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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 385 386
Rank change year-on-year +204 +1 -239
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 858 333 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 0.68% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.28% 1.79% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 518 152 296
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,438 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,800 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.93% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 20,065 18,596 21,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.26% 38.02% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,167 7,385 14,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £36,500 £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 £76,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +190 739 £30,500 -52.79% 464
UK excluding London +210 531 £30,500 -41.90% 457
Work from Home +138 298 £75,000 +25.00% 99
North of England +132 259 £30,500 -32.22% 119
London +80 237 £57,500 -33.33% 116
Yorkshire +50 143 £30,500 -32.22% 47
North West +67 85 £30,500 -41.90% 61
South East +27 61 £41,875 -22.49% 88
Midlands +28 57 £30,500 -52.79% 64
Scotland +27 47 £30,500 -53.96% 43
West Midlands +40 46 £30,500 -52.79% 28
South West +15 40 £30,500 -49.17% 65
Northern Ireland +7 33 - - 8
North East +18 31 £30,500 -32.22% 12
East of England +23 30 £82,500 +53.49% 53
East Midlands -13 11 £51,058 -7.17% 35
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 23

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 45 (5.24%) Jupyter
2 34 (3.96%) WordPress
3 13 (1.52%) Tomcat
3 13 (1.52%) WebSphere
4 12 (1.40%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.05%) Confluence
6 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.58%) Apache
7 5 (0.58%) Drupal
7 5 (0.58%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Documentum
9 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (16.08%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (5.36%) Chatbot
3 17 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 858 (100.00%) AWS
2 487 (56.76%) Azure
3 308 (35.90%) GitHub
4 168 (19.58%) Microsoft 365
5 127 (14.80%) Serverless
6 93 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 91 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
8 83 (9.67%) GCP
9 81 (9.44%) Amazon S3
10 51 (5.94%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 42 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (3.38%) Amazon ECR
18 22 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (2.56%) Apigee
19 21 (2.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (32.40%) Internet
2 32 (3.73%) Firewall
3 26 (3.03%) VPN
4 22 (2.56%) Broadband
4 22 (2.56%) Network Security
5 18 (2.10%) Remote Desktop
6 15 (1.75%) SSL
7 11 (1.28%) WAN
8 10 (1.17%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.05%) VLAN
10 8 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.82%) DNS
12 6 (0.70%) DHCP
12 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.70%) VoIP
13 5 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.58%) LAN
14 4 (0.47%) BGP
14 4 (0.47%) OSPF
15 3 (0.35%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.13%) DynamoDB
2 42 (4.90%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.31%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.50%) Metadata
5 26 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.33%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.21%) SQL Server
9 13 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (1.52%) DB2
10 11 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.58%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.47%) Big Data
14 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.23%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
16 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 299 (34.85%) Git
2 46 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 45 (5.24%) Visual Studio Code
4 41 (4.78%) GitLab
5 26 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.56%) Maven
6 22 (2.56%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.21%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.63%) JIRA
8 14 (1.63%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.47%) MLflow
11 4 (0.47%) Vite
12 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 280 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 278 (32.40%) Multimedia
3 150 (17.48%) Finance
4 138 (16.08%) French Language
5 109 (12.70%) Swedish Language
6 66 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (7.69%) Retail
7 57 (6.64%) Banking
8 49 (5.71%) Financial Institution
8 49 (5.71%) Manufacturing
9 48 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 24 (2.80%) Retail Banking
12 18 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.28%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.28%) Law
13 11 (1.28%) Publishing
14 6 (0.70%) Legal
15 5 (0.58%) Local Government
15 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 323 (37.65%) Trainee
2 168 (19.58%) Developer
3 161 (18.76%) Analyst
4 138 (16.08%) Service Analyst
4 138 (16.08%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (15.62%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (14.57%) Software Developer
6 125 (14.57%) Trainee Software Developer
7 121 (14.10%) Architect
8 66 (7.69%) Senior
9 47 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 45 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 45 (5.24%) Programmer
10 45 (5.24%) Trainee Programmer
11 41 (4.78%) Lead
12 36 (4.20%) Administrator
13 30 (3.50%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.38%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.38%) Web Administrator
15 22 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (32.40%) CSS
1 278 (32.40%) HTML
2 48 (5.59%) Hugging Face
3 47 (5.48%) NumPy
3 47 (5.48%) Pandas
4 45 (5.24%) Matplotlib
4 45 (5.24%) scikit-learn
4 45 (5.24%) Streamlit
5 35 (4.08%) Spring Boot
6 29 (3.38%) React
7 26 (3.03%) Jest
8 25 (2.91%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.56%) Gherkin
10 19 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 18 (2.10%) .NET
12 17 (1.98%) AWS CDK
13 16 (1.86%) Kafka
14 15 (1.75%) RESTful
15 14 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 42 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.56%) PKI
7 20 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.17%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.58%) Blog
14 5 (0.58%) Clustering
14 5 (0.58%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.58%) PACS
14 5 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.21%) Linux
2 58 (6.76%) Windows
3 44 (5.13%) Unix
4 18 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Debian
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (40.68%) Mentoring
2 298 (34.73%) Cybersecurity
3 208 (24.24%) ITIL
4 173 (20.16%) Customer Service
5 158 (18.41%) Agile
6 145 (16.90%) ITSM
7 139 (16.20%) DevOps
8 134 (15.62%) CI/CD
9 129 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 123 (14.34%) Performance Metrics
11 110 (12.82%) AI
12 79 (9.21%) Migration
13 70 (8.16%) Containerisation
13 70 (8.16%) Data Privacy
13 70 (8.16%) Microservices
13 70 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (8.04%) TOGAF
15 68 (7.93%) Machine Learning
16 67 (7.81%) Computer Science
17 66 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 459 (53.50%) Python
2 338 (39.39%) JavaScript
3 144 (16.78%) R
4 97 (11.31%) Java
5 76 (8.86%) Bash
6 59 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.55%) C#
8 33 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 32 (3.73%) SQL
10 29 (3.38%) Go
11 22 (2.56%) Groovy
12 10 (1.17%) Bicep
13 8 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.82%) C++
15 6 (0.70%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.23%) C
17 1 (0.12%) Scala
17 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 455 (53.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 421 (49.07%) Azure Certification
3 333 (38.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 224 (26.11%) Degree
5 138 (16.08%) MCSE
6 121 (14.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 56 (6.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 53 (6.18%) Security Cleared
9 46 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (4.66%) SC Cleared
11 34 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (3.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 24 (2.80%) CISSP
14 20 (2.33%) A+ Certification
14 20 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.10%) CISM
16 17 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (1.75%) Master's Degree
18 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
19 9 (1.05%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (15.03%) QA
2 37 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.03%) NIST
4 22 (2.56%) GDPR
5 20 (2.33%) SLA
6 17 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.40%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.17%) NCSC
10 9 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.93%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.93%) GRC
12 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.58%) DICOM
13 5 (0.58%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.23%) GxP
14 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) GAAP
15 1 (0.12%) MiFID
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (12.82%) Docker
2 41 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.82%) KVM
6 5 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.47%) vSphere
8 3 (0.35%) iptables
8 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (13.40%) Terraform
2 88 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.06%) Ansible
4 36 (4.20%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.73%) Grafana
6 26 (3.03%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.33%) Argo
8 19 (2.21%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.05%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.93%) Cilium
10 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.35%) Nessus
12 3 (0.35%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 562 (65.50%) Microsoft
2 151 (17.60%) ServiceNow
3 49 (5.71%) VMware
4 39 (4.55%) Google
5 20 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.10%) IBM
7 17 (1.98%) Adobe
7 17 (1.98%) Apple
8 15 (1.75%) SAP
9 11 (1.28%) Cisco
9 11 (1.28%) Workday
10 8 (0.93%) Databricks
11 5 (0.58%) Symantec
11 5 (0.58%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenText
12 4 (0.47%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.47%) Pega
13 3 (0.35%) Ariba
13 3 (0.35%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.35%) SolarWinds