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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 288 482
Rank change year-on-year -27 +194 -328
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 566 486 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.07% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 2.79% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 288 147 313
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £51,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.31% -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 18,540 17,427 27,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 38.45% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,791 7,414 17,167
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,724
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,890 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 25 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 25 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 -35 516 £38,750 -44.64% 240
UK excluding London -50 323 £37,500 -42.31% 214
London -9 206 £70,000 -9.68% 75
Work from Home -72 184 £65,000 - 56
North of England -70 143 £37,500 -42.31% 53
North West -81 66 £37,500 -25.00% 24
Yorkshire +16 62 £37,500 -42.31% 24
Midlands -2 53 £37,500 -31.82% 30
West Midlands -3 48 £37,500 -31.82% 16
South West -50 43 £52,500 -7.48% 29
South East -13 35 £62,500 -17.49% 61
North East -34 15 £37,500 -21.05% 8
Scotland +18 14 £31,250 -40.48% 7
East of England -4 14 £37,500 -55.88% 30
Wales - 11 £53,310 - 5
Northern Ireland -26 10 £39,000 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 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 54 (9.54%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.77%) WordPress
3 17 (3.00%) Confluence
4 9 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.06%) Apache
7 4 (0.71%) Documentum
8 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (13.07%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.24%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 566 (100.00%) AWS
2 234 (41.34%) Azure
3 130 (22.97%) GitHub
4 95 (16.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 94 (16.61%) GCP
6 89 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
7 84 (14.84%) Cloud Computing
7 84 (14.84%) Serverless
8 71 (12.54%) Amazon S3
8 71 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (10.07%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (6.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (5.65%) Amazon ECR
14 28 (4.95%) Apigee
15 25 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 19 (3.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 97 (17.14%) Internet
2 41 (7.24%) Network Security
3 34 (6.01%) Firewall
4 20 (3.53%) VPN
5 16 (2.83%) WAN
6 15 (2.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.47%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.30%) LAN
9 12 (2.12%) Broadband
9 12 (2.12%) DNS
10 11 (1.94%) DHCP
11 9 (1.59%) TCP/IP
12 8 (1.41%) IPv4
12 8 (1.41%) Wireless
13 6 (1.06%) VLAN
14 5 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
16 2 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
16 2 (0.35%) DMZ
16 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.42%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.71%) DynamoDB
3 30 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.89%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.71%) Metadata
6 12 (2.12%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.06%) Big Data
8 6 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.88%) Power BI
10 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.53%) Redis
11 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 104 (18.37%) Git
2 68 (12.01%) GitLab
3 59 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.12%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.12%) Maven
6 28 (4.95%) SonarQube
7 25 (4.42%) Cucumber
8 20 (3.53%) JIRA
9 19 (3.36%) TeamCity
10 15 (2.65%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.12%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.53%) Selenium
13 2 (0.35%) MLflow
14 1 (0.18%) Gatling
14 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.18%) Taiga
14 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 148 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 132 (23.32%) Finance
3 92 (16.25%) Multimedia
4 79 (13.96%) Retail
5 59 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 49 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (6.89%) French Language
9 35 (6.18%) Swedish Language
10 33 (5.83%) Banking
11 30 (5.30%) Public Sector
12 24 (4.24%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.24%) Advertising
15 6 (1.06%) Legal
15 6 (1.06%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.71%) Automotive
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
16 4 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 143 (25.27%) Trainee
2 102 (18.02%) Analyst
3 94 (16.61%) Architect
4 88 (15.55%) Senior
5 75 (13.25%) Developer
6 74 (13.07%) Service Analyst
6 74 (13.07%) Service Desk Analyst
7 51 (9.01%) Administrator
7 51 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.01%) Programmer
7 51 (9.01%) Trainee Programmer
8 44 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (7.60%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.60%) Web Administrator
10 31 (5.48%) Trainee Developer
11 28 (4.95%) Lead
12 27 (4.77%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.77%) Software Developer
13 26 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
13 26 (4.59%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (16.61%) CSS
1 94 (16.61%) HTML
2 63 (11.13%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.54%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.54%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.54%) NumPy
3 54 (9.54%) Pandas
3 54 (9.54%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.54%) Streamlit
4 33 (5.83%) AngularJS
5 32 (5.65%) Spring
6 29 (5.12%) Jest
7 28 (4.95%) Gherkin
7 28 (4.95%) Kafka
8 18 (3.18%) React
9 16 (2.83%) Node.js
10 14 (2.47%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (1.77%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.13%) Algorithms
3 32 (5.65%) Public Cloud
4 31 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (5.12%) e-Learning
5 29 (5.12%) Onboarding
5 29 (5.12%) PKI
6 27 (4.77%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (4.24%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.88%) PACS
13 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.36%) Linux
2 41 (7.24%) Windows
3 17 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.65%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (27.03%) CI/CD
2 152 (26.86%) Agile
3 147 (25.97%) Mentoring
4 146 (25.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 138 (24.38%) AI
6 130 (22.97%) Customer Service
7 128 (22.61%) ITIL
8 101 (17.84%) Cybersecurity
9 95 (16.78%) DevOps
10 79 (13.96%) Machine Learning
11 76 (13.43%) ITSM
12 74 (13.07%) Cloud Security
12 74 (13.07%) Performance Metrics
13 62 (10.95%) Data Privacy
14 61 (10.78%) LLM
14 61 (10.78%) Microservices
15 60 (10.60%) OO
16 58 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (10.25%) Migration
16 58 (10.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 251 (44.35%) Python
2 123 (21.73%) JavaScript
3 105 (18.55%) Java
4 73 (12.90%) Bash
5 61 (10.78%) R
6 43 (7.60%) SQL
6 43 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.83%) Go
8 29 (5.12%) Groovy
9 27 (4.77%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.18%) C#
11 12 (2.12%) Ruby
12 11 (1.94%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.41%) C++
14 6 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.88%) PHP
16 4 (0.71%) Bicep
16 4 (0.71%) COBOL
16 4 (0.71%) Perl
17 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 186 (32.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 183 (32.33%) Azure Certification
3 164 (28.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 137 (24.20%) Degree
5 113 (19.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 75 (13.25%) Security Cleared
7 74 (13.07%) MCSE
8 44 (7.77%) SC Cleared
9 33 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (5.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (4.24%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (3.53%) CISSP
14 19 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (2.65%) CCNA
16 14 (2.47%) CISM
17 13 (2.30%) CCNP
17 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
18 12 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (1.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.43%) QA
2 37 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.18%) NIST
3 18 (3.18%) SOC 2
4 15 (2.65%) GDPR
5 13 (2.30%) GRC
6 12 (2.12%) NCSC
7 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.94%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
9 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.88%) DICOM
11 4 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.35%) SLA
13 1 (0.18%) COBIT
13 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 86 (15.19%) Docker
2 21 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.41%) Squid
4 8 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.41%) vSphere
5 6 (1.06%) KVM
6 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.71%) iptables
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (22.44%) Terraform
2 78 (13.78%) Kubernetes
3 52 (9.19%) Ansible
4 32 (5.65%) HP Fortify
4 32 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 27 (4.77%) Grafana
6 14 (2.47%) Argo
7 13 (2.30%) Cilium
8 12 (2.12%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.59%) Packer
10 9 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.41%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.41%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.24%) Progress Chef
12 7 (1.24%) Puppet
13 2 (0.35%) Iperf
13 2 (0.35%) QRadar
14 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 296 (52.30%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.20%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.48%) VMware
4 29 (5.12%) Google
5 25 (4.42%) Apple
6 24 (4.24%) Adobe
7 21 (3.71%) Oracle
8 18 (3.18%) Splunk
9 16 (2.83%) Cisco
9 16 (2.83%) Databricks
10 12 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.41%) SAP
14 6 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (0.71%) Infor
15 4 (0.71%) OpenText
15 4 (0.71%) Pega
15 4 (0.71%) YouTube