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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 294 462
Rank change year-on-year +2 +168 -303
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 594 468 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.07% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.70% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 317 132 322
10th Percentile - £44,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -5.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £94,063 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,684 £98,625 £101,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% -14.29% -

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 19,918 17,340 26,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.49% 39.59% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,356 7,251 17,156
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -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 5 June 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 June 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 -6 536 £37,500 -46.43% 287
UK excluding London -3 369 £37,500 -37.50% 213
Work from Home -44 198 £62,500 -6.38% 98
London -7 182 £55,000 -32.31% 106
North of England -48 176 £37,500 -42.31% 57
Yorkshire +26 83 £37,500 -44.44% 20
North West -72 74 £37,500 -33.33% 28
Midlands +2 61 £35,000 -34.81% 30
West Midlands -6 55 £35,000 -34.81% 17
South East -12 39 £62,500 -14.38% 51
South West -45 37 £47,000 -17.17% 32
Scotland +25 20 £30,750 -41.43% 8
North East -29 19 £37,500 -21.05% 9
East of England -9 17 £56,250 -33.82% 26
Northern Ireland -25 12 £39,000 - 3
Wales - 7 £51,619 - 8
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 13

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 54 (9.09%) Jupyter
2 45 (7.58%) WordPress
3 15 (2.53%) Confluence
4 10 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.01%) Apache
7 4 (0.67%) Documentum
8 3 (0.51%) JBoss
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 65 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.26%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
4 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (4.04%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 594 (100.00%) AWS
2 299 (50.34%) Azure
3 164 (27.61%) GitHub
4 91 (15.32%) GCP
5 90 (15.15%) Serverless
6 82 (13.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 82 (13.80%) Microsoft 365
7 73 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (11.95%) Amazon S3
9 61 (10.27%) Cloud Computing
10 50 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.57%) AWS Step Functions
13 33 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
13 33 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (4.88%) Apigee
15 23 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 131 (22.05%) Internet
2 30 (5.05%) Firewall
3 29 (4.88%) Network Security
4 19 (3.20%) VPN
5 18 (3.03%) Broadband
6 14 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.68%) WAN
8 9 (1.52%) LAN
8 9 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.35%) IPv4
10 7 (1.18%) Wireless
11 6 (1.01%) DNS
12 5 (0.84%) DHCP
12 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.51%) VLAN
14 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
14 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (0.17%) BGP
15 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
15 1 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.07%) DynamoDB
3 28 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.54%) Metadata
5 18 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.84%) Power BI
9 3 (0.51%) Big Data
9 3 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.34%) GIS
10 2 (0.34%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.34%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.17%) Flink
Development Applications
1 147 (24.75%) Git
2 66 (11.11%) GitLab
3 54 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 30 (5.05%) Cypress.io
4 30 (5.05%) Maven
5 29 (4.88%) SonarQube
6 23 (3.87%) Cucumber
7 18 (3.03%) Jaeger
7 18 (3.03%) TeamCity
8 17 (2.86%) JIRA
9 13 (2.19%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.67%) MLflow
11 3 (0.51%) Selenium
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) Gatling
12 1 (0.17%) JMeter
12 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 165 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 131 (22.05%) Multimedia
3 122 (20.54%) Finance
4 74 (12.46%) Retail
5 71 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (9.93%) Manufacturing
7 49 (8.25%) French Language
8 42 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.89%) Banking
10 24 (4.04%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.69%) Swedish Language
12 15 (2.53%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.35%) Advertising
14 8 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Legal
16 5 (0.84%) Publishing
17 4 (0.67%) Billing
17 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (30.64%) Trainee
2 108 (18.18%) Analyst
3 96 (16.16%) Developer
4 85 (14.31%) Architect
5 74 (12.46%) Senior
6 65 (10.94%) Service Analyst
6 65 (10.94%) Service Desk Analyst
7 52 (8.75%) Administrator
8 51 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.59%) Programmer
8 51 (8.59%) Trainee Programmer
9 48 (8.08%) Trainee Developer
10 46 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (7.41%) Trainee Administrator
11 44 (7.41%) Web Administrator
12 42 (7.07%) Software Developer
13 41 (6.90%) Trainee Software Developer
14 33 (5.56%) Lead
15 28 (4.71%) Java Developer
16 26 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (22.39%) CSS
1 133 (22.39%) HTML
2 57 (9.60%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.09%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.09%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.09%) NumPy
3 54 (9.09%) Pandas
3 54 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.09%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.39%) AngularJS
5 30 (5.05%) Jest
6 29 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 27 (4.55%) Spring
8 25 (4.21%) Kafka
9 22 (3.70%) React
10 18 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (2.19%) .NET
12 12 (2.02%) AWS CDK
13 11 (1.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.61%) Algorithms
3 45 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 29 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (4.71%) PKI
6 27 (4.55%) e-Learning
7 26 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (3.20%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.35%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.84%) PACS
13 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.51%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.76%) Linux
2 36 (6.06%) Windows
3 22 (3.70%) Unix
4 17 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (29.12%) Mentoring
2 156 (26.26%) Agile
3 152 (25.59%) CI/CD
4 151 (25.42%) Cybersecurity
5 139 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (21.55%) AI
7 124 (20.88%) Customer Service
8 122 (20.54%) ITIL
9 103 (17.34%) DevOps
10 68 (11.45%) ITSM
10 68 (11.45%) Machine Learning
11 65 (10.94%) Performance Metrics
12 64 (10.77%) Cost Optimisation
12 64 (10.77%) Data Privacy
13 61 (10.27%) LLM
14 60 (10.10%) Microservices
15 59 (9.93%) OO
15 59 (9.93%) Visualisation
16 58 (9.76%) Cloud Security
17 57 (9.60%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 288 (48.48%) Python
2 171 (28.79%) JavaScript
3 103 (17.34%) Java
4 83 (13.97%) R
5 74 (12.46%) Bash
6 48 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.57%) SQL
8 36 (6.06%) Go
9 30 (5.05%) Groovy
10 26 (4.38%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.87%) C#
12 11 (1.85%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.35%) C++
14 6 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.84%) Ruby
16 3 (0.51%) Bicep
17 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.17%) COBOL
17 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 230 (38.72%) Azure Certification
2 218 (36.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 200 (33.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 126 (21.21%) Degree
5 100 (16.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.94%) MCSE
7 64 (10.77%) Security Cleared
8 42 (7.07%) SC Cleared
9 29 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
10 26 (4.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (3.03%) CISSP
14 16 (2.69%) AWS Certified Developer
15 15 (2.53%) CISM
16 11 (1.85%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.68%) CCNA
18 9 (1.52%) OSCP
18 9 (1.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.45%) QA
2 35 (5.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.20%) NIST
4 15 (2.53%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.02%) GRC
5 12 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.85%) GDPR
7 10 (1.68%) NCSC
8 8 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.35%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.84%) DICOM
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) COBIT
12 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 100 (16.84%) Docker
2 21 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.52%) vSphere
5 8 (1.35%) Squid
5 8 (1.35%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.01%) KVM
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) iptables
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 121 (20.37%) Terraform
2 85 (14.31%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.43%) Ansible
4 38 (6.40%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.56%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.55%) Grafana
7 21 (3.54%) Argo
8 18 (3.03%) Kustomize
9 12 (2.02%) Cilium
10 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.52%) Packer
12 8 (1.35%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.84%) Puppet
15 2 (0.34%) QRadar
16 1 (0.17%) Consul
16 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
16 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 340 (57.24%) Microsoft
2 94 (15.82%) ServiceNow
3 39 (6.57%) Apple
4 38 (6.40%) Adobe
5 35 (5.89%) Google
6 30 (5.05%) VMware
7 16 (2.69%) Databricks
8 15 (2.53%) Splunk
9 13 (2.19%) Oracle
10 12 (2.02%) Cisco
11 10 (1.68%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.18%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.18%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.18%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.84%) SAP
13 5 (0.84%) Workday
14 4 (0.67%) OpenText
14 4 (0.67%) Pega
14 4 (0.67%) YouTube