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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 286 515
Rank change year-on-year -52 +229 -127
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 590 512 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.03% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.97% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 249 170 206
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,188 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -31.15% -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 19,803 17,225 21,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.68% 34.59% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,616 7,847 11,813
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,256 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -54 547 £55,000 -21.43% 973
UK excluding London -101 311 £44,750 -31.15% 664
London +22 255 £77,500 - 484
Work from Home -108 177 £85,000 +22.30% 627
North of England -105 119 £37,500 -42.31% 203
North West -99 60 £37,500 -40.00% 115
South West -44 53 £60,500 +6.62% 89
Midlands -8 51 £37,500 -44.44% 123
West Midlands -13 47 £37,500 -44.44% 103
South East -18 42 £62,500 -11.03% 82
Yorkshire -9 39 £37,500 -42.31% 34
North East -38 20 £52,000 +9.47% 56
East of England -23 15 £37,500 -55.88% 26
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 8
Scotland +19 10 £37,500 -28.57% 82
Northern Ireland -62 8 £40,750 - 53
East Midlands - 4 £31,500 - 20

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 44 (7.46%) WordPress
2 35 (5.93%) Jupyter
3 20 (3.39%) Confluence
4 17 (2.88%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 5 (0.85%) Apache Pig
6 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.68%) JBoss
7 4 (0.68%) SAS
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (6.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.07%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 590 (100.00%) AWS
2 226 (38.31%) Azure
3 123 (20.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 115 (19.49%) Cloud Computing
5 112 (18.98%) GCP
6 101 (17.12%) GitHub
7 100 (16.95%) Serverless
8 90 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
9 82 (13.90%) AWS Lambda
10 77 (13.05%) Amazon S3
11 73 (12.37%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (4.58%) AWS Step Functions
16 24 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (3.90%) Amazon ECR
18 22 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
19 20 (3.39%) Apigee
20 19 (3.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 76 (12.88%) Internet
2 64 (10.85%) Network Security
3 42 (7.12%) Firewall
4 26 (4.41%) WAN
5 24 (4.07%) VPN
6 20 (3.39%) SD-WAN
6 20 (3.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 19 (3.22%) DNS
8 18 (3.05%) LAN
9 17 (2.88%) DHCP
10 14 (2.37%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.86%) Wireless
12 9 (1.53%) VLAN
13 8 (1.36%) IPv4
14 7 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.68%) DMZ
17 3 (0.51%) 3GPP
17 3 (0.51%) BGP
17 3 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.98%) NoSQL
2 43 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (5.93%) DynamoDB
4 20 (3.39%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.05%) Metadata
6 14 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.86%) Big Data
8 11 (1.86%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.19%) Power BI
10 7 (1.19%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.85%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (12.20%) Git
2 71 (12.03%) GitLab
3 55 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 34 (5.76%) Cucumber
6 30 (5.08%) JIRA
7 23 (3.90%) Maven
8 21 (3.56%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.39%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.71%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.71%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) Taiga
12 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.34%) Ant
13 2 (0.34%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.34%) git-flow
13 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 166 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 154 (26.10%) Finance
3 65 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.00%) Multimedia
5 55 (9.32%) Retail
6 53 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (8.14%) Swedish Language
8 44 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (6.95%) Manufacturing
10 32 (5.42%) Banking
11 25 (4.24%) French Language
12 21 (3.56%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.88%) Aerospace
14 15 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (2.37%) Law
16 11 (1.86%) Marketing
17 9 (1.53%) Legal
18 8 (1.36%) Military
19 6 (1.02%) Billing
19 6 (1.02%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 129 (21.86%) Senior
2 109 (18.47%) Architect
3 104 (17.63%) Analyst
4 91 (15.42%) Trainee
5 73 (12.37%) Service Analyst
5 73 (12.37%) Service Desk Analyst
6 61 (10.34%) Consultant
7 54 (9.15%) Developer
8 49 (8.31%) Administrator
9 43 (7.29%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.29%) Web Administrator
10 40 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (5.42%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 32 (5.42%) Programmer
12 32 (5.42%) Trainee Programmer
13 31 (5.25%) Java Engineer
14 30 (5.08%) Security Consultant
15 27 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.58%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.68%) CSS
2 63 (10.68%) HTML
3 49 (8.31%) Kafka
4 45 (7.63%) Spring
5 35 (5.93%) Hugging Face
5 35 (5.93%) Matplotlib
5 35 (5.93%) NumPy
5 35 (5.93%) Pandas
5 35 (5.93%) scikit-learn
5 35 (5.93%) Streamlit
6 30 (5.08%) AWS CDK
7 26 (4.41%) AngularJS
8 23 (3.90%) Node.js
9 21 (3.56%) .NET
9 21 (3.56%) Jest
10 20 (3.39%) Gherkin
11 19 (3.22%) React
12 14 (2.37%) REST
13 10 (1.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 88 (14.92%) Onboarding
3 47 (7.97%) Algorithms
3 47 (7.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 46 (7.80%) Public Cloud
5 39 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (6.27%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.59%) Data Centre
8 29 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (3.56%) PKI
11 14 (2.37%) Blog
12 13 (2.20%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.69%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.53%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
16 8 (1.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.31%) Windows
2 37 (6.27%) Linux
3 22 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.34%) Solaris
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (31.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 179 (30.34%) CI/CD
3 176 (29.83%) AI
4 164 (27.80%) Agile
5 162 (27.46%) Mentoring
6 126 (21.36%) ITIL
7 110 (18.64%) Cloud Security
7 110 (18.64%) Customer Service
8 93 (15.76%) DevOps
9 92 (15.59%) Cybersecurity
10 88 (14.92%) Machine Learning
11 80 (13.56%) ITSM
12 79 (13.39%) Migration
13 74 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 73 (12.37%) Performance Metrics
15 72 (12.20%) Microservices
16 69 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (10.85%) Technical Leadership
18 61 (10.34%) Computer Science
19 60 (10.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 212 (35.93%) Python
2 113 (19.15%) Java
3 82 (13.90%) JavaScript
4 62 (10.51%) Bash
5 60 (10.17%) SQL
6 47 (7.97%) R
7 33 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 27 (4.58%) Go
9 24 (4.07%) Ruby
10 23 (3.90%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.56%) Groovy
12 18 (3.05%) C#
13 15 (2.54%) PHP
14 14 (2.37%) Perl
15 10 (1.69%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.02%) C++
16 6 (1.02%) COBOL
17 5 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 2 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 165 (27.97%) Degree
2 152 (25.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 147 (24.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 146 (24.75%) Azure Certification
5 118 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 117 (19.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 73 (12.37%) MCSE
8 70 (11.86%) SC Cleared
9 47 (7.97%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (4.75%) CISSP
12 23 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (3.56%) CCNA
14 21 (3.56%) Master's Degree
15 20 (3.39%) CCNP
16 19 (3.22%) AWS Certified Developer
17 18 (3.05%) DV Cleared
18 17 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (12.54%) QA
2 41 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.07%) GDPR
4 22 (3.73%) SOC 2
5 20 (3.39%) NIST
6 16 (2.71%) NCSC
7 13 (2.20%) Accessibility
8 12 (2.03%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.03%) GRC
9 10 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.69%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.36%) ISO 9001
11 7 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (1.02%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.68%) SLA
14 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.17%) COBIT
15 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 71 (12.03%) Docker
2 25 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.36%) Squid
4 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.36%) vSphere
5 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.85%) KVM
6 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 134 (22.71%) Terraform
2 75 (12.71%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.12%) Ansible
4 22 (3.73%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.05%) Grafana
6 16 (2.71%) Puppet
7 14 (2.37%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.86%) Cilium
10 10 (1.69%) Prometheus
11 9 (1.53%) Packer
12 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.36%) ZABBIX
13 6 (1.02%) Argo
14 4 (0.68%) Iperf
15 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.51%) QRadar
16 2 (0.34%) kaniko
17 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 255 (43.22%) Microsoft
2 100 (16.95%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.59%) Oracle
4 30 (5.08%) VMware
5 25 (4.24%) Apple
5 25 (4.24%) Splunk
6 24 (4.07%) Adobe
6 24 (4.07%) Cisco
7 22 (3.73%) Google
8 18 (3.05%) SAP
9 17 (2.88%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.54%) Databricks
11 14 (2.37%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.03%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.36%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.19%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.19%) Avaya
14 7 (1.19%) Genesys
15 6 (1.02%) F5