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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 255 480
Rank change year-on-year -121 +225 -88
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 523 575 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.16% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.58% 3.38% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 169 188 184
10th Percentile £47,600 £28,250 £43,520
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,165 £57,372
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,013 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% -7.78% -4.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £96,775
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -10.71% +2.94%

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 20,249 16,993 20,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 34.36% 26.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,017 7,512 9,907
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -4.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £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 14 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 14 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 -96 485 £77,500 +13.10% 997
UK excluding London -179 250 £66,000 +5.60% 705
London -3 246 £85,000 +13.33% 531
Work from Home -135 176 £85,000 +17.24% 710
North of England -144 85 £69,250 +6.54% 183
South West -66 47 £70,000 +23.36% 124
South East -36 46 £65,000 -7.47% 91
North West -117 44 £53,750 -14.00% 101
Midlands -38 43 £90,000 +38.46% 88
West Midlands -32 38 £90,000 +38.46% 60
North East -45 21 £80,500 +89.41% 50
Yorkshire -39 20 £68,750 +5.77% 34
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 7
East of England -26 8 £100,000 - 38
Northern Ireland -83 6 £42,500 - 71
East Midlands - 5 £73,750 - 28
Scotland +4 3 - - 104

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 (3.82%) Confluence
2 17 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.96%) Apache Pig
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.76%) 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 66 (12.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (4.59%) 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
1 523 (100.00%) AWS
2 188 (35.95%) Azure
3 131 (25.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 116 (22.18%) GCP
5 102 (19.50%) Serverless
6 82 (15.68%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (15.68%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (15.30%) Amazon S3
7 80 (15.30%) Cloud Computing
8 69 (13.19%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (9.56%) GitHub
10 45 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (5.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (4.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (4.02%) OCI
16 20 (3.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (3.63%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.58%) Network Security
2 54 (10.33%) Firewall
3 29 (5.54%) WAN
4 27 (5.16%) VPN
5 23 (4.40%) SD-WAN
6 21 (4.02%) LAN
7 20 (3.82%) Internet
7 20 (3.82%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.63%) DNS
9 17 (3.25%) 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 (0.76%) DMZ
16 3 (0.57%) BGP
16 3 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
16 3 (0.57%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.66%) NoSQL
2 48 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.74%) DynamoDB
4 18 (3.44%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.25%) Metadata
6 16 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.10%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.91%) Big Data
10 8 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.53%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.34%) SAP HANA
12 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.96%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.96%) Power BI
14 4 (0.76%) GIS
15 3 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (13.96%) GitLab
2 48 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 39 (7.46%) Cucumber
4 29 (5.54%) JIRA
5 21 (4.02%) Git
6 18 (3.44%) Maven
7 16 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.87%) SonarQube
9 13 (2.49%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.57%) Taiga
11 3 (0.57%) VersionOne
12 2 (0.38%) Ant
12 2 (0.38%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.38%) git-flow
12 2 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.19%) ERwin
13 1 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 167 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 130 (24.86%) Finance
3 74 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 59 (11.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (9.18%) Swedish Language
7 39 (7.46%) Banking
8 24 (4.59%) Retail
9 23 (4.40%) Aerospace
10 21 (4.02%) Financial Institution
10 21 (4.02%) French Language
11 14 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.49%) Law
13 12 (2.29%) Military
14 11 (2.10%) Marketing
15 9 (1.72%) Legal
16 7 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.15%) Digital Health
17 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (26.39%) Senior
2 130 (24.86%) Architect
3 101 (19.31%) Analyst
4 66 (12.62%) Service Analyst
4 66 (12.62%) Service Desk Analyst
5 61 (11.66%) Consultant
6 44 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (7.27%) Java Engineer
8 36 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.12%) Developer
10 31 (5.93%) Security Consultant
11 30 (5.74%) Lead
12 28 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (5.35%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (5.16%) AWS Architect
14 26 (4.97%) Senior Architect
14 26 (4.97%) Senior Consultant
15 22 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (4.21%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (4.21%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (26.00%) Terraform
2 72 (13.77%) Spring Boot
3 57 (10.90%) Kafka
4 52 (9.94%) Spring
5 31 (5.93%) AWS CDK
6 21 (4.02%) .NET
6 21 (4.02%) AngularJS
6 21 (4.02%) Node.js
7 16 (3.06%) Jest
8 15 (2.87%) Gherkin
9 14 (2.68%) REST
10 12 (2.29%) React
10 12 (2.29%) Web Services
11 11 (2.10%) LangChain
11 11 (2.10%) LlamaIndex
12 10 (1.91%) OAuth
12 10 (1.91%) OpenAPI
12 10 (1.91%) Ruby on Rails
13 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (1.72%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 126 (24.09%) Cloud Native
2 94 (17.97%) Onboarding
3 50 (9.56%) Public Cloud
4 47 (8.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 46 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (7.65%) e-Learning
7 36 (6.88%) Data Centre
8 34 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (4.02%) PKI
11 15 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (2.87%) Management Information System
12 14 (2.68%) Blog
12 14 (2.68%) Security Posture
13 13 (2.49%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (2.10%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 10 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.99%) Windows
2 39 (7.46%) Linux
3 22 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
6 2 (0.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 189 (36.14%) CI/CD
3 168 (32.12%) Agile
4 165 (31.55%) Mentoring
5 162 (30.98%) AI
6 127 (24.28%) Cloud Security
7 121 (23.14%) ITIL
8 103 (19.69%) DevOps
9 90 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
11 84 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (15.49%) Microservices
13 80 (15.30%) Migration
13 80 (15.30%) Technical Leadership
14 78 (14.91%) Roadmaps
15 73 (13.96%) ITSM
16 68 (13.00%) Customer Service
17 67 (12.81%) Performance Metrics
18 64 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
19 63 (12.05%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 124 (23.71%) Python
2 115 (21.99%) Java
3 70 (13.38%) SQL
4 59 (11.28%) Bash
5 29 (5.54%) Go
5 29 (5.54%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.97%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.59%) Ruby
8 22 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 18 (3.44%) C#
10 16 (3.06%) Groovy
11 15 (2.87%) PHP
12 14 (2.68%) Perl
13 7 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.15%) C++
14 6 (1.15%) COBOL
15 4 (0.76%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.38%) Bicep
16 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (30.78%) Degree
2 156 (29.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 128 (24.47%) Security Cleared
4 101 (19.31%) Azure Certification
5 89 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 76 (14.53%) SC Cleared
7 66 (12.62%) MCSE
8 52 (9.94%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (8.03%) CISSP
10 29 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 25 (4.78%) DV Cleared
13 23 (4.40%) CCNP
14 22 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (4.02%) CCNA
15 21 (4.02%) Master's Degree
16 20 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.82%) CISM
17 17 (3.25%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.00%) QA
2 47 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (5.35%) NIST
4 26 (4.97%) GDPR
5 21 (4.02%) NCSC
6 20 (3.82%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.68%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.49%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.49%) GRC
9 12 (2.29%) HIPAA
10 10 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.53%) ISO 9001
12 6 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (1.15%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.76%) SLA
14 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.19%) COBIT
15 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 63 (12.05%) Docker
2 26 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.78%) 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 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (14.15%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.80%) Ansible
3 20 (3.82%) Grafana
4 16 (3.06%) Puppet
4 16 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.87%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.68%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.49%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.72%) Cilium
8 9 (1.72%) Packer
9 8 (1.53%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.15%) Argo
11 6 (1.15%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.76%) Iperf
13 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.57%) QRadar
14 2 (0.38%) CASB
14 2 (0.38%) kaniko
15 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 174 (33.27%) Microsoft
2 96 (18.36%) ServiceNow
3 37 (7.07%) Oracle
4 36 (6.88%) VMware
5 30 (5.74%) Cisco
6 25 (4.78%) Apple
6 25 (4.78%) Google
6 25 (4.78%) Splunk
7 24 (4.59%) Adobe
8 18 (3.44%) SAP
9 17 (3.25%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.87%) Red Hat
11 12 (2.29%) Databricks
11 12 (2.29%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.53%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.34%) Avaya
13 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.34%) Genesys