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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 411 369
Rank change year-on-year +229 -42 -192
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 818 326 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 0.62% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.19% 1.66% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 483 147 271
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -7.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -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 19,502 19,598 19,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.09% 37.11% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,854 7,550 13,355
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
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 £77,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.63%

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 25 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 25 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 +216 705 £30,500 -51.20% 388
UK excluding London +223 486 £30,500 -42.51% 389
Work from Home +145 306 £75,000 +25.00% 114
London +111 246 £67,500 -21.74% 96
North of England +129 225 £30,500 -32.22% 94
Yorkshire +59 130 £30,500 -32.22% 38
North West +70 69 £30,500 -48.09% 42
South East +61 65 £40,625 -23.42% 84
Midlands +39 56 £30,500 -44.55% 48
West Midlands +55 46 £30,500 -48.43% 19
Scotland +13 42 £30,500 -54.81% 32
South West +21 33 £30,500 -56.43% 53
Northern Ireland +18 31 - - 6
East of England +31 30 £82,500 +53.49% 52
North East +25 26 £30,500 -32.22% 15
East Midlands -5 10 £51,058 -7.17% 29
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 25

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 (4.16%) WordPress
2 17 (2.08%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.08%) WebSphere
3 16 (1.96%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (1.34%) Confluence
5 8 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.98%) nginx
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.61%) Drupal
7 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (16.99%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 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
1 818 (100.00%) AWS
2 496 (60.64%) Azure
3 307 (37.53%) GitHub
4 172 (21.03%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (15.40%) Serverless
6 90 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
7 89 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 86 (10.51%) Amazon S3
9 81 (9.90%) GCP
10 44 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (4.89%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (2.69%) Amazon ECR
18 21 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
19 19 (2.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.99%) Internet
2 35 (4.28%) Firewall
3 28 (3.42%) VPN
4 24 (2.93%) Broadband
4 24 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.32%) SSL
6 18 (2.20%) Network Security
7 16 (1.96%) DNS
8 15 (1.83%) WAN
9 12 (1.47%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.34%) VLAN
11 10 (1.22%) VoIP
11 10 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (1.10%) LAN
13 8 (0.98%) DHCP
14 6 (0.73%) HTTP
14 6 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.61%) SSH
15 5 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.13%) DynamoDB
2 39 (4.77%) NoSQL
3 38 (4.65%) Data Lake
4 35 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (3.67%) Metadata
7 23 (2.81%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.44%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (2.08%) DB2
10 13 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) MySQL
15 2 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
15 2 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 303 (37.04%) Git
2 49 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.91%) GitLab
4 19 (2.32%) Cypress.io
4 19 (2.32%) Jaeger
5 17 (2.08%) JIRA
6 14 (1.71%) Maven
6 14 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.61%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.61%) Vite
10 4 (0.49%) MLflow
11 2 (0.24%) Subversion
12 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 291 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.99%) Multimedia
3 139 (16.99%) French Language
4 119 (14.55%) Swedish Language
5 106 (12.96%) Finance
6 68 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (7.33%) Banking
8 51 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (6.11%) Financial Institution
10 27 (3.30%) Public Sector
11 26 (3.18%) Retail Banking
12 24 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.71%) Retail
14 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.47%) Law
15 11 (1.34%) Publishing
16 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.73%) Legal
18 5 (0.61%) Local Government
18 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 278 (33.99%) Trainee
2 162 (19.80%) Analyst
3 161 (19.68%) Developer
4 139 (16.99%) Service Analyst
4 139 (16.99%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (16.38%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (15.28%) Software Developer
6 125 (15.28%) Trainee Software Developer
7 119 (14.55%) Architect
8 77 (9.41%) Senior
9 47 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (5.26%) Lead
11 33 (4.03%) Administrator
12 30 (3.67%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.55%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.55%) Web Administrator
14 27 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.93%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.69%) Infrastructure Support
17 20 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.99%) CSS
1 278 (33.99%) HTML
2 31 (3.79%) React
3 25 (3.06%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.57%) AWS CDK
4 21 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (2.32%) Jest
5 19 (2.32%) LDAP
5 19 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
6 18 (2.20%) .NET
7 16 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
7 16 (1.96%) WebSphere MQ
8 15 (1.83%) RESTful
9 14 (1.71%) Gherkin
10 12 (1.47%) Kafka
10 12 (1.47%) Spring
11 11 (1.34%) .NET Core
11 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (1.34%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.69%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.20%) PKI
8 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.73%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.73%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.61%) Blog
13 5 (0.61%) Clustering
13 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.61%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.49%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.88%) Linux
2 72 (8.80%) Windows
3 49 (5.99%) Unix
4 22 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.61%) VMS
7 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Debian
9 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (43.40%) Mentoring
2 302 (36.92%) Cybersecurity
3 209 (25.55%) ITIL
4 153 (18.70%) Agile
5 148 (18.09%) ITSM
6 142 (17.36%) DevOps
7 129 (15.77%) CI/CD
7 129 (15.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 123 (15.04%) Customer Service
9 119 (14.55%) Performance Metrics
10 80 (9.78%) Migration
11 74 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (8.68%) Containerisation
13 69 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (8.44%) TOGAF
14 66 (8.07%) Microservices
14 66 (8.07%) Roadmaps
15 65 (7.95%) Computer Science
16 61 (7.46%) AI
16 61 (7.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 422 (51.59%) Python
2 341 (41.69%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.60%) R
4 92 (11.25%) Java
5 70 (8.56%) Bash
6 55 (6.72%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.13%) C#
8 37 (4.52%) SQL
9 35 (4.28%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.30%) Go
11 19 (2.32%) Groovy
12 10 (1.22%) Bicep
13 7 (0.86%) C++
13 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Perl
15 2 (0.24%) Ruby
15 2 (0.24%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 457 (55.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 428 (52.32%) Azure Certification
3 287 (35.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 227 (27.75%) Degree
5 139 (16.99%) MCSE
6 117 (14.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 60 (7.33%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 47 (5.75%) SC Cleared
10 46 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.18%) A+ Certification
14 24 (2.93%) CISSP
15 19 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (2.08%) CISM
16 17 (2.08%) Master's Degree
17 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 11 (1.34%) CCNP
19 10 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.28%) QA
2 34 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.30%) NIST
4 24 (2.93%) SLA
5 22 (2.69%) GDPR
6 14 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.86%) 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
1 107 (13.08%) Docker
2 49 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.86%) 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 (13.57%) Terraform
2 86 (10.51%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.23%) Ansible
4 35 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.03%) Grafana
6 21 (2.57%) Argo
7 19 (2.32%) Kustomize
8 14 (1.71%) HP Fortify
9 9 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.73%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Autotask
13 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 2 (0.24%) Puppet
15 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 525 (64.18%) Microsoft
2 157 (19.19%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.60%) VMware
4 39 (4.77%) Google
5 24 (2.93%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.81%) IBM
7 17 (2.08%) Adobe
7 17 (2.08%) Apple
8 15 (1.83%) SAP
9 13 (1.59%) Cisco
10 11 (1.34%) Workday
11 6 (0.73%) Databricks
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle
12 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 5 (0.61%) YouTube
13 4 (0.49%) OpenText
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) Pega
14 3 (0.37%) Jaspersoft
14 3 (0.37%) OpenAI