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 25 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 447 381
Rank change year-on-year +238 -66 -135
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 650 318 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 0.47% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.78% 1.57% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 366 154 247
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,283
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £64,800 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% -13.60% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -11.86%

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 17,184 20,264 16,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.20% 30.15% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,886 8,360 11,083
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,989 £41,622
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +237 567 £47,500 -22.13% 541
UK excluding London +212 358 £30,500 -42.51% 478
Work from Home +189 256 £75,000 +25.00% 91
London +143 229 £75,000 -11.76% 176
North of England +126 140 £30,500 -32.22% 120
Yorkshire +57 76 £30,500 -32.22% 40
South East +74 64 £47,500 -10.46% 120
North West +88 47 £30,500 -41.90% 68
Midlands +67 45 £31,500 -51.24% 88
West Midlands +67 36 £30,500 -52.79% 55
South West +56 30 £30,500 -52.16% 37
Scotland +15 28 £30,500 -56.43% 28
Northern Ireland +26 27 - - 6
East of England +25 23 £80,000 +68.42% 56
North East +33 17 £30,500 -32.22% 15
East Midlands +27 9 £51,058 -7.17% 33
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 26

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 22 (3.38%) WordPress
2 18 (2.77%) Confluence
3 17 (2.62%) Tomcat
3 17 (2.62%) WebSphere
4 16 (2.46%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.38%) nginx
5 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.92%) Apache
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.46%) Drupal
9 3 (0.46%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 119 (18.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 650 (100.00%) AWS
2 383 (58.92%) Azure
3 196 (30.15%) GitHub
4 145 (22.31%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (15.23%) GCP
6 79 (12.15%) Serverless
7 69 (10.62%) Amazon S3
8 61 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (9.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 31 (4.77%) SaaS
13 28 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (2.77%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (2.31%) Entra ID
17 15 (2.31%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 167 (25.69%) Internet
2 40 (6.15%) Firewall
3 34 (5.23%) DNS
4 28 (4.31%) VPN
5 24 (3.69%) Remote Desktop
6 20 (3.08%) WAN
7 19 (2.92%) SSL
8 16 (2.46%) LAN
8 16 (2.46%) Network Security
9 15 (2.31%) DHCP
9 15 (2.31%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.31%) VoIP
10 14 (2.15%) VLAN
11 13 (2.00%) HTTP
11 13 (2.00%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.85%) FTP
12 12 (1.85%) SMTP
12 12 (1.85%) SSH
12 12 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (5.69%) Data Lake
3 35 (5.38%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (4.46%) Metadata
5 27 (4.15%) DynamoDB
6 20 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.77%) DB2
8 17 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.54%) MySQL
12 8 (1.23%) Big Data
13 6 (0.92%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.77%) CockroachDB
15 4 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (0.62%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.62%) Power BI
16 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 196 (30.15%) Git
2 45 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.31%) JIRA
4 23 (3.54%) GitLab
5 12 (1.85%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.77%) Vite
10 4 (0.62%) Gatling
10 4 (0.62%) JMeter
10 4 (0.62%) Selenium
10 4 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.46%) JUnit
11 3 (0.46%) Mockito
11 3 (0.46%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.46%) YouTrack
12 2 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 239 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 166 (25.54%) Multimedia
3 132 (20.31%) Finance
4 119 (18.31%) French Language
4 119 (18.31%) Swedish Language
5 76 (11.69%) Banking
6 61 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (8.15%) Financial Institution
8 50 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (6.31%) Law
10 35 (5.38%) Public Sector
11 28 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (4.15%) Retail Banking
13 14 (2.15%) Retail
14 11 (1.69%) Marketing
15 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.08%) Publishing
18 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 166 (25.54%) Trainee
2 124 (19.08%) Analyst
3 119 (18.31%) Service Analyst
3 119 (18.31%) Service Desk Analyst
4 102 (15.69%) Architect
5 98 (15.08%) Developer
6 93 (14.31%) Senior
7 78 (12.00%) Trainee Developer
8 77 (11.85%) Software Developer
8 77 (11.85%) Trainee Software Developer
9 36 (5.54%) Lead
10 33 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.15%) Data Architect
12 27 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.69%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
14 22 (3.38%) Administrator
15 20 (3.08%) AWS Architect
15 20 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (2.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (26.15%) CSS
1 170 (26.15%) HTML
2 28 (4.31%) React
3 22 (3.38%) Kafka
3 22 (3.38%) LDAP
3 22 (3.38%) Spring
3 22 (3.38%) Spring Boot
4 16 (2.46%) LAPP Stack
4 16 (2.46%) WebSphere MQ
5 10 (1.54%) RESTful
6 9 (1.38%) .NET
6 9 (1.38%) AWS CDK
7 8 (1.23%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.08%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.92%) Jest
10 5 (0.77%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.77%) Serverless Framework
10 5 (0.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.46%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.46%) Public Cloud
3 25 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.69%) Replication
8 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.23%) PKI
10 7 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.08%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.77%) Blog
12 5 (0.77%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.77%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.31%) Windows
2 73 (11.23%) Linux
3 28 (4.31%) Unix
4 25 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.85%) VMS
6 10 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) CentOS
8 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.31%) Debian
9 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (35.54%) Mentoring
2 183 (28.15%) Cybersecurity
2 183 (28.15%) ITIL
3 144 (22.15%) Agile
4 130 (20.00%) ITSM
5 129 (19.85%) CI/CD
6 117 (18.00%) DevOps
7 104 (16.00%) Customer Service
8 101 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 101 (15.54%) Performance Metrics
9 69 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (9.85%) Microservices
11 62 (9.54%) Containerisation
12 60 (9.23%) Migration
13 58 (8.92%) TOGAF
14 56 (8.62%) Cloud Security
15 55 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (8.31%) Data Modelling
17 52 (8.00%) Software Engineering
18 50 (7.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 315 (48.46%) Python
2 205 (31.54%) JavaScript
3 90 (13.85%) R
4 80 (12.31%) Java
5 62 (9.54%) SQL
6 48 (7.38%) PowerShell
7 40 (6.15%) Bash
8 35 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 33 (5.08%) C#
10 21 (3.23%) Go
11 15 (2.31%) Groovy
12 10 (1.54%) Bicep
13 6 (0.92%) Perl
14 5 (0.77%) C++
14 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.46%) Rust
15 3 (0.46%) Scala
16 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.31%) PROC SQL
16 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 328 (50.46%) Azure Certification
2 317 (48.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 207 (31.85%) Degree
4 174 (26.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 119 (18.31%) MCSE
6 116 (17.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 67 (10.31%) Security Cleared
8 62 (9.54%) SC Cleared
9 33 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (4.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 26 (4.00%) A+ Certification
11 26 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (3.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 20 (3.08%) CISSP
14 19 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (2.77%) Master's Degree
16 14 (2.15%) CCNP
17 12 (1.85%) DV Cleared
17 12 (1.85%) PMI Certification
18 11 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (17.08%) QA
2 33 (5.08%) NIST
3 28 (4.31%) GDPR
4 27 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (3.23%) SLA
6 9 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.77%) NCSC
10 4 (0.62%) GRC
11 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.15%) Basel III
13 1 (0.15%) GAAP
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (10.92%) Docker
2 44 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.92%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.54%) DFS Replication
6 7 (1.08%) Dovecot
6 7 (1.08%) Postfix
7 6 (0.92%) Squid
8 4 (0.62%) KVM
9 3 (0.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.46%) vSphere
10 2 (0.31%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.31%) HDFS
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) iptables
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 96 (14.77%) Terraform
2 88 (13.54%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.00%) Ansible
4 30 (4.62%) Grafana
5 20 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.38%) Nessus
6 9 (1.38%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.92%) Autotask
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.77%) SCCM
8 5 (0.77%) SCOM
8 5 (0.77%) WSUS
9 4 (0.62%) Cilium
9 4 (0.62%) Puppet
10 3 (0.46%) Argo
10 3 (0.46%) Salt
11 2 (0.31%) Kibana
11 2 (0.31%) logstash
11 2 (0.31%) Oozie
11 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 381 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 141 (21.69%) ServiceNow
3 46 (7.08%) VMware
4 34 (5.23%) Google
5 28 (4.31%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.38%) IBM
7 17 (2.62%) SAP
8 14 (2.15%) Cisco
9 13 (2.00%) Oracle
10 8 (1.23%) Ariba
11 6 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (0.92%) Workday
12 5 (0.77%) Databricks
12 5 (0.77%) Datto
13 4 (0.62%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.62%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.62%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.46%) Informatica
14 3 (0.46%) Symantec