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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 246 457
Rank change year-on-year -132 +211 -81
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 539 624 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.26% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.63% 3.58% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 183 211 175
10th Percentile £47,750 £28,250 £42,869
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £55,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -6.90% -4.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -7.41%

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 20,497 17,446 20,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 35.26% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,532 7,392 9,067
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £36,981 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -1.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £48,450 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.68% -7.71% -

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 1 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 1 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 -115 494 £77,500 +13.10% 685
UK excluding London -207 256 £65,000 +8.33% 426
London -15 250 £90,000 +20.00% 370
Work from Home -151 176 £82,500 +10.00% 483
North of England -156 87 £70,000 +9.80% 108
South East -63 50 £65,000 -9.09% 44
North West -130 46 £55,000 +80.33% 81
Midlands -35 45 £85,000 +38.78% 55
South West -63 45 £70,000 +23.36% 95
West Midlands -40 40 £90,000 +46.94% 45
North East -47 26 £80,500 +89.41% 15
Yorkshire -53 15 £65,000 - 12
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 11
East of England -27 9 £82,500 -17.50% 10
East Midlands -30 5 £73,750 - 10
Northern Ireland -95 5 £42,500 - 36
Scotland +9 3 - - 67

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 20 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.53%) Confluence
3 7 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.11%) Apache
4 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.74%) SAS
7 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.37%) 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 (11.13%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (4.45%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.11%) 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
1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.36%) Azure
3 133 (24.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 118 (21.89%) GCP
5 97 (18.00%) Serverless
6 81 (15.03%) Cloud Computing
7 79 (14.66%) Amazon S3
8 77 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
9 64 (11.87%) Amazon ECS
10 57 (10.58%) GitHub
11 46 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (3.71%) Entra ID
15 19 (3.53%) Amazon EMR
15 19 (3.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 19 (3.53%) AWS CloudTrail
15 19 (3.53%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 68 (12.62%) Network Security
2 58 (10.76%) Firewall
3 31 (5.75%) VPN
4 25 (4.64%) WAN
5 22 (4.08%) DNS
6 21 (3.90%) Internet
7 19 (3.53%) SD-WAN
8 18 (3.34%) DHCP
9 17 (3.15%) LAN
9 17 (3.15%) Software-Defined Networking
10 14 (2.60%) TCP/IP
11 10 (1.86%) Wireless
12 9 (1.67%) VLAN
13 8 (1.48%) IPv4
14 7 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.93%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.74%) DMZ
17 3 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
17 3 (0.56%) MPLS
17 3 (0.56%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.43%) NoSQL
2 46 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (4.27%) DynamoDB
4 18 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (3.15%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.78%) Metadata
7 11 (2.04%) Hadoop
8 10 (1.86%) Big Data
9 9 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.48%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.30%) Power BI
11 7 (1.30%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.93%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.74%) GIS
14 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 76 (14.10%) GitLab
2 44 (8.16%) Cucumber
3 41 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 28 (5.19%) JIRA
5 24 (4.45%) Git
6 15 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.23%) Maven
9 10 (1.86%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.67%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.56%) Taiga
12 3 (0.56%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.37%) Ant
13 2 (0.37%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.37%) git-flow
13 2 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.19%) ERwin
14 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 165 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.16%) Finance
3 86 (15.96%) Public Sector
4 66 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.91%) Swedish Language
7 42 (7.79%) Banking
8 28 (5.19%) Retail
9 23 (4.27%) Aerospace
10 22 (4.08%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.78%) French Language
12 14 (2.60%) Law
13 13 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.23%) Military
15 11 (2.04%) Marketing
16 9 (1.67%) Legal
17 8 (1.48%) Manufacturing
18 7 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (1.11%) Billing
19 6 (1.11%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 146 (27.09%) Senior
2 134 (24.86%) Architect
3 94 (17.44%) Analyst
4 62 (11.50%) Consultant
5 60 (11.13%) Service Analyst
5 60 (11.13%) Service Desk Analyst
6 45 (8.35%) Java Engineer
7 44 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (7.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (5.94%) Lead
10 31 (5.75%) Security Consultant
11 30 (5.57%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (5.19%) AWS Architect
12 28 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (5.01%) Developer
13 27 (5.01%) Senior Consultant
14 26 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (4.64%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (4.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (26.53%) Terraform
2 74 (13.73%) Spring Boot
3 65 (12.06%) Kafka
4 60 (11.13%) Spring
5 31 (5.75%) AWS CDK
6 23 (4.27%) Node.js
7 20 (3.71%) .NET
8 17 (3.15%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.97%) LangChain
9 16 (2.97%) LlamaIndex
10 14 (2.60%) REST
10 14 (2.60%) Web Services
11 10 (1.86%) Jest
11 10 (1.86%) OAuth
11 10 (1.86%) OpenAPI
11 10 (1.86%) React
11 10 (1.86%) Ruby on Rails
12 9 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (1.67%) eBPF
12 9 (1.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 138 (25.60%) Cloud Native
2 100 (18.55%) Onboarding
3 60 (11.13%) Public Cloud
4 55 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (8.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 44 (8.16%) e-Learning
7 42 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (5.75%) Data Centre
10 26 (4.82%) PKI
11 18 (3.34%) Management Information System
12 17 (3.15%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (2.60%) Blog
15 13 (2.41%) Algorithms
15 13 (2.41%) Mainframe
16 12 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
17 11 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
18 10 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.83%) Windows
2 45 (8.35%) Linux
3 26 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.74%) Unix
5 4 (0.74%) 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
1 227 (42.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 206 (38.22%) CI/CD
3 183 (33.95%) AI
4 179 (33.21%) Mentoring
5 171 (31.73%) Agile
6 132 (24.49%) Cloud Security
7 108 (20.04%) DevOps
8 105 (19.48%) ITIL
9 99 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (16.70%) Cybersecurity
12 89 (16.51%) Microservices
13 83 (15.40%) Migration
14 82 (15.21%) Roadmaps
15 81 (15.03%) Technical Leadership
16 71 (13.17%) Generative AI
17 70 (12.99%) Machine Learning
17 70 (12.99%) Observability
18 69 (12.80%) Architectural Patterns
18 69 (12.80%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 136 (25.23%) Python
2 118 (21.89%) Java
3 80 (14.84%) SQL
4 57 (10.58%) Bash
5 33 (6.12%) Go
6 27 (5.01%) JavaScript
6 27 (5.01%) PowerShell
7 24 (4.45%) Ruby
8 21 (3.90%) TypeScript
9 19 (3.53%) C#
10 14 (2.60%) Perl
10 14 (2.60%) PHP
11 10 (1.86%) Groovy
12 7 (1.30%) C++
13 6 (1.11%) COBOL
13 6 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.74%) Bicep
14 4 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 162 (30.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 156 (28.94%) Degree
3 131 (24.30%) Security Cleared
4 104 (19.29%) Azure Certification
5 83 (15.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (14.47%) SC Cleared
7 60 (11.13%) MCSE
8 47 (8.72%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (8.53%) CISSP
10 30 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (5.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 26 (4.82%) DV Cleared
14 22 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (3.90%) CCNA
15 21 (3.90%) Master's Degree
16 20 (3.71%) CISM
17 19 (3.53%) CCNP
18 15 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
18 15 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.32%) QA
2 50 (9.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (5.38%) NIST
4 26 (4.82%) GDPR
5 22 (4.08%) NCSC
6 19 (3.53%) SOC 2
7 17 (3.15%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.41%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.41%) GRC
9 12 (2.23%) HIPAA
10 11 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (1.67%) PCI DSS
12 8 (1.48%) ISO 9001
13 6 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.74%) SLA
16 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.19%) COBIT
17 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 60 (11.13%) Docker
2 30 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.82%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.67%) vSphere
5 8 (1.48%) Squid
5 8 (1.48%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.93%) KVM
Systems Management
1 84 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 45 (8.35%) Ansible
3 23 (4.27%) Grafana
4 16 (2.97%) Prometheus
4 16 (2.97%) Puppet
5 15 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.67%) Cilium
7 9 (1.67%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.67%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.48%) Packer
8 8 (1.48%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.11%) Argo
11 4 (0.74%) 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%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 173 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 90 (16.70%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.61%) VMware
4 37 (6.86%) Oracle
5 28 (5.19%) Cisco
6 26 (4.82%) Adobe
6 26 (4.82%) Google
7 25 (4.64%) Apple
8 23 (4.27%) Splunk
9 18 (3.34%) SAP
10 14 (2.60%) Red Hat
11 13 (2.41%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.23%) Databricks
13 8 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.48%) Genesys
14 7 (1.30%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.30%) Avaya
14 7 (1.30%) Dynatrace
15 6 (1.11%) F5