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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 401 372
Rank change year-on-year +219 -29 -212
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 821 329 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 0.63% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.18% 1.70% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 485 149 294
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -22.22% -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 19,641 19,308 19,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.79% 37.16% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,888 7,502 14,014
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.04%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +196 706 £30,500 -52.79% 349
UK excluding London +227 490 £30,500 -41.90% 343
Work from Home +144 306 £75,000 +25.00% 67
London +104 243 £67,500 -22.86% 97
North of England +124 229 £30,500 -32.22% 89
Yorkshire +63 132 £30,500 -32.22% 36
North West +74 70 £30,500 -48.09% 41
South East +61 64 £33,750 -36.38% 72
Midlands +40 56 £30,500 -43.88% 49
West Midlands +52 46 £30,500 -43.19% 21
Scotland +24 43 £30,500 -61.88% 27
South West +26 33 £30,500 -53.08% 44
Northern Ireland +14 31 - - 5
East of England +36 30 £82,500 +53.49% 40
North East +24 27 £30,500 -32.22% 13
East Midlands -7 10 £51,058 -7.17% 28
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 20

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 34 (4.14%) WordPress
2 17 (2.07%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.07%) WebSphere
3 16 (1.95%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (1.34%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.97%) nginx
7 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
9 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (16.93%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 2 (0.24%) Weka
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 821 (100.00%) AWS
2 491 (59.81%) Azure
3 307 (37.39%) GitHub
4 172 (20.95%) Microsoft 365
5 128 (15.59%) Serverless
6 92 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (11.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 87 (10.60%) Amazon S3
9 79 (9.62%) GCP
10 45 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (4.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (2.92%) Amazon ECR
19 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
20 19 (2.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.86%) Internet
2 34 (4.14%) Firewall
3 26 (3.17%) VPN
4 24 (2.92%) Broadband
4 24 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.31%) SSL
6 18 (2.19%) Network Security
7 14 (1.71%) DNS
8 13 (1.58%) WAN
9 11 (1.34%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.22%) VLAN
11 9 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.97%) VoIP
13 7 (0.85%) DHCP
13 7 (0.85%) LAN
14 5 (0.61%) HTTP
14 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.49%) SSH
15 4 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.24%) DynamoDB
2 40 (4.87%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.51%) Data Lake
4 34 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (3.65%) Metadata
7 22 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.44%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.07%) DB2
10 16 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.24%) MySQL
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 303 (36.91%) Git
2 50 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.38%) GitLab
4 21 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.31%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.07%) JIRA
7 16 (1.95%) Maven
7 16 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.61%) Vite
12 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 4 (0.49%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 286 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.86%) Multimedia
3 139 (16.93%) French Language
4 119 (14.49%) Swedish Language
5 112 (13.64%) Finance
6 68 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (7.19%) Banking
8 49 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (5.97%) Financial Institution
9 27 (3.29%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.17%) Retail Banking
11 23 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.56%) Retail
13 12 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.46%) Law
14 11 (1.34%) Publishing
15 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.73%) Legal
16 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 284 (34.59%) Trainee
2 162 (19.73%) Analyst
2 162 (19.73%) Developer
3 139 (16.93%) Service Analyst
3 139 (16.93%) Service Desk Analyst
4 134 (16.32%) Trainee Developer
5 125 (15.23%) Software Developer
5 125 (15.23%) Trainee Software Developer
6 119 (14.49%) Architect
7 75 (9.14%) Senior
8 45 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (5.24%) Lead
10 34 (4.14%) Administrator
11 30 (3.65%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.53%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.53%) Web Administrator
13 27 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.92%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 22 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (2.68%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.86%) CSS
1 278 (33.86%) HTML
2 31 (3.78%) React
3 27 (3.29%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (2.56%) Jest
5 20 (2.44%) AWS CDK
6 19 (2.31%) LDAP
6 19 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.19%) .NET
7 18 (2.19%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.95%) Gherkin
8 16 (1.95%) LAPP Stack
8 16 (1.95%) WebSphere MQ
9 15 (1.83%) RESTful
10 14 (1.71%) Kafka
11 12 (1.46%) Spring
12 11 (1.34%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (1.34%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (4.14%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.19%) PKI
8 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.34%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.85%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Clustering
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.84%) Linux
2 69 (8.40%) Windows
3 49 (5.97%) Unix
4 22 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.49%) VMS
7 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.24%) CentOS
8 2 (0.24%) Debian
8 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (43.36%) Mentoring
2 299 (36.42%) Cybersecurity
3 210 (25.58%) ITIL
4 153 (18.64%) Agile
5 147 (17.90%) ITSM
6 142 (17.30%) DevOps
7 132 (16.08%) CI/CD
8 129 (15.71%) Customer Service
8 129 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 118 (14.37%) Performance Metrics
10 79 (9.62%) Migration
11 73 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (8.53%) Containerisation
13 69 (8.40%) TOGAF
14 68 (8.28%) AI
14 68 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (8.04%) Roadmaps
16 65 (7.92%) Microservices
17 63 (7.67%) Computer Science
18 60 (7.31%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 428 (52.13%) Python
2 341 (41.53%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.54%) R
4 93 (11.33%) Java
5 73 (8.89%) Bash
6 57 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 41 (4.99%) C#
8 36 (4.38%) SQL
9 35 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 28 (3.41%) Go
11 20 (2.44%) Groovy
12 10 (1.22%) Bicep
13 7 (0.85%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) Perl
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 455 (55.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 424 (51.64%) Azure Certification
3 293 (35.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 224 (27.28%) Degree
5 139 (16.93%) MCSE
6 118 (14.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 59 (7.19%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 46 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (5.60%) SC Cleared
10 34 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
11 28 (3.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 26 (3.17%) A+ Certification
13 24 (2.92%) CISSP
14 17 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (2.07%) CISM
15 16 (1.95%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.22%) CCNP
16 10 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.23%) QA
2 33 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.17%) NIST
4 24 (2.92%) SLA
5 22 (2.68%) GDPR
6 14 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.97%) Data Quality
11 7 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) GRC
14 2 (0.24%) DICOM
14 2 (0.24%) GxP
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) GAAP
15 1 (0.12%) MiFID
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (13.28%) Docker
2 48 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.85%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.37%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.37%) Postfix
8 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 111 (13.52%) Terraform
2 88 (10.72%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.33%) Ansible
4 37 (4.51%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.26%) Grafana
6 21 (2.56%) Argo
7 19 (2.31%) Kustomize
8 16 (1.95%) HP Fortify
9 10 (1.22%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.73%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.24%) Autotask
14 2 (0.24%) Puppet
15 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 526 (64.07%) Microsoft
2 157 (19.12%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.58%) VMware
4 39 (4.75%) Google
5 24 (2.92%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.68%) IBM
7 17 (2.07%) Adobe
7 17 (2.07%) Apple
8 15 (1.83%) SAP
9 12 (1.46%) Cisco
10 11 (1.34%) Workday
11 6 (0.73%) Databricks
12 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 5 (0.61%) YouTube
13 4 (0.49%) OpenText
13 4 (0.49%) Oracle
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) Pega
14 3 (0.37%) Ariba
14 3 (0.37%) OpenAI