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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 396 395
Rank change year-on-year +213 -1 -233
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 819 333 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 0.64% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.18% 1.72% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 485 151 293
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,261
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -19.23% -7.14%

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 19,602 19,345 20,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 37.30% 28.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,858 7,479 14,322
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.00%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +199 704 £30,500 -52.79% 374
UK excluding London +216 491 £30,500 -41.90% 360
Work from Home +140 304 £75,000 +25.00% 117
London +102 240 £67,500 -22.86% 104
North of England +124 231 £30,500 -32.22% 93
Yorkshire +57 132 £30,500 -32.22% 37
North West +81 72 £30,500 -41.90% 44
South East +64 64 £33,750 -36.38% 72
Midlands +39 55 £30,500 -43.88% 56
West Midlands +58 45 £30,500 -43.19% 28
Scotland +27 43 £30,500 -61.88% 28
South West +25 33 £30,500 -53.08% 46
Northern Ireland +14 31 - - 6
East of England +32 30 £82,500 +53.49% 42
North East +23 27 £30,500 -32.22% 13
East Midlands -9 10 £51,058 -7.17% 29
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 20

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 34 (4.15%) WordPress
2 15 (1.83%) Tomcat
2 15 (1.83%) WebSphere
3 14 (1.71%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (1.22%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.85%) nginx
7 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
9 4 (0.49%) Documentum
10 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (16.97%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.98%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 819 (100.00%) AWS
2 490 (59.83%) Azure
3 307 (37.48%) GitHub
4 171 (20.88%) Microsoft 365
5 127 (15.51%) Serverless
6 91 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 90 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 85 (10.38%) Amazon S3
9 79 (9.65%) GCP
10 44 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 38 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (2.81%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (2.32%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.94%) Internet
2 32 (3.91%) Firewall
3 25 (3.05%) VPN
4 24 (2.93%) Broadband
4 24 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
5 18 (2.20%) Network Security
6 17 (2.08%) SSL
7 12 (1.47%) DNS
7 12 (1.47%) WAN
8 11 (1.34%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.10%) VLAN
9 9 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.98%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.85%) VoIP
12 6 (0.73%) DHCP
12 6 (0.73%) LAN
13 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.49%) HTTP
14 4 (0.49%) OSPF
14 4 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.25%) DynamoDB
2 40 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.52%) Data Lake
4 32 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.66%) Metadata
5 30 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.83%) DB2
10 12 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.37%) Big Data
13 3 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 302 (36.87%) Git
2 49 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.40%) GitLab
4 21 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.32%) Jaeger
6 16 (1.95%) JIRA
6 16 (1.95%) Maven
6 16 (1.95%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.61%) Vite
12 4 (0.49%) MLflow
13 3 (0.37%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 284 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.94%) Multimedia
3 139 (16.97%) French Language
4 119 (14.53%) Swedish Language
5 112 (13.68%) Finance
6 68 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (6.96%) Banking
8 49 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (5.98%) Financial Institution
9 26 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.17%) Retail Banking
10 22 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.69%) Retail
11 12 (1.47%) Law
12 11 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.34%) Publishing
13 6 (0.73%) Legal
13 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 285 (34.80%) Trainee
2 162 (19.78%) Analyst
2 162 (19.78%) Developer
3 139 (16.97%) Service Analyst
3 139 (16.97%) Service Desk Analyst
4 134 (16.36%) Trainee Developer
5 125 (15.26%) Software Developer
5 125 (15.26%) Trainee Software Developer
6 119 (14.53%) Architect
7 75 (9.16%) Senior
8 45 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (5.25%) Lead
10 34 (4.15%) Administrator
11 30 (3.66%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.54%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.54%) Web Administrator
13 27 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.93%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 21 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (2.44%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.94%) CSS
1 278 (33.94%) HTML
2 31 (3.79%) React
3 27 (3.30%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (2.56%) Jest
5 20 (2.44%) AWS CDK
6 19 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.20%) .NET
7 18 (2.20%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.95%) Gherkin
8 16 (1.95%) LDAP
9 15 (1.83%) RESTful
10 14 (1.71%) Kafka
10 14 (1.71%) LAPP Stack
10 14 (1.71%) WebSphere MQ
11 12 (1.47%) Spring
12 11 (1.34%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (1.34%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (4.15%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.20%) PKI
8 17 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
10 8 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.85%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Clustering
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 86 (10.50%) Linux
2 65 (7.94%) Windows
3 47 (5.74%) Unix
4 20 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.37%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.24%) CentOS
7 2 (0.24%) Debian
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (43.47%) Mentoring
2 299 (36.51%) Cybersecurity
3 208 (25.40%) ITIL
4 153 (18.68%) Agile
5 147 (17.95%) ITSM
6 141 (17.22%) DevOps
7 131 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 130 (15.87%) Customer Service
9 129 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 118 (14.41%) Performance Metrics
11 79 (9.65%) Migration
12 73 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (8.55%) AI
13 70 (8.55%) Containerisation
14 69 (8.42%) TOGAF
15 68 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (8.06%) Roadmaps
17 65 (7.94%) Microservices
18 64 (7.81%) Computer Science
19 60 (7.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 427 (52.14%) Python
2 341 (41.64%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.58%) R
4 93 (11.36%) Java
5 73 (8.91%) Bash
6 57 (6.96%) TypeScript
7 41 (5.01%) C#
8 35 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 34 (4.15%) SQL
10 28 (3.42%) Go
11 19 (2.32%) Groovy
12 10 (1.22%) Bicep
13 7 (0.85%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) Perl
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 455 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 423 (51.65%) Azure Certification
3 294 (35.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 221 (26.98%) Degree
5 139 (16.97%) MCSE
6 118 (14.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 58 (7.08%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 46 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (5.49%) SC Cleared
11 32 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (3.42%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.17%) A+ Certification
14 24 (2.93%) CISSP
15 17 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (2.08%) CISM
16 16 (1.95%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.22%) CCNP
17 10 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.26%) QA
2 33 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.17%) NIST
4 22 (2.69%) GDPR
4 22 (2.69%) SLA
5 14 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.22%) NCSC
8 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.98%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.49%) GRC
13 3 (0.37%) DICOM
14 2 (0.24%) GxP
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) Basel III
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (13.19%) Docker
2 47 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.85%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.24%) iptables
9 2 (0.24%) Postfix
9 2 (0.24%) Squid
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 111 (13.55%) Terraform
2 88 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.35%) Ansible
4 36 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.15%) Grafana
6 21 (2.56%) Argo
7 19 (2.32%) Kustomize
8 16 (1.95%) HP Fortify
9 9 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.61%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.24%) Puppet
15 1 (0.12%) Autotask
15 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 526 (64.22%) Microsoft
2 155 (18.93%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.47%) VMware
4 39 (4.76%) Google
5 22 (2.69%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.44%) IBM
7 17 (2.08%) Adobe
7 17 (2.08%) Apple
8 15 (1.83%) SAP
9 12 (1.47%) Cisco
10 11 (1.34%) Workday
11 6 (0.73%) Databricks
12 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 5 (0.61%) YouTube
13 4 (0.49%) OpenText
13 4 (0.49%) Oracle
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) Pega
14 3 (0.37%) Ariba
14 3 (0.37%) OpenAI