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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 293 450
Rank change year-on-year -1 +157 -292
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 595 471 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.08% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.96% 2.72% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 316 134 322
10th Percentile - £44,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,860 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £94,688 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,695 £99,625 £101,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -38.02% -13.57% -

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 20,094 17,307 26,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 39.62% 25.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,326 7,224 17,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.91% +1.93% -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 4 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 4 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 -12 538 £37,500 -48.28% 291
UK excluding London +1 370 £37,500 -38.02% 212
Work from Home -44 197 £62,500 -8.79% 103
London -12 182 £55,000 -33.33% 111
North of England -44 179 £37,500 -42.31% 57
Yorkshire +30 86 £37,500 -44.44% 20
North West -68 74 £37,500 -40.00% 28
Midlands -5 61 £35,000 -34.81% 29
West Midlands -5 55 £35,000 -34.81% 17
South East +2 39 £62,500 -14.38% 50
South West -48 36 £42,250 -25.54% 30
Scotland +28 21 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -18 19 £37,500 -21.05% 9
East of England -14 17 £56,250 -33.82% 25
Northern Ireland -27 12 £39,000 - 4
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 12
Wales - 5 £51,619 - 9

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 (9.08%) Jupyter
2 46 (7.73%) WordPress
3 15 (2.52%) Confluence
4 10 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.01%) Apache
7 4 (0.67%) Documentum
8 3 (0.50%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 65 (10.92%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.24%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
4 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (4.03%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 595 (100.00%) AWS
2 302 (50.76%) Azure
3 165 (27.73%) GitHub
4 91 (15.29%) GCP
5 90 (15.13%) Serverless
6 81 (13.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 81 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
7 72 (12.10%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (11.93%) Amazon S3
9 61 (10.25%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (6.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (5.55%) Amazon ECR
13 33 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (4.87%) Apigee
16 23 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 134 (22.52%) Internet
2 30 (5.04%) Firewall
3 29 (4.87%) Network Security
4 19 (3.19%) VPN
5 18 (3.03%) Broadband
6 14 (2.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.68%) WAN
8 9 (1.51%) LAN
8 9 (1.51%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.34%) IPv4
10 7 (1.18%) Wireless
11 5 (0.84%) DNS
12 4 (0.67%) DHCP
12 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.50%) VLAN
14 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
15 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
15 1 (0.17%) OSPF
15 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.07%) NoSQL
2 43 (7.23%) DynamoDB
3 27 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.53%) Metadata
5 18 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.84%) Power BI
10 3 (0.50%) Big Data
10 3 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.34%) GIS
11 2 (0.34%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.34%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.17%) Flink
Development Applications
1 149 (25.04%) Git
2 66 (11.09%) GitLab
3 54 (9.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 53 (8.91%) Jenkins
5 30 (5.04%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.04%) Maven
6 29 (4.87%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.87%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.03%) Jaeger
8 18 (3.03%) TeamCity
9 16 (2.69%) JIRA
10 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.67%) MLflow
12 3 (0.50%) Selenium
13 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 166 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 134 (22.52%) Multimedia
3 121 (20.34%) Finance
4 74 (12.44%) Retail
5 71 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (9.92%) Manufacturing
7 49 (8.24%) French Language
8 41 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.88%) Banking
10 24 (4.03%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.69%) Swedish Language
12 13 (2.18%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.34%) Advertising
14 8 (1.34%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Legal
16 5 (0.84%) Publishing
17 4 (0.67%) Automotive
17 4 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 185 (31.09%) Trainee
2 108 (18.15%) Analyst
3 99 (16.64%) Developer
4 84 (14.12%) Architect
5 74 (12.44%) Senior
6 65 (10.92%) Service Analyst
6 65 (10.92%) Service Desk Analyst
7 53 (8.91%) Administrator
8 51 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.57%) Programmer
8 51 (8.57%) Trainee Programmer
9 50 (8.40%) Trainee Developer
10 46 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (7.56%) Trainee Administrator
11 45 (7.56%) Web Administrator
12 42 (7.06%) Software Developer
13 41 (6.89%) Trainee Software Developer
14 33 (5.55%) Lead
15 28 (4.71%) Java Developer
16 26 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (22.86%) CSS
1 136 (22.86%) HTML
2 55 (9.24%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.08%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.08%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.08%) NumPy
3 54 (9.08%) Pandas
3 54 (9.08%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.08%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.38%) AngularJS
5 30 (5.04%) Jest
6 29 (4.87%) Gherkin
7 26 (4.37%) Spring
8 25 (4.20%) Kafka
9 24 (4.03%) React
10 18 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
11 14 (2.35%) .NET
12 12 (2.02%) AWS CDK
13 9 (1.51%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.59%) Algorithms
3 45 (7.56%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (4.54%) e-Learning
5 27 (4.54%) PKI
6 26 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (3.03%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.18%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.34%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.84%) PACS
12 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.50%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.75%) Linux
2 35 (5.88%) Windows
3 22 (3.70%) Unix
4 17 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (29.58%) Mentoring
2 155 (26.05%) Agile
3 151 (25.38%) CI/CD
3 151 (25.38%) Cybersecurity
4 138 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (21.18%) AI
6 124 (20.84%) Customer Service
7 121 (20.34%) ITIL
8 104 (17.48%) DevOps
9 67 (11.26%) ITSM
9 67 (11.26%) Machine Learning
10 65 (10.92%) Performance Metrics
11 64 (10.76%) Cost Optimisation
11 64 (10.76%) Data Privacy
12 61 (10.25%) LLM
13 59 (9.92%) Microservices
13 59 (9.92%) OO
13 59 (9.92%) Visualisation
14 57 (9.58%) Workflow
15 56 (9.41%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 291 (48.91%) Python
2 175 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 102 (17.14%) Java
4 84 (14.12%) R
5 74 (12.44%) Bash
6 49 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 40 (6.72%) SQL
8 36 (6.05%) Go
9 30 (5.04%) Groovy
10 25 (4.20%) PowerShell
11 24 (4.03%) C#
12 11 (1.85%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.34%) C++
14 6 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.50%) Bicep
15 3 (0.50%) Ruby
16 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.17%) C
16 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 233 (39.16%) Azure Certification
2 222 (37.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 203 (34.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 127 (21.34%) Degree
5 99 (16.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.92%) MCSE
7 62 (10.42%) Security Cleared
8 40 (6.72%) SC Cleared
9 29 (4.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (4.37%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (4.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
14 17 (2.86%) CISSP
15 14 (2.35%) CISM
16 11 (1.85%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.68%) CCNA
18 9 (1.51%) OSCP
18 9 (1.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.43%) QA
2 34 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.03%) NIST
4 15 (2.52%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.02%) GRC
6 11 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.68%) GDPR
8 8 (1.34%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.34%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.34%) NCSC
9 5 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.84%) DICOM
10 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) COBIT
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 101 (16.97%) Docker
2 21 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.52%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.51%) vSphere
5 8 (1.34%) Squid
5 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.01%) KVM
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) iptables
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 120 (20.17%) Terraform
2 85 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.24%) Ansible
4 38 (6.39%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.55%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.54%) Grafana
7 21 (3.53%) Argo
8 18 (3.03%) Kustomize
9 12 (2.02%) Cilium
10 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.51%) Packer
11 8 (1.34%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.84%) Puppet
14 2 (0.34%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Consul
15 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 343 (57.65%) Microsoft
2 93 (15.63%) ServiceNow
3 38 (6.39%) Adobe
3 38 (6.39%) Apple
4 35 (5.88%) Google
5 30 (5.04%) VMware
6 16 (2.69%) Databricks
7 15 (2.52%) Splunk
8 12 (2.02%) Cisco
8 12 (2.02%) Oracle
9 10 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.18%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.18%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.18%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.84%) SAP
11 5 (0.84%) Workday
12 4 (0.67%) OpenText
12 4 (0.67%) Pega
12 4 (0.67%) YouTube