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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 288 496
Rank change year-on-year -30 +208 -340
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 555 488 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.06% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.97% 2.79% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 270 149 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £33,563 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 18,692 17,493 26,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 37.83% 25.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9,843 7,487 17,002
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,699
25th Percentile £42,745 £38,750 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £79,270 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 29 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 29 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 -39 508 £48,000 -30.94% 233
UK excluding London -58 308 £37,500 -42.31% 214
London +25 211 £75,000 -3.23% 70
Work from Home -71 181 £67,500 +3.85% 57
North of England -90 134 £37,500 -42.31% 54
North West -81 63 £37,500 -33.33% 24
Yorkshire +12 57 £37,500 -42.31% 24
Midlands -15 51 £37,500 -37.50% 31
West Midlands -6 46 £37,500 -37.50% 17
South West -65 41 £52,500 -7.48% 24
South East -12 35 £62,500 -12.59% 66
East of England -6 14 £37,500 -55.88% 26
North East -38 14 £37,500 -21.05% 9
Scotland +27 12 £34,500 -34.29% 7
Wales - 11 £53,310 - 5
Northern Ireland -22 10 £39,000 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 14

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 (9.73%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.93%) WordPress
3 17 (3.06%) Confluence
4 11 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.08%) Apache
7 4 (0.72%) Documentum
7 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.54%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.91%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.32%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 555 (100.00%) AWS
2 215 (38.74%) Azure
3 113 (20.36%) GitHub
4 98 (17.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (16.76%) GCP
6 92 (16.58%) Cloud Computing
7 90 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
8 86 (15.50%) Serverless
9 74 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
10 72 (12.97%) Amazon S3
11 60 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (6.31%) AWS Step Functions
14 34 (6.13%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (5.77%) Amazon ECR
16 28 (5.05%) Apigee
17 25 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 21 (3.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 81 (14.59%) Internet
2 46 (8.29%) Network Security
3 35 (6.31%) Firewall
4 20 (3.60%) VPN
5 17 (3.06%) WAN
6 15 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.52%) LAN
7 14 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.34%) DNS
9 12 (2.16%) Broadband
9 12 (2.16%) DHCP
10 9 (1.62%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.44%) IPv4
11 8 (1.44%) Wireless
12 7 (1.26%) VLAN
13 6 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.54%) DMZ
16 2 (0.36%) BGP
16 2 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.85%) DynamoDB
3 30 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.96%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.78%) Metadata
6 12 (2.16%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.26%) Big Data
9 6 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.90%) Power BI
11 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.54%) Redis
12 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (15.68%) Git
2 68 (12.25%) GitLab
3 59 (10.63%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.23%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.23%) Maven
6 28 (5.05%) SonarQube
7 25 (4.50%) Cucumber
8 20 (3.60%) JIRA
9 19 (3.42%) TeamCity
10 15 (2.70%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.16%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.54%) Selenium
13 2 (0.36%) MLflow
14 1 (0.18%) Gatling
14 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.18%) Taiga
14 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 148 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 134 (24.14%) Finance
3 79 (14.23%) Retail
4 75 (13.51%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.63%) Manufacturing
6 48 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (7.03%) French Language
8 38 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (6.31%) Swedish Language
10 34 (6.13%) Public Sector
11 32 (5.77%) Banking
12 23 (4.14%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.80%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.26%) Advertising
16 5 (0.90%) Legal
16 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.72%) Automotive
17 4 (0.72%) Billing
17 4 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 126 (22.70%) Trainee
2 102 (18.38%) Analyst
3 93 (16.76%) Architect
4 91 (16.40%) Senior
5 74 (13.33%) Service Analyst
5 74 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
6 65 (11.71%) Developer
7 51 (9.19%) Administrator
7 51 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.19%) Programmer
7 51 (9.19%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (7.75%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.75%) Web Administrator
9 42 (7.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.41%) Lead
11 29 (5.23%) Consultant
12 27 (4.86%) Java Developer
13 26 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (3.96%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.87%) CSS
1 77 (13.87%) HTML
2 63 (11.35%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.73%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.73%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.73%) NumPy
3 54 (9.73%) Pandas
3 54 (9.73%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.73%) Streamlit
4 33 (5.95%) AngularJS
5 32 (5.77%) Spring
6 30 (5.41%) Kafka
7 29 (5.23%) Jest
8 28 (5.05%) Gherkin
9 18 (3.24%) React
10 16 (2.88%) AWS CDK
10 16 (2.88%) Node.js
11 13 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (1.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.35%) Algorithms
3 37 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 32 (5.77%) Public Cloud
5 31 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (5.23%) e-Learning
7 28 (5.05%) PKI
8 27 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (4.68%) Data Centre
9 26 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (3.24%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.44%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.08%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.55%) Linux
2 42 (7.57%) Windows
3 18 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.70%) Unix
5 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (27.39%) Agile
1 152 (27.39%) CI/CD
2 147 (26.49%) AI
2 147 (26.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (24.86%) Mentoring
4 130 (23.42%) Customer Service
5 128 (23.06%) ITIL
6 95 (17.12%) DevOps
7 85 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
8 82 (14.77%) Machine Learning
9 78 (14.05%) Cloud Security
10 76 (13.69%) ITSM
11 74 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
12 61 (10.99%) Data Privacy
12 61 (10.99%) LLM
12 61 (10.99%) Microservices
12 61 (10.99%) Migration
12 61 (10.99%) OO
13 58 (10.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 58 (10.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 236 (42.52%) Python
2 107 (19.28%) Java
3 106 (19.10%) JavaScript
4 75 (13.51%) Bash
5 54 (9.73%) R
6 45 (8.11%) SQL
7 43 (7.75%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.95%) Go
9 29 (5.23%) Groovy
10 27 (4.86%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.24%) C#
12 14 (2.52%) Ruby
13 11 (1.98%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.44%) C++
15 7 (1.26%) PHP
16 6 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (1.08%) Perl
17 4 (0.72%) Bicep
17 4 (0.72%) COBOL
18 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 169 (30.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 164 (29.55%) Azure Certification
3 146 (26.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 140 (25.23%) Degree
5 117 (21.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 79 (14.23%) Security Cleared
7 74 (13.33%) MCSE
8 44 (7.93%) SC Cleared
9 35 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.32%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (4.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (3.78%) CISSP
13 19 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (2.88%) CCNA
15 14 (2.52%) CISM
16 13 (2.34%) CCNP
16 13 (2.34%) Master's Degree
17 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.69%) QA
2 37 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.42%) SOC 2
4 18 (3.24%) NIST
5 14 (2.52%) GDPR
6 13 (2.34%) GRC
7 12 (2.16%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.98%) NCSC
9 10 (1.80%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.44%) ISO 9001
11 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.90%) DICOM
13 4 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.36%) SLA
15 1 (0.18%) COBIT
15 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 85 (15.32%) Docker
2 21 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.44%) Squid
4 8 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.44%) vSphere
5 6 (1.08%) KVM
6 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.72%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 129 (23.24%) Terraform
2 78 (14.05%) Kubernetes
3 52 (9.37%) Ansible
4 32 (5.77%) HP Fortify
4 32 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 27 (4.86%) Grafana
6 14 (2.52%) Argo
7 13 (2.34%) Cilium
8 12 (2.16%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.62%) Packer
10 9 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.44%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.44%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.44%) Puppet
11 8 (1.44%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.54%) Iperf
13 2 (0.36%) QRadar
14 1 (0.18%) Consul
14 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 279 (50.27%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.56%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.59%) VMware
4 28 (5.05%) Google
5 25 (4.50%) Apple
6 24 (4.32%) Adobe
7 21 (3.78%) Oracle
8 18 (3.24%) Splunk
9 17 (3.06%) Cisco
10 16 (2.88%) Databricks
11 12 (2.16%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.98%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.62%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.44%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.44%) SAP
15 6 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.72%) Infor
16 4 (0.72%) OpenText
16 4 (0.72%) Pega
16 4 (0.72%) YouTube