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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 371 415
Rank change year-on-year +173 +44 -266
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 823 329 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 0.71% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.02% 1.83% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 490 161 292
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% -

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 20,449 17,982 22,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.26% 38.83% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,186 7,519 15,764
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,978 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,781 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +177 712 £31,000 -52.01% 421
UK excluding London +211 513 £30,500 -41.90% 430
Work from Home +117 280 £75,000 +25.00% 56
North of England +122 250 £30,500 -34.41% 119
London +77 225 £57,500 -34.29% 96
Yorkshire +42 140 £30,500 -32.22% 51
North West +55 81 £30,500 -39.00% 52
South East +42 60 £62,500 +3.31% 84
Midlands +28 56 £30,500 -49.00% 74
West Midlands +34 45 £30,500 -52.79% 26
Scotland +20 43 £30,500 -41.90% 31
South West +20 39 £30,500 -35.79% 50
Northern Ireland +1 33 - - 6
North East +12 29 £30,500 -32.22% 22
East of England +23 28 £62,500 +16.28% 44
East Midlands -18 11 £51,058 -7.17% 45
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 36

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 50 (6.08%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.13%) WordPress
3 10 (1.22%) Tomcat
3 10 (1.22%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (0.97%) Confluence
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%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.20%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 823 (100.00%) AWS
2 458 (55.65%) Azure
3 285 (34.63%) GitHub
4 168 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (14.09%) Serverless
6 86 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 82 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (9.84%) GCP
9 77 (9.36%) Amazon S3
10 56 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.22%) AWS Step Functions
12 42 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
17 29 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (2.92%) Apigee
19 21 (2.55%) Entra ID
20 19 (2.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 256 (31.11%) Internet
2 28 (3.40%) Firewall
3 26 (3.16%) VPN
4 22 (2.67%) Broadband
5 19 (2.31%) Network Security
6 18 (2.19%) Remote Desktop
7 12 (1.46%) SSL
8 10 (1.22%) WAN
9 9 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.09%) VLAN
10 7 (0.85%) DNS
10 7 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.73%) DHCP
11 6 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.61%) VoIP
13 4 (0.49%) BGP
13 4 (0.49%) LAN
13 4 (0.49%) OSPF
14 3 (0.36%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.35%) DynamoDB
2 41 (4.98%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.25%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.65%) Metadata
5 24 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.43%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.19%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.22%) DB2
11 9 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.49%) Big Data
14 3 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
16 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 275 (33.41%) Git
2 50 (6.08%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 41 (4.98%) GitLab
5 26 (3.16%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.92%) Maven
6 24 (2.92%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.31%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.70%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.34%) JIRA
10 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.49%) MLflow
13 2 (0.24%) Selenium
13 2 (0.24%) Vite
14 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 276 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 256 (31.11%) Multimedia
3 152 (18.47%) Finance
4 138 (16.77%) French Language
5 109 (13.24%) Swedish Language
6 71 (8.63%) Retail
7 64 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (6.44%) Manufacturing
9 52 (6.32%) Banking
10 49 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (5.95%) Financial Institution
11 26 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 22 (2.67%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.46%) Law
15 11 (1.34%) Publishing
16 9 (1.09%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.73%) Legal
18 5 (0.61%) Local Government
18 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 306 (37.18%) Trainee
2 161 (19.56%) Analyst
3 160 (19.44%) Developer
4 138 (16.77%) Service Analyst
4 138 (16.77%) Service Desk Analyst
5 122 (14.82%) Trainee Developer
6 117 (14.22%) Architect
7 113 (13.73%) Software Developer
7 113 (13.73%) Trainee Software Developer
8 64 (7.78%) Senior
9 50 (6.08%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 50 (6.08%) Programmer
9 50 (6.08%) Trainee Programmer
10 42 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.74%) Lead
12 36 (4.37%) Administrator
13 30 (3.65%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.52%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.52%) Web Administrator
15 21 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (31.11%) CSS
1 256 (31.11%) HTML
2 52 (6.32%) NumPy
2 52 (6.32%) Pandas
3 51 (6.20%) Hugging Face
4 50 (6.08%) Matplotlib
4 50 (6.08%) scikit-learn
4 50 (6.08%) Streamlit
5 35 (4.25%) Spring Boot
6 27 (3.28%) React
7 26 (3.16%) Jest
8 25 (3.04%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.92%) Gherkin
10 19 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
11 18 (2.19%) .NET
12 17 (2.07%) AWS CDK
13 15 (1.82%) RESTful
14 14 (1.70%) Kafka
15 12 (1.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.44%) Algorithms
3 42 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (4.50%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.67%) PKI
6 20 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.46%) e-Learning
8 12 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.97%) Private Cloud
10 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) PACS
12 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (8.38%) Linux
2 49 (5.95%) Windows
3 40 (4.86%) Unix
4 15 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.25%) Mentoring
2 277 (33.66%) Cybersecurity
3 203 (24.67%) ITIL
4 178 (21.63%) Customer Service
5 156 (18.96%) Agile
6 144 (17.50%) ITSM
7 133 (16.16%) DevOps
8 131 (15.92%) CI/CD
9 123 (14.95%) Performance Metrics
10 121 (14.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 115 (13.97%) AI
12 77 (9.36%) Migration
13 73 (8.87%) Data Privacy
14 72 (8.75%) Machine Learning
15 68 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
16 66 (8.02%) Microservices
17 65 (7.90%) Computer Science
18 64 (7.78%) TOGAF
19 63 (7.65%) Containerisation
20 59 (7.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 432 (52.49%) Python
2 314 (38.15%) JavaScript
3 134 (16.28%) R
4 92 (11.18%) Java
5 74 (8.99%) Bash
6 58 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.50%) C#
8 32 (3.89%) SQL
9 30 (3.65%) Go
10 29 (3.52%) PowerShell
11 24 (2.92%) Groovy
12 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.97%) Bicep
14 7 (0.85%) C++
15 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.12%) C
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 432 (52.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 394 (47.87%) Azure Certification
3 316 (38.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 215 (26.12%) Degree
5 138 (16.77%) MCSE
6 111 (13.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 53 (6.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 51 (6.20%) Security Cleared
9 43 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (4.62%) SC Cleared
11 32 (3.89%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (3.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (2.79%) CISSP
14 21 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.43%) A+ Certification
16 17 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (2.07%) CISM
17 13 (1.58%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.09%) DV Cleared
19 8 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.43%) QA
2 35 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.04%) NIST
4 18 (2.19%) GDPR
5 17 (2.07%) SLA
6 15 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
8 10 (1.22%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.97%) GRC
11 7 (0.85%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.61%) DICOM
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.24%) GxP
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) Basel III
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 108 (13.12%) Docker
2 40 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) iptables
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 111 (13.49%) Terraform
2 79 (9.60%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.83%) Ansible
4 38 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.89%) Grafana
6 28 (3.40%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.43%) Argo
8 19 (2.31%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.22%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.97%) Cilium
10 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.49%) Puppet
13 3 (0.36%) Nessus
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 541 (65.74%) Microsoft
2 149 (18.10%) ServiceNow
3 49 (5.95%) VMware
4 38 (4.62%) Google
5 17 (2.07%) Adobe
5 17 (2.07%) Apple
6 15 (1.82%) IBM
6 15 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.70%) SAP
8 11 (1.34%) Workday
9 10 (1.22%) Cisco
9 10 (1.22%) Databricks
10 5 (0.61%) Symantec
10 5 (0.61%) YouTube
11 4 (0.49%) OpenText
11 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.49%) Pega
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle
12 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.24%) Ariba