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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 456 377
Rank change year-on-year +243 -79 -128
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 663 312 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 0.46% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.84% 1.56% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 364 144 251
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,775 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,125 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -44.55% -15.38% -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 17,253 19,939 16,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.34% 29.58% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,911 8,066 11,136
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +246 578 £47,500 -26.47% 667
UK excluding London +220 365 £30,500 -44.55% 544
Work from Home +184 255 £75,000 +16.10% 143
London +138 234 £75,000 -11.76% 248
North of England +128 138 £30,500 -32.22% 145
Yorkshire +56 74 £30,500 -32.22% 51
South East +90 68 £47,500 -10.46% 133
North West +77 47 £30,500 -41.90% 81
Midlands +67 46 £31,500 -51.24% 94
West Midlands +61 37 £30,500 -52.79% 60
South West +52 33 £30,500 -52.16% 41
Scotland +19 29 £30,500 -56.43% 33
Northern Ireland +30 27 - - 7
East of England +28 23 £80,000 +68.42% 67
North East +25 17 £30,500 -32.22% 16
East Midlands +25 9 £51,058 -35.16% 34
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 27

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 22 (3.32%) WordPress
2 20 (3.02%) Confluence
3 17 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 17 (2.56%) WebSphere
4 16 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (1.51%) nginx
6 9 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (1.06%) Apache
9 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.45%) Drupal
11 3 (0.45%) SAS
12 1 (0.15%) CMS
12 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 119 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 663 (100.00%) AWS
2 388 (58.52%) Azure
3 195 (29.41%) GitHub
4 146 (22.02%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (15.84%) GCP
6 81 (12.22%) Serverless
7 70 (10.56%) Amazon S3
8 63 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 33 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (4.98%) SaaS
13 30 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (2.41%) Route 53
17 15 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 167 (25.19%) Internet
2 42 (6.33%) Firewall
3 36 (5.43%) DNS
4 28 (4.22%) VPN
5 24 (3.62%) Remote Desktop
6 20 (3.02%) WAN
7 19 (2.87%) SSL
8 16 (2.41%) LAN
8 16 (2.41%) Network Security
9 15 (2.26%) DHCP
9 15 (2.26%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.26%) VoIP
10 14 (2.11%) HTTP
10 14 (2.11%) VLAN
11 13 (1.96%) FTP
11 13 (1.96%) SMTP
11 13 (1.96%) SSH
11 13 (1.96%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.06%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 40 (6.03%) Data Lake
4 38 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (4.37%) Metadata
6 27 (4.07%) DynamoDB
7 23 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.87%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (2.71%) DB2
10 15 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (1.96%) Big Data
12 12 (1.81%) MySQL
13 8 (1.21%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.06%) CockroachDB
15 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
16 5 (0.75%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (0.75%) Hadoop
17 4 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 196 (29.56%) Git
2 47 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 31 (4.68%) JIRA
4 22 (3.32%) GitLab
5 13 (1.96%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.75%) Selenium
9 5 (0.75%) Vite
10 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.60%) Gatling
10 4 (0.60%) JMeter
10 4 (0.60%) JUnit
10 4 (0.60%) Mockito
10 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.60%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.60%) YouTrack
11 2 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 248 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 165 (24.89%) Multimedia
3 142 (21.42%) Finance
4 119 (17.95%) French Language
4 119 (17.95%) Swedish Language
5 83 (12.52%) Banking
6 74 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (8.60%) Law
8 55 (8.30%) Financial Institution
9 53 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
10 36 (5.43%) Public Sector
11 27 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (4.07%) Retail Banking
12 15 (2.26%) Marketing
13 14 (2.11%) Retail
14 11 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.06%) Publishing
17 6 (0.90%) Legal
17 6 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 165 (24.89%) Trainee
2 124 (18.70%) Analyst
3 119 (17.95%) Service Analyst
3 119 (17.95%) Service Desk Analyst
4 104 (15.69%) Architect
5 96 (14.48%) Developer
6 94 (14.18%) Senior
7 77 (11.61%) Trainee Developer
8 76 (11.46%) Software Developer
8 76 (11.46%) Trainee Software Developer
9 43 (6.49%) Lead
10 35 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.22%) Software Engineer
13 27 (4.07%) Data Architect
13 27 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (3.62%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 22 (3.32%) Administrator
15 22 (3.32%) AWS Architect
16 21 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (25.79%) CSS
1 171 (25.79%) HTML
2 32 (4.83%) Kafka
3 31 (4.68%) React
4 24 (3.62%) Spring
4 24 (3.62%) Spring Boot
5 23 (3.47%) LDAP
6 16 (2.41%) LAPP Stack
6 16 (2.41%) WebSphere MQ
7 9 (1.36%) GraphQL
7 9 (1.36%) RESTful
8 8 (1.21%) .NET
8 8 (1.21%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.21%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (0.90%) HTML5
10 6 (0.90%) Vue
11 5 (0.75%) Jest
11 5 (0.75%) Serverless Framework
11 5 (0.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.28%) Public Cloud
3 28 (4.22%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.81%) Replication
7 12 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.21%) PKI
12 7 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.06%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.06%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.75%) Blog
13 5 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.37%) Windows
2 74 (11.16%) Linux
3 25 (3.77%) Unix
3 25 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.96%) VMS
6 11 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) CentOS
8 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (34.84%) Mentoring
2 183 (27.60%) Cybersecurity
3 180 (27.15%) ITIL
4 159 (23.98%) Agile
5 143 (21.57%) CI/CD
6 130 (19.61%) ITSM
7 121 (18.25%) DevOps
8 108 (16.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 105 (15.84%) Customer Service
10 101 (15.23%) Performance Metrics
11 75 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (9.80%) Microservices
13 64 (9.65%) Containerisation
13 64 (9.65%) Software Engineering
14 60 (9.05%) Migration
15 59 (8.90%) Cloud Security
15 59 (8.90%) Data Modelling
16 58 (8.75%) TOGAF
17 57 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (8.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 324 (48.87%) Python
2 208 (31.37%) JavaScript
3 90 (13.57%) R
4 88 (13.27%) Java
5 73 (11.01%) SQL
6 49 (7.39%) PowerShell
7 39 (5.88%) Bash
8 35 (5.28%) TypeScript
9 33 (4.98%) C#
10 26 (3.92%) Go
11 15 (2.26%) Groovy
12 10 (1.51%) Bicep
13 7 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.90%) C++
14 6 (0.90%) Perl
15 4 (0.60%) Rust
15 4 (0.60%) Scala
16 2 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.30%) PROC SQL
16 2 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 332 (50.08%) Azure Certification
2 317 (47.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 212 (31.98%) Degree
4 174 (26.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 122 (18.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 120 (18.10%) MCSE
7 69 (10.41%) Security Cleared
8 64 (9.65%) SC Cleared
9 37 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (4.83%) TOGAF Certification
11 26 (3.92%) A+ Certification
11 26 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (3.32%) AWS Certified Developer
13 21 (3.17%) Master's Degree
14 20 (3.02%) CISSP
15 16 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (2.11%) CCNP
17 13 (1.96%) PMI Certification
18 12 (1.81%) DV Cleared
18 12 (1.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (16.74%) QA
2 33 (4.98%) NIST
3 31 (4.68%) GDPR
4 27 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.71%) SLA
6 10 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.21%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.21%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.21%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.75%) NCSC
10 4 (0.60%) GRC
11 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.15%) Basel III
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (11.16%) Docker
2 41 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (4.98%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.66%) DFS Replication
6 8 (1.21%) Dovecot
6 8 (1.21%) Postfix
7 7 (1.06%) Squid
8 4 (0.60%) KVM
9 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.45%) vSphere
10 2 (0.30%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) iptables
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 105 (15.84%) Terraform
2 99 (14.93%) Kubernetes
3 38 (5.73%) Ansible
4 33 (4.98%) Grafana
5 23 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.51%) Nessus
6 10 (1.51%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.90%) Autotask
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.75%) Puppet
8 5 (0.75%) SCCM
8 5 (0.75%) SCOM
8 5 (0.75%) WSUS
9 4 (0.60%) Cilium
9 4 (0.60%) Salt
10 3 (0.45%) Argo
11 2 (0.30%) Kibana
11 2 (0.30%) logstash
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.30%) Oozie
Vendors
1 381 (57.47%) Microsoft
2 142 (21.42%) ServiceNow
3 43 (6.49%) VMware
4 40 (6.03%) Google
5 25 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.32%) IBM
7 17 (2.56%) SAP
8 16 (2.41%) Oracle
9 14 (2.11%) Cisco
10 8 (1.21%) Ariba
11 7 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (0.90%) Databricks
12 6 (0.90%) Workday
13 5 (0.75%) Datto
13 5 (0.75%) Splunk
14 4 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds
15 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
15 3 (0.45%) Informatica
15 3 (0.45%) OpenAI