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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 291 464
Rank change year-on-year +23 +173 -301
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 634 467 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.06% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.64% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 359 164 316
10th Percentile - £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £59,375 £90,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £83,640 £98,375 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £56,745 £70,000
% change year-on-year -33.91% -18.94% -

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 21,037 17,705 25,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.93% 40.05% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,104 7,640 17,171
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £38,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -9.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.72% +3.13% -3.85%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +9 573 £37,500 -46.43% 266
UK excluding London +22 402 £37,500 -33.91% 229
North of England -22 211 £31,500 -40.00% 60
Work from Home -35 191 £62,500 -3.85% 306
London +10 186 £55,000 -33.33% 87
Yorkshire +46 108 £33,000 -40.00% 23
North West -52 83 £31,250 -45.65% 29
Midlands +9 63 £32,000 -40.40% 34
West Midlands +14 58 £32,000 -40.40% 15
South East +5 38 £62,000 -19.74% 48
South West -55 32 £37,500 -33.91% 35
Scotland +17 24 £30,500 -41.90% 16
North East -19 20 £30,500 -35.79% 8
East of England -5 19 £37,500 -55.88% 23
Northern Ireland -27 11 £35,000 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 19
Wales - 4 £51,619 - 10

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 56 (8.83%) WordPress
2 54 (8.52%) Jupyter
3 13 (2.05%) Confluence
4 9 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.95%) Apache
5 6 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.63%) Documentum
7 3 (0.47%) Drupal
7 3 (0.47%) JBoss
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 57 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.68%) Chatbot
3 19 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Weka
5 1 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (3.79%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 634 (100.00%) AWS
2 346 (54.57%) Azure
3 201 (31.70%) GitHub
4 96 (15.14%) Serverless
5 94 (14.83%) GCP
6 83 (13.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 76 (11.99%) AWS Lambda
8 74 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
9 72 (11.36%) Amazon S3
10 60 (9.46%) Cloud Computing
11 49 (7.73%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (7.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (5.84%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (5.21%) Apigee
15 33 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (2.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 176 (27.76%) Internet
2 28 (4.42%) Firewall
3 26 (4.10%) Network Security
4 20 (3.15%) VPN
5 18 (2.84%) Broadband
6 11 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.58%) WAN
8 9 (1.42%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.26%) LAN
10 6 (0.95%) DNS
10 6 (0.95%) IPv4
10 6 (0.95%) Wireless
11 5 (0.79%) DHCP
11 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.47%) VLAN
13 2 (0.32%) BGP
13 2 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
13 2 (0.32%) OSPF
14 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
14 1 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.57%) DynamoDB
2 43 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 24 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.47%) Metadata
5 21 (3.31%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.00%) RDBMS
6 19 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.26%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.79%) Power BI
11 4 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.47%) Big Data
12 3 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.32%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.16%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 190 (29.97%) Git
2 61 (9.62%) GitLab
3 55 (8.68%) Jenkins
4 54 (8.52%) Visual Studio Code
5 34 (5.36%) Cypress.io
5 34 (5.36%) Maven
6 33 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.84%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.84%) Jaeger
8 17 (2.68%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.21%) JIRA
10 11 (1.74%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.63%) MLflow
12 3 (0.47%) Selenium
13 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.16%) Gatling
13 1 (0.16%) JMeter
13 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 176 (27.76%) Multimedia
2 167 (26.34%) Social Skills
3 125 (19.72%) Finance
4 76 (11.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (11.36%) Retail
6 60 (9.46%) Manufacturing
7 49 (7.73%) French Language
8 42 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.68%) Banking
10 25 (3.94%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.74%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.26%) Advertising
13 8 (1.26%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.26%) Swedish Language
14 7 (1.10%) Legal
15 5 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.79%) Law
15 5 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 227 (35.80%) Trainee
2 119 (18.77%) Developer
3 103 (16.25%) Analyst
4 89 (14.04%) Architect
5 70 (11.04%) Trainee Developer
6 69 (10.88%) Senior
7 61 (9.62%) Administrator
8 58 (9.15%) Software Developer
9 57 (8.99%) Service Analyst
9 57 (8.99%) Service Desk Analyst
9 57 (8.99%) Trainee Software Developer
10 53 (8.36%) Trainee Administrator
10 53 (8.36%) Web Administrator
11 51 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (8.04%) Programmer
11 51 (8.04%) Trainee Programmer
12 43 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (5.99%) Lead
14 29 (4.57%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (27.92%) CSS
1 177 (27.92%) HTML
2 54 (8.52%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.52%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.52%) NumPy
2 54 (8.52%) Pandas
2 54 (8.52%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.52%) Streamlit
3 52 (8.20%) Spring Boot
4 35 (5.52%) AngularJS
5 34 (5.36%) Jest
6 33 (5.21%) Gherkin
7 29 (4.57%) React
8 20 (3.15%) Spring
9 19 (3.00%) Kafka
10 18 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
11 14 (2.21%) .NET
11 14 (2.21%) AWS CDK
12 13 (2.05%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.62%) Algorithms
3 45 (7.10%) Public Cloud
4 32 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (4.10%) PKI
6 24 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (3.47%) e-Learning
8 21 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (2.52%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.26%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.95%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.79%) Clustering
13 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.79%) PACS
13 5 (0.79%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 61 (9.62%) Linux
2 33 (5.21%) Windows
3 26 (4.10%) Unix
4 13 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (33.44%) Mentoring
2 187 (29.50%) Cybersecurity
3 156 (24.61%) Agile
4 142 (22.40%) CI/CD
5 132 (20.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (20.35%) AI
7 118 (18.61%) Customer Service
8 114 (17.98%) DevOps
9 113 (17.82%) ITIL
10 67 (10.57%) Cost Optimisation
10 67 (10.57%) Data Privacy
11 66 (10.41%) Machine Learning
11 66 (10.41%) Web Development
12 61 (9.62%) ITSM
13 60 (9.46%) Visualisation
14 59 (9.31%) LLM
14 59 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
15 58 (9.15%) Migration
15 58 (9.15%) OO
16 57 (8.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 330 (52.05%) Python
2 221 (34.86%) JavaScript
3 106 (16.72%) R
4 101 (15.93%) Java
5 77 (12.15%) Bash
6 55 (8.68%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.68%) SQL
8 34 (5.36%) Go
8 34 (5.36%) Groovy
9 25 (3.94%) C#
10 23 (3.63%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.42%) C++
13 7 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.47%) Bicep
15 2 (0.32%) Ruby
16 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.16%) C
16 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 276 (43.53%) Azure Certification
2 257 (40.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 244 (38.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 114 (17.98%) Degree
5 99 (15.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 61 (9.62%) Security Cleared
7 57 (8.99%) MCSE
8 38 (5.99%) SC Cleared
9 31 (4.89%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (3.63%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (3.00%) CISSP
16 15 (2.37%) CISM
17 9 (1.42%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.42%) Master's Degree
18 8 (1.26%) CCNP
19 7 (1.10%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.46%) QA
2 29 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.15%) NIST
4 14 (2.21%) SOC 2
5 11 (1.74%) GDPR
5 11 (1.74%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.58%) GRC
7 9 (1.42%) NCSC
8 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.95%) SLA
9 5 (0.79%) DICOM
9 5 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.32%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 106 (16.72%) Docker
2 24 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.26%) vSphere
5 7 (1.10%) KVM
6 6 (0.95%) Squid
6 6 (0.95%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.63%) iptables
9 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 117 (18.45%) Terraform
2 80 (12.62%) Kubernetes
3 55 (8.68%) Ansible
4 37 (5.84%) HP Fortify
4 37 (5.84%) Prometheus
5 28 (4.42%) Grafana
6 20 (3.15%) Argo
7 18 (2.84%) Kustomize
8 10 (1.58%) Cilium
8 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.26%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.10%) Packer
11 6 (0.95%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.79%) Puppet
12 5 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.16%) Consul
13 1 (0.16%) QRadar
13 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 384 (60.57%) Microsoft
2 85 (13.41%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.47%) Adobe
3 41 (6.47%) Apple
4 36 (5.68%) Google
5 32 (5.05%) VMware
6 16 (2.52%) Databricks
7 12 (1.89%) Cisco
7 12 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.74%) Oracle
8 11 (1.74%) Splunk
9 7 (1.10%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.95%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.95%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.79%) SAP
11 5 (0.79%) Symantec
11 5 (0.79%) Workday
12 4 (0.63%) OpenText
12 4 (0.63%) Pega
12 4 (0.63%) YouTube