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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 399 389
Rank change year-on-year +210 -10 -242
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 852 330 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 0.67% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.28% 1.78% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 504 147 299
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,625 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -13.87% -1.64%
75th Percentile £70,313 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,375 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -22.22% -3.57%

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 19,905 18,505 21,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.51% 37.76% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,057 7,263 14,979
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,200 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.99%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +203 735 £30,500 -51.20% 359
UK excluding London +217 518 £30,500 -41.90% 341
Work from Home +145 305 £75,000 +25.00% 64
North of England +111 246 £30,500 -32.22% 93
London +78 244 £60,000 -31.43% 105
Yorkshire +39 136 £30,500 -32.22% 39
North West +73 81 £30,500 -41.90% 44
South East +59 66 £41,875 -22.49% 62
Midlands +38 56 £30,500 -44.55% 50
West Midlands +45 45 £30,500 -48.43% 23
Scotland +23 45 £30,500 -61.88% 27
South West +21 38 £30,500 -49.17% 49
Northern Ireland +7 33 - - 6
East of England +29 30 £82,500 +53.49% 41
North East +19 29 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East Midlands -7 11 £51,058 -7.17% 27
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 18

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 34 (3.99%) WordPress
2 28 (3.29%) Jupyter
3 13 (1.53%) Tomcat
3 13 (1.53%) WebSphere
4 12 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.06%) Confluence
6 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.59%) Apache
7 5 (0.59%) Drupal
7 5 (0.59%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Documentum
9 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 148 (17.37%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.40%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 852 (100.00%) AWS
2 489 (57.39%) Azure
3 310 (36.38%) GitHub
4 178 (20.89%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (14.79%) Serverless
6 91 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 90 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (9.86%) GCP
9 81 (9.51%) Amazon S3
10 42 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (4.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
16 26 (3.05%) Amazon ECR
17 24 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (2.46%) Entra ID
18 21 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 278 (32.63%) Internet
2 32 (3.76%) Firewall
3 26 (3.05%) VPN
4 24 (2.82%) Remote Desktop
5 23 (2.70%) Broadband
6 22 (2.58%) Network Security
7 15 (1.76%) SSL
8 11 (1.29%) WAN
9 10 (1.17%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.06%) VLAN
11 8 (0.94%) DNS
11 8 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.70%) DHCP
12 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.70%) VoIP
13 5 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.59%) LAN
14 4 (0.47%) BGP
14 4 (0.47%) OSPF
15 3 (0.35%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.05%) DynamoDB
2 42 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.52%) Metadata
5 27 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.35%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.53%) DB2
11 12 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.59%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.47%) Big Data
15 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
16 2 (0.23%) Power BI
17 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
17 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 300 (35.21%) Git
2 45 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.58%) GitLab
4 28 (3.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 23 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 19 (2.23%) Jaeger
6 19 (2.23%) Maven
6 19 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.64%) JIRA
7 14 (1.64%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.47%) MLflow
9 4 (0.47%) Vite
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 290 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 278 (32.63%) Multimedia
3 148 (17.37%) French Language
4 134 (15.73%) Finance
5 119 (13.97%) Swedish Language
6 66 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (6.81%) Banking
8 49 (5.75%) Financial Institution
8 49 (5.75%) Retail
9 47 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (3.76%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.93%) Public Sector
12 24 (2.82%) Retail Banking
13 18 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.29%) Law
14 11 (1.29%) Publishing
15 6 (0.70%) Legal
16 5 (0.59%) Local Government
16 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 306 (35.92%) Trainee
2 171 (20.07%) Analyst
3 165 (19.37%) Developer
4 148 (17.37%) Service Analyst
4 148 (17.37%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (15.73%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (14.67%) Software Developer
6 125 (14.67%) Trainee Software Developer
7 122 (14.32%) Architect
8 76 (8.92%) Senior
9 47 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (4.81%) Lead
11 36 (4.23%) Administrator
12 30 (3.52%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.40%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.40%) Web Administrator
14 28 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
14 28 (3.29%) Programmer
14 28 (3.29%) Trainee Programmer
15 27 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (32.63%) CSS
1 278 (32.63%) HTML
2 32 (3.76%) Spring Boot
3 31 (3.64%) Hugging Face
4 30 (3.52%) NumPy
4 30 (3.52%) Pandas
5 29 (3.40%) React
6 28 (3.29%) Matplotlib
6 28 (3.29%) scikit-learn
6 28 (3.29%) Streamlit
7 23 (2.70%) Jest
8 22 (2.58%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.23%) Gherkin
9 19 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.11%) .NET
10 18 (2.11%) AWS CDK
11 16 (1.88%) Kafka
12 15 (1.76%) RESTful
13 14 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 42 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (4.23%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.29%) Algorithms
5 23 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (2.70%) PKI
6 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.17%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.59%) Blog
14 5 (0.59%) Clustering
14 5 (0.59%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.59%) PACS
14 5 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.39%) Linux
2 58 (6.81%) Windows
3 44 (5.16%) Unix
4 18 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Debian
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (41.78%) Mentoring
2 299 (35.09%) Cybersecurity
3 216 (25.35%) ITIL
4 160 (18.78%) Customer Service
5 155 (18.19%) Agile
5 155 (18.19%) ITSM
6 138 (16.20%) DevOps
7 135 (15.85%) CI/CD
8 130 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 127 (14.91%) Performance Metrics
10 95 (11.15%) AI
11 79 (9.27%) Migration
12 72 (8.45%) Microservices
13 70 (8.22%) Containerisation
13 70 (8.22%) TOGAF
14 69 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (7.75%) Roadmaps
16 65 (7.63%) Computer Science
17 63 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (7.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 445 (52.23%) Python
2 338 (39.67%) JavaScript
3 144 (16.90%) R
4 94 (11.03%) Java
5 74 (8.69%) Bash
6 56 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.58%) C#
8 34 (3.99%) SQL
9 33 (3.87%) PowerShell
10 30 (3.52%) Go
11 19 (2.23%) Groovy
12 10 (1.17%) Bicep
13 7 (0.82%) C++
13 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.70%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.23%) C
16 1 (0.12%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 465 (54.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 423 (49.65%) Azure Certification
3 316 (37.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 228 (26.76%) Degree
5 148 (17.37%) MCSE
6 120 (14.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 57 (6.69%) TOGAF Certification
8 54 (6.34%) Security Cleared
9 46 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (4.81%) SC Cleared
11 32 (3.76%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (3.29%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.05%) A+ Certification
14 25 (2.93%) CISSP
15 19 (2.23%) CISM
16 18 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 17 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (1.76%) Master's Degree
19 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
20 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (15.61%) QA
2 39 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.17%) NIST
4 23 (2.70%) GDPR
5 20 (2.35%) SLA
6 19 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.41%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (1.29%) NCSC
9 9 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.94%) GRC
11 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.59%) DICOM
12 5 (0.59%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.23%) GxP
13 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) Basel III
14 1 (0.12%) GAAP
14 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 108 (12.68%) Docker
2 47 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.82%) KVM
6 5 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.47%) vSphere
8 3 (0.35%) iptables
8 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (13.50%) Terraform
2 89 (10.45%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.10%) Ansible
4 36 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.76%) Grafana
6 23 (2.70%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.35%) Argo
8 19 (2.23%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.06%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.94%) Cilium
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.35%) Nessus
12 3 (0.35%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 555 (65.14%) Microsoft
2 161 (18.90%) ServiceNow
3 55 (6.46%) VMware
4 39 (4.58%) Google
5 20 (2.35%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.11%) IBM
7 17 (2.00%) Adobe
7 17 (2.00%) Apple
8 15 (1.76%) SAP
9 11 (1.29%) Cisco
9 11 (1.29%) Workday
10 8 (0.94%) Databricks
11 5 (0.59%) Symantec
11 5 (0.59%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenText
12 4 (0.47%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.47%) Pega
13 3 (0.35%) Ariba
13 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.35%) SolarWinds