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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 286 477
Rank change year-on-year -30 +191 -326
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 556 483 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.08% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 2.79% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 284 142 319
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £29,563 £53,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £72,688 £91,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.31% -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 18,271 17,304 27,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 38.58% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,604 7,333 17,268
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,263
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.26% -11.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,306 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -4.76%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -43 507 £37,500 -46.43% 236
UK excluding London -47 321 £37,500 -42.31% 218
London -12 199 £65,000 -16.13% 74
Work from Home -61 186 £62,500 -3.85% 51
North of England -59 146 £37,500 -42.31% 51
Yorkshire +13 66 £37,500 -42.31% 22
North West -68 65 £37,500 -33.33% 25
Midlands +3 54 £37,500 -36.81% 30
West Midlands +3 48 £37,500 -36.81% 14
South West -51 39 £52,500 -7.48% 33
South East -9 34 £62,500 -20.13% 58
East of England -9 15 £37,500 -55.88% 28
North East -30 15 £37,500 -21.05% 5
Scotland +22 14 £31,250 -40.48% 8
Northern Ireland -21 10 £39,000 - 5
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 8
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 16

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 54 (9.71%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.91%) WordPress
3 16 (2.88%) Confluence
4 9 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.26%) Apache
6 4 (0.72%) Documentum
7 3 (0.54%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (11.33%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.89%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.32%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 556 (100.00%) AWS
2 243 (43.71%) Azure
3 128 (23.02%) GitHub
4 94 (16.91%) GCP
5 85 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 82 (14.75%) Serverless
7 77 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (13.49%) Cloud Computing
9 67 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
10 66 (11.87%) Amazon S3
11 50 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 32 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (5.40%) Amazon ECR
16 26 (4.68%) Apigee
17 24 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 22 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
20 18 (3.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 97 (17.45%) Internet
2 37 (6.65%) Network Security
3 34 (6.12%) Firewall
4 21 (3.78%) VPN
5 18 (3.24%) Broadband
6 15 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 15 (2.70%) WAN
7 14 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 12 (2.16%) LAN
9 11 (1.98%) DNS
10 10 (1.80%) DHCP
11 9 (1.62%) TCP/IP
12 8 (1.44%) IPv4
12 8 (1.44%) Wireless
13 5 (0.90%) VLAN
14 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.36%) BGP
15 2 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
15 2 (0.36%) SSL
15 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.45%) NoSQL
2 36 (6.47%) DynamoDB
3 27 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.78%) Metadata
5 20 (3.60%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.24%) RDBMS
6 18 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.90%) Big Data
9 5 (0.90%) Power BI
10 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.54%) Redis
11 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 106 (19.06%) Git
2 65 (11.69%) GitLab
3 54 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.71%) Visual Studio Code
4 27 (4.86%) Cypress.io
4 27 (4.86%) Maven
5 26 (4.68%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.32%) Cucumber
7 19 (3.42%) JIRA
7 19 (3.42%) TeamCity
8 18 (3.24%) Jaeger
9 14 (2.52%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.54%) MLflow
10 3 (0.54%) Selenium
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.18%) Gatling
12 1 (0.18%) JMeter
12 1 (0.18%) Taiga
12 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 149 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 126 (22.66%) Finance
3 93 (16.73%) Multimedia
4 78 (14.03%) Retail
5 61 (10.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (10.61%) Manufacturing
7 39 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (7.01%) French Language
8 33 (5.94%) Banking
9 24 (4.32%) Financial Institution
9 24 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 24 (4.32%) Swedish Language
10 10 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.26%) Advertising
12 6 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (1.08%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.90%) Billing
14 4 (0.72%) Automotive
14 4 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 144 (25.90%) Trainee
2 97 (17.45%) Analyst
3 93 (16.73%) Architect
4 84 (15.11%) Senior
5 74 (13.31%) Developer
6 63 (11.33%) Service Analyst
6 63 (11.33%) Service Desk Analyst
7 51 (9.17%) Administrator
7 51 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.17%) Programmer
7 51 (9.17%) Trainee Programmer
8 45 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (7.73%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.73%) Web Administrator
10 34 (6.12%) Lead
11 32 (5.76%) Trainee Developer
12 28 (5.04%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.86%) Trainee Software Developer
14 26 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (4.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (17.09%) CSS
1 95 (17.09%) HTML
2 57 (10.25%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.71%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.71%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.71%) NumPy
3 54 (9.71%) Pandas
3 54 (9.71%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.71%) Streamlit
4 30 (5.40%) AngularJS
5 29 (5.22%) Spring
6 27 (4.86%) Jest
6 27 (4.86%) Kafka
7 26 (4.68%) Gherkin
8 19 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
9 18 (3.24%) React
10 13 (2.34%) Node.js
11 11 (1.98%) AWS CDK
12 10 (1.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.33%) Algorithms
3 37 (6.65%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (5.22%) PKI
6 28 (5.04%) e-Learning
7 27 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (4.50%) Onboarding
9 24 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (3.60%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.26%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.90%) PACS
14 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.61%) Linux
2 39 (7.01%) Windows
3 21 (3.78%) Unix
4 17 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.18%) AIX
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (27.70%) Agile
2 149 (26.80%) Mentoring
3 148 (26.62%) CI/CD
4 144 (25.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (24.28%) AI
6 119 (21.40%) Customer Service
7 116 (20.86%) ITIL
8 104 (18.71%) Cybersecurity
9 99 (17.81%) DevOps
10 76 (13.67%) Machine Learning
11 66 (11.87%) ITSM
12 64 (11.51%) Cloud Security
13 63 (11.33%) Performance Metrics
14 62 (11.15%) Data Privacy
14 62 (11.15%) LLM
15 59 (10.61%) OO
15 59 (10.61%) Visualisation
16 58 (10.43%) Microservices
16 58 (10.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 57 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 258 (46.40%) Python
2 132 (23.74%) JavaScript
3 104 (18.71%) Java
4 75 (13.49%) Bash
5 61 (10.97%) R
6 43 (7.73%) TypeScript
7 42 (7.55%) SQL
8 39 (7.01%) Go
9 27 (4.86%) Groovy
9 27 (4.86%) PowerShell
10 20 (3.60%) C#
11 11 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.44%) C++
12 8 (1.44%) Ruby
13 6 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.72%) Bicep
15 3 (0.54%) PHP
16 2 (0.36%) COBOL
16 2 (0.36%) Perl
17 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 186 (33.45%) Azure Certification
2 176 (31.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 163 (29.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 127 (22.84%) Degree
5 108 (19.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 71 (12.77%) Security Cleared
7 63 (11.33%) MCSE
8 44 (7.91%) SC Cleared
9 31 (5.58%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (4.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (3.24%) CISSP
14 14 (2.52%) CCNA
14 14 (2.52%) CISM
15 13 (2.34%) CCNP
16 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
17 10 (1.80%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.69%) QA
2 36 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.24%) NIST
4 17 (3.06%) SOC 2
5 14 (2.52%) GDPR
6 13 (2.34%) GRC
7 12 (2.16%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.98%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.80%) NCSC
10 8 (1.44%) ISO 9001
11 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.90%) DICOM
13 4 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.54%) SLA
15 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
16 1 (0.18%) COBIT
16 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 91 (16.37%) Docker
2 20 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.52%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.44%) Squid
4 8 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.44%) vSphere
5 6 (1.08%) KVM
6 4 (0.72%) iptables
7 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (22.66%) Terraform
2 84 (15.11%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.25%) Ansible
4 39 (7.01%) Prometheus
5 30 (5.40%) HP Fortify
6 28 (5.04%) Grafana
7 20 (3.60%) Argo
8 18 (3.24%) Kustomize
9 13 (2.34%) Cilium
10 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.62%) Packer
12 8 (1.44%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.44%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.08%) Puppet
15 2 (0.36%) QRadar
16 1 (0.18%) Consul
16 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
16 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 289 (51.98%) Microsoft
2 92 (16.55%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.29%) Google
4 31 (5.58%) Apple
5 30 (5.40%) Adobe
5 30 (5.40%) VMware
6 18 (3.24%) Oracle
7 17 (3.06%) Databricks
7 17 (3.06%) Splunk
8 15 (2.70%) Cisco
9 11 (1.98%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.62%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.44%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.44%) SAP
12 5 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.72%) OpenText
13 4 (0.72%) Pega
13 4 (0.72%) YouTube
14 3 (0.54%) Infor