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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 245 480
Rank change year-on-year -135 +235 -97
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 522 609 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.23% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.57% 3.59% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 171 207 181
10th Percentile £47,000 £28,250 £43,421
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £56,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -7.05%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,435 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.17% -17.95% -

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 20,348 16,948 20,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 34.33% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,143 7,485 9,750
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £37,170 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -111 485 £77,500 +19.23% 1,126
UK excluding London -189 252 £65,000 +13.17% 788
London -2 245 £85,000 +13.33% 590
Work from Home -145 171 £85,000 +17.24% 721
North of England -151 85 £69,250 +10.80% 209
South East -55 48 £65,000 -5.80% 91
South West -60 47 £70,000 +23.36% 140
Midlands -23 44 £87,500 +52.17% 105
North West -120 43 £53,750 +76.23% 122
West Midlands -37 39 £90,000 +56.52% 74
Yorkshire -44 21 £68,750 +5.77% 34
North East -49 21 £80,500 +89.41% 56
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 9
East of England -32 8 £100,000 - 43
Northern Ireland -81 5 £42,500 - 83
East Midlands - 5 £73,750 - 31
Scotland +2 3 - - 109

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 20 (3.83%) Confluence
2 17 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.96%) Apache Pig
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.77%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) Apache
5 3 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.38%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (11.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (4.60%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 522 (100.00%) AWS
2 188 (36.02%) Azure
3 135 (25.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 116 (22.22%) GCP
5 103 (19.73%) Serverless
6 83 (15.90%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (15.52%) Amazon S3
8 80 (15.33%) Cloud Computing
9 76 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
10 71 (13.60%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (9.96%) GitHub
12 46 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (4.79%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (4.02%) OCI
18 20 (3.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 19 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
19 19 (3.64%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.60%) Network Security
2 57 (10.92%) Firewall
3 30 (5.75%) VPN
4 29 (5.56%) WAN
5 23 (4.41%) SD-WAN
6 21 (4.02%) LAN
7 20 (3.83%) Internet
7 20 (3.83%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.64%) DNS
9 17 (3.26%) DHCP
10 14 (2.68%) TCP/IP
10 14 (2.68%) Wireless
11 9 (1.72%) VLAN
12 8 (1.53%) IPv4
13 7 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.96%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.77%) DMZ
16 3 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
16 3 (0.57%) MPLS
16 3 (0.57%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.07%) NoSQL
2 48 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (5.94%) DynamoDB
4 17 (3.26%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.07%) Metadata
6 15 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.11%) Hadoop
8 10 (1.92%) Big Data
9 8 (1.53%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.34%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.96%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.96%) Power BI
13 4 (0.77%) GIS
14 3 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (14.56%) GitLab
2 49 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 41 (7.85%) Cucumber
4 29 (5.56%) JIRA
5 21 (4.02%) Git
6 19 (3.64%) Maven
7 17 (3.26%) Cypress.io
8 16 (3.07%) SonarQube
9 15 (2.87%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.49%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.57%) Taiga
12 3 (0.57%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.38%) Ant
13 2 (0.38%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.38%) git-flow
13 2 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.19%) ERwin
14 1 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 161 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 131 (25.10%) Finance
3 75 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 58 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.20%) Swedish Language
6 41 (7.85%) Banking
7 26 (4.98%) Retail
8 23 (4.41%) Aerospace
9 21 (4.02%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.87%) French Language
11 14 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.49%) Law
13 12 (2.30%) Military
14 11 (2.11%) Marketing
15 9 (1.72%) Legal
16 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.15%) Digital Health
17 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (26.63%) Senior
2 130 (24.90%) Architect
3 95 (18.20%) Analyst
4 60 (11.49%) Consultant
4 60 (11.49%) Service Analyst
4 60 (11.49%) Service Desk Analyst
5 44 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
6 41 (7.85%) Java Engineer
7 37 (7.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (5.94%) Developer
8 31 (5.94%) Security Consultant
9 30 (5.75%) Lead
10 28 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
10 28 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (5.17%) AWS Architect
12 25 (4.79%) Senior Architect
12 25 (4.79%) Senior Consultant
13 23 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
13 23 (4.41%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (26.44%) Terraform
2 75 (14.37%) Spring Boot
3 59 (11.30%) Kafka
4 54 (10.34%) Spring
5 31 (5.94%) AWS CDK
6 22 (4.21%) AngularJS
7 21 (4.02%) .NET
7 21 (4.02%) Node.js
8 17 (3.26%) Jest
9 16 (3.07%) Gherkin
10 14 (2.68%) REST
11 12 (2.30%) Web Services
12 11 (2.11%) LangChain
12 11 (2.11%) LlamaIndex
12 11 (2.11%) React
13 10 (1.92%) OAuth
13 10 (1.92%) OpenAPI
13 10 (1.92%) Ruby on Rails
14 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (1.72%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 128 (24.52%) Cloud Native
2 94 (18.01%) Onboarding
3 51 (9.77%) Public Cloud
4 49 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (9.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 41 (7.85%) e-Learning
7 36 (6.90%) Data Centre
7 36 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (4.21%) PKI
10 16 (3.07%) Management Information System
11 15 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (2.87%) Security Posture
12 14 (2.68%) Blog
13 13 (2.49%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (2.11%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 10 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.20%) Windows
2 42 (8.05%) Linux
3 23 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.57%) Unix
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 194 (37.16%) CI/CD
3 170 (32.57%) Agile
4 166 (31.80%) Mentoring
5 164 (31.42%) AI
6 129 (24.71%) Cloud Security
7 116 (22.22%) ITIL
8 107 (20.50%) DevOps
9 91 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 86 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
11 84 (16.09%) Microservices
11 84 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (15.33%) Technical Leadership
13 79 (15.13%) Migration
13 79 (15.13%) Roadmaps
14 68 (13.03%) ITSM
15 65 (12.45%) Architectural Patterns
16 64 (12.26%) Event-Driven
16 64 (12.26%) Generative AI
17 62 (11.88%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 126 (24.14%) Python
2 118 (22.61%) Java
3 72 (13.79%) SQL
4 63 (12.07%) Bash
5 31 (5.94%) Go
6 29 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.98%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.60%) Ruby
9 23 (4.41%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.45%) C#
11 17 (3.26%) Groovy
12 15 (2.87%) PHP
13 14 (2.68%) Perl
14 7 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.15%) C++
15 6 (1.15%) COBOL
16 4 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.38%) Bicep
17 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 158 (30.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 155 (29.69%) Degree
3 129 (24.71%) Security Cleared
4 100 (19.16%) Azure Certification
5 83 (15.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 77 (14.75%) SC Cleared
7 60 (11.49%) MCSE
8 52 (9.96%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (8.43%) CISSP
10 29 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (4.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 25 (4.79%) DV Cleared
13 23 (4.41%) CCNP
14 22 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (4.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 21 (4.02%) CCNA
15 21 (4.02%) CISM
15 21 (4.02%) Master's Degree
16 17 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.88%) QA
2 49 (9.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (5.56%) NIST
4 25 (4.79%) GDPR
5 21 (4.02%) NCSC
6 20 (3.83%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.68%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.49%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.49%) GRC
9 12 (2.30%) HIPAA
10 10 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.53%) ISO 9001
12 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
13 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.77%) SLA
16 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.19%) COBIT
17 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 64 (12.26%) Docker
2 28 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.79%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.53%) Squid
4 8 (1.53%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.53%) vSphere
5 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.96%) KVM
5 5 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 48 (9.20%) Ansible
3 22 (4.21%) Grafana
4 16 (3.07%) HP Fortify
4 16 (3.07%) Puppet
4 16 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.68%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.72%) Cilium
7 9 (1.72%) Packer
8 8 (1.53%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.53%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.15%) Argo
11 4 (0.77%) Iperf
12 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.57%) QRadar
13 2 (0.38%) CASB
13 2 (0.38%) kaniko
14 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 169 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 90 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 39 (7.47%) VMware
4 37 (7.09%) Oracle
5 31 (5.94%) Cisco
6 25 (4.79%) Apple
6 25 (4.79%) Google
6 25 (4.79%) Splunk
7 24 (4.60%) Adobe
8 18 (3.45%) SAP
9 17 (3.26%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.87%) Red Hat
11 12 (2.30%) Fortinet
12 11 (2.11%) Databricks
13 8 (1.53%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.34%) Avaya
14 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.34%) Genesys