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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 288 514
Rank change year-on-year -45 +226 -121
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 596 509 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.99% 2.96% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 253 170 207
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,563 £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 £81,000 £86,250 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -34.62% -10.34% +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 19,911 17,183 21,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 34.61% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,588 7,862 11,858
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 8 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 8 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 -57 552 £55,000 -21.43% 460
UK excluding London -92 318 £42,500 -34.62% 298
London +27 252 £77,500 +3.33% 224
Work from Home -105 179 £82,500 +19.98% 167
North of England -91 124 £37,500 -42.31% 83
North West -86 63 £37,500 -40.00% 45
South West -52 53 £60,500 +6.62% 64
Midlands -14 52 £37,500 -44.44% 35
West Midlands -14 47 £37,500 -44.44% 18
South East -23 42 £62,500 -9.42% 62
Yorkshire -16 41 £37,500 -42.31% 27
North East -34 20 £52,000 +9.47% 12
East of England -17 15 £37,500 -55.88% 25
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
Scotland +18 10 £37,500 -28.57% 18
Northern Ireland -63 9 £40,750 - 7
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 17

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 (7.38%) WordPress
2 38 (6.38%) Jupyter
3 20 (3.36%) Confluence
4 17 (2.85%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.84%) Apache
6 5 (0.84%) Apache Pig
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.67%) JBoss
7 4 (0.67%) SAS
8 3 (0.50%) 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 77 (12.92%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (7.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.03%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.01%) 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
1 596 (100.00%) AWS
2 226 (37.92%) Azure
3 122 (20.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 117 (19.63%) Cloud Computing
5 112 (18.79%) GCP
6 104 (17.45%) GitHub
7 103 (17.28%) Serverless
8 94 (15.77%) Microsoft 365
9 85 (14.26%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (13.42%) Amazon S3
11 75 (12.58%) Amazon ECS
12 47 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (4.87%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (4.36%) Amazon ECR
17 25 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.69%) Apigee
20 19 (3.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 76 (12.75%) Internet
2 67 (11.24%) Network Security
3 42 (7.05%) Firewall
4 26 (4.36%) WAN
5 24 (4.03%) VPN
6 20 (3.36%) SD-WAN
6 20 (3.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 19 (3.19%) DNS
8 18 (3.02%) LAN
9 17 (2.85%) DHCP
10 14 (2.35%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.85%) Wireless
12 9 (1.51%) VLAN
13 8 (1.34%) IPv4
14 7 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.84%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.67%) DMZ
17 3 (0.50%) BGP
17 3 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
17 3 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.56%) NoSQL
2 44 (7.38%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (6.21%) DynamoDB
4 20 (3.36%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.02%) Metadata
6 14 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.85%) Big Data
8 11 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.17%) Power BI
10 7 (1.17%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.67%) GIS
14 3 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (12.08%) Git
2 71 (11.91%) GitLab
3 59 (9.90%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 32 (5.37%) Cucumber
6 29 (4.87%) JIRA
7 25 (4.19%) Maven
8 23 (3.86%) Cypress.io
9 22 (3.69%) SonarQube
10 18 (3.02%) TeamCity
11 17 (2.85%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.50%) Selenium
13 3 (0.50%) Taiga
13 3 (0.50%) VersionOne
14 2 (0.34%) Ant
14 2 (0.34%) Apache Ivy
14 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.34%) git-flow
14 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 169 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 150 (25.17%) Finance
3 61 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.07%) Retail
5 59 (9.90%) Multimedia
6 52 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (8.05%) Swedish Language
8 45 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (7.38%) Manufacturing
10 33 (5.54%) Banking
11 29 (4.87%) French Language
12 20 (3.36%) Financial Institution
13 16 (2.68%) Aerospace
14 14 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.18%) Law
16 10 (1.68%) Marketing
17 8 (1.34%) Legal
17 8 (1.34%) Military
18 6 (1.01%) Billing
18 6 (1.01%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 128 (21.48%) Senior
2 108 (18.12%) Analyst
3 106 (17.79%) Architect
4 94 (15.77%) Trainee
5 77 (12.92%) Service Analyst
5 77 (12.92%) Service Desk Analyst
6 61 (10.23%) Consultant
7 56 (9.40%) Developer
8 49 (8.22%) Administrator
9 43 (7.21%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.21%) Web Administrator
10 40 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (5.87%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 35 (5.87%) Programmer
12 35 (5.87%) Trainee Programmer
13 30 (5.03%) Security Consultant
14 29 (4.87%) Java Engineer
15 27 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.53%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.74%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.57%) CSS
2 63 (10.57%) HTML
3 47 (7.89%) Kafka
4 43 (7.21%) Spring
5 38 (6.38%) Hugging Face
5 38 (6.38%) Matplotlib
5 38 (6.38%) NumPy
5 38 (6.38%) Pandas
5 38 (6.38%) scikit-learn
5 38 (6.38%) Streamlit
6 29 (4.87%) AWS CDK
7 28 (4.70%) AngularJS
8 23 (3.86%) Jest
8 23 (3.86%) Node.js
9 22 (3.69%) Gherkin
10 21 (3.52%) .NET
11 19 (3.19%) React
12 14 (2.35%) REST
13 10 (1.68%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 110 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 88 (14.77%) Onboarding
3 50 (8.39%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 43 (7.21%) Public Cloud
6 37 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (5.87%) e-Learning
8 33 (5.54%) Data Centre
9 27 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (3.86%) PKI
11 13 (2.18%) Blog
11 13 (2.18%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.68%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.51%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.39%) Windows
2 38 (6.38%) Linux
3 22 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.67%) 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
1 180 (30.20%) AI
1 180 (30.20%) CI/CD
2 179 (30.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 162 (27.18%) Agile
4 161 (27.01%) Mentoring
5 130 (21.81%) ITIL
6 117 (19.63%) Customer Service
7 109 (18.29%) Cloud Security
8 93 (15.60%) DevOps
9 91 (15.27%) Machine Learning
10 90 (15.10%) Cybersecurity
11 83 (13.93%) ITSM
12 77 (12.92%) Migration
12 77 (12.92%) Performance Metrics
13 72 (12.08%) Microservices
14 71 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
16 63 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
17 62 (10.40%) Computer Science
18 60 (10.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 218 (36.58%) Python
2 113 (18.96%) Java
3 81 (13.59%) JavaScript
4 64 (10.74%) Bash
5 58 (9.73%) SQL
6 47 (7.89%) R
7 35 (5.87%) TypeScript
8 26 (4.36%) Go
8 26 (4.36%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.03%) Ruby
10 23 (3.86%) Groovy
11 18 (3.02%) C#
12 15 (2.52%) PHP
13 14 (2.35%) Perl
14 10 (1.68%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.01%) C++
15 6 (1.01%) COBOL
16 5 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.50%) Bicep
17 3 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 170 (28.52%) Degree
2 157 (26.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 148 (24.83%) Azure Certification
4 147 (24.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 119 (19.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 113 (18.96%) Security Cleared
7 77 (12.92%) MCSE
8 65 (10.91%) SC Cleared
9 47 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (4.70%) CISSP
12 24 (4.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (3.52%) CCNA
14 21 (3.52%) Master's Degree
15 20 (3.36%) CCNP
16 19 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
17 18 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
18 16 (2.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.09%) QA
2 42 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.03%) GDPR
4 23 (3.86%) SOC 2
5 19 (3.19%) NIST
6 15 (2.52%) NCSC
7 14 (2.35%) GRC
8 12 (2.01%) Accessibility
8 12 (2.01%) Data Quality
9 10 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.68%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.34%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.34%) PCI DSS
11 7 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.67%) SLA
14 2 (0.34%) DICOM
14 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.17%) COBIT
15 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (12.25%) Docker
2 24 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.34%) Squid
4 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.34%) vSphere
5 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.84%) KVM
6 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) iptables
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 137 (22.99%) Terraform
2 75 (12.58%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.05%) Ansible
4 26 (4.36%) HP Fortify
5 20 (3.36%) Grafana
6 16 (2.68%) Puppet
7 14 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.18%) Cilium
9 12 (2.01%) Prometheus
9 12 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.51%) Packer
11 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.01%) Argo
13 4 (0.67%) Iperf
14 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.50%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.50%) QRadar
15 2 (0.34%) kaniko
16 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 263 (44.13%) Microsoft
2 104 (17.45%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.54%) Oracle
4 30 (5.03%) VMware
5 25 (4.19%) Apple
5 25 (4.19%) Splunk
6 24 (4.03%) Adobe
6 24 (4.03%) Cisco
7 21 (3.52%) Google
8 18 (3.02%) SAP
9 17 (2.85%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.52%) Databricks
11 14 (2.35%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.34%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.17%) Avaya
14 7 (1.17%) Genesys
15 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 6 (1.01%) Salesforce