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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 295 441
Rank change year-on-year +30 +146 -273
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 648 458 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.04% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 2.64% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 378 163 313
10th Percentile - £42,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £68,525 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.28% -8.63% -3.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,640 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £55,873 £70,000
% change year-on-year -43.62% -20.18% -

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 21,212 17,351 26,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.46% 39.52% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,040 7,735 17,227
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% -1.96%

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 11 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 11 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 +32 589 £37,500 -45.28% 285
UK excluding London +16 416 £31,500 -43.62% 246
North of England -24 222 £30,500 -41.90% 70
Work from Home -52 191 £75,000 +25.00% 91
London +2 184 £52,500 -37.31% 88
Yorkshire +36 114 £31,000 -40.95% 27
North West -61 86 £30,750 -46.52% 30
Midlands +9 66 £31,500 -41.33% 35
West Midlands +14 60 £30,500 -43.19% 15
South East +2 36 £62,500 -19.09% 54
South West -40 33 £37,500 -33.91% 34
Scotland +19 26 £30,500 -41.90% 18
North East -23 22 £30,500 -39.00% 13
East of England 0 20 £41,250 -36.54% 24
Northern Ireland -25 11 £35,000 - 3
East Midlands - 6 £37,500 - 20
Wales - 2 £41,310 - 11

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 57 (8.80%) WordPress
2 54 (8.33%) Jupyter
3 12 (1.85%) Confluence
4 9 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.93%) Apache
5 6 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.62%) Documentum
6 4 (0.62%) Drupal
6 4 (0.62%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 59 (9.10%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.49%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Weka
5 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (3.70%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 648 (100.00%) AWS
2 364 (56.17%) Azure
3 216 (33.33%) GitHub
4 95 (14.66%) Serverless
5 93 (14.35%) GCP
6 82 (12.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 76 (11.73%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (10.96%) Amazon S3
10 60 (9.26%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (7.10%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
14 34 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (5.09%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (5.09%) Apigee
16 32 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (2.78%) Pulumi
19 17 (2.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 194 (29.94%) Internet
2 27 (4.17%) Firewall
3 22 (3.40%) Network Security
4 19 (2.93%) VPN
5 18 (2.78%) Broadband
6 10 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.54%) WAN
7 9 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.23%) LAN
9 6 (0.93%) Wireless
10 5 (0.77%) DNS
10 5 (0.77%) IPv4
11 4 (0.62%) DHCP
11 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.31%) BGP
12 2 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.31%) OSPF
12 2 (0.31%) VLAN
13 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
13 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.41%) DynamoDB
2 42 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 23 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (3.55%) Data Lake
3 23 (3.55%) Metadata
4 19 (2.93%) RDBMS
4 19 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.77%) Power BI
10 3 (0.46%) Big Data
10 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.31%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Flink
12 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 208 (32.10%) Git
2 57 (8.80%) GitLab
3 54 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 52 (8.02%) Jenkins
5 33 (5.09%) Cypress.io
5 33 (5.09%) Maven
5 33 (5.09%) SonarQube
6 18 (2.78%) Jaeger
7 17 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 14 (2.16%) TeamCity
9 13 (2.01%) JIRA
10 10 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.62%) MLflow
12 3 (0.46%) Selenium
13 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.15%) Gatling
13 1 (0.15%) JMeter
13 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 194 (29.94%) Multimedia
2 173 (26.70%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.98%) Finance
4 76 (11.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (10.65%) Retail
6 61 (9.41%) Manufacturing
7 51 (7.87%) French Language
8 42 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.40%) Banking
10 27 (4.17%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.78%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.85%) Retail Banking
13 10 (1.54%) Swedish Language
14 8 (1.23%) Advertising
15 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.08%) Law
15 7 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.93%) Legal
17 5 (0.77%) Electronics
17 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (37.81%) Trainee
2 128 (19.75%) Developer
3 104 (16.05%) Analyst
4 92 (14.20%) Architect
5 80 (12.35%) Trainee Developer
6 68 (10.49%) Software Developer
7 67 (10.34%) Trainee Software Developer
8 66 (10.19%) Senior
9 61 (9.41%) Administrator
10 59 (9.10%) Service Analyst
10 59 (9.10%) Service Desk Analyst
11 53 (8.18%) Trainee Administrator
11 53 (8.18%) Web Administrator
12 51 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 51 (7.87%) Programmer
12 51 (7.87%) Trainee Programmer
13 39 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (5.86%) Lead
15 28 (4.32%) Java Developer
16 25 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (30.09%) CSS
1 195 (30.09%) HTML
2 54 (8.33%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.33%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.33%) NumPy
2 54 (8.33%) Pandas
2 54 (8.33%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.33%) Streamlit
3 49 (7.56%) Spring Boot
4 34 (5.25%) AngularJS
5 33 (5.09%) Gherkin
5 33 (5.09%) Jest
6 28 (4.32%) React
7 18 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (2.78%) Kafka
7 18 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.62%) Spring
9 15 (2.31%) .NET
9 15 (2.31%) AWS CDK
10 13 (2.01%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.26%) Algorithms
2 59 (9.10%) Cloud Native
3 43 (6.64%) Public Cloud
4 33 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (3.55%) PKI
6 21 (3.24%) e-Learning
6 21 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.23%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.77%) Clustering
11 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.77%) PACS
11 5 (0.77%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 60 (9.26%) Linux
2 31 (4.78%) Windows
3 26 (4.01%) Unix
4 11 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (35.65%) Mentoring
2 206 (31.79%) Cybersecurity
3 152 (23.46%) Agile
4 133 (20.52%) CI/CD
5 129 (19.91%) AI
6 126 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 120 (18.52%) Customer Service
8 115 (17.75%) DevOps
9 111 (17.13%) ITIL
10 68 (10.49%) Data Privacy
11 67 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
11 67 (10.34%) Machine Learning
12 66 (10.19%) Web Development
13 63 (9.72%) ITSM
14 62 (9.57%) Migration
15 60 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (9.26%) Visualisation
16 59 (9.10%) LLM
16 59 (9.10%) Performance Metrics
17 58 (8.95%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 348 (53.70%) Python
2 240 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 114 (17.59%) R
4 100 (15.43%) Java
5 76 (11.73%) Bash
6 54 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.40%) SQL
8 33 (5.09%) Groovy
9 30 (4.63%) Go
10 26 (4.01%) C#
11 22 (3.40%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.85%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.39%) C++
14 7 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.46%) Bicep
16 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.15%) PHP
16 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 291 (44.91%) Azure Certification
2 278 (42.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 262 (40.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 116 (17.90%) Degree
5 103 (15.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 59 (9.10%) MCSE
6 59 (9.10%) Security Cleared
7 38 (5.86%) SC Cleared
8 31 (4.78%) ITIL Certification
8 31 (4.78%) TOGAF Certification
9 29 (4.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 25 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
12 19 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (2.78%) CISSP
14 15 (2.31%) CISM
15 10 (1.54%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.39%) DV Cleared
17 8 (1.23%) CCNP
18 7 (1.08%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.57%) QA
2 24 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.93%) NIST
4 12 (1.85%) GDPR
5 11 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.70%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.39%) NCSC
7 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.08%) GRC
8 6 (0.93%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.93%) SLA
9 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.77%) DICOM
10 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
12 1 (0.15%) COBIT
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (16.20%) Docker
2 22 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.08%) KVM
4 7 (1.08%) vSphere
5 5 (0.77%) Squid
5 5 (0.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 5 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.62%) iptables
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (17.28%) Terraform
2 74 (11.42%) Kubernetes
3 53 (8.18%) Ansible
4 37 (5.71%) HP Fortify
4 37 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 28 (4.32%) Grafana
6 19 (2.93%) Argo
7 18 (2.78%) Kustomize
8 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.08%) Cilium
11 6 (0.93%) Packer
12 5 (0.77%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.77%) Puppet
12 5 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.15%) Consul
13 1 (0.15%) QRadar
13 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 404 (62.35%) Microsoft
2 87 (13.43%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.33%) Adobe
3 41 (6.33%) Apple
4 36 (5.56%) Google
5 30 (4.63%) VMware
6 17 (2.62%) Databricks
7 11 (1.70%) Cisco
7 11 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.54%) Oracle
8 10 (1.54%) Splunk
9 7 (1.08%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.93%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.93%) SAP
11 5 (0.77%) Symantec
11 5 (0.77%) Workday
12 4 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.62%) OpenText
12 4 (0.62%) YouTube