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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 432 382
Rank change year-on-year +231 -50 -117
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 726 321 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 0.56% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.67% 1.64% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 430 154 225
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,069 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,800 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.93% -12.43% -4.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -22.22% -6.90%

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 19,774 19,632 15,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.67% 34.24% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,873 8,079 10,606
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,269 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +1.34% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,122 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.51% +4.76% +5.00%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +223 627 £31,250 -48.35% 462
UK excluding London +204 435 £30,500 -41.90% 467
Work from Home +170 277 £75,000 +25.00% 199
London +122 218 £73,750 -14.49% 106
North of England +128 190 £30,500 -32.22% 122
Yorkshire +49 108 £30,500 -32.22% 46
South East +68 69 £47,500 -10.46% 118
North West +81 62 £30,500 -41.90% 62
Midlands +51 52 £30,500 -49.00% 87
West Midlands +54 43 £30,500 -52.79% 52
Scotland +20 36 £30,500 -52.16% 24
East of England +38 30 £45,000 -16.28% 58
Northern Ireland +21 29 - - 7
South West +29 27 £30,500 -52.16% 30
North East +22 20 £30,500 -32.22% 16
East Midlands 0 9 £51,058 -7.17% 34
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 (4.68%) WordPress
2 17 (2.34%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.34%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.20%) WebSphere Application Server
4 15 (2.07%) Confluence
5 10 (1.38%) nginx
6 9 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.69%) Drupal
9 3 (0.41%) Apache
9 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 129 (17.77%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.28%) Weka
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 726 (100.00%) AWS
2 454 (62.53%) Azure
3 249 (34.30%) GitHub
4 161 (22.18%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (13.36%) Serverless
6 85 (11.71%) GCP
7 75 (10.33%) Amazon S3
8 72 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (4.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 32 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (4.13%) AWS Step Functions
15 29 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (3.17%) SaaS
17 18 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 225 (30.99%) Internet
2 43 (5.92%) Firewall
3 31 (4.27%) VPN
4 28 (3.86%) DNS
5 24 (3.31%) Remote Desktop
6 22 (3.03%) WAN
7 19 (2.62%) SSL
8 17 (2.34%) Network Security
9 16 (2.20%) LAN
9 16 (2.20%) SD-WAN
10 15 (2.07%) VoIP
11 14 (1.93%) TCP/IP
11 14 (1.93%) VLAN
12 13 (1.79%) DHCP
13 12 (1.65%) HTTP
13 12 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (1.52%) FTP
14 11 (1.52%) SMTP
14 11 (1.52%) SSH
15 7 (0.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.37%) Data Lake
2 35 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.68%) DynamoDB
3 34 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (3.86%) Metadata
5 23 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.34%) DB2
8 16 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.83%) MySQL
12 5 (0.69%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.41%) Big Data
13 3 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.28%) Power BI
14 2 (0.28%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.28%) Relational Database
15 1 (0.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 250 (34.44%) Git
2 49 (6.75%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.99%) GitLab
4 22 (3.03%) JIRA
5 12 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.52%) Vagrant
7 8 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.96%) Maven
8 7 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.69%) Vite
10 4 (0.55%) Gatling
10 4 (0.55%) JMeter
10 4 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.41%) Selenium
12 2 (0.28%) Subversion
13 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
13 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
General
1 271 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 225 (30.99%) Multimedia
3 129 (17.77%) French Language
4 119 (16.39%) Swedish Language
5 111 (15.29%) Finance
6 60 (8.26%) Banking
7 49 (6.75%) Financial Institution
8 47 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (4.68%) Public Sector
11 29 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (3.72%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.93%) Retail
14 13 (1.79%) Law
15 10 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.10%) Publishing
16 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.96%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.69%) Local Government
18 5 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 225 (30.99%) Trainee
2 145 (19.97%) Analyst
3 129 (17.77%) Developer
3 129 (17.77%) Service Analyst
3 129 (17.77%) Service Desk Analyst
4 112 (15.43%) Architect
5 105 (14.46%) Trainee Developer
6 96 (13.22%) Software Developer
6 96 (13.22%) Trainee Software Developer
7 84 (11.57%) Senior
8 32 (4.41%) Administrator
8 32 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 29 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
9 29 (3.99%) Trainee Administrator
9 29 (3.99%) Web Administrator
10 28 (3.86%) Data Architect
11 27 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.31%) Lead
12 24 (3.31%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
13 22 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (30.99%) CSS
1 225 (30.99%) HTML
2 31 (4.27%) React
3 21 (2.89%) LDAP
4 20 (2.75%) Spring Boot
5 17 (2.34%) AWS CDK
6 16 (2.20%) .NET
6 16 (2.20%) LAPP Stack
6 16 (2.20%) WebSphere MQ
7 15 (2.07%) RESTful
8 14 (1.93%) Spring
9 12 (1.65%) Jest
10 10 (1.38%) .NET Core
10 10 (1.38%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (1.38%) Blazor
11 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.24%) Kafka
11 9 (1.24%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (1.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (3.58%) Public Cloud
4 24 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.93%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.38%) PKI
10 9 (1.24%) Replication
10 9 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.96%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.69%) Blog
13 5 (0.69%) Clustering
13 5 (0.69%) Social Media
14 4 (0.55%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (11.43%) Windows
2 74 (10.19%) Linux
3 29 (3.99%) Unix
4 24 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.52%) VMS
6 9 (1.24%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.28%) Debian
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (38.57%) Mentoring
2 242 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (27.69%) ITIL
4 141 (19.42%) ITSM
5 130 (17.91%) Agile
6 126 (17.36%) DevOps
7 122 (16.80%) CI/CD
8 116 (15.98%) Customer Service
9 110 (15.15%) Performance Metrics
10 96 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (9.50%) Migration
12 68 (9.37%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (9.09%) Microservices
14 63 (8.68%) TOGAF
15 61 (8.40%) Containerisation
16 60 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (8.13%) Cloud Security
18 56 (7.71%) Computer Science
19 55 (7.58%) Data Modelling
20 49 (6.75%) AI
Programming Languages
1 354 (48.76%) Python
2 264 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 120 (16.53%) R
4 72 (9.92%) Java
5 47 (6.47%) TypeScript
6 45 (6.20%) Bash
7 43 (5.92%) PowerShell
8 41 (5.65%) SQL
9 38 (5.23%) C#
10 18 (2.48%) Groovy
11 10 (1.38%) Bicep
12 6 (0.83%) Go
12 6 (0.83%) Perl
13 4 (0.55%) C++
13 4 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Ruby
14 2 (0.28%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 393 (54.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 384 (52.89%) Azure Certification
3 231 (31.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 220 (30.30%) Degree
5 129 (17.77%) MCSE
6 114 (15.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 65 (8.95%) Security Cleared
8 56 (7.71%) SC Cleared
9 41 (5.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 40 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (3.86%) AWS Certified Developer
12 26 (3.58%) A+ Certification
12 26 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (3.58%) ITIL Certification
13 22 (3.03%) CISSP
14 18 (2.48%) Master's Degree
15 15 (2.07%) CCNP
16 13 (1.79%) CISM
17 12 (1.65%) DV Cleared
18 9 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (16.39%) QA
2 32 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (4.41%) NIST
3 24 (3.31%) GDPR
4 23 (3.17%) SLA
5 11 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.24%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.69%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.69%) NCSC
9 4 (0.55%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) GxP
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) GAAP
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (11.43%) Docker
2 50 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.72%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.07%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.24%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.83%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.83%) KVM
6 6 (0.83%) Postfix
7 5 (0.69%) Squid
7 5 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (0.69%) vSphere
8 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) iptables
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (11.85%) Terraform
2 73 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.68%) Ansible
4 29 (3.99%) Grafana
5 16 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.10%) Nessus
6 8 (1.10%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.96%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.83%) Autotask
9 4 (0.55%) Argo
9 4 (0.55%) Cilium
9 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.28%) Nagios
10 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.28%) SCOM
10 2 (0.28%) WSUS
11 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 465 (64.05%) Microsoft
2 150 (20.66%) ServiceNow
3 52 (7.16%) VMware
4 27 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.03%) Google
5 22 (3.03%) IBM
6 17 (2.34%) Cisco
6 17 (2.34%) SAP
7 11 (1.52%) Adobe
7 11 (1.52%) Apple
8 8 (1.10%) Ariba
8 8 (1.10%) Workday
9 7 (0.96%) Oracle
10 5 (0.69%) Datto
10 5 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.69%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.69%) Symantec
11 4 (0.55%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.41%) Databricks
12 3 (0.41%) OpenAI