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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 290 499
Rank change year-on-year -21 +209 -285
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 565 494 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.05% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.82% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 271 154 303
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,300 £51,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £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 £77,500 £87,188 £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 18,797 17,518 26,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 37.07% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 7,619 16,891
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,150
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.48% -11.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,556
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -28 517 £49,000 -30.00% 391
UK excluding London -62 309 £37,500 -42.31% 305
London +14 220 £75,000 - 152
Work from Home -75 181 £62,500 -3.85% 205
North of England -82 130 £37,500 -42.31% 76
North West -89 64 £37,500 -40.00% 47
Yorkshire +4 53 £37,500 -42.31% 22
Midlands -4 53 £37,500 -38.78% 49
West Midlands -9 48 £37,500 -38.78% 32
South West -61 41 £52,500 -7.48% 43
South East -8 37 £62,500 -12.59% 81
East of England -4 14 £37,500 -55.88% 31
North East -38 13 £37,500 -21.05% 10
Scotland +23 12 £34,500 -34.29% 21
Northern Ireland -33 11 £40,750 - 3
Wales - 11 £53,310 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 17

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 (9.56%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.79%) WordPress
3 18 (3.19%) Confluence
4 12 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.06%) Apache
5 6 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.71%) Documentum
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pig
8 2 (0.35%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (13.27%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (9.91%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.25%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 565 (100.00%) AWS
2 216 (38.23%) Azure
3 113 (20.00%) GitHub
4 104 (18.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 101 (17.88%) Cloud Computing
6 93 (16.46%) GCP
7 90 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
8 88 (15.58%) Serverless
9 77 (13.63%) AWS Lambda
10 75 (13.27%) Amazon S3
11 63 (11.15%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (5.66%) Amazon ECR
15 28 (4.96%) Apigee
16 26 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 21 (3.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 81 (14.34%) Internet
2 49 (8.67%) Network Security
3 38 (6.73%) Firewall
4 21 (3.72%) VPN
5 17 (3.01%) WAN
6 15 (2.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.48%) LAN
7 14 (2.48%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.30%) DNS
9 12 (2.12%) Broadband
9 12 (2.12%) DHCP
10 9 (1.59%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.42%) IPv4
11 8 (1.42%) Wireless
12 7 (1.24%) VLAN
13 6 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.53%) DMZ
16 2 (0.35%) BGP
16 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.96%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.73%) DynamoDB
3 32 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.89%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.54%) Metadata
6 12 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.12%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.42%) Big Data
8 7 (1.24%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.88%) Power BI
11 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 86 (15.22%) Git
2 69 (12.21%) GitLab
3 59 (10.44%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.13%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.13%) Maven
6 28 (4.96%) SonarQube
7 26 (4.60%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.89%) JIRA
9 19 (3.36%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.83%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.12%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.53%) Selenium
14 2 (0.35%) Taiga
14 2 (0.35%) VersionOne
15 1 (0.18%) Gatling
15 1 (0.18%) MLflow
15 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
15 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 149 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 138 (24.42%) Finance
3 80 (14.16%) Retail
4 74 (13.10%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.44%) Manufacturing
6 47 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (6.90%) French Language
8 38 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (6.73%) Public Sector
9 36 (6.37%) Swedish Language
10 31 (5.49%) Banking
11 22 (3.89%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.24%) Advertising
15 4 (0.71%) Automotive
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 4 (0.71%) Electronics
15 4 (0.71%) Legal
15 4 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 125 (22.12%) Trainee
2 104 (18.41%) Analyst
3 97 (17.17%) Senior
4 90 (15.93%) Architect
5 75 (13.27%) Service Analyst
5 75 (13.27%) Service Desk Analyst
6 65 (11.50%) Developer
7 51 (9.03%) Administrator
7 51 (9.03%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.03%) Programmer
7 51 (9.03%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (7.61%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.61%) Web Administrator
9 42 (7.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (6.73%) Consultant
11 31 (5.49%) Lead
12 27 (4.78%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
13 23 (4.07%) Java Engineer
13 23 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.45%) CSS
1 76 (13.45%) HTML
2 65 (11.50%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.56%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.56%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.56%) NumPy
3 54 (9.56%) Pandas
3 54 (9.56%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.56%) Streamlit
4 34 (6.02%) AngularJS
4 34 (6.02%) Spring
5 32 (5.66%) Kafka
6 29 (5.13%) Jest
7 28 (4.96%) Gherkin
8 18 (3.19%) React
9 17 (3.01%) AWS CDK
9 17 (3.01%) Node.js
10 13 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (1.77%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.81%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.15%) Algorithms
3 46 (8.14%) Onboarding
4 34 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 32 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (5.31%) e-Learning
7 29 (5.13%) Data Centre
8 28 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (4.96%) PKI
9 27 (4.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 26 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.59%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.24%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (9.73%) Linux
2 44 (7.79%) Windows
3 18 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.65%) Unix
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (27.08%) Agile
2 152 (26.90%) AI
2 152 (26.90%) CI/CD
3 150 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (25.49%) Mentoring
5 131 (23.19%) Customer Service
6 129 (22.83%) ITIL
7 96 (16.99%) DevOps
8 88 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
9 86 (15.22%) Cloud Security
10 83 (14.69%) Machine Learning
11 77 (13.63%) ITSM
12 75 (13.27%) Performance Metrics
13 65 (11.50%) Migration
14 61 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (10.80%) OO
15 60 (10.62%) Data Privacy
15 60 (10.62%) LLM
15 60 (10.62%) Microservices
16 58 (10.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 237 (41.95%) Python
2 109 (19.29%) Java
3 103 (18.23%) JavaScript
4 77 (13.63%) Bash
5 53 (9.38%) R
6 48 (8.50%) SQL
7 41 (7.26%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.84%) Go
9 29 (5.13%) Groovy
10 27 (4.78%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.83%) C#
11 16 (2.83%) Ruby
12 11 (1.95%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.59%) PHP
14 8 (1.42%) C++
14 8 (1.42%) Perl
15 6 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.71%) Bicep
16 4 (0.71%) COBOL
17 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 166 (29.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 160 (28.32%) Azure Certification
3 145 (25.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 142 (25.13%) Degree
5 121 (21.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 84 (14.87%) Security Cleared
7 75 (13.27%) MCSE
8 43 (7.61%) SC Cleared
9 37 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.42%) CISSP
12 24 (4.25%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (4.07%) TOGAF Certification
14 17 (3.01%) CISM
15 16 (2.83%) CCNA
15 16 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (2.48%) Master's Degree
17 13 (2.30%) CCNP
18 12 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 11 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.63%) QA
2 40 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.72%) NIST
4 19 (3.36%) SOC 2
5 18 (3.19%) GDPR
6 13 (2.30%) GRC
7 12 (2.12%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.95%) NCSC
8 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.42%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.88%) DICOM
12 4 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.35%) SLA
14 1 (0.18%) COBIT
14 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 83 (14.69%) Docker
2 20 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.42%) Squid
4 8 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.42%) vSphere
5 6 (1.06%) KVM
6 4 (0.71%) iptables
7 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (23.19%) Terraform
2 77 (13.63%) Kubernetes
3 52 (9.20%) Ansible
4 32 (5.66%) HP Fortify
5 31 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.60%) Grafana
7 14 (2.48%) Argo
8 13 (2.30%) Cilium
9 12 (2.12%) Kustomize
10 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.59%) Packer
11 9 (1.59%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.59%) Puppet
12 8 (1.42%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.42%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.53%) Iperf
13 3 (0.53%) QRadar
14 1 (0.18%) Consul
14 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 277 (49.03%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.41%) ServiceNow
3 30 (5.31%) VMware
4 28 (4.96%) Google
5 25 (4.42%) Apple
6 24 (4.25%) Adobe
7 23 (4.07%) Oracle
8 22 (3.89%) Splunk
9 18 (3.19%) Cisco
10 15 (2.65%) Databricks
11 12 (2.12%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.95%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.59%) SAP
14 8 (1.42%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.71%) Infor
16 4 (0.71%) OpenText
16 4 (0.71%) Pega
16 4 (0.71%) YouTube