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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 385 455
Rank change year-on-year +137 +70 -291
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 693 294 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.69% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.06% 1.74% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 414 172 311
10th Percentile - £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.54% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £89,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,640 £99,875 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £54,344 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.96% -22.37% -

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 22,663 16,861 25,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.24% 39.77% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,885 7,668 17,237
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,965 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.90% -6.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,014 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.79%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +126 625 £31,500 -51.54% 225
UK excluding London +133 445 £31,000 -42.96% 198
North of England +92 239 £30,500 -39.00% 49
Work from Home +52 198 £75,000 +25.00% 73
London +15 193 £50,000 -41.18% 71
Yorkshire +33 126 £30,500 -41.90% 18
North West +37 89 £30,500 -39.00% 20
Midlands +9 66 £31,500 -46.74% 25
West Midlands +13 58 £30,500 -48.43% 15
South East -11 39 £50,000 -24.81% 51
South West -40 33 £37,500 -33.91% 26
Scotland +8 30 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -11 24 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East of England -10 22 £41,250 -8.33% 27
Northern Ireland -27 13 £35,000 - 5
East Midlands - 8 £31,500 - 10
Wales - 3 £31,000 - 8

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 62 (8.95%) WordPress
2 54 (7.79%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.59%) Confluence
4 9 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.87%) Drupal
5 6 (0.87%) nginx
6 4 (0.58%) Documentum
7 3 (0.43%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.94%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Weka
5 1 (0.14%) Maya
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.31%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 693 (100.00%) AWS
2 395 (57.00%) Azure
3 247 (35.64%) GitHub
4 102 (14.72%) Serverless
5 91 (13.13%) GCP
6 85 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (10.68%) Amazon S3
10 59 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
11 49 (7.07%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
13 37 (5.34%) Amazon ECR
14 35 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (4.76%) Apigee
16 33 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (2.74%) Pulumi
19 18 (2.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 224 (32.32%) Internet
2 24 (3.46%) Firewall
3 21 (3.03%) Broadband
4 20 (2.89%) Network Security
5 18 (2.60%) VPN
6 8 (1.15%) WAN
7 7 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.87%) LAN
9 4 (0.58%) DNS
9 4 (0.58%) IPv4
9 4 (0.58%) Wireless
10 3 (0.43%) DHCP
10 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.29%) BGP
11 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.29%) OSPF
12 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.36%) DynamoDB
2 42 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 25 (3.61%) Data Lake
3 25 (3.61%) Metadata
4 24 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.89%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.72%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.72%) Power BI
12 3 (0.43%) Big Data
12 3 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.14%) Flink
14 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 239 (34.49%) Git
2 55 (7.94%) GitLab
3 54 (7.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 52 (7.50%) Jenkins
5 33 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 33 (4.76%) Maven
5 33 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.74%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.31%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.88%) JIRA
10 9 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.58%) MLflow
12 3 (0.43%) Selenium
13 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.14%) Gatling
13 1 (0.14%) JMeter
13 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 224 (32.32%) Multimedia
2 187 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 130 (18.76%) Finance
4 72 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (10.10%) Retail
6 61 (8.80%) Manufacturing
7 58 (8.37%) French Language
8 47 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (5.34%) Banking
10 30 (4.33%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.32%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.45%) Swedish Language
13 14 (2.02%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.30%) Law
14 9 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.15%) Advertising
16 7 (1.01%) Legal
17 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.72%) Electronics
18 5 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 275 (39.68%) Trainee
2 144 (20.78%) Developer
3 103 (14.86%) Analyst
4 95 (13.71%) Architect
5 94 (13.56%) Trainee Developer
6 82 (11.83%) Software Developer
7 81 (11.69%) Trainee Software Developer
8 66 (9.52%) Service Analyst
8 66 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
9 64 (9.24%) Administrator
10 57 (8.23%) Senior
11 56 (8.08%) Trainee Administrator
11 56 (8.08%) Web Administrator
12 51 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 51 (7.36%) Programmer
12 51 (7.36%) Trainee Programmer
13 41 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 40 (5.77%) Lead
15 28 (4.04%) Java Developer
16 24 (3.46%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (32.32%) CSS
1 224 (32.32%) HTML
2 54 (7.79%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.79%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.79%) NumPy
2 54 (7.79%) Pandas
2 54 (7.79%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.79%) Streamlit
3 46 (6.64%) Spring Boot
4 34 (4.91%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.76%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.76%) Jest
6 31 (4.47%) React
7 19 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 16 (2.31%) AWS CDK
9 15 (2.16%) .NET
9 15 (2.16%) Kafka
10 14 (2.02%) Spring
11 13 (1.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.80%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 41 (5.92%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.46%) PKI
6 23 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (3.17%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.60%) e-Learning
9 14 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.72%) Clustering
12 5 (0.72%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.72%) PACS
12 5 (0.72%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.80%) Linux
2 30 (4.33%) Windows
3 27 (3.90%) Unix
4 9 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (36.65%) Mentoring
2 228 (32.90%) Cybersecurity
3 157 (22.66%) Agile
4 133 (19.19%) CI/CD
5 127 (18.33%) Customer Service
6 125 (18.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 124 (17.89%) AI
8 120 (17.32%) ITIL
9 119 (17.17%) DevOps
10 71 (10.25%) Data Privacy
11 70 (10.10%) ITSM
12 69 (9.96%) Web Development
13 68 (9.81%) Machine Learning
13 68 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (9.67%) Migration
15 66 (9.52%) Performance Metrics
16 62 (8.95%) Containerisation
17 60 (8.66%) Cost Optimisation
17 60 (8.66%) Visualisation
18 59 (8.51%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 383 (55.27%) Python
2 275 (39.68%) JavaScript
3 130 (18.76%) R
4 101 (14.57%) Java
5 78 (11.26%) Bash
6 59 (8.51%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.76%) Groovy
7 33 (4.76%) SQL
8 32 (4.62%) Go
9 29 (4.18%) C#
10 21 (3.03%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.44%) C++
13 8 (1.15%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.14%) C
15 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.14%) PHP
15 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 327 (47.19%) Azure Certification
2 317 (45.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 293 (42.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 130 (18.76%) Degree
5 99 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 66 (9.52%) MCSE
7 63 (9.09%) Security Cleared
8 40 (5.77%) SC Cleared
9 35 (5.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (4.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
14 20 (2.89%) CISSP
15 17 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (2.16%) CISM
17 12 (1.73%) Master's Degree
18 11 (1.59%) DV Cleared
19 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
20 6 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.10%) QA
2 27 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.89%) NIST
4 12 (1.73%) GDPR
4 12 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.73%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.30%) NCSC
6 8 (1.15%) GRC
7 7 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.87%) SLA
9 5 (0.72%) DICOM
9 5 (0.72%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.29%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 110 (15.87%) Docker
2 22 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.15%) KVM
5 6 (0.87%) vSphere
6 5 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.58%) iptables
7 4 (0.58%) Squid
7 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 114 (16.45%) Terraform
2 76 (10.97%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.22%) Ansible
4 38 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.34%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.18%) Grafana
7 20 (2.89%) Argo
8 19 (2.74%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.15%) Cilium
10 8 (1.15%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.72%) Packer
11 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.72%) Puppet
11 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.14%) QRadar
13 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 437 (63.06%) Microsoft
2 86 (12.41%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.77%) Google
4 33 (4.76%) Adobe
4 33 (4.76%) Apple
5 30 (4.33%) VMware
6 17 (2.45%) Databricks
7 10 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.44%) Splunk
8 9 (1.30%) Oracle
9 8 (1.15%) Cisco
10 6 (0.87%) SAP
11 5 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.72%) Symantec
11 5 (0.72%) Workday
11 5 (0.72%) YouTube
12 4 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.58%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.58%) OpenText
12 4 (0.58%) Pega