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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 371 430
Rank change year-on-year +168 +59 -289
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 817 304 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 0.71% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.95% 1.80% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 523 165 284
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £88,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £103,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +3.70%

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 20,692 16,907 23,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.67% 39.32% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8,322 7,511 16,240
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,549 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,117 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 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 17 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 +172 716 £31,000 -52.01% 400
UK excluding London +201 524 £30,500 -41.90% 391
North of England +111 258 £30,500 -34.41% 95
Work from Home +95 249 £75,000 +25.00% 81
London +55 218 £40,000 -54.29% 100
Yorkshire +51 141 £30,500 -32.22% 38
North West +56 88 £30,500 -39.00% 42
Midlands +26 66 £30,500 -52.79% 54
South East +19 53 £33,750 -44.21% 91
West Midlands +41 52 £30,500 -52.79% 19
Scotland +16 45 £30,500 -41.90% 21
South West +4 40 £30,500 -35.79% 49
East of England +5 34 £37,500 -40.00% 53
North East +3 29 £30,500 -32.22% 18
Northern Ireland -12 23 £31,000 -63.53% 10
East Midlands -21 14 £51,058 -7.17% 35
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 23

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 77 (9.42%) WordPress
2 54 (6.61%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.86%) Confluence
5 7 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (0.73%) Apache
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.61%) Drupal
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 2 (0.24%) JBoss
9 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 101 (12.36%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (6.61%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 817 (100.00%) AWS
2 489 (59.85%) Azure
3 322 (39.41%) GitHub
4 130 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (13.46%) Serverless
6 83 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (9.55%) GCP
8 73 (8.94%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.34%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 42 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (3.79%) Amazon ECR
16 30 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (3.06%) Apigee
18 20 (2.45%) Entra ID
19 19 (2.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 298 (36.47%) Internet
2 26 (3.18%) Firewall
3 24 (2.94%) VPN
4 21 (2.57%) Broadband
5 18 (2.20%) Network Security
6 10 (1.22%) SSL
7 9 (1.10%) WAN
8 8 (0.98%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.98%) VLAN
9 7 (0.86%) DNS
10 6 (0.73%) DHCP
10 6 (0.73%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.49%) BGP
11 4 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.49%) OSPF
11 4 (0.49%) VoIP
12 3 (0.37%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.37%) LAN
13 2 (0.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.02%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.16%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.67%) Metadata
5 23 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.45%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.08%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.98%) DB2
12 6 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.49%) Power BI
15 3 (0.37%) Big Data
15 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
16 1 (0.12%) GIS
16 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 311 (38.07%) Git
2 54 (6.61%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.14%) GitLab
5 25 (3.06%) Cypress.io
5 25 (3.06%) Maven
5 25 (3.06%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.33%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.84%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.10%) JIRA
10 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 2 (0.24%) Selenium
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 298 (36.47%) Multimedia
2 237 (29.01%) Social Skills
3 153 (18.73%) Finance
4 101 (12.36%) French Language
5 74 (9.06%) Retail
6 64 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (7.83%) Swedish Language
7 56 (6.85%) Manufacturing
8 50 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
9 48 (5.88%) Banking
9 48 (5.88%) Financial Institution
10 24 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 20 (2.45%) Retail Banking
12 13 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.47%) Law
14 11 (1.35%) Publishing
15 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.73%) Legal
17 5 (0.61%) Local Government
17 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 349 (42.72%) Trainee
2 168 (20.56%) Developer
3 125 (15.30%) Trainee Developer
4 124 (15.18%) Analyst
5 113 (13.83%) Architect
6 111 (13.59%) Software Developer
6 111 (13.59%) Trainee Software Developer
7 101 (12.36%) Service Analyst
7 101 (12.36%) Service Desk Analyst
8 79 (9.67%) Administrator
9 72 (8.81%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (8.81%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.24%) Programmer
10 51 (6.24%) Trainee Programmer
11 45 (5.51%) Senior
12 42 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.41%) Lead
14 30 (3.67%) Data Architect
15 22 (2.69%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (36.47%) CSS
1 298 (36.47%) HTML
2 54 (6.61%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.61%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.61%) NumPy
2 54 (6.61%) Pandas
2 54 (6.61%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.61%) Streamlit
3 34 (4.16%) Spring Boot
4 31 (3.79%) React
5 26 (3.18%) AngularJS
6 25 (3.06%) Gherkin
6 25 (3.06%) Jest
7 19 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (2.20%) .NET
9 17 (2.08%) AWS CDK
10 14 (1.71%) RESTful
10 14 (1.71%) Tailwind CSS
11 12 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.71%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.10%) Algorithms
3 39 (4.77%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.69%) PKI
6 21 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.71%) e-Learning
9 13 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.98%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.61%) Blog
16 5 (0.61%) Clustering
16 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.61%) PACS
16 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.20%) Linux
2 46 (5.63%) Windows
3 36 (4.41%) Unix
4 13 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (36.96%) Mentoring
2 272 (33.29%) Cybersecurity
3 162 (19.83%) Customer Service
3 162 (19.83%) ITIL
4 156 (19.09%) Agile
5 127 (15.54%) CI/CD
5 127 (15.54%) DevOps
6 118 (14.44%) AI
7 115 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 106 (12.97%) ITSM
9 104 (12.73%) Performance Metrics
10 86 (10.53%) Web Development
11 77 (9.42%) Data Privacy
12 74 (9.06%) Machine Learning
12 74 (9.06%) Migration
13 70 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (7.83%) Containerisation
15 63 (7.71%) Microservices
16 61 (7.47%) LLM
17 60 (7.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 471 (57.65%) Python
2 353 (43.21%) JavaScript
3 173 (21.18%) R
4 89 (10.89%) Java
5 72 (8.81%) Bash
6 55 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 36 (4.41%) C#
8 32 (3.92%) SQL
9 31 (3.79%) Go
10 27 (3.30%) PowerShell
11 25 (3.06%) Groovy
12 10 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.98%) C++
14 7 (0.86%) Bicep
14 7 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 433 (53.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 428 (52.39%) Azure Certification
3 364 (44.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 188 (23.01%) Degree
5 105 (12.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 101 (12.36%) MCSE
7 51 (6.24%) Security Cleared
8 50 (6.12%) TOGAF Certification
9 39 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (4.53%) SC Cleared
11 31 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
12 24 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 21 (2.57%) CISSP
15 17 (2.08%) CISM
16 15 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (1.35%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.10%) DV Cleared
19 7 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.86%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.97%) QA
2 33 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.82%) NIST
4 18 (2.20%) GDPR
5 15 (1.84%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.84%) SLA
6 10 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.10%) NCSC
8 8 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.98%) GRC
9 6 (0.73%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.61%) DICOM
10 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.24%) GxP
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 103 (12.61%) Docker
2 22 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.86%) KVM
5 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.49%) iptables
6 4 (0.49%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (13.71%) Terraform
2 78 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.63%) Ansible
4 38 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.04%) Grafana
6 29 (3.55%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.45%) Argo
8 19 (2.33%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.98%) Cilium
11 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.49%) Puppet
13 2 (0.24%) Nessus
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 544 (66.59%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.59%) ServiceNow
3 38 (4.65%) Google
4 31 (3.79%) VMware
5 17 (2.08%) Adobe
5 17 (2.08%) Apple
6 13 (1.59%) Databricks
6 13 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.47%) IBM
7 12 (1.47%) SAP
8 11 (1.35%) Workday
9 9 (1.10%) Cisco
10 5 (0.61%) Symantec
10 5 (0.61%) YouTube
11 4 (0.49%) OpenText
11 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.49%) Pega
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle
12 3 (0.37%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.24%) Informatica