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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 219 450
Rank change year-on-year -180 +231 -59
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 516 694 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 1.42% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.54% 4.13% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 181 258 159
10th Percentile £47,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £28,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -10.34% -4.19%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £97,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,058 £62,250
% change year-on-year +27.31% -17.98% -4.23%

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 20,280 16,817 19,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.02% 34.39% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,776 7,364 8,485
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £43,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,750 £47,500 £54,793
% change year-on-year +17.37% -13.31% +4.37%

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 October 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 October 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 -161 470 £77,500 +16.98% 99
UK excluding London -232 243 £65,000 +27.31% 61
London -44 242 £90,000 +20.00% 53
Work from Home -183 153 £78,750 +5.00% 77
North of England -171 76 £72,500 +52.63% 17
South East -65 51 £65,000 -5.80% 10
South West -55 47 £70,000 +37.10% 14
Midlands -44 39 £73,750 +28.33% 13
North West -141 37 £62,500 +104.92% 11
West Midlands -43 34 £71,250 +24.05% 13
North East -54 27 £80,500 +120.55% 2
East of England -51 12 £82,500 -15.38% 1
Yorkshire -67 12 £73,750 +13.46% 4
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -36 5 £73,750 -4.84%
Scotland -11 3 - - 4
Northern Ireland -99 3 £42,500 -

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 23 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 17 (3.29%) Confluence
3 11 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.94%) Apache
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.97%) Apache Pig
6 5 (0.97%) SAS
7 4 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.78%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (2.91%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 516 (100.00%) AWS
2 192 (37.21%) Azure
3 137 (26.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 109 (21.12%) GCP
5 99 (19.19%) Serverless
6 82 (15.89%) Amazon S3
6 82 (15.89%) Cloud Computing
7 78 (15.12%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (12.40%) Amazon ECS
9 61 (11.82%) GitHub
10 57 (11.05%) Microsoft 365
11 46 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (4.26%) Entra ID
16 21 (4.07%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (3.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 64 (12.40%) Network Security
2 54 (10.47%) Firewall
3 28 (5.43%) VPN
4 23 (4.46%) Internet
4 23 (4.46%) WAN
5 20 (3.88%) DNS
6 17 (3.29%) SD-WAN
7 16 (3.10%) DHCP
8 15 (2.91%) LAN
8 15 (2.91%) Software-Defined Networking
9 12 (2.33%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.94%) Wireless
11 8 (1.55%) VLAN
12 6 (1.16%) IPv4
12 6 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.78%) DMZ
13 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
14 3 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (0.58%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (13.37%) NoSQL
2 46 (8.91%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (4.46%) DynamoDB
4 21 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (3.29%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.71%) Metadata
8 12 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.13%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.94%) Big Data
10 10 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (1.74%) Power BI
12 8 (1.55%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.36%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (1.36%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.97%) Apache Hive
14 5 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.97%) Power Query
15 4 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.78%) GIS
Development Applications
1 81 (15.70%) GitLab
2 46 (8.91%) Cucumber
3 40 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.23%) Git
5 26 (5.04%) JIRA
6 13 (2.52%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.33%) Maven
8 11 (2.13%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.94%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.16%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.58%) Ant
12 3 (0.58%) Taiga
12 3 (0.58%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.39%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.39%) git-flow
13 2 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
14 1 (0.19%) Snyk
General
1 143 (27.71%) Finance
1 143 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 60 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.75%) Banking
5 40 (7.75%) Swedish Language
6 25 (4.84%) Retail
7 23 (4.46%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.88%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.71%) Law
10 13 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.33%) Military
12 10 (1.94%) Marketing
13 9 (1.74%) Legal
14 8 (1.55%) French Language
15 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.16%) Digital Health
16 6 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.16%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 138 (26.74%) Senior
2 133 (25.78%) Architect
3 70 (13.57%) Analyst
4 62 (12.02%) Consultant
5 47 (9.11%) Java Engineer
6 44 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (7.75%) Service Analyst
7 40 (7.75%) Service Desk Analyst
8 34 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.20%) Lead
10 31 (6.01%) Security Consultant
11 30 (5.81%) Developer
12 28 (5.43%) AWS Architect
13 27 (5.23%) Senior Consultant
14 26 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (5.04%) Cloud Architect
15 25 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (4.84%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (4.65%) Senior Architect
17 21 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (27.13%) Terraform
2 78 (15.12%) Spring Boot
3 70 (13.57%) Kafka
4 64 (12.40%) Spring
5 33 (6.40%) AWS CDK
6 25 (4.84%) Node.js
7 19 (3.68%) .NET
7 19 (3.68%) AngularJS
8 16 (3.10%) LangChain
8 16 (3.10%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (2.71%) REST
9 14 (2.71%) Web Services
10 11 (2.13%) CSS
10 11 (2.13%) Jest
10 11 (2.13%) React
11 10 (1.94%) HTML
11 10 (1.94%) OAuth
11 10 (1.94%) OpenAPI
11 10 (1.94%) Ruby on Rails
12 9 (1.74%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 141 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 100 (19.38%) Onboarding
3 63 (12.21%) Public Cloud
4 57 (11.05%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (9.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 46 (8.91%) e-Learning
7 39 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 36 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (5.81%) Data Centre
10 22 (4.26%) PKI
11 18 (3.49%) Management Information System
12 16 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (3.10%) Security Posture
13 14 (2.71%) Blog
14 13 (2.52%) Algorithms
14 13 (2.52%) Mainframe
15 12 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (2.13%) Product Ownership
17 10 (1.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.69%) Windows
2 41 (7.95%) Linux
3 24 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.78%) Unix
5 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.39%) macOS
6 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Solaris
6 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (42.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 207 (40.12%) CI/CD
3 182 (35.27%) AI
4 177 (34.30%) Agile
5 173 (33.53%) Mentoring
6 128 (24.81%) Cloud Security
7 114 (22.09%) DevOps
8 110 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (17.25%) ITIL
11 85 (16.47%) Microservices
12 83 (16.09%) Roadmaps
13 82 (15.89%) Cybersecurity
14 81 (15.70%) Migration
15 80 (15.50%) Technical Leadership
16 74 (14.34%) Test Automation
17 73 (14.15%) Generative AI
17 73 (14.15%) Observability
18 72 (13.95%) Architectural Patterns
19 71 (13.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 143 (27.71%) Python
2 119 (23.06%) Java
3 85 (16.47%) SQL
4 55 (10.66%) Bash
5 30 (5.81%) Go
6 28 (5.43%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.84%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.65%) Ruby
9 23 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.49%) C#
11 14 (2.71%) Perl
11 14 (2.71%) PHP
12 10 (1.94%) Groovy
13 6 (1.16%) C++
13 6 (1.16%) COBOL
14 5 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.78%) R
16 3 (0.58%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 157 (30.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 139 (26.94%) Degree
3 131 (25.39%) Security Cleared
4 111 (21.51%) Azure Certification
5 80 (15.50%) SC Cleared
6 64 (12.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (8.91%) CISSP
8 42 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (7.75%) MCSE
10 32 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (5.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 26 (5.04%) DV Cleared
13 26 (5.04%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (3.68%) CISM
14 19 (3.68%) Master's Degree
15 18 (3.49%) CCNA
15 18 (3.49%) CCNP
16 16 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 15 (2.91%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (7.95%) QA
3 26 (5.04%) GDPR
4 25 (4.84%) NIST
5 23 (4.46%) NCSC
6 18 (3.49%) Data Quality
7 16 (3.10%) SOC 2
8 14 (2.71%) Accessibility
9 12 (2.33%) HIPAA
10 11 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (1.94%) GRC
12 9 (1.74%) PCI DSS
13 8 (1.55%) ISO 9001
14 6 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.78%) SLA
17 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
18 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 65 (12.60%) Docker
2 29 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.36%) vSphere
5 6 (1.16%) Squid
5 6 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.16%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.97%) KVM
Systems Management
1 83 (16.09%) Kubernetes
2 44 (8.53%) Ansible
3 23 (4.46%) Grafana
4 17 (3.29%) Puppet
5 16 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.91%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.74%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.36%) Argo
11 6 (1.16%) Cilium
11 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.16%) Packer
11 6 (1.16%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.78%) Iperf
13 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.58%) QRadar
14 2 (0.39%) CASB
14 2 (0.39%) kaniko
15 1 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 150 (29.07%) Microsoft
2 66 (12.79%) ServiceNow
3 39 (7.56%) VMware
4 33 (6.40%) Google
4 33 (6.40%) Oracle
5 27 (5.23%) Cisco
6 21 (4.07%) Splunk
7 19 (3.68%) Adobe
8 18 (3.49%) SAP
9 16 (3.10%) Apple
10 14 (2.71%) Databricks
11 13 (2.52%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.33%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.55%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.55%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.55%) Genesys
14 7 (1.36%) Avaya
14 7 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.36%) Dynatrace
15 6 (1.16%) F5