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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 390 387
Rank change year-on-year +203 -3 -242
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 852 332 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 0.68% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.24% 1.79% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 511 151 295
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,125 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -22.22% -3.57%

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 20,098 18,539 21,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.43% 37.92% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,145 7,368 14,844
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £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 £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.99%

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 19 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 19 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 +173 734 £30,500 -52.79% 352
UK excluding London +217 524 £30,500 -41.90% 350
Work from Home +130 298 £75,000 +25.00% 55
North of England +110 253 £30,500 -32.22% 96
London +79 238 £57,500 -32.35% 92
Yorkshire +50 140 £30,500 -32.22% 41
North West +62 83 £30,500 -41.90% 44
South East +46 62 £41,875 -22.49% 64
Midlands +27 57 £30,500 -52.79% 52
West Midlands +42 46 £30,500 -52.79% 25
Scotland +23 46 £30,500 -53.96% 29
South West +23 39 £30,500 -49.17% 49
Northern Ireland +7 33 - - 6
East of England +23 30 £82,500 +53.49% 41
North East +20 30 £30,500 -32.22% 12
East Midlands -19 11 £51,058 -7.17% 27
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 18

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 37 (4.34%) Jupyter
2 34 (3.99%) WordPress
3 13 (1.53%) Tomcat
3 13 (1.53%) WebSphere
4 12 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.06%) Confluence
6 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.59%) Apache
7 5 (0.59%) Drupal
7 5 (0.59%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Documentum
9 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 140 (16.43%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (4.46%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 852 (100.00%) AWS
2 488 (57.28%) Azure
3 308 (36.15%) GitHub
4 170 (19.95%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (14.79%) Serverless
6 92 (10.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 90 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (9.86%) GCP
9 80 (9.39%) Amazon S3
10 43 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
11 42 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (4.93%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (3.29%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (2.46%) Apigee
18 21 (2.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (32.63%) Internet
2 32 (3.76%) Firewall
3 26 (3.05%) VPN
4 22 (2.58%) Broadband
4 22 (2.58%) Network Security
5 20 (2.35%) Remote Desktop
6 15 (1.76%) SSL
7 11 (1.29%) WAN
8 10 (1.17%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.06%) VLAN
10 8 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.82%) DNS
12 6 (0.70%) DHCP
12 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.70%) VoIP
13 5 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.59%) LAN
14 4 (0.47%) BGP
14 4 (0.47%) OSPF
15 3 (0.35%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.05%) DynamoDB
2 42 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.52%) Metadata
5 26 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.35%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 13 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (1.53%) DB2
10 11 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.59%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.47%) Big Data
14 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.23%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
16 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 299 (35.09%) Git
2 45 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.69%) GitLab
4 37 (4.34%) Visual Studio Code
5 25 (2.93%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.46%) Maven
6 21 (2.46%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.23%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.64%) JIRA
8 14 (1.64%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.47%) MLflow
11 4 (0.47%) Vite
12 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 282 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 278 (32.63%) Multimedia
3 142 (16.67%) Finance
4 140 (16.43%) French Language
5 111 (13.03%) Swedish Language
6 66 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (6.81%) Retail
8 57 (6.69%) Banking
9 49 (5.75%) Financial Institution
10 48 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
11 41 (4.81%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.93%) Public Sector
13 24 (2.82%) Retail Banking
14 18 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.29%) Law
15 11 (1.29%) Publishing
16 6 (0.70%) Legal
17 5 (0.59%) Local Government
17 5 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 315 (36.97%) Trainee
2 167 (19.60%) Developer
3 163 (19.13%) Analyst
4 140 (16.43%) Service Analyst
4 140 (16.43%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (15.73%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (14.67%) Software Developer
6 125 (14.67%) Trainee Software Developer
7 121 (14.20%) Architect
8 69 (8.10%) Senior
9 47 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (4.81%) Lead
11 37 (4.34%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 37 (4.34%) Programmer
11 37 (4.34%) Trainee Programmer
12 36 (4.23%) Administrator
13 30 (3.52%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.40%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.40%) Web Administrator
15 23 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (32.63%) CSS
1 278 (32.63%) HTML
2 40 (4.69%) Hugging Face
3 39 (4.58%) NumPy
3 39 (4.58%) Pandas
4 37 (4.34%) Matplotlib
4 37 (4.34%) scikit-learn
4 37 (4.34%) Streamlit
5 34 (3.99%) Spring Boot
6 29 (3.40%) React
7 25 (2.93%) Jest
8 24 (2.82%) AngularJS
9 21 (2.46%) Gherkin
10 19 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 18 (2.11%) .NET
12 17 (2.00%) AWS CDK
13 16 (1.88%) Kafka
14 15 (1.76%) RESTful
15 14 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 42 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (4.46%) Algorithms
4 37 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.58%) PKI
7 20 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.17%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.59%) Blog
14 5 (0.59%) Clustering
14 5 (0.59%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.59%) PACS
14 5 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.27%) Linux
2 58 (6.81%) Windows
3 44 (5.16%) Unix
4 18 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Debian
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (41.31%) Mentoring
2 298 (34.98%) Cybersecurity
3 209 (24.53%) ITIL
4 165 (19.37%) Customer Service
5 157 (18.43%) Agile
6 147 (17.25%) ITSM
7 138 (16.20%) DevOps
8 134 (15.73%) CI/CD
9 129 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 123 (14.44%) Performance Metrics
11 103 (12.09%) AI
12 79 (9.27%) Migration
13 70 (8.22%) Containerisation
13 70 (8.22%) Microservices
13 70 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (8.10%) TOGAF
15 67 (7.86%) Computer Science
16 66 (7.75%) Roadmaps
17 63 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 62 (7.28%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 452 (53.05%) Python
2 338 (39.67%) JavaScript
3 144 (16.90%) R
4 96 (11.27%) Java
5 75 (8.80%) Bash
6 58 (6.81%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.58%) C#
8 33 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 33 (3.87%) SQL
9 29 (3.40%) Go
10 21 (2.46%) Groovy
11 10 (1.17%) Bicep
12 8 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.82%) C++
14 6 (0.70%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.23%) C
16 1 (0.12%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 457 (53.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 422 (49.53%) Azure Certification
3 325 (38.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 224 (26.29%) Degree
5 140 (16.43%) MCSE
6 121 (14.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 56 (6.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 53 (6.22%) Security Cleared
9 46 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (4.69%) SC Cleared
11 33 (3.87%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (3.40%) AWS Certified Developer
13 24 (2.82%) CISSP
14 22 (2.58%) A+ Certification
15 19 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 18 (2.11%) CISM
17 17 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (1.76%) Master's Degree
19 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
20 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (15.14%) QA
2 37 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.05%) NIST
4 22 (2.58%) GDPR
5 20 (2.35%) SLA
6 17 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.41%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.17%) NCSC
10 9 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.94%) GRC
12 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.59%) DICOM
13 5 (0.59%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.23%) GxP
14 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) Basel III
15 1 (0.12%) GAAP
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 109 (12.79%) Docker
2 43 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.82%) KVM
6 5 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.47%) vSphere
8 3 (0.35%) iptables
8 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (13.50%) Terraform
2 88 (10.33%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.10%) Ansible
4 36 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.76%) Grafana
6 25 (2.93%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.35%) Argo
8 19 (2.23%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.06%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.94%) Cilium
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.35%) Nessus
12 3 (0.35%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 556 (65.26%) Microsoft
2 153 (17.96%) ServiceNow
3 51 (5.99%) VMware
4 39 (4.58%) Google
5 20 (2.35%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.11%) IBM
7 17 (2.00%) Adobe
7 17 (2.00%) Apple
8 15 (1.76%) SAP
9 11 (1.29%) Cisco
9 11 (1.29%) Workday
10 8 (0.94%) Databricks
11 5 (0.59%) Symantec
11 5 (0.59%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenText
12 4 (0.47%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.47%) Pega
13 3 (0.35%) Ariba
13 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.35%) SolarWinds