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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 284 495
Rank change year-on-year -40 +211 -210
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 584 504 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.02% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 2.86% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 259 159 278
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £53,375
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £68,525 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.95% -11.58% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £85,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -40.00% -13.79% +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 19,213 17,595 25,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 35.73% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,057 7,824 16,255
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -31 539 £50,000 -27.03% 332
UK excluding London -63 313 £37,500 -40.00% 276
London +23 240 £77,500 +3.33% 130
Work from Home -90 179 £65,000 - 84
North of England -82 128 £37,500 -42.31% 65
North West -90 66 £37,500 -40.00% 31
Midlands -15 53 £37,500 -34.78% 36
Yorkshire -1 49 £37,500 -42.31% 25
West Midlands -9 48 £37,500 -34.78% 17
South West -55 43 £52,500 -3.89% 61
South East 0 42 £62,500 -11.03% 64
East of England -10 15 £37,500 -55.88% 28
North East -41 13 £37,500 -21.05% 12
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 4
Scotland +14 10 £37,500 -28.57% 18
Northern Ireland -50 9 £40,750 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 19

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 (9.25%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.53%) WordPress
3 19 (3.25%) Confluence
4 14 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.68%) Documentum
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.10%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.11%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 584 (100.00%) AWS
2 207 (35.45%) Azure
3 132 (22.60%) Cloud Computing
4 115 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 108 (18.49%) GitHub
6 104 (17.81%) Serverless
7 94 (16.10%) Microsoft 365
8 93 (15.92%) GCP
9 88 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (13.53%) Amazon S3
11 72 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (6.68%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (5.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 30 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (4.97%) Amazon ECR
17 26 (4.45%) Apigee
18 25 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
19 23 (3.94%) Entra ID
20 21 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (13.70%) Internet
2 58 (9.93%) Network Security
3 41 (7.02%) Firewall
4 23 (3.94%) VPN
5 18 (3.08%) WAN
6 15 (2.57%) LAN
6 15 (2.57%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.40%) DNS
7 14 (2.40%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.23%) DHCP
9 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.37%) IPv4
10 8 (1.37%) VLAN
10 8 (1.37%) Wireless
11 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.03%) Broadband
13 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.68%) DMZ
15 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
15 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.39%) NoSQL
2 40 (6.85%) DynamoDB
3 37 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.11%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.42%) Metadata
6 13 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.88%) Big Data
7 11 (1.88%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (1.20%) SAP HANA
9 6 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.03%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.03%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.86%) Power BI
11 4 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 73 (12.50%) Git
2 70 (11.99%) GitLab
3 58 (9.93%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 28 (4.79%) Cucumber
6 27 (4.62%) Cypress.io
6 27 (4.62%) Maven
7 26 (4.45%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.11%) JIRA
9 20 (3.42%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.03%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 3 (0.51%) Taiga
13 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) JMeter
14 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 153 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 145 (24.83%) Finance
3 81 (13.87%) Retail
4 63 (10.79%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.10%) Manufacturing
6 48 (8.22%) Swedish Language
7 47 (8.05%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
10 30 (5.14%) Banking
11 29 (4.97%) French Language
12 21 (3.60%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.71%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.20%) Military
16 6 (1.03%) Advertising
16 6 (1.03%) Billing
17 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.68%) Automotive
18 4 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 119 (20.38%) Senior
2 114 (19.52%) Trainee
3 108 (18.49%) Analyst
4 100 (17.12%) Architect
5 77 (13.18%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.18%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.27%) Developer
7 55 (9.42%) Consultant
8 51 (8.73%) Administrator
8 51 (8.73%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.73%) Programmer
8 51 (8.73%) Trainee Programmer
9 43 (7.36%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.36%) Web Administrator
10 37 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
13 26 (4.45%) Security Consultant
14 25 (4.28%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.64%) Spring Boot
2 65 (11.13%) CSS
2 65 (11.13%) HTML
3 54 (9.25%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.25%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.25%) NumPy
3 54 (9.25%) Pandas
3 54 (9.25%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.25%) Streamlit
4 37 (6.34%) Spring
5 36 (6.16%) Kafka
6 33 (5.65%) AngularJS
7 27 (4.62%) Jest
8 26 (4.45%) Gherkin
9 24 (4.11%) AWS CDK
10 22 (3.77%) Node.js
11 18 (3.08%) React
12 15 (2.57%) .NET
13 13 (2.23%) REST
14 10 (1.71%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 85 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 77 (13.18%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.79%) Algorithms
4 45 (7.71%) Enterprise Cloud
5 36 (6.16%) Public Cloud
6 33 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (5.48%) e-Learning
7 32 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (5.31%) Data Centre
9 28 (4.79%) PKI
10 27 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.05%) Mainframe
12 11 (1.88%) Blog
13 10 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.37%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.20%) Fat Client
15 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.20%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.20%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.39%) Linux
2 47 (8.05%) Windows
3 19 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.54%) Unix
5 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (30.99%) AI
2 156 (26.71%) Agile
3 154 (26.37%) CI/CD
4 151 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (25.68%) Mentoring
6 133 (22.77%) Customer Service
7 129 (22.09%) ITIL
8 98 (16.78%) Cloud Security
9 97 (16.61%) Machine Learning
10 89 (15.24%) DevOps
11 84 (14.38%) Cybersecurity
12 80 (13.70%) Migration
13 79 (13.53%) ITSM
14 77 (13.18%) Performance Metrics
15 65 (11.13%) Microservices
16 62 (10.62%) LLM
16 62 (10.62%) Prompt Engineering
17 61 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (10.45%) OO
18 60 (10.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 234 (40.07%) Python
2 115 (19.69%) Java
3 89 (15.24%) JavaScript
4 74 (12.67%) Bash
5 55 (9.42%) SQL
6 48 (8.22%) R
7 39 (6.68%) TypeScript
8 30 (5.14%) Go
9 27 (4.62%) Groovy
10 26 (4.45%) PowerShell
11 24 (4.11%) Ruby
12 20 (3.42%) C#
13 15 (2.57%) PHP
14 14 (2.40%) Perl
15 12 (2.05%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.54%) C++
17 7 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
18 6 (1.03%) COBOL
19 4 (0.68%) Bicep
20 2 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 163 (27.91%) Degree
2 161 (27.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 148 (25.34%) Azure Certification
4 142 (24.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 136 (23.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 96 (16.44%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.18%) MCSE
8 45 (7.71%) SC Cleared
9 39 (6.68%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (4.62%) CISSP
11 22 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (2.91%) CCNA
13 16 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 16 (2.74%) CISM
13 16 (2.74%) Master's Degree
14 13 (2.23%) CCNP
15 12 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.53%) QA
2 41 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.60%) GDPR
3 21 (3.60%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.42%) NIST
5 13 (2.23%) GRC
6 12 (2.05%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.05%) NCSC
7 10 (1.71%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.86%) DICOM
11 5 (0.86%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.34%) SLA
13 1 (0.17%) COBIT
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (12.50%) Docker
2 24 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.37%) vSphere
5 7 (1.20%) KVM
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) iptables
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 133 (22.77%) Terraform
2 71 (12.16%) Kubernetes
3 44 (7.53%) Ansible
4 30 (5.14%) HP Fortify
5 25 (4.28%) Grafana
6 23 (3.94%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.23%) Cilium
8 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.54%) Argo
10 9 (1.54%) Packer
10 9 (1.54%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.54%) Puppet
11 8 (1.37%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.03%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.68%) Iperf
14 3 (0.51%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Consul
15 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 276 (47.26%) Microsoft
2 106 (18.15%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.82%) VMware
4 28 (4.79%) Oracle
5 25 (4.28%) Apple
6 24 (4.11%) Adobe
6 24 (4.11%) Cisco
7 23 (3.94%) Google
7 23 (3.94%) Splunk
8 18 (3.08%) SAP
9 14 (2.40%) Databricks
10 13 (2.23%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.05%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.54%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.20%) Avaya
14 7 (1.20%) Genesys
15 6 (1.03%) IBM
15 6 (1.03%) Salesforce