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 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 326 441
Rank change year-on-year +74 +115 -271
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 663 396 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.91% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.96% 2.28% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 387 165 309
10th Percentile - £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,640 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £55,873 £70,000
% change year-on-year -43.62% -20.18% -

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 22,361 17,399 25,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.67% 40.06% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,944 7,660 17,218
10th Percentile £28,825 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +2.75% -7.19%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.30% +4.00% -1.96%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +58 599 £37,500 -45.86% 270
UK excluding London +64 422 £31,500 -43.62% 241
North of England +1 224 £30,500 -41.90% 68
Work from Home -18 198 £68,750 +14.58% 84
London +12 188 £55,000 -35.29% 83
Yorkshire +41 116 £31,000 -40.95% 26
North West -45 85 £30,750 -46.52% 29
Midlands +21 66 £31,500 -41.33% 37
West Midlands +14 58 £31,000 -42.26% 16
South East -11 37 £62,500 -19.09% 53
South West -42 33 £37,500 -33.91% 32
Scotland +18 27 £30,500 -41.90% 18
North East -13 23 £30,500 -39.00% 13
East of England -1 20 £41,250 -36.54% 22
Northern Ireland -22 13 £35,000 - 4
East Midlands - 8 £31,500 - 21
Wales - 2 £41,310 - 10

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 60 (9.05%) WordPress
2 54 (8.14%) Jupyter
3 12 (1.81%) Confluence
4 9 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.90%) Apache
5 6 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.75%) Drupal
6 5 (0.75%) nginx
7 4 (0.60%) Documentum
8 3 (0.45%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (9.95%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.30%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.30%) Weka
5 1 (0.15%) Maya
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (3.02%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 663 (100.00%) AWS
2 368 (55.51%) Azure
3 223 (33.63%) GitHub
4 97 (14.63%) Serverless
5 92 (13.88%) GCP
6 85 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (12.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (10.86%) Amazon S3
10 60 (9.05%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (6.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (5.58%) Amazon ECR
14 34 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.98%) Apigee
16 32 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.87%) Pulumi
18 18 (2.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 200 (30.17%) Internet
2 27 (4.07%) Firewall
3 22 (3.32%) Network Security
4 19 (2.87%) Broadband
5 18 (2.71%) VPN
6 10 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.51%) WAN
7 9 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.21%) LAN
9 6 (0.90%) Wireless
10 5 (0.75%) IPv4
11 4 (0.60%) DNS
12 3 (0.45%) DHCP
12 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.30%) BGP
13 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
13 2 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (0.30%) OSPF
14 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
14 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.24%) DynamoDB
2 42 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 24 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.47%) Data Lake
4 23 (3.47%) Metadata
5 20 (3.02%) RDBMS
5 20 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.90%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.75%) Power BI
11 4 (0.60%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.45%) Big Data
12 3 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.30%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.15%) Flink
14 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 216 (32.58%) Git
2 58 (8.75%) GitLab
3 54 (8.14%) Visual Studio Code
4 53 (7.99%) Jenkins
5 33 (4.98%) Cypress.io
5 33 (4.98%) Maven
5 33 (4.98%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.87%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 16 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.11%) JIRA
9 10 (1.51%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.60%) MLflow
11 3 (0.45%) Selenium
12 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.15%) Gatling
12 1 (0.15%) JMeter
12 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 200 (30.17%) Multimedia
2 182 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 126 (19.00%) Finance
4 73 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (10.56%) Retail
6 61 (9.20%) Manufacturing
7 58 (8.75%) French Language
8 43 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.28%) Banking
10 28 (4.22%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.56%) Swedish Language
13 12 (1.81%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.21%) Advertising
14 8 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.06%) Law
15 7 (1.06%) Legal
16 5 (0.75%) Electronics
16 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 251 (37.86%) Trainee
2 131 (19.76%) Developer
3 107 (16.14%) Analyst
4 92 (13.88%) Architect
5 83 (12.52%) Trainee Developer
6 71 (10.71%) Software Developer
7 70 (10.56%) Trainee Software Developer
8 66 (9.95%) Service Analyst
8 66 (9.95%) Service Desk Analyst
9 63 (9.50%) Administrator
10 61 (9.20%) Senior
11 55 (8.30%) Trainee Administrator
11 55 (8.30%) Web Administrator
12 51 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 51 (7.69%) Programmer
12 51 (7.69%) Trainee Programmer
13 41 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
14 39 (5.88%) Lead
15 28 (4.22%) Java Developer
16 23 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (30.32%) CSS
1 201 (30.32%) HTML
2 54 (8.14%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.14%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.14%) NumPy
2 54 (8.14%) Pandas
2 54 (8.14%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.14%) Streamlit
3 48 (7.24%) Spring Boot
4 34 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.98%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.98%) Jest
6 28 (4.22%) React
7 19 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.56%) Kafka
9 16 (2.41%) Spring
10 15 (2.26%) .NET
10 15 (2.26%) AWS CDK
11 13 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.05%) Algorithms
1 60 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 33 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (3.62%) PKI
5 22 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.02%) e-Learning
7 16 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.36%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.75%) Clustering
10 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.75%) PACS
10 5 (0.75%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.35%) Linux
2 31 (4.68%) Windows
3 27 (4.07%) Unix
4 10 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (34.99%) Mentoring
2 208 (31.37%) Cybersecurity
3 155 (23.38%) Agile
4 135 (20.36%) CI/CD
5 130 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 127 (19.16%) Customer Service
7 125 (18.85%) AI
8 119 (17.95%) ITIL
9 118 (17.80%) DevOps
10 70 (10.56%) ITSM
11 68 (10.26%) Data Privacy
11 68 (10.26%) Web Development
12 67 (10.11%) Machine Learning
13 66 (9.95%) Performance Metrics
14 64 (9.65%) Cost Optimisation
14 64 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (9.35%) Containerisation
15 62 (9.35%) Migration
16 60 (9.05%) Visualisation
17 59 (8.90%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 359 (54.15%) Python
2 248 (37.41%) JavaScript
3 117 (17.65%) R
4 101 (15.23%) Java
5 79 (11.92%) Bash
6 55 (8.30%) TypeScript
7 34 (5.13%) SQL
8 33 (4.98%) Groovy
9 32 (4.83%) Go
10 27 (4.07%) C#
11 22 (3.32%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.51%) C++
14 8 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.45%) Bicep
16 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.15%) PHP
16 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 299 (45.10%) Azure Certification
2 292 (44.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 269 (40.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 124 (18.70%) Degree
5 100 (15.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 66 (9.95%) MCSE
7 62 (9.35%) Security Cleared
8 39 (5.88%) SC Cleared
9 31 (4.68%) ITIL Certification
9 31 (4.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (4.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (3.62%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (2.71%) CISSP
15 15 (2.26%) CISM
16 11 (1.66%) DV Cleared
17 10 (1.51%) Master's Degree
18 8 (1.21%) CCNP
19 7 (1.06%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.56%) QA
2 26 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.87%) NIST
4 12 (1.81%) GDPR
4 12 (1.81%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.81%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.36%) NCSC
6 8 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.21%) GRC
7 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.90%) SLA
8 5 (0.75%) DICOM
9 4 (0.60%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.30%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.30%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 109 (16.44%) Docker
2 23 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.21%) KVM
5 7 (1.06%) vSphere
6 5 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.75%) Squid
6 5 (0.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.60%) iptables
Systems Management
1 117 (17.65%) Terraform
2 78 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 54 (8.14%) Ansible
4 38 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.58%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.37%) Grafana
7 20 (3.02%) Argo
8 19 (2.87%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.21%) Cilium
10 8 (1.21%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.90%) Packer
12 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.75%) Puppet
12 5 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.75%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.15%) Consul
13 1 (0.15%) QRadar
13 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 414 (62.44%) Microsoft
2 90 (13.57%) ServiceNow
3 39 (5.88%) Google
4 37 (5.58%) Adobe
4 37 (5.58%) Apple
5 31 (4.68%) VMware
6 17 (2.56%) Databricks
7 11 (1.66%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.51%) Cisco
8 10 (1.51%) Oracle
8 10 (1.51%) Splunk
9 7 (1.06%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.90%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.90%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.90%) SAP
11 5 (0.75%) Symantec
11 5 (0.75%) Workday
11 5 (0.75%) YouTube
12 4 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.60%) OpenText