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 6 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 375 401
Rank change year-on-year +173 +26 -252
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 820 326 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.01% 1.83% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 488 158 291
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £89,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% -

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 20,466 17,807 22,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.35% 38.85% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,200 7,316 15,390
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +166 709 £30,500 -52.79% 424
UK excluding London +190 511 £30,500 -41.90% 432
Work from Home +114 280 £75,000 +25.00% 57
North of England +105 250 £30,500 -34.41% 121
London +66 224 £57,500 -34.29% 96
Yorkshire +44 140 £30,500 -32.22% 53
North West +51 81 £30,500 -39.00% 52
South East +19 59 £56,250 -7.02% 82
Midlands +20 56 £30,500 -52.79% 75
West Midlands +28 45 £30,500 -52.79% 27
Scotland +25 43 £30,500 -41.90% 31
South West +11 38 £30,500 -35.79% 53
Northern Ireland +1 33 - - 6
North East +15 29 £30,500 -32.22% 22
East of England +12 28 £62,500 +16.28% 43
East Midlands -25 11 £51,058 -7.17% 45
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 34

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 50 (6.10%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.15%) WordPress
3 10 (1.22%) Tomcat
3 10 (1.22%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (0.98%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.61%) Drupal
7 5 (0.61%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (16.83%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.22%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 820 (100.00%) AWS
2 458 (55.85%) Azure
3 285 (34.76%) GitHub
4 168 (20.49%) Microsoft 365
5 115 (14.02%) Serverless
6 86 (10.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 81 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (9.88%) GCP
8 76 (9.27%) Amazon S3
9 56 (6.83%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (5.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (3.66%) Amazon ECR
16 29 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (2.93%) Apigee
18 21 (2.56%) Entra ID
19 19 (2.32%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 256 (31.22%) Internet
2 28 (3.41%) Firewall
3 26 (3.17%) VPN
4 22 (2.68%) Broadband
5 18 (2.20%) Network Security
5 18 (2.20%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (1.46%) SSL
7 10 (1.22%) WAN
8 9 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.10%) VLAN
9 7 (0.85%) DNS
9 7 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.73%) DHCP
10 6 (0.73%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.61%) VoIP
12 4 (0.49%) BGP
12 4 (0.49%) LAN
12 4 (0.49%) OSPF
13 3 (0.37%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.37%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.27%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.66%) Metadata
5 23 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.20%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.22%) DB2
11 8 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.49%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
16 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 275 (33.54%) Git
2 50 (6.10%) Visual Studio Code
3 44 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 41 (5.00%) GitLab
5 26 (3.17%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.93%) Maven
6 24 (2.93%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.32%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.71%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.34%) JIRA
10 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.49%) MLflow
13 2 (0.24%) Selenium
13 2 (0.24%) Vite
14 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 276 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 256 (31.22%) Multimedia
3 152 (18.54%) Finance
4 138 (16.83%) French Language
5 109 (13.29%) Swedish Language
6 71 (8.66%) Retail
7 64 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (6.46%) Manufacturing
9 52 (6.34%) Banking
10 49 (5.98%) Financial Institution
11 48 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
12 25 (3.05%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.68%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.46%) Law
16 11 (1.34%) Publishing
17 9 (1.10%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.73%) Legal
19 5 (0.61%) Local Government
19 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 306 (37.32%) Trainee
2 161 (19.63%) Analyst
3 159 (19.39%) Developer
4 138 (16.83%) Service Analyst
4 138 (16.83%) Service Desk Analyst
5 122 (14.88%) Trainee Developer
6 117 (14.27%) Architect
7 113 (13.78%) Software Developer
7 113 (13.78%) Trainee Software Developer
8 62 (7.56%) Senior
9 50 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 50 (6.10%) Programmer
9 50 (6.10%) Trainee Programmer
10 42 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.76%) Lead
12 36 (4.39%) Administrator
13 30 (3.66%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.54%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.54%) Web Administrator
15 21 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (31.22%) CSS
1 256 (31.22%) HTML
2 52 (6.34%) NumPy
2 52 (6.34%) Pandas
3 51 (6.22%) Hugging Face
4 50 (6.10%) Matplotlib
4 50 (6.10%) scikit-learn
4 50 (6.10%) Streamlit
5 35 (4.27%) Spring Boot
6 26 (3.17%) Jest
6 26 (3.17%) React
7 25 (3.05%) AngularJS
8 24 (2.93%) Gherkin
9 19 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.20%) .NET
11 17 (2.07%) AWS CDK
12 15 (1.83%) RESTful
13 14 (1.71%) Kafka
14 12 (1.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.34%) Algorithms
3 42 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (4.39%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.68%) PKI
6 20 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.46%) e-Learning
8 12 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.98%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.98%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.61%) Blog
13 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.61%) PACS
13 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.29%) Linux
2 48 (5.85%) Windows
3 40 (4.88%) Unix
4 15 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (39.27%) Mentoring
2 277 (33.78%) Cybersecurity
3 203 (24.76%) ITIL
4 178 (21.71%) Customer Service
5 155 (18.90%) Agile
6 144 (17.56%) ITSM
7 132 (16.10%) DevOps
8 128 (15.61%) CI/CD
9 123 (15.00%) Performance Metrics
10 120 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 114 (13.90%) AI
12 77 (9.39%) Migration
13 73 (8.90%) Data Privacy
14 71 (8.66%) Machine Learning
15 68 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
16 66 (8.05%) Microservices
17 64 (7.80%) Computer Science
17 64 (7.80%) TOGAF
18 62 (7.56%) Containerisation
19 59 (7.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 430 (52.44%) Python
2 314 (38.29%) JavaScript
3 134 (16.34%) R
4 92 (11.22%) Java
5 73 (8.90%) Bash
6 57 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.51%) C#
8 32 (3.90%) SQL
9 30 (3.66%) Go
10 28 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 24 (2.93%) Groovy
12 9 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.98%) Bicep
14 7 (0.85%) C++
15 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.12%) C
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 432 (52.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 394 (48.05%) Azure Certification
3 316 (38.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 215 (26.22%) Degree
5 138 (16.83%) MCSE
6 110 (13.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 53 (6.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 51 (6.22%) Security Cleared
9 43 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (4.63%) SC Cleared
11 32 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (3.05%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (2.80%) CISSP
14 21 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.44%) A+ Certification
16 17 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (2.07%) CISM
17 13 (1.59%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.10%) DV Cleared
19 8 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.49%) QA
2 35 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.05%) NIST
4 18 (2.20%) GDPR
5 17 (2.07%) SLA
6 15 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
8 10 (1.22%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.98%) GRC
11 7 (0.85%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.61%) DICOM
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.24%) GxP
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) Basel III
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (12.93%) Docker
2 40 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.37%) iptables
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 108 (13.17%) Terraform
2 78 (9.51%) Kubernetes
3 47 (5.73%) Ansible
4 37 (4.51%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.78%) Grafana
6 28 (3.41%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.44%) Argo
8 19 (2.32%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.22%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.98%) Cilium
10 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.37%) Nessus
12 3 (0.37%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 541 (65.98%) Microsoft
2 149 (18.17%) ServiceNow
3 49 (5.98%) VMware
4 38 (4.63%) Google
5 17 (2.07%) Adobe
5 17 (2.07%) Apple
6 15 (1.83%) IBM
6 15 (1.83%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.71%) SAP
8 11 (1.34%) Workday
9 10 (1.22%) Cisco
10 9 (1.10%) Databricks
11 5 (0.61%) Symantec
11 5 (0.61%) YouTube
12 4 (0.49%) OpenText
12 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.49%) Pega
13 3 (0.37%) Oracle
13 3 (0.37%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.24%) Ariba