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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 283 456
Rank change year-on-year +9 +173 -289
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 640 458 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.07% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.67% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 359 143 321
10th Percentile - £44,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £53,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £60,625 £93,125 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £98,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -37.76% -13.93% -

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 21,196 17,160 25,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.85% 40.26% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,251 7,085 17,143
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,750 £38,357
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 £51,532 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.73% +3.06% -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 23 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 23 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 -7 578 £37,500 -48.28% 227
UK excluding London +22 407 £37,500 -37.76% 185
North of England -30 209 £31,500 -51.54% 59
Work from Home -51 198 £65,000 -5.14% 74
London -1 187 £55,000 -33.33% 79
Yorkshire +48 105 £35,250 -45.77% 21
North West -58 83 £31,500 -51.54% 30
Midlands +8 64 £32,000 -40.40% 28
West Midlands -1 59 £32,000 -40.40% 12
South East +3 39 £62,250 -14.73% 38
South West -48 35 £37,500 -33.91% 25
Scotland +23 24 £30,500 -41.90% 13
North East -21 21 £30,500 -35.79% 8
East of England +5 20 £37,500 -55.88% 13
Northern Ireland -24 11 £35,000 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 16
Wales - 5 £51,619 - 7

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 56 (8.75%) WordPress
2 54 (8.44%) Jupyter
3 14 (2.19%) Confluence
4 9 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.94%) Apache
5 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.63%) Documentum
7 3 (0.47%) Drupal
7 3 (0.47%) JBoss
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 61 (9.53%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.59%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Weka
5 1 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (3.75%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 640 (100.00%) AWS
2 341 (53.28%) Azure
3 199 (31.09%) GitHub
4 98 (15.31%) Serverless
5 94 (14.69%) GCP
6 84 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (12.19%) Microsoft 365
8 77 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (11.41%) Amazon S3
10 61 (9.53%) Cloud Computing
11 52 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (7.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 39 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (5.78%) Amazon ECR
15 35 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (5.16%) Apigee
17 32 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 32 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 171 (26.72%) Internet
2 30 (4.69%) Firewall
3 29 (4.53%) Network Security
4 20 (3.13%) VPN
5 18 (2.81%) Broadband
6 13 (2.03%) Software-Defined Networking
7 11 (1.72%) WAN
8 10 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.41%) LAN
10 7 (1.09%) IPv4
10 7 (1.09%) Wireless
11 6 (0.94%) DNS
12 5 (0.78%) DHCP
12 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.47%) VLAN
14 2 (0.31%) BGP
14 2 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
14 2 (0.31%) OSPF
15 1 (0.16%) MPLS
15 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 45 (7.03%) NoSQL
3 26 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.28%) Metadata
5 20 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.97%) RDBMS
6 19 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.25%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.78%) Power BI
11 4 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.47%) Big Data
12 3 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.31%) GIS
13 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.31%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 186 (29.06%) Git
2 66 (10.31%) GitLab
3 57 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 54 (8.44%) Visual Studio Code
5 34 (5.31%) Cypress.io
5 34 (5.31%) Maven
6 33 (5.16%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.13%) Cucumber
8 19 (2.97%) TeamCity
9 18 (2.81%) Jaeger
10 15 (2.34%) JIRA
11 12 (1.88%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.63%) MLflow
13 3 (0.47%) Selenium
14 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.16%) Gatling
14 1 (0.16%) JMeter
14 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 174 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 171 (26.72%) Multimedia
3 124 (19.38%) Finance
4 76 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (11.56%) Retail
6 60 (9.38%) Manufacturing
7 49 (7.66%) French Language
8 42 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.63%) Banking
10 25 (3.91%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.34%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.88%) Swedish Language
13 10 (1.56%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.41%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.25%) Advertising
15 8 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.09%) Legal
17 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.78%) Law
17 5 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 222 (34.69%) Trainee
2 119 (18.59%) Developer
3 107 (16.72%) Analyst
4 88 (13.75%) Architect
5 72 (11.25%) Senior
6 68 (10.63%) Trainee Developer
7 61 (9.53%) Administrator
7 61 (9.53%) Service Analyst
7 61 (9.53%) Service Desk Analyst
8 56 (8.75%) Software Developer
9 55 (8.59%) Trainee Software Developer
10 53 (8.28%) Trainee Administrator
10 53 (8.28%) Web Administrator
11 51 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (7.97%) Programmer
11 51 (7.97%) Trainee Programmer
12 46 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (5.94%) Lead
14 29 (4.53%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (27.03%) CSS
1 173 (27.03%) HTML
2 55 (8.59%) Spring Boot
3 54 (8.44%) Hugging Face
3 54 (8.44%) Matplotlib
3 54 (8.44%) NumPy
3 54 (8.44%) Pandas
3 54 (8.44%) scikit-learn
3 54 (8.44%) Streamlit
4 35 (5.47%) AngularJS
5 34 (5.31%) Jest
6 33 (5.16%) Gherkin
7 29 (4.53%) React
8 23 (3.59%) Spring
9 21 (3.28%) Kafka
10 18 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
11 15 (2.34%) .NET
12 14 (2.19%) AWS CDK
13 13 (2.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 63 (9.84%) Algorithms
3 46 (7.19%) Public Cloud
4 32 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (4.38%) PKI
6 25 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.75%) e-Learning
8 21 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (3.28%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.66%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.78%) Clustering
12 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.78%) PACS
12 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.84%) Linux
2 35 (5.47%) Windows
3 26 (4.06%) Unix
4 15 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (32.34%) Mentoring
2 183 (28.59%) Cybersecurity
3 159 (24.84%) Agile
4 153 (23.91%) CI/CD
5 139 (21.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (20.00%) AI
7 122 (19.06%) Customer Service
8 117 (18.28%) ITIL
9 112 (17.50%) DevOps
10 67 (10.47%) Cost Optimisation
11 66 (10.31%) Data Privacy
11 66 (10.31%) Machine Learning
11 66 (10.31%) Web Development
12 64 (10.00%) ITSM
13 61 (9.53%) Performance Metrics
14 60 (9.38%) LLM
14 60 (9.38%) Microservices
14 60 (9.38%) Visualisation
15 59 (9.22%) OO
16 58 (9.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 332 (51.88%) Python
2 218 (34.06%) JavaScript
3 106 (16.56%) Java
4 103 (16.09%) R
5 78 (12.19%) Bash
6 57 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 37 (5.78%) SQL
8 36 (5.63%) Go
9 34 (5.31%) Groovy
10 27 (4.22%) C#
11 25 (3.91%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.88%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.41%) C++
14 7 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.47%) Bicep
15 3 (0.47%) Ruby
16 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.16%) C
16 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 269 (42.03%) Azure Certification
2 257 (40.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 239 (37.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 120 (18.75%) Degree
5 101 (15.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 62 (9.69%) Security Cleared
7 61 (9.53%) MCSE
8 39 (6.09%) SC Cleared
9 31 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (4.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (4.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (2.81%) CISSP
15 15 (2.34%) CISM
16 9 (1.41%) CCNP
16 9 (1.41%) DV Cleared
16 9 (1.41%) Master's Degree
17 8 (1.25%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.00%) QA
2 31 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.97%) NIST
4 16 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 12 (1.88%) GRC
6 11 (1.72%) GDPR
6 11 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.25%) NCSC
8 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.94%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.94%) SLA
9 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.78%) DICOM
9 5 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 110 (17.19%) Docker
2 25 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.41%) vSphere
5 7 (1.09%) KVM
5 7 (1.09%) Squid
5 7 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.63%) iptables
8 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (19.06%) Terraform
2 86 (13.44%) Kubernetes
3 57 (8.91%) Ansible
4 38 (5.94%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.78%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.53%) Grafana
7 21 (3.28%) Argo
8 18 (2.81%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.88%) Cilium
10 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.25%) Packer
11 8 (1.25%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.09%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.78%) Puppet
13 5 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.16%) Consul
14 1 (0.16%) QRadar
14 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 383 (59.84%) Microsoft
2 89 (13.91%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.41%) Adobe
3 41 (6.41%) Apple
4 34 (5.31%) Google
4 34 (5.31%) VMware
5 16 (2.50%) Databricks
6 13 (2.03%) Cisco
6 13 (2.03%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.88%) Splunk
8 11 (1.72%) Oracle
9 8 (1.25%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.09%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.09%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.78%) SAP
11 5 (0.78%) Symantec
11 5 (0.78%) Workday
12 4 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.63%) Pega
12 4 (0.63%) YouTube