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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 359 434
Rank change year-on-year +142 +75 -287
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 776 293 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.96% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.65% 1.84% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 490 166 294
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% +3.45%
75th Percentile £56,635 £89,688 £89,375
90th Percentile £83,776 £99,375 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +3.70%

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 21,235 15,960 24,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.20% 39.00% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,668 7,524 16,882
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,368 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +4.85% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,175 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.83% +6.00% -

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 5 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 5 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 +137 688 £31,500 -51.24% 276
UK excluding London +154 503 £30,500 -41.90% 248
North of England +89 253 £30,500 -39.00% 65
Work from Home +62 222 £62,500 +4.17% 57
London +24 206 £37,500 -55.88% 86
Yorkshire +44 139 £30,500 -35.79% 26
North West +40 87 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands +2 63 £30,500 -48.43% 35
West Midlands +13 51 £30,500 -48.43% 17
South East -1 49 £33,750 -49.25% 57
South West -14 40 £31,500 -33.68% 34
Scotland +2 39 £30,500 -41.90% 10
East of England -3 34 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East +2 27 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -20 20 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands - 12 £51,058 - 18
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 12

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 78 (10.05%) WordPress
2 54 (6.96%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.16%) Confluence
5 6 (0.77%) Apache
5 6 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.77%) Drupal
5 6 (0.77%) nginx
6 4 (0.52%) Documentum
6 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 88 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.09%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 776 (100.00%) AWS
2 453 (58.38%) Azure
3 305 (39.30%) GitHub
4 112 (14.43%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (14.18%) Serverless
6 87 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (10.18%) GCP
9 77 (9.92%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.73%) Cloud Computing
11 49 (6.31%) AWS Step Functions
12 44 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (4.77%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (4.12%) Apigee
18 19 (2.45%) Pulumi
19 17 (2.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (35.82%) Internet
2 28 (3.61%) Firewall
3 21 (2.71%) Broadband
4 20 (2.58%) Network Security
5 19 (2.45%) VPN
6 7 (0.90%) DNS
7 6 (0.77%) DHCP
7 6 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.77%) WAN
8 5 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.64%) SSL
9 4 (0.52%) LAN
9 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.52%) VLAN
9 4 (0.52%) Wireless
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.13%) MPLS
11 1 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.57%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.28%) NoSQL
3 31 (3.99%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.87%) Metadata
5 24 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.58%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.64%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.64%) Power BI
13 4 (0.52%) DB2
14 3 (0.39%) Big Data
14 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
16 1 (0.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 293 (37.76%) Git
2 54 (6.96%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.57%) GitLab
3 51 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.12%) Cypress.io
4 32 (4.12%) Maven
4 32 (4.12%) SonarQube
5 19 (2.45%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.06%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.42%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.42%) JIRA
8 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.52%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) JMeter
11 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 278 (35.82%) Multimedia
2 220 (28.35%) Social Skills
3 144 (18.56%) Finance
4 88 (11.34%) French Language
5 75 (9.66%) Retail
6 64 (8.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (7.35%) Manufacturing
8 51 (6.57%) Swedish Language
9 48 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (5.67%) Banking
11 42 (5.41%) Financial Institution
12 25 (3.22%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.19%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.42%) Publishing
15 10 (1.29%) Law
16 6 (0.77%) Advertising
16 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.77%) Legal
17 5 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 329 (42.40%) Trainee
2 165 (21.26%) Developer
3 115 (14.82%) Analyst
3 115 (14.82%) Trainee Developer
4 105 (13.53%) Architect
5 102 (13.14%) Software Developer
6 101 (13.02%) Trainee Software Developer
7 88 (11.34%) Service Analyst
7 88 (11.34%) Service Desk Analyst
8 80 (10.31%) Administrator
9 72 (9.28%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (9.28%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.57%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.57%) Programmer
10 51 (6.57%) Trainee Programmer
11 47 (6.06%) Senior
12 42 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.90%) Lead
14 28 (3.61%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (35.82%) CSS
1 278 (35.82%) HTML
2 54 (6.96%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.96%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.96%) NumPy
2 54 (6.96%) Pandas
2 54 (6.96%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.96%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.28%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.25%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.12%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.12%) Jest
5 32 (4.12%) React
6 19 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.32%) .NET
8 17 (2.19%) AWS CDK
9 15 (1.93%) RESTful
10 14 (1.80%) Tailwind CSS
11 13 (1.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.99%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.47%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.51%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.84%) PKI
6 21 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.93%) e-Learning
9 13 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.64%) Clustering
14 5 (0.64%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.64%) PACS
14 5 (0.64%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.52%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.51%) Linux
2 38 (4.90%) Windows
3 32 (4.12%) Unix
4 11 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (35.82%) Mentoring
2 251 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
3 164 (21.13%) Agile
4 151 (19.46%) ITIL
5 149 (19.20%) Customer Service
6 132 (17.01%) CI/CD
7 129 (16.62%) DevOps
8 122 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 119 (15.34%) AI
10 91 (11.73%) ITSM
10 91 (11.73%) Performance Metrics
11 86 (11.08%) Web Development
12 74 (9.54%) Data Privacy
13 72 (9.28%) Machine Learning
14 70 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (8.76%) Migration
16 64 (8.25%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.73%) LLM
17 60 (7.73%) Visualisation
18 58 (7.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 447 (57.60%) Python
2 331 (42.65%) JavaScript
3 163 (21.01%) R
4 94 (12.11%) Java
5 81 (10.44%) Bash
6 59 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.25%) Go
7 33 (4.25%) SQL
8 32 (4.12%) C#
8 32 (4.12%) Groovy
9 26 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.16%) C++
12 7 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.52%) Bicep
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 395 (50.90%) Azure Certification
1 395 (50.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 344 (44.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 165 (21.26%) Degree
4 95 (12.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 88 (11.34%) MCSE
6 60 (7.73%) Security Cleared
7 45 (5.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 42 (5.41%) SC Cleared
9 34 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
10 32 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (3.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 20 (2.58%) CISSP
14 17 (2.19%) CISM
15 14 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (1.29%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.16%) DV Cleared
18 7 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (12.11%) QA
2 30 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.71%) NIST
4 15 (1.93%) GDPR
4 15 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.55%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.42%) SLA
7 9 (1.16%) GRC
7 9 (1.16%) NCSC
8 8 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.64%) DICOM
11 5 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.26%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.26%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) Basel III
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (14.05%) Docker
2 19 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.90%) KVM
5 5 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.52%) iptables
7 3 (0.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (15.08%) Terraform
2 77 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.31%) Ansible
4 38 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.64%) HP Fortify
6 31 (3.99%) Grafana
7 20 (2.58%) Argo
8 19 (2.45%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.16%) Cilium
11 8 (1.03%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.64%) Puppet
14 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.26%) Packer
16 1 (0.13%) Consul
16 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
16 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
16 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 503 (64.82%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.63%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.15%) Google
4 28 (3.61%) VMware
5 20 (2.58%) Adobe
5 20 (2.58%) Apple
6 15 (1.93%) Databricks
7 12 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.55%) SAP
8 11 (1.42%) Workday
9 9 (1.16%) Cisco
10 6 (0.77%) IBM
11 5 (0.64%) Oracle
11 5 (0.64%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.64%) Splunk
11 5 (0.64%) Symantec
11 5 (0.64%) YouTube
12 4 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.52%) OpenText
12 4 (0.52%) Pega