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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 380 420
Rank change year-on-year +174 +40 -274
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 784 309 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.89% 1.79% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 485 162 288
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,813 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £103,575
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% -

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 20,177 17,236 23,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.96% 39.11% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,064 7,438 16,116
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,281 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 9 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 9 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 +166 682 £30,500 -52.79% 448
UK excluding London +198 493 £30,500 -41.90% 452
Work from Home +112 258 £75,000 +25.00% 62
North of England +112 247 £30,500 -34.41% 119
London +55 213 £57,500 -34.29% 101
Yorkshire +47 137 £30,500 -32.22% 49
North West +52 81 £30,500 -39.00% 56
Midlands +19 56 £30,500 -52.79% 69
South East +14 52 £56,250 -7.02% 88
West Midlands +31 45 £30,500 -52.79% 29
Scotland +25 43 £30,500 -41.90% 30
South West +7 39 £30,500 -35.79% 56
North East +9 29 £30,500 -32.22% 20
East of England +12 27 £80,000 +28.00% 55
Northern Ireland -7 25 - - 10
East Midlands -18 11 £51,058 -7.17% 40
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 35

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 50 (6.38%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.34%) WordPress
3 10 (1.28%) Tomcat
3 10 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (0.89%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.64%) Apache
7 5 (0.64%) Drupal
7 5 (0.64%) nginx
8 4 (0.51%) Documentum
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.26%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 110 (14.03%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.51%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 784 (100.00%) AWS
2 450 (57.40%) Azure
3 284 (36.22%) GitHub
4 140 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (14.41%) Serverless
6 85 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 81 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (10.08%) GCP
9 76 (9.69%) Amazon S3
10 56 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 42 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
17 29 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.06%) Apigee
19 21 (2.68%) Entra ID
20 19 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 255 (32.53%) Internet
2 28 (3.57%) Firewall
3 25 (3.19%) VPN
4 21 (2.68%) Broadband
5 19 (2.42%) Network Security
6 12 (1.53%) SSL
7 9 (1.15%) VLAN
7 9 (1.15%) WAN
8 8 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.89%) DNS
10 6 (0.77%) DHCP
10 6 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (0.77%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.51%) BGP
12 4 (0.51%) OSPF
12 4 (0.51%) VoIP
13 3 (0.38%) EIGRP
13 3 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.61%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.23%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 29 (3.70%) Metadata
5 24 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.55%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.30%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.28%) DB2
11 9 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.64%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.51%) Big Data
14 3 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.26%) Power BI
16 1 (0.13%) GIS
16 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 273 (34.82%) Git
2 50 (6.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 44 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.10%) GitLab
5 25 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.06%) Maven
6 24 (3.06%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.42%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.79%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.15%) JIRA
11 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.51%) MLflow
13 2 (0.26%) Selenium
14 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 255 (32.53%) Multimedia
2 244 (31.12%) Social Skills
3 149 (19.01%) Finance
4 110 (14.03%) French Language
5 79 (10.08%) Swedish Language
6 70 (8.93%) Retail
7 63 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.63%) Manufacturing
9 51 (6.51%) Banking
10 48 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (6.12%) Financial Institution
11 25 (3.19%) Public Sector
12 21 (2.68%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.53%) Law
15 11 (1.40%) Publishing
16 9 (1.15%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.77%) Legal
18 5 (0.64%) Local Government
18 5 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 305 (38.90%) Trainee
2 160 (20.41%) Developer
3 133 (16.96%) Analyst
4 122 (15.56%) Trainee Developer
5 113 (14.41%) Architect
5 113 (14.41%) Software Developer
5 113 (14.41%) Trainee Software Developer
6 110 (14.03%) Service Analyst
6 110 (14.03%) Service Desk Analyst
7 50 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 50 (6.38%) Programmer
7 50 (6.38%) Trainee Programmer
8 49 (6.25%) Senior
9 42 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (4.72%) Lead
11 36 (4.59%) Administrator
12 29 (3.70%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.70%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.70%) Web Administrator
13 21 (2.68%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (32.53%) CSS
1 255 (32.53%) HTML
2 52 (6.63%) NumPy
2 52 (6.63%) Pandas
3 51 (6.51%) Hugging Face
4 50 (6.38%) Matplotlib
4 50 (6.38%) scikit-learn
4 50 (6.38%) Streamlit
5 34 (4.34%) Spring Boot
6 26 (3.32%) React
7 25 (3.19%) AngularJS
7 25 (3.19%) Jest
8 24 (3.06%) Gherkin
9 19 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.30%) .NET
11 17 (2.17%) AWS CDK
12 15 (1.91%) RESTful
13 14 (1.79%) Kafka
14 11 (1.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.76%) Algorithms
3 40 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.81%) PKI
6 19 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.53%) e-Learning
8 12 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.02%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.64%) Clustering
12 5 (0.64%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.64%) PACS
12 5 (0.64%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (8.80%) Linux
2 49 (6.25%) Windows
3 40 (5.10%) Unix
4 15 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (39.03%) Mentoring
2 275 (35.08%) Cybersecurity
3 172 (21.94%) ITIL
4 162 (20.66%) Customer Service
5 152 (19.39%) Agile
6 130 (16.58%) DevOps
7 127 (16.20%) CI/CD
8 118 (15.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 115 (14.67%) ITSM
10 113 (14.41%) AI
11 107 (13.65%) Performance Metrics
12 74 (9.44%) Migration
13 72 (9.18%) Data Privacy
14 71 (9.06%) Machine Learning
15 68 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
16 64 (8.16%) Microservices
17 63 (8.04%) Containerisation
18 61 (7.78%) Computer Science
19 60 (7.65%) TOGAF
20 57 (7.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 426 (54.34%) Python
2 310 (39.54%) JavaScript
3 133 (16.96%) R
4 88 (11.22%) Java
5 73 (9.31%) Bash
6 54 (6.89%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.46%) C#
8 31 (3.95%) SQL
9 30 (3.83%) Go
10 28 (3.57%) PowerShell
11 24 (3.06%) Groovy
12 9 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.02%) Bicep
14 7 (0.89%) C++
15 6 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.13%) C
16 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 401 (51.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 386 (49.23%) Azure Certification
3 315 (40.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 194 (24.74%) Degree
5 110 (14.03%) MCSE
6 106 (13.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 51 (6.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 50 (6.38%) Security Cleared
9 40 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (4.72%) SC Cleared
11 32 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (3.06%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (2.93%) CISSP
14 21 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.17%) CISM
16 16 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (1.40%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.15%) DV Cleared
19 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
19 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (14.03%) QA
2 35 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.06%) NIST
4 18 (2.30%) GDPR
5 17 (2.17%) SLA
6 15 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.28%) NCSC
8 10 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.02%) GRC
11 7 (0.89%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.64%) DICOM
12 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.26%) GxP
14 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.13%) Basel III
15 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (13.52%) Docker
2 28 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.77%) KVM
6 5 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.51%) iptables
7 4 (0.51%) vSphere
8 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 111 (14.16%) Terraform
2 78 (9.95%) Kubernetes
3 47 (5.99%) Ansible
4 38 (4.85%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.08%) Grafana
6 28 (3.57%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.55%) Argo
8 19 (2.42%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.28%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.02%) Cilium
10 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.51%) Puppet
13 3 (0.38%) Nessus
14 1 (0.13%) Autotask
14 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 508 (64.80%) Microsoft
2 121 (15.43%) ServiceNow
3 38 (4.85%) Google
4 37 (4.72%) VMware
5 17 (2.17%) Adobe
5 17 (2.17%) Apple
6 15 (1.91%) IBM
6 15 (1.91%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.53%) SAP
8 11 (1.40%) Workday
9 10 (1.28%) Databricks
10 9 (1.15%) Cisco
11 5 (0.64%) Symantec
11 5 (0.64%) YouTube
12 4 (0.51%) OpenText
12 4 (0.51%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.51%) Pega
13 3 (0.38%) Oracle
13 3 (0.38%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg