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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 290 468
Rank change year-on-year -15 +178 -316
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 562 482 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.08% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.09% 2.78% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 301 140 318
10th Percentile - £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £53,079 £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 £63,750 £92,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 18,191 17,314 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 38.84% 25.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,561 7,341 17,226
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,584
90th Percentile £92,988 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,945 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.96% +1.89% -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 16 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 16 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 -37 510 £37,500 -46.43% 315
UK excluding London -22 342 £37,500 -42.31% 251
Work from Home -63 187 £62,500 -3.85% 95
London -19 183 £57,500 -26.98% 107
North of England -48 160 £37,500 -42.31% 66
Yorkshire +25 74 £37,500 -42.31% 25
North West -69 69 £37,500 -33.33% 32
Midlands +16 57 £37,500 -36.81% 33
West Midlands +1 51 £37,500 -36.81% 15
South West -50 40 £51,250 -9.68% 37
South East +1 35 £62,500 -20.13% 66
North East -30 17 £37,500 -21.05% 10
Scotland +16 16 £31,000 -40.95% 10
East of England -8 15 £37,500 -55.88% 32
Northern Ireland -23 10 £39,000 - 3
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 8
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 18

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 (9.61%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.83%) WordPress
3 16 (2.85%) Confluence
4 9 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.07%) Apache
7 4 (0.71%) Documentum
8 3 (0.53%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 63 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.79%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.27%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 562 (100.00%) AWS
2 264 (46.98%) Azure
3 149 (26.51%) GitHub
4 92 (16.37%) GCP
5 84 (14.95%) Serverless
6 83 (14.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (13.88%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (12.46%) Amazon S3
8 70 (12.46%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (10.68%) Cloud Computing
10 51 (9.07%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (6.41%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (5.69%) Amazon ECR
15 28 (4.98%) Apigee
16 26 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 23 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (3.20%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 112 (19.93%) Internet
2 34 (6.05%) Network Security
3 33 (5.87%) Firewall
4 20 (3.56%) VPN
5 18 (3.20%) Broadband
6 15 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.49%) WAN
8 13 (2.31%) SD-WAN
9 12 (2.14%) LAN
10 10 (1.78%) DNS
11 9 (1.60%) DHCP
12 8 (1.42%) IPv4
12 8 (1.42%) TCP/IP
12 8 (1.42%) Wireless
13 5 (0.89%) VLAN
14 4 (0.71%) 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 46 (8.19%) NoSQL
2 39 (6.94%) DynamoDB
3 29 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.74%) Metadata
5 18 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.20%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.89%) Power BI
10 4 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.71%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.53%) Big Data
11 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 2 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 127 (22.60%) Git
2 68 (12.10%) GitLab
3 56 (9.96%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.16%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.16%) Maven
6 28 (4.98%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.27%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.20%) Jaeger
8 18 (3.20%) JIRA
8 18 (3.20%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.49%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.53%) MLflow
10 3 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.18%) Gatling
12 1 (0.18%) JMeter
12 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 151 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.71%) Finance
3 112 (19.93%) Multimedia
4 76 (13.52%) Retail
5 62 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (10.50%) Manufacturing
7 41 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (6.94%) French Language
9 35 (6.23%) Banking
10 25 (4.45%) Financial Institution
11 24 (4.27%) Swedish Language
12 17 (3.02%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.78%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.42%) Advertising
15 7 (1.25%) Legal
15 7 (1.25%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.71%) Automotive
16 4 (0.71%) Billing
16 4 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 163 (29.00%) Trainee
2 98 (17.44%) Analyst
3 86 (15.30%) Developer
4 84 (14.95%) Architect
5 76 (13.52%) Senior
6 63 (11.21%) Service Analyst
6 63 (11.21%) Service Desk Analyst
7 51 (9.07%) Administrator
7 51 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.07%) Programmer
7 51 (9.07%) Trainee Programmer
8 45 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (7.65%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.65%) Web Administrator
10 41 (7.30%) Trainee Developer
11 37 (6.58%) Software Developer
12 36 (6.41%) Trainee Software Developer
13 35 (6.23%) Lead
14 27 (4.80%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (20.28%) CSS
1 114 (20.28%) HTML
2 59 (10.50%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.61%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.61%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.61%) NumPy
3 54 (9.61%) Pandas
3 54 (9.61%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.61%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.69%) AngularJS
5 29 (5.16%) Jest
5 29 (5.16%) Spring
6 28 (4.98%) Gherkin
7 26 (4.63%) Kafka
8 19 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.38%) React
9 18 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (2.14%) Node.js
11 10 (1.78%) .NET
11 10 (1.78%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.21%) Algorithms
3 37 (6.58%) Public Cloud
4 29 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.16%) PKI
5 28 (4.98%) e-Learning
6 27 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.85%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.07%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.89%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.89%) PACS
12 5 (0.89%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.53%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (10.14%) Linux
2 35 (6.23%) Windows
3 20 (3.56%) Unix
4 17 (3.02%) 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
1 156 (27.76%) Mentoring
2 155 (27.58%) Agile
3 153 (27.22%) CI/CD
4 140 (24.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (22.24%) Cybersecurity
6 123 (21.89%) AI
7 119 (21.17%) Customer Service
8 117 (20.82%) ITIL
9 100 (17.79%) DevOps
10 71 (12.63%) Machine Learning
11 66 (11.74%) ITSM
12 63 (11.21%) Data Privacy
12 63 (11.21%) Performance Metrics
13 62 (11.03%) LLM
14 61 (10.85%) Cloud Security
15 59 (10.50%) Microservices
15 59 (10.50%) Visualisation
16 58 (10.32%) OO
17 57 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (10.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 269 (47.86%) Python
2 149 (26.51%) JavaScript
3 101 (17.97%) Java
4 75 (13.35%) Bash
5 71 (12.63%) R
6 45 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 41 (7.30%) SQL
8 38 (6.76%) Go
9 29 (5.16%) Groovy
10 26 (4.63%) PowerShell
11 19 (3.38%) C#
12 10 (1.78%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.25%) C++
14 6 (1.07%) Ruby
15 5 (0.89%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.71%) Bicep
17 2 (0.36%) COBOL
18 1 (0.18%) C
18 1 (0.18%) Natural
18 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 208 (37.01%) Azure Certification
2 196 (34.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 182 (32.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 120 (21.35%) Degree
5 98 (17.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 64 (11.39%) Security Cleared
7 63 (11.21%) MCSE
8 43 (7.65%) SC Cleared
9 30 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.09%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (3.20%) CISSP
12 18 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (2.67%) CISM
14 13 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
14 13 (2.31%) CCNA
15 12 (2.14%) CCNP
16 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.57%) QA
2 37 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.74%) NIST
4 17 (3.02%) SOC 2
5 13 (2.31%) GDPR
5 13 (2.31%) GRC
6 12 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.96%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.96%) NCSC
8 8 (1.42%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.89%) DICOM
10 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.36%) SLA
12 1 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 95 (16.90%) Docker
2 19 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.42%) Squid
4 8 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.42%) vSphere
5 5 (0.89%) KVM
6 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.71%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 121 (21.53%) Terraform
2 85 (15.12%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.96%) Ansible
4 39 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 32 (5.69%) HP Fortify
6 26 (4.63%) Grafana
7 21 (3.74%) Argo
8 18 (3.20%) Kustomize
9 13 (2.31%) Cilium
10 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.60%) Packer
11 8 (1.42%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.42%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.89%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.89%) Puppet
14 2 (0.36%) QRadar
15 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.18%) Consul
15 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 309 (54.98%) Microsoft
2 92 (16.37%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.23%) Google
4 31 (5.52%) Apple
5 30 (5.34%) Adobe
6 29 (5.16%) VMware
7 17 (3.02%) Splunk
8 16 (2.85%) Oracle
9 15 (2.67%) Databricks
10 14 (2.49%) Cisco
11 10 (1.78%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.60%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.42%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (0.71%) OpenText
15 4 (0.71%) Pega
15 4 (0.71%) SAP
15 4 (0.71%) YouTube
16 3 (0.53%) Informatica