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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 228 454
Rank change year-on-year -139 +226 -63
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 536 659 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.33% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.64% 3.77% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 183 235 169
10th Percentile £47,150 £28,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £30,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -4.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £97,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -11.29% -8.15%

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 20,314 17,497 20,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.19% 35.23% 28.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,544 7,414 8,827
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,903 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.95% -9.52% -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -133 489 £77,500 +14.81% 813
UK excluding London -201 252 £65,000 +18.18% 494
London -32 250 £90,000 +20.00% 418
Work from Home -167 172 £82,500 +10.00% 462
North of England -153 83 £71,250 +42.50% 137
South East -48 50 £65,000 -9.09% 83
South West -60 46 £73,750 +34.09% 73
Midlands -31 44 £82,500 +34.69% 79
North West -128 42 £58,750 +92.62% 93
West Midlands -42 39 £87,500 +52.26% 56
North East -52 27 £80,500 +120.55% 23
Yorkshire -56 14 £68,750 +5.77% 22
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 9
East of England -34 9 £82,500 -17.50% 26
East Midlands -28 5 £73,750 -4.84% 23
Northern Ireland -93 5 £42,500 - 23
Scotland -5 3 - - 65

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 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.36%) Confluence
3 9 (1.68%) Apache
3 9 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.75%) SAS
7 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.37%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (3.54%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 536 (100.00%) AWS
2 192 (35.82%) Azure
3 134 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 113 (21.08%) GCP
5 98 (18.28%) Serverless
6 81 (15.11%) Cloud Computing
7 80 (14.93%) Amazon S3
8 78 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
9 76 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (11.19%) GitHub
12 46 (8.58%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (3.73%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (3.73%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (3.73%) Entra ID
17 18 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (3.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.50%) Network Security
2 56 (10.45%) Firewall
3 30 (5.60%) VPN
4 25 (4.66%) WAN
5 23 (4.29%) Internet
6 22 (4.10%) DNS
7 19 (3.54%) SD-WAN
8 18 (3.36%) DHCP
9 17 (3.17%) LAN
10 16 (2.99%) Software-Defined Networking
11 14 (2.61%) TCP/IP
12 10 (1.87%) Wireless
13 9 (1.68%) VLAN
14 7 (1.31%) IPv4
14 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.75%) DMZ
15 4 (0.75%) Wireshark
16 3 (0.56%) BGP
16 3 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
16 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 46 (8.58%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (4.29%) DynamoDB
4 19 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.61%) Metadata
8 11 (2.05%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.87%) Big Data
10 9 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.49%) Power BI
11 8 (1.49%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (1.31%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.93%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.75%) GIS
14 4 (0.75%) Power Query
15 3 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 81 (15.11%) GitLab
2 46 (8.58%) Cucumber
3 40 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.04%) Git
4 27 (5.04%) JIRA
5 14 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.24%) Maven
6 12 (2.24%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.56%) Taiga
11 3 (0.56%) VersionOne
12 2 (0.37%) Ant
12 2 (0.37%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.37%) git-flow
12 2 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 167 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 145 (27.05%) Finance
3 88 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 62 (11.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.96%) Swedish Language
7 42 (7.84%) Banking
8 27 (5.04%) Retail
9 23 (4.29%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.92%) Aerospace
11 15 (2.80%) French Language
12 14 (2.61%) Law
13 13 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.24%) Military
15 11 (2.05%) Marketing
16 9 (1.68%) Legal
17 7 (1.31%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.12%) Digital Health
18 6 (1.12%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 141 (26.31%) Senior
2 133 (24.81%) Architect
3 89 (16.60%) Analyst
4 62 (11.57%) Consultant
5 60 (11.19%) Service Analyst
5 60 (11.19%) Service Desk Analyst
6 47 (8.77%) Java Engineer
7 44 (8.21%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (5.97%) Lead
10 31 (5.78%) Security Consultant
11 29 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
11 29 (5.41%) Developer
12 28 (5.22%) AWS Architect
13 27 (5.04%) Senior Consultant
14 26 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
14 26 (4.85%) Principal Java Engineer
15 25 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (4.48%) Senior Architect
17 23 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (26.31%) Terraform
2 77 (14.37%) Spring Boot
3 68 (12.69%) Kafka
4 63 (11.75%) Spring
5 32 (5.97%) AWS CDK
6 24 (4.48%) Node.js
7 20 (3.73%) .NET
8 18 (3.36%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.99%) LangChain
9 16 (2.99%) LlamaIndex
10 14 (2.61%) REST
10 14 (2.61%) Web Services
11 10 (1.87%) CSS
11 10 (1.87%) HTML
11 10 (1.87%) Jest
11 10 (1.87%) OAuth
11 10 (1.87%) OpenAPI
11 10 (1.87%) React
11 10 (1.87%) Ruby on Rails
12 9 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 143 (26.68%) Cloud Native
2 100 (18.66%) Onboarding
3 62 (11.57%) Public Cloud
4 57 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (8.77%) Enterprise Cloud
6 46 (8.58%) e-Learning
7 40 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (5.78%) Data Centre
10 24 (4.48%) PKI
11 18 (3.36%) Management Information System
12 17 (3.17%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (2.61%) Blog
15 13 (2.43%) Algorithms
15 13 (2.43%) Mainframe
16 12 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
18 10 (1.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 10 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.51%) Windows
2 42 (7.84%) Linux
3 25 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.75%) Unix
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Solaris
6 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (41.98%) Infrastructure as Code
2 208 (38.81%) CI/CD
3 180 (33.58%) AI
4 178 (33.21%) Mentoring
5 174 (32.46%) Agile
6 131 (24.44%) Cloud Security
7 110 (20.52%) DevOps
8 104 (19.40%) ITIL
9 101 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 94 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (16.60%) Microservices
12 87 (16.23%) Cybersecurity
13 82 (15.30%) Migration
13 82 (15.30%) Roadmaps
13 82 (15.30%) Technical Leadership
14 72 (13.43%) Generative AI
14 72 (13.43%) Observability
14 72 (13.43%) Test Automation
15 71 (13.25%) Event-Driven
16 70 (13.06%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 139 (25.93%) Python
2 120 (22.39%) Java
3 82 (15.30%) SQL
4 55 (10.26%) Bash
5 32 (5.97%) Go
6 28 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.48%) Ruby
9 21 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.36%) C#
11 14 (2.61%) Perl
11 14 (2.61%) PHP
12 10 (1.87%) Groovy
13 6 (1.12%) C++
13 6 (1.12%) COBOL
14 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.75%) Bicep
15 4 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 159 (29.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 153 (28.54%) Degree
3 130 (24.25%) Security Cleared
4 106 (19.78%) Azure Certification
5 84 (15.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 79 (14.74%) SC Cleared
7 60 (11.19%) MCSE
8 46 (8.58%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (8.58%) CISSP
9 30 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (5.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 29 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (4.66%) DV Cleared
12 22 (4.10%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (3.73%) CCNA
13 20 (3.73%) CISM
13 20 (3.73%) Master's Degree
14 19 (3.54%) CCNP
15 16 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.80%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.38%) QA
2 49 (9.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (5.04%) NIST
4 25 (4.66%) GDPR
5 22 (4.10%) NCSC
6 19 (3.54%) SOC 2
7 17 (3.17%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.43%) Accessibility
9 12 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (2.24%) GRC
9 12 (2.24%) HIPAA
10 9 (1.68%) PCI DSS
11 8 (1.49%) ISO 9001
12 6 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.75%) SLA
15 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.19%) COBIT
16 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 63 (11.75%) Docker
2 29 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.49%) vSphere
5 7 (1.31%) Squid
5 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.93%) KVM
Systems Management
1 82 (15.30%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.02%) Ansible
3 22 (4.10%) Grafana
4 16 (2.99%) Puppet
5 15 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.61%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.68%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.49%) Cilium
8 8 (1.49%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.31%) Argo
9 7 (1.31%) Packer
9 7 (1.31%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.75%) Iperf
12 3 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.56%) QRadar
13 2 (0.37%) CASB
13 2 (0.37%) kaniko
14 1 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 169 (31.53%) Microsoft
2 85 (15.86%) ServiceNow
3 39 (7.28%) VMware
4 35 (6.53%) Oracle
5 28 (5.22%) Cisco
6 27 (5.04%) Google
7 22 (4.10%) Adobe
7 22 (4.10%) Splunk
8 20 (3.73%) Apple
9 18 (3.36%) SAP
10 13 (2.43%) Databricks
10 13 (2.43%) Palo Alto
10 13 (2.43%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.49%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.49%) Genesys
12 7 (1.31%) Avaya
12 7 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.31%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.12%) F5