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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 407 356
Rank change year-on-year +222 -51 -132
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 772 330 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 0.60% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.99% 1.69% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 465 149 235
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -7.90% -8.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £86,125
90th Percentile £96,000 £98,000 £103,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -10.34%

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 19,341 19,538 15,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.64% 35.56% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,785 7,770 10,661
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,924 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.87% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +205 668 £30,500 -51.20% 355
UK excluding London +224 469 £30,500 -42.51% 305
Work from Home +159 286 £75,000 +24.48% 146
London +114 229 £72,500 -17.14% 145
North of England +135 217 £30,500 -32.22% 71
Yorkshire +59 124 £30,500 -32.22% 27
North West +87 68 £30,500 -48.09% 34
South East +51 65 £47,500 -10.46% 85
Midlands +46 54 £30,500 -44.55% 45
West Midlands +54 44 £30,500 -48.43% 28
Scotland +19 39 £30,500 -52.16% 16
South West +40 31 £30,500 -56.43% 31
East of England +37 30 £80,000 +48.84% 43
Northern Ireland +20 29 - - 2
North East +29 25 £30,500 -32.22% 12
East Midlands -18 10 £51,058 -7.17% 17
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 14

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 (4.40%) WordPress
2 17 (2.20%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.20%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.07%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (1.42%) Confluence
5 9 (1.17%) nginx
6 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.65%) Drupal
9 4 (0.52%) Apache
9 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 129 (16.71%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 772 (100.00%) AWS
2 493 (63.86%) Azure
3 288 (37.31%) GitHub
4 162 (20.98%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (14.51%) Serverless
6 82 (10.62%) GCP
7 80 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
8 79 (10.23%) Amazon S3
9 74 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 39 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (4.53%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 27 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (2.72%) SaaS
17 20 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 263 (34.07%) Internet
2 36 (4.66%) Firewall
3 29 (3.76%) VPN
4 24 (3.11%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (2.72%) DNS
6 20 (2.59%) WAN
7 19 (2.46%) SSL
8 16 (2.07%) Network Security
9 15 (1.94%) VoIP
10 14 (1.81%) LAN
10 14 (1.81%) SD-WAN
10 14 (1.81%) TCP/IP
10 14 (1.81%) VLAN
11 13 (1.68%) Broadband
12 12 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (1.42%) DHCP
14 8 (1.04%) HTTP
15 7 (0.91%) FTP
15 7 (0.91%) SMTP
15 7 (0.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.05%) Data Lake
2 38 (4.92%) DynamoDB
3 34 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.89%) Metadata
6 28 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.98%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.20%) DB2
9 16 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.04%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.04%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.78%) MySQL
14 5 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.65%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.39%) Big Data
15 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.26%) Power BI
17 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 287 (37.18%) Git
2 44 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.24%) GitLab
4 18 (2.33%) JIRA
5 14 (1.81%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.17%) Maven
6 9 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.91%) Jaeger
8 7 (0.91%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.65%) Vite
10 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.39%) MLflow
11 2 (0.26%) Subversion
12 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.13%) JMeter
12 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 283 (36.66%) Social Skills
2 263 (34.07%) Multimedia
3 129 (16.71%) French Language
4 119 (15.41%) Swedish Language
5 107 (13.86%) Finance
6 60 (7.77%) Banking
7 56 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (6.35%) Financial Institution
10 30 (3.89%) Public Sector
11 26 (3.37%) Retail Banking
12 25 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.81%) Retail
14 13 (1.68%) Law
15 11 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.30%) Publishing
17 9 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.65%) Legal
19 5 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 263 (34.07%) Trainee
2 151 (19.56%) Analyst
3 150 (19.43%) Developer
4 129 (16.71%) Service Analyst
4 129 (16.71%) Service Desk Analyst
5 125 (16.19%) Trainee Developer
6 117 (15.16%) Architect
7 116 (15.03%) Software Developer
7 116 (15.03%) Trainee Software Developer
8 79 (10.23%) Senior
9 37 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (4.02%) Administrator
11 30 (3.89%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.76%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.76%) Web Administrator
13 27 (3.50%) Lead
13 27 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (3.11%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 22 (2.85%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (34.07%) CSS
1 263 (34.07%) HTML
2 32 (4.15%) React
3 20 (2.59%) AWS CDK
3 20 (2.59%) LDAP
4 19 (2.46%) Spring Boot
5 17 (2.20%) .NET
6 16 (2.07%) LAPP Stack
6 16 (2.07%) WebSphere MQ
7 14 (1.81%) Jest
7 14 (1.81%) RESTful
8 11 (1.42%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.42%) AngularJS
8 11 (1.42%) ASP.NET
8 11 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (1.42%) Blazor
8 11 (1.42%) Spring
9 9 (1.17%) Gherkin
9 9 (1.17%) Kafka
9 9 (1.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.55%) PKI
10 7 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.91%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.78%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.65%) Blog
12 5 (0.65%) Clustering
12 5 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.65%) Replication
12 5 (0.65%) Social Media
13 4 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.52%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 75 (9.72%) Windows
2 72 (9.33%) Linux
3 36 (4.66%) Unix
4 22 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.91%) VMS
6 5 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.26%) CentOS
8 2 (0.26%) Debian
8 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (42.23%) Mentoring
2 287 (37.18%) Cybersecurity
3 200 (25.91%) ITIL
4 142 (18.39%) ITSM
5 134 (17.36%) Agile
6 122 (15.80%) DevOps
7 117 (15.16%) CI/CD
8 114 (14.77%) Customer Service
9 109 (14.12%) Performance Metrics
10 103 (13.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 74 (9.59%) Migration
12 72 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (8.68%) TOGAF
14 64 (8.29%) Computer Science
14 64 (8.29%) Microservices
15 62 (8.03%) Containerisation
16 61 (7.90%) Data Modelling
17 60 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (7.38%) AI
19 55 (7.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 391 (50.65%) Python
2 312 (40.41%) JavaScript
3 138 (17.88%) R
4 76 (9.84%) Java
5 52 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 50 (6.48%) Bash
7 41 (5.31%) C#
8 39 (5.05%) SQL
9 34 (4.40%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.07%) Groovy
11 12 (1.55%) Go
12 10 (1.30%) Bicep
13 4 (0.52%) C++
13 4 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.39%) Perl
15 2 (0.26%) C
15 2 (0.26%) Ruby
15 2 (0.26%) Scala
16 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 437 (56.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 423 (54.79%) Azure Certification
3 269 (34.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 222 (28.76%) Degree
5 129 (16.71%) MCSE
6 117 (15.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 58 (7.51%) Security Cleared
8 49 (6.35%) SC Cleared
8 49 (6.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 47 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (3.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 27 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (3.37%) A+ Certification
13 22 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (2.85%) CISSP
14 21 (2.72%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.68%) CCNP
15 13 (1.68%) CISM
16 11 (1.42%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (15.16%) QA
2 33 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (4.15%) NIST
4 24 (3.11%) GDPR
4 24 (3.11%) SLA
5 12 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.91%) NCSC
10 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.52%) GRC
12 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.26%) GxP
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.13%) Basel III
14 1 (0.13%) GAAP
14 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 87 (11.27%) Docker
2 51 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.78%) KVM
6 5 (0.65%) DFS Replication
6 5 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.65%) vSphere
7 4 (0.52%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.52%) Postfix
7 4 (0.52%) Squid
8 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 91 (11.79%) Terraform
2 71 (9.20%) Kubernetes
3 36 (4.66%) Ansible
4 27 (3.50%) Grafana
5 19 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.17%) Argo
6 9 (1.17%) HP Fortify
7 7 (0.91%) Kustomize
7 7 (0.91%) Nessus
7 7 (0.91%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.78%) Autotask
9 4 (0.52%) Cilium
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 512 (66.32%) Microsoft
2 145 (18.78%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.87%) VMware
4 28 (3.63%) Google
5 24 (3.11%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.85%) IBM
7 19 (2.46%) SAP
8 17 (2.20%) Adobe
8 17 (2.20%) Apple
9 16 (2.07%) Cisco
10 10 (1.30%) Workday
11 8 (1.04%) Ariba
12 5 (0.65%) Databricks
12 5 (0.65%) Datto
12 5 (0.65%) Oracle
12 5 (0.65%) Symantec
13 4 (0.52%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.52%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.39%) OpenAI
15 2 (0.26%) Arista