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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 246 468
Rank change year-on-year -141 +222 -95
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 533 614 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.24% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.58% 3.59% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 180 208 175
10th Percentile £47,750 £28,250 £43,421
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £96,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £58,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.49% -9.62% -7.14%

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 20,646 17,099 21,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.58% 34.54% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,510 7,447 9,354
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,000 £42,415
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -3.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -123 490 £77,500 +14.81% 882
UK excluding London -215 255 £65,500 +11.49% 587
London -21 247 £90,000 +20.00% 447
Work from Home -162 173 £85,000 +17.24% 527
North of England -148 88 £70,000 +12.00% 154
South East -39 49 £65,000 -9.09% 95
North West -127 46 £55,000 +80.33% 105
Midlands -38 45 £85,000 +47.83% 78
South West -64 45 £70,000 +23.36% 110
West Midlands -32 40 £90,000 +56.52% 52
North East -43 26 £80,500 +89.41% 22
Yorkshire -59 16 £65,000 - 28
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 11
East of England -29 8 £100,000 - 29
Northern Ireland -94 5 £42,500 - 39
East Midlands - 5 £73,750 - 26
Scotland +5 3 - - 72

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 19 (3.56%) Apache Spark
1 19 (3.56%) Confluence
2 7 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.13%) Apache
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.94%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.75%) SAS
6 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (11.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (4.50%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.13%) 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
1 533 (100.00%) AWS
2 194 (36.40%) Azure
3 133 (24.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 118 (22.14%) GCP
5 99 (18.57%) Serverless
6 81 (15.20%) Cloud Computing
7 79 (14.82%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (14.45%) Amazon S3
8 77 (14.45%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (12.38%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (10.13%) GitHub
11 45 (8.44%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (8.07%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (5.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (3.94%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (3.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 19 (3.56%) AWS CloudTrail
16 19 (3.56%) Entra ID
17 18 (3.38%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 68 (12.76%) Network Security
2 56 (10.51%) Firewall
3 30 (5.63%) VPN
4 25 (4.69%) WAN
5 21 (3.94%) DNS
5 21 (3.94%) Internet
6 19 (3.56%) SD-WAN
7 18 (3.38%) DHCP
8 17 (3.19%) LAN
8 17 (3.19%) Software-Defined Networking
9 14 (2.63%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.88%) Wireless
11 9 (1.69%) VLAN
12 8 (1.50%) IPv4
13 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.94%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.75%) DMZ
16 3 (0.56%) 3GPP
16 3 (0.56%) BGP
16 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.20%) NoSQL
2 46 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 17 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.81%) Metadata
7 11 (2.06%) Hadoop
8 10 (1.88%) Big Data
9 8 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.50%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.31%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.13%) Power BI
12 5 (0.94%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.75%) GIS
14 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 76 (14.26%) GitLab
2 43 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.88%) Cucumber
4 28 (5.25%) JIRA
5 25 (4.69%) Git
6 15 (2.81%) Bitbucket
7 14 (2.63%) Maven
8 13 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 11 (2.06%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.56%) Taiga
12 3 (0.56%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.38%) Ant
13 2 (0.38%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.38%) git-flow
13 2 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.19%) ERwin
14 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 164 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 136 (25.52%) Finance
3 84 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 65 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.01%) Swedish Language
6 41 (7.69%) Banking
7 28 (5.25%) Retail
8 23 (4.32%) Aerospace
9 21 (3.94%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.81%) French Language
11 13 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.44%) Law
12 12 (2.25%) Military
13 11 (2.06%) Marketing
14 9 (1.69%) Legal
15 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.13%) Billing
17 6 (1.13%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 142 (26.64%) Senior
2 133 (24.95%) Architect
3 94 (17.64%) Analyst
4 61 (11.44%) Consultant
5 60 (11.26%) Service Analyst
5 60 (11.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 44 (8.26%) Solutions Architect
7 43 (8.07%) Java Engineer
8 40 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.00%) Lead
10 31 (5.82%) Security Consultant
11 30 (5.63%) Cloud Architect
11 30 (5.63%) Developer
12 28 (5.25%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (5.07%) AWS Architect
14 26 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
15 25 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
16 24 (4.50%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (4.50%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (26.27%) Terraform
2 72 (13.51%) Spring Boot
3 62 (11.63%) Kafka
4 56 (10.51%) Spring
5 31 (5.82%) AWS CDK
6 21 (3.94%) Node.js
7 20 (3.75%) .NET
8 17 (3.19%) AngularJS
9 16 (3.00%) LangChain
9 16 (3.00%) LlamaIndex
10 15 (2.81%) REST
11 14 (2.63%) Web Services
12 12 (2.25%) Jest
13 11 (2.06%) Gherkin
13 11 (2.06%) React
14 10 (1.88%) OAuth
14 10 (1.88%) OpenAPI
14 10 (1.88%) Ruby on Rails
15 9 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (1.69%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 135 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 98 (18.39%) Onboarding
3 57 (10.69%) Public Cloud
4 53 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (8.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 42 (7.88%) e-Learning
7 40 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 36 (6.75%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (5.82%) Data Centre
10 25 (4.69%) PKI
11 18 (3.38%) Management Information System
12 17 (3.19%) Security Posture
13 16 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (2.63%) Blog
15 13 (2.44%) Algorithms
15 13 (2.44%) Mainframe
16 12 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
18 10 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 10 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.76%) Windows
2 43 (8.07%) Linux
3 25 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.75%) Unix
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (41.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 203 (38.09%) CI/CD
3 177 (33.21%) AI
4 174 (32.65%) Mentoring
5 172 (32.27%) Agile
6 131 (24.58%) Cloud Security
7 110 (20.64%) DevOps
8 107 (20.08%) ITIL
9 97 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (16.89%) Cybersecurity
12 88 (16.51%) Microservices
13 82 (15.38%) Roadmaps
14 81 (15.20%) Migration
15 80 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
16 71 (13.32%) Generative AI
17 68 (12.76%) Architectural Patterns
17 68 (12.76%) ITSM
17 68 (12.76%) Machine Learning
18 66 (12.38%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 134 (25.14%) Python
2 116 (21.76%) Java
3 75 (14.07%) SQL
4 58 (10.88%) Bash
5 32 (6.00%) Go
6 27 (5.07%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.50%) Ruby
8 24 (4.50%) TypeScript
9 19 (3.56%) C#
10 14 (2.63%) Perl
10 14 (2.63%) PHP
11 12 (2.25%) Groovy
12 7 (1.31%) C++
13 6 (1.13%) COBOL
13 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.56%) Bicep
15 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 159 (29.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 156 (29.27%) Degree
3 131 (24.58%) Security Cleared
4 103 (19.32%) Azure Certification
5 83 (15.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (14.63%) SC Cleared
7 60 (11.26%) MCSE
8 47 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (8.44%) CISSP
10 30 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (5.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 26 (4.88%) DV Cleared
14 22 (4.13%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (3.94%) CCNA
15 21 (3.94%) Master's Degree
16 20 (3.75%) CISM
17 19 (3.56%) CCNP
18 17 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 16 (3.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.63%) QA
2 50 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (5.44%) NIST
4 25 (4.69%) GDPR
5 22 (4.13%) NCSC
6 19 (3.56%) SOC 2
7 15 (2.81%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.44%) GRC
9 12 (2.25%) HIPAA
10 11 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (1.69%) PCI DSS
12 8 (1.50%) ISO 9001
13 6 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.75%) SLA
16 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.19%) COBIT
17 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 61 (11.44%) Docker
2 29 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.69%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.69%) vSphere
5 8 (1.50%) Squid
5 8 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.94%) KVM
Systems Management
1 82 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 44 (8.26%) Ansible
3 22 (4.13%) Grafana
4 16 (3.00%) Puppet
5 15 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.06%) HP Fortify
8 9 (1.69%) Cilium
9 8 (1.50%) Packer
9 8 (1.50%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.50%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.13%) Argo
12 4 (0.75%) Iperf
13 3 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.56%) QRadar
14 2 (0.38%) CASB
14 2 (0.38%) kaniko
15 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 172 (32.27%) Microsoft
2 90 (16.89%) ServiceNow
3 40 (7.50%) VMware
4 37 (6.94%) Oracle
5 28 (5.25%) Cisco
6 26 (4.88%) Google
7 25 (4.69%) Apple
8 24 (4.50%) Adobe
9 23 (4.32%) Splunk
10 18 (3.38%) SAP
11 14 (2.63%) Red Hat
12 13 (2.44%) Palo Alto
13 11 (2.06%) Databricks
14 8 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.50%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.50%) Genesys
15 7 (1.31%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.31%) Avaya
15 7 (1.31%) Dynatrace
16 6 (1.13%) F5