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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 292 455
Rank change year-on-year +10 +163 -294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 617 463 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.06% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.93% 2.66% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 335 135 322
10th Percentile - £44,000 £52,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,469 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -4.92% -4.69%
75th Percentile £63,750 £95,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% -14.29% -

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 21,029 17,394 26,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.59% 39.76% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,403 7,265 17,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £40,000 £38,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,795
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.24% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.72% +2.12% -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 31 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 31 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 +7 561 £37,500 -48.28% 276
UK excluding London +11 389 £37,500 -37.50% 224
Work from Home -37 201 £62,500 -8.79% 75
North of England -34 193 £37,500 -42.31% 68
London -9 185 £55,000 -33.33% 108
Yorkshire +38 93 £37,500 -44.44% 25
North West -65 79 £34,500 -40.00% 32
Midlands +3 64 £35,000 -34.81% 35
West Midlands +1 58 £35,000 -34.81% 16
South East +16 39 £62,500 -14.38% 45
South West -47 37 £37,500 -33.91% 27
Scotland +23 21 £30,500 -41.90% 16
North East -26 21 £34,000 -28.42% 11
East of England -4 19 £41,250 -51.47% 22
Northern Ireland -28 11 £35,000 - 3
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 19
Wales - 5 £51,619 - 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 54 (8.75%) Jupyter
2 50 (8.10%) WordPress
3 14 (2.27%) Confluence
4 10 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.97%) Apache
7 4 (0.65%) Documentum
8 3 (0.49%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 65 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.91%) Chatbot
3 19 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (3.89%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 617 (100.00%) AWS
2 322 (52.19%) Azure
3 181 (29.34%) GitHub
4 92 (14.91%) GCP
4 92 (14.91%) Serverless
5 81 (13.13%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 73 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (11.67%) Amazon S3
9 61 (9.89%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (6.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (5.51%) Amazon ECR
13 34 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.86%) Apigee
15 24 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 150 (24.31%) Internet
2 29 (4.70%) Firewall
2 29 (4.70%) Network Security
3 19 (3.08%) VPN
4 18 (2.92%) Broadband
5 14 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.62%) WAN
7 9 (1.46%) LAN
7 9 (1.46%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.30%) IPv4
9 7 (1.13%) Wireless
10 5 (0.81%) DNS
11 4 (0.65%) DHCP
11 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.49%) VLAN
13 2 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
14 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
14 1 (0.16%) SSL
14 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.62%) NoSQL
2 43 (6.97%) DynamoDB
3 28 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.40%) Metadata
5 20 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.92%) RDBMS
6 18 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.13%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.81%) Power BI
11 4 (0.65%) Big Data
12 3 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.32%) GIS
13 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.32%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 165 (26.74%) Git
2 66 (10.70%) GitLab
3 55 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 54 (8.75%) Visual Studio Code
5 31 (5.02%) Cypress.io
5 31 (5.02%) Maven
6 30 (4.86%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.92%) Jaeger
8 18 (2.92%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.43%) JIRA
10 12 (1.94%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.65%) MLflow
12 3 (0.49%) Selenium
13 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.16%) Gatling
13 1 (0.16%) JMeter
13 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 170 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 150 (24.31%) Multimedia
3 121 (19.61%) Finance
4 75 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (11.99%) Retail
6 60 (9.72%) Manufacturing
7 49 (7.94%) French Language
8 41 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.83%) Banking
10 25 (4.05%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.59%) Swedish Language
12 13 (2.11%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.46%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.30%) Advertising
16 7 (1.13%) Legal
17 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.81%) Publishing
18 4 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 201 (32.58%) Trainee
2 111 (17.99%) Analyst
3 104 (16.86%) Developer
4 87 (14.10%) Architect
5 74 (11.99%) Senior
6 65 (10.53%) Service Analyst
6 65 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
7 57 (9.24%) Administrator
8 55 (8.91%) Trainee Developer
9 51 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 51 (8.27%) Programmer
9 51 (8.27%) Trainee Programmer
10 49 (7.94%) Trainee Administrator
10 49 (7.94%) Web Administrator
11 47 (7.62%) Software Developer
12 46 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (7.46%) Trainee Software Developer
13 34 (5.51%) Lead
14 28 (4.54%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (24.64%) CSS
1 152 (24.64%) HTML
2 54 (8.75%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.75%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.75%) NumPy
2 54 (8.75%) Pandas
2 54 (8.75%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.75%) Spring Boot
2 54 (8.75%) Streamlit
3 32 (5.19%) AngularJS
4 31 (5.02%) Jest
5 30 (4.86%) Gherkin
6 24 (3.89%) Kafka
6 24 (3.89%) React
6 24 (3.89%) Spring
7 18 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (2.43%) .NET
9 12 (1.94%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.21%) Algorithms
1 63 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.62%) Public Cloud
3 30 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (4.38%) PKI
5 26 (4.21%) e-Learning
5 26 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (3.40%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.27%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.30%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.13%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.81%) PACS
12 5 (0.81%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.56%) Linux
2 34 (5.51%) Windows
3 23 (3.73%) Unix
4 17 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (30.31%) Mentoring
2 165 (26.74%) Cybersecurity
3 156 (25.28%) Agile
4 151 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 139 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (20.91%) AI
7 124 (20.10%) Customer Service
8 122 (19.77%) ITIL
9 107 (17.34%) DevOps
10 67 (10.86%) Cost Optimisation
10 67 (10.86%) ITSM
10 67 (10.86%) Machine Learning
11 65 (10.53%) Data Privacy
11 65 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
12 61 (9.89%) LLM
13 60 (9.72%) Visualisation
14 59 (9.56%) Microservices
14 59 (9.56%) OO
15 58 (9.40%) Web Development
16 57 (9.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 310 (50.24%) Python
2 193 (31.28%) JavaScript
3 103 (16.69%) Java
4 95 (15.40%) R
5 76 (12.32%) Bash
6 52 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.32%) SQL
8 36 (5.83%) Go
9 31 (5.02%) Groovy
10 26 (4.21%) C#
10 26 (4.21%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.30%) C++
13 6 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.49%) Bicep
14 3 (0.49%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.16%) C
15 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 250 (40.52%) Azure Certification
2 239 (38.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 218 (35.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 127 (20.58%) Degree
5 100 (16.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.53%) MCSE
7 61 (9.89%) Security Cleared
8 40 (6.48%) SC Cleared
9 29 (4.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (2.92%) AWS Certified Developer
15 17 (2.76%) CISSP
16 14 (2.27%) CISM
17 10 (1.62%) CCNA
17 10 (1.62%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.46%) OSCP
18 9 (1.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.02%) QA
2 34 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.92%) NIST
4 15 (2.43%) SOC 2
5 12 (1.94%) GRC
6 11 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.62%) GDPR
8 8 (1.30%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.30%) NCSC
9 7 (1.13%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.81%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.81%) DICOM
11 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.49%) SLA
12 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.32%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.16%) COBIT
13 1 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 103 (16.69%) Docker
2 22 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.46%) vSphere
5 8 (1.30%) Squid
5 8 (1.30%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.97%) KVM
7 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.65%) iptables
8 2 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 121 (19.61%) Terraform
2 86 (13.94%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.08%) Ansible
4 38 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.51%) HP Fortify
6 28 (4.54%) Grafana
7 21 (3.40%) Argo
8 18 (2.92%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.94%) Cilium
10 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.46%) Packer
11 8 (1.30%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.30%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.81%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.81%) Puppet
14 1 (0.16%) Consul
14 1 (0.16%) QRadar
14 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 364 (59.00%) Microsoft
2 93 (15.07%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.65%) Adobe
3 41 (6.65%) Apple
4 34 (5.51%) Google
5 31 (5.02%) VMware
6 16 (2.59%) Databricks
7 13 (2.11%) Splunk
8 12 (1.94%) Cisco
8 12 (1.94%) Oracle
9 11 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.13%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.13%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.81%) SAP
11 5 (0.81%) Workday
12 4 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.65%) OpenText
12 4 (0.65%) Pega
12 4 (0.65%) YouTube