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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 450 374
Rank change year-on-year +239 -76 -129
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 650 318 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 0.47% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.79% 1.57% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 364 154 246
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,278
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £64,800 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% -13.60% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -13.33%

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 17,145 20,315 16,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.26% 30.01% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,844 8,413 11,115
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,550 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,750 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,625 £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 24 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 24 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 +241 567 £47,500 -22.13% 547
UK excluding London +217 360 £30,500 -42.51% 484
Work from Home +182 254 £75,000 +25.00% 94
London +135 227 £75,000 -11.76% 179
North of England +117 139 £30,500 -32.22% 120
Yorkshire +54 75 £30,500 -32.22% 40
South East +70 67 £47,500 -10.46% 122
North West +85 47 £30,500 -41.90% 68
Midlands +79 45 £31,500 -51.24% 91
West Midlands +73 36 £30,500 -52.79% 58
South West +51 30 £30,500 -52.16% 37
Scotland +19 28 £30,500 -56.43% 27
Northern Ireland +26 27 - - 5
East of England +36 23 £80,000 +68.42% 58
North East +31 17 £30,500 -32.22% 15
East Midlands +28 9 £51,058 -7.17% 33
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 (3.38%) WordPress
2 18 (2.77%) Confluence
3 17 (2.62%) Tomcat
3 17 (2.62%) WebSphere
4 16 (2.46%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.38%) nginx
5 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.92%) Apache
7 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.46%) Drupal
9 3 (0.46%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 119 (18.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 650 (100.00%) AWS
2 386 (59.38%) Azure
3 196 (30.15%) GitHub
4 145 (22.31%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (15.69%) GCP
6 78 (12.00%) Serverless
7 68 (10.46%) Amazon S3
8 60 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 31 (4.77%) SaaS
13 28 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (2.31%) Entra ID
18 15 (2.31%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 167 (25.69%) Internet
2 40 (6.15%) Firewall
3 34 (5.23%) DNS
4 28 (4.31%) VPN
5 24 (3.69%) Remote Desktop
6 20 (3.08%) WAN
7 19 (2.92%) SSL
8 16 (2.46%) LAN
8 16 (2.46%) Network Security
9 15 (2.31%) DHCP
9 15 (2.31%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.31%) VoIP
10 14 (2.15%) VLAN
11 13 (2.00%) HTTP
11 13 (2.00%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.85%) FTP
12 12 (1.85%) SMTP
12 12 (1.85%) SSH
12 12 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (6.15%) Data Lake
3 39 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (4.46%) Metadata
6 26 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 21 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.77%) DB2
10 17 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.69%) Big Data
13 10 (1.54%) MySQL
14 6 (0.92%) CockroachDB
14 6 (0.92%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.77%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 4 (0.62%) Power BI
16 4 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 196 (30.15%) Git
2 44 (6.77%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.31%) JIRA
4 22 (3.38%) GitLab
5 12 (1.85%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.77%) Vite
9 4 (0.62%) Gatling
9 4 (0.62%) JMeter
9 4 (0.62%) JUnit
9 4 (0.62%) Mockito
9 4 (0.62%) Selenium
9 4 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.46%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.46%) YouTrack
11 2 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 243 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 166 (25.54%) Multimedia
3 131 (20.15%) Finance
4 119 (18.31%) French Language
4 119 (18.31%) Swedish Language
5 77 (11.85%) Banking
6 62 (9.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (8.15%) Financial Institution
8 50 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (6.92%) Law
10 35 (5.38%) Public Sector
11 27 (4.15%) Retail Banking
12 25 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.15%) Retail
14 11 (1.69%) Marketing
15 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.08%) Publishing
18 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 166 (25.54%) Trainee
2 124 (19.08%) Analyst
3 119 (18.31%) Service Analyst
3 119 (18.31%) Service Desk Analyst
4 102 (15.69%) Architect
5 97 (14.92%) Developer
6 94 (14.46%) Senior
7 78 (12.00%) Trainee Developer
8 77 (11.85%) Software Developer
8 77 (11.85%) Trainee Software Developer
9 35 (5.38%) Lead
10 33 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.15%) Data Architect
12 27 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.69%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
14 22 (3.38%) Administrator
15 20 (3.08%) AWS Architect
15 20 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (26.15%) CSS
1 170 (26.15%) HTML
2 29 (4.46%) React
3 26 (4.00%) Kafka
4 22 (3.38%) LDAP
4 22 (3.38%) Spring
4 22 (3.38%) Spring Boot
5 16 (2.46%) LAPP Stack
5 16 (2.46%) WebSphere MQ
6 10 (1.54%) RESTful
7 9 (1.38%) .NET
7 9 (1.38%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.23%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.92%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.77%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.77%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (0.77%) Node.js
10 5 (0.77%) Serverless Framework
10 5 (0.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 28 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 26 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.69%) Replication
9 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.23%) PKI
11 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.77%) Blog
12 5 (0.77%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.77%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.31%) Windows
2 71 (10.92%) Linux
3 25 (3.85%) Unix
3 25 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.85%) VMS
6 10 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) CentOS
8 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.31%) Debian
9 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (35.54%) Mentoring
2 183 (28.15%) Cybersecurity
3 180 (27.69%) ITIL
4 147 (22.62%) Agile
5 131 (20.15%) CI/CD
6 130 (20.00%) ITSM
7 119 (18.31%) DevOps
8 105 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (16.00%) Customer Service
10 101 (15.54%) Performance Metrics
11 69 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (9.85%) Microservices
13 62 (9.54%) Containerisation
14 60 (9.23%) Migration
15 58 (8.92%) TOGAF
16 57 (8.77%) Data Modelling
17 56 (8.62%) Cloud Security
18 55 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 53 (8.15%) Computer Science
19 53 (8.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 315 (48.46%) Python
2 205 (31.54%) JavaScript
3 90 (13.85%) R
4 80 (12.31%) Java
5 66 (10.15%) SQL
6 48 (7.38%) PowerShell
7 39 (6.00%) Bash
8 34 (5.23%) TypeScript
9 33 (5.08%) C#
10 22 (3.38%) Go
11 14 (2.15%) Groovy
12 10 (1.54%) Bicep
13 6 (0.92%) C++
13 6 (0.92%) Perl
14 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.62%) Rust
16 3 (0.46%) Scala
17 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.31%) PROC SQL
17 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 331 (50.92%) Azure Certification
2 317 (48.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 209 (32.15%) Degree
4 174 (26.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 119 (18.31%) MCSE
6 116 (17.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 67 (10.31%) Security Cleared
8 62 (9.54%) SC Cleared
9 36 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (4.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 26 (4.00%) A+ Certification
11 26 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 21 (3.23%) Master's Degree
13 20 (3.08%) CISSP
14 16 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (2.15%) CCNP
16 12 (1.85%) DV Cleared
16 12 (1.85%) PMI Certification
17 11 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (17.08%) QA
2 33 (5.08%) NIST
3 31 (4.77%) GDPR
4 27 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.77%) SLA
6 9 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.77%) NCSC
10 4 (0.62%) GRC
11 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.15%) Basel III
13 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 70 (10.77%) Docker
2 41 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.92%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.54%) DFS Replication
6 7 (1.08%) Dovecot
6 7 (1.08%) Postfix
7 6 (0.92%) Squid
8 4 (0.62%) KVM
9 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.46%) vSphere
10 2 (0.31%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.31%) HDFS
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) iptables
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 97 (14.92%) Terraform
2 89 (13.69%) Kubernetes
3 37 (5.69%) Ansible
4 30 (4.62%) Grafana
5 20 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.38%) Nessus
6 9 (1.38%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.92%) Autotask
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.77%) SCCM
8 5 (0.77%) SCOM
8 5 (0.77%) WSUS
9 4 (0.62%) Cilium
9 4 (0.62%) Puppet
10 3 (0.46%) Argo
10 3 (0.46%) Salt
11 2 (0.31%) Kibana
11 2 (0.31%) logstash
11 2 (0.31%) Oozie
11 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 381 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 141 (21.69%) ServiceNow
3 43 (6.62%) VMware
4 38 (5.85%) Google
5 25 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.38%) IBM
7 17 (2.62%) SAP
8 14 (2.15%) Cisco
9 13 (2.00%) Oracle
10 8 (1.23%) Ariba
11 6 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (0.92%) Workday
12 5 (0.77%) Databricks
12 5 (0.77%) Datto
13 4 (0.62%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.62%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.62%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.46%) Informatica
14 3 (0.46%) OpenAI