12 61 (10.87%) LLM
12 61 (10.87%) Microservices
13 60 (10.70%) Migration
13 60 (10.70%) OO
14 58 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (10.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 245 (43.67%) Python
2 117 (20.86%) JavaScript
3 105 (18.72%) Java
4 73 (13.01%) Bash
5 58 (10.34%) R
6 43 (7.66%) SQL
6 43 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.88%) Go
8 29 (5.17%) Groovy
9 27 (4.81%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.21%) C#
11 12 (2.14%) Ruby
12 11 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.43%) C++
14 6 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.89%) PHP
16 4 (0.71%) Bicep
16 4 (0.71%) COBOL
16 4 (0.71%) Perl
17 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 179 (31.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 174 (31.02%) Azure Certification
3 157 (27.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 138 (24.60%) Degree
5 115 (20.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 77 (13.73%) Security Cleared
7 74 (13.19%) MCSE
8 44 (7.84%) SC Cleared
9 34 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.28%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (4.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (3.74%) CISSP
13 19 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (2.67%) CCNA
15 14 (2.50%) CISM
16 13 (2.32%) CCNP
16 13 (2.32%) Master's Degree
17 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (1.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.55%) QA
2 37 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.39%) SOC 2
4 18 (3.21%) NIST
5 14 (2.50%) GDPR
6 13 (2.32%) GRC
7 12 (2.14%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.96%) NCSC
9 10 (1.78%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.43%) ISO 9001
11 7 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.89%) DICOM
14 4 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.36%) SLA
16 1 (0.18%) COBIT
16 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 85 (15.15%) Docker
2 20 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.67%) 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%) iptables
7 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (22.64%) Terraform
2 78 (13.90%) Kubernetes
3 52 (9.27%) Ansible
4 32 (5.70%) HP Fortify
4 32 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 27 (4.81%) Grafana
6 14 (2.50%) Argo
7 13 (2.32%) Cilium
8 12 (2.14%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.60%) Packer
10 9 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.43%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.43%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.43%) Puppet
11 8 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.36%) Iperf
12 2 (0.36%) QRadar
13 1 (0.18%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 289 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.36%) ServiceNow
3 30 (5.35%) VMware
4 28 (4.99%) Google
5 25 (4.46%) Apple
6 24 (4.28%) Adobe
7 21 (3.74%) Oracle
8 18 (3.21%) Splunk
9 16 (2.85%) Cisco
9 16 (2.85%) Databricks
10 12 (2.14%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.78%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.43%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.43%) SAP
14 6 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (0.71%) Infor
15 4 (0.71%) OpenText
15 4 (0.71%) Pega
15 4 (0.71%) YouTube