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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 353 428
Rank change year-on-year +126 +75 -283
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 766 295 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.54% 1.85% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 486 167 294
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% +3.45%
75th Percentile £53,951 £89,375 £89,375
90th Percentile £83,640 £99,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +3.70%

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 21,652 15,981 24,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 39.08% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,735 7,540 16,856
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £38,685
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +4.65% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% -

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +127 680 £31,500 -51.24% 276
UK excluding London +163 496 £30,500 -41.90% 248
North of England +89 254 £30,500 -39.00% 65
Work from Home +51 215 £62,500 +4.17% 57
London +28 206 £37,500 -55.88% 86
Yorkshire +51 140 £30,500 -35.79% 26
North West +33 87 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands -1 63 £30,500 -48.43% 35
West Midlands +26 52 £30,500 -48.43% 17
South East -10 47 £33,750 -49.25% 57
Scotland +10 39 £30,500 -41.90% 10
South West -18 39 £31,500 -33.68% 34
East of England -20 31 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East -2 27 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -18 18 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands - 11 £44,279 - 18
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 12

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 78 (10.18%) WordPress
2 54 (7.05%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.17%) Confluence
5 6 (0.78%) Apache
5 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.78%) Drupal
5 6 (0.78%) nginx
6 4 (0.52%) Documentum
6 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 79 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.18%) Chatbot
3 18 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 766 (100.00%) AWS
2 452 (59.01%) Azure
3 305 (39.82%) GitHub
4 109 (14.23%) Serverless
5 103 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
6 86 (11.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (10.84%) GCP
8 77 (10.05%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.83%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (6.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 44 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (4.83%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (4.18%) Apigee
16 19 (2.48%) Pulumi
17 17 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (36.29%) Internet
2 28 (3.66%) Firewall
3 21 (2.74%) Broadband
4 19 (2.48%) Network Security
4 19 (2.48%) VPN
5 7 (0.91%) DNS
6 6 (0.78%) DHCP
6 6 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.78%) WAN
7 5 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.65%) SSL
8 4 (0.52%) LAN
8 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.52%) VLAN
8 4 (0.52%) Wireless
9 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.13%) MPLS
10 1 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.66%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.35%) NoSQL
3 31 (4.05%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.92%) Metadata
5 24 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.61%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.61%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (1.96%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.65%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.65%) Power BI
14 4 (0.52%) DB2
15 3 (0.39%) Big Data
15 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
16 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
17 1 (0.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 293 (38.25%) Git
2 54 (7.05%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.66%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.53%) GitLab
5 32 (4.18%) Cypress.io
5 32 (4.18%) Maven
5 32 (4.18%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.48%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.09%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.44%) JIRA
9 6 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.52%) MLflow
11 3 (0.39%) Selenium
12 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.13%) Gatling
12 1 (0.13%) JMeter
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 278 (36.29%) Multimedia
2 208 (27.15%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.54%) Finance
4 79 (10.31%) French Language
5 75 (9.79%) Retail
6 66 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (7.44%) Manufacturing
8 48 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (5.87%) Banking
10 42 (5.48%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.48%) Swedish Language
11 25 (3.26%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.22%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.17%) Law
15 8 (1.04%) Publishing
16 7 (0.91%) Advertising
16 7 (0.91%) Legal
17 6 (0.78%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 329 (42.95%) Trainee
2 165 (21.54%) Developer
3 115 (15.01%) Trainee Developer
4 108 (14.10%) Analyst
5 102 (13.32%) Architect
5 102 (13.32%) Software Developer
6 101 (13.19%) Trainee Software Developer
7 80 (10.44%) Administrator
8 79 (10.31%) Service Analyst
8 79 (10.31%) Service Desk Analyst
9 72 (9.40%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (9.40%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.66%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.66%) Programmer
10 51 (6.66%) Trainee Programmer
11 47 (6.14%) Senior
12 41 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.96%) Lead
14 28 (3.66%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.52%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (36.29%) CSS
1 278 (36.29%) HTML
2 54 (7.05%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.05%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.05%) NumPy
2 54 (7.05%) Pandas
2 54 (7.05%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.05%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.35%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.31%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.18%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.18%) Jest
5 32 (4.18%) React
6 19 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.35%) .NET
8 17 (2.22%) AWS CDK
9 16 (2.09%) RESTful
10 14 (1.83%) Tailwind CSS
11 13 (1.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.57%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.57%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.74%) PKI
6 15 (1.96%) e-Learning
7 14 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.65%) Clustering
12 5 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.65%) PACS
12 5 (0.65%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.65%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.62%) Linux
2 38 (4.96%) Windows
3 32 (4.18%) Unix
4 11 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (36.55%) Mentoring
2 254 (33.16%) Cybersecurity
3 161 (21.02%) Agile
4 143 (18.67%) ITIL
5 141 (18.41%) Customer Service
6 132 (17.23%) CI/CD
7 129 (16.84%) DevOps
8 122 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 121 (15.80%) AI
10 86 (11.23%) Web Development
11 83 (10.84%) ITSM
12 82 (10.70%) Performance Metrics
13 74 (9.66%) Data Privacy
14 72 (9.40%) Machine Learning
15 69 (9.01%) Migration
15 69 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
16 64 (8.36%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.83%) LLM
17 60 (7.83%) Visualisation
18 58 (7.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 446 (58.22%) Python
2 330 (43.08%) JavaScript
3 163 (21.28%) R
4 94 (12.27%) Java
5 81 (10.57%) Bash
6 59 (7.70%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.31%) Go
7 33 (4.31%) SQL
8 32 (4.18%) Groovy
9 31 (4.05%) C#
10 26 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.57%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.17%) C++
13 7 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.52%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 396 (51.70%) Azure Certification
2 386 (50.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 345 (45.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 155 (20.23%) Degree
5 94 (12.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 79 (10.31%) MCSE
7 60 (7.83%) Security Cleared
8 42 (5.48%) SC Cleared
8 42 (5.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
10 32 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 22 (2.87%) CISSP
14 18 (2.35%) CISM
15 14 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (1.31%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.17%) DV Cleared
18 8 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (11.10%) QA
2 31 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.87%) NIST
4 15 (1.96%) GDPR
4 15 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.70%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.44%) SLA
7 9 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.17%) GRC
7 9 (1.17%) NCSC
8 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.65%) DICOM
10 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.26%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (14.23%) Docker
2 19 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.91%) KVM
5 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.52%) iptables
8 3 (0.39%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 116 (15.14%) Terraform
2 77 (10.05%) Kubernetes
3 48 (6.27%) Ansible
4 38 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.70%) HP Fortify
6 30 (3.92%) Grafana
7 20 (2.61%) Argo
8 19 (2.48%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.17%) Cilium
11 8 (1.04%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.65%) Puppet
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.26%) Packer
15 1 (0.13%) Consul
15 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 497 (64.88%) Microsoft
2 91 (11.88%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.22%) Google
4 27 (3.52%) VMware
5 22 (2.87%) Adobe
5 22 (2.87%) Apple
6 15 (1.96%) Databricks
7 12 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.17%) Cisco
8 9 (1.17%) SAP
9 8 (1.04%) Workday
10 6 (0.78%) IBM
11 5 (0.65%) Oracle
11 5 (0.65%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.65%) Splunk
11 5 (0.65%) Symantec
11 5 (0.65%) YouTube
12 4 (0.52%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.52%) OpenText