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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 365 440
Rank change year-on-year +151 +75 -295
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 801 296 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.78% 1.86% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 518 167 290
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,125 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £89,375 £89,375
90th Percentile £84,125 £99,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +3.70%

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 21,208 15,950 24,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.57% 39.01% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,639 7,498 16,756
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £38,691
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,400 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.61% +7.00% -

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +133 705 £31,000 -52.01% 276
UK excluding London +168 522 £30,500 -41.90% 248
North of England +94 262 £30,500 -36.79% 65
Work from Home +72 223 £68,750 +14.58% 57
London +33 210 £37,500 -55.88% 86
Yorkshire +54 143 £30,500 -32.22% 26
North West +46 90 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands +8 65 £30,500 -52.79% 35
West Midlands +12 52 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East -7 49 £33,750 -49.25% 57
Scotland +13 45 £30,500 -41.90% 10
South West -7 42 £31,000 -34.74% 34
East of England -6 34 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East +1 29 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -19 20 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands - 13 £51,058 - 18
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 12

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 78 (9.74%) WordPress
2 54 (6.74%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.00%) Confluence
5 6 (0.75%) Apache
5 6 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.75%) Drupal
5 6 (0.75%) nginx
6 5 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.50%) Documentum
8 3 (0.37%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 88 (10.99%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (6.87%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 801 (100.00%) AWS
2 473 (59.05%) Azure
3 326 (40.70%) GitHub
4 112 (13.98%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (13.98%) Serverless
5 89 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 84 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (9.74%) Amazon S3
8 76 (9.49%) GCP
9 60 (7.49%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 44 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (4.74%) Amazon ECR
15 36 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (4.00%) Apigee
18 19 (2.37%) Pulumi
19 18 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 298 (37.20%) Internet
2 29 (3.62%) Firewall
3 21 (2.62%) Broadband
3 21 (2.62%) Network Security
4 20 (2.50%) VPN
5 7 (0.87%) DNS
5 7 (0.87%) SSL
5 7 (0.87%) WAN
6 6 (0.75%) DHCP
6 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.62%) Wireless
8 4 (0.50%) LAN
8 4 (0.50%) VLAN
9 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.25%) BGP
10 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.25%) OSPF
10 2 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.37%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.12%) NoSQL
3 31 (3.87%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.75%) Metadata
5 25 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.25%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.62%) DB2
13 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.62%) Power BI
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
16 1 (0.12%) Flink
Development Applications
1 312 (38.95%) Git
2 54 (6.74%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.37%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.24%) GitLab
5 32 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 32 (4.00%) Maven
5 32 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.37%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.00%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.25%) JIRA
10 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.50%) MLflow
12 3 (0.37%) Selenium
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Gatling
13 1 (0.12%) JMeter
13 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 298 (37.20%) Multimedia
2 223 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 149 (18.60%) Finance
4 88 (10.99%) French Language
5 75 (9.36%) Retail
6 61 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (6.99%) Manufacturing
8 51 (6.37%) Swedish Language
9 49 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
10 46 (5.74%) Banking
11 44 (5.49%) Financial Institution
12 25 (3.12%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.12%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.37%) Law
14 11 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.37%) Publishing
15 6 (0.75%) Advertising
15 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.75%) Legal
16 5 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 349 (43.57%) Trainee
2 175 (21.85%) Developer
3 125 (15.61%) Trainee Developer
4 112 (13.98%) Analyst
4 112 (13.98%) Software Developer
5 111 (13.86%) Trainee Software Developer
6 107 (13.36%) Architect
7 88 (10.99%) Service Analyst
7 88 (10.99%) Service Desk Analyst
8 80 (9.99%) Administrator
9 72 (8.99%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (8.99%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.37%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.37%) Programmer
10 51 (6.37%) Trainee Programmer
11 46 (5.74%) Senior
12 44 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.74%) Lead
14 28 (3.50%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.37%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (37.20%) CSS
1 298 (37.20%) HTML
2 54 (6.74%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.74%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.74%) NumPy
2 54 (6.74%) Pandas
2 54 (6.74%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.74%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.12%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.12%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.00%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.00%) Jest
5 32 (4.00%) React
6 19 (2.37%) .NET
6 19 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (2.12%) AWS CDK
8 15 (1.87%) RESTful
9 14 (1.75%) Tailwind CSS
10 13 (1.62%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.24%) Algorithms
3 36 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.75%) PKI
6 20 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.87%) e-Learning
8 13 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.12%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.75%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.62%) Blog
15 5 (0.62%) Clustering
15 5 (0.62%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.62%) PACS
15 5 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.36%) Linux
2 40 (4.99%) Windows
3 33 (4.12%) Unix
4 11 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (37.08%) Mentoring
2 269 (33.58%) Cybersecurity
3 166 (20.72%) Agile
4 153 (19.10%) ITIL
5 149 (18.60%) Customer Service
6 136 (16.98%) CI/CD
7 134 (16.73%) DevOps
8 123 (15.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 119 (14.86%) AI
10 91 (11.36%) ITSM
10 91 (11.36%) Performance Metrics
11 86 (10.74%) Web Development
12 74 (9.24%) Data Privacy
13 73 (9.11%) Machine Learning
14 71 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (8.49%) Migration
16 63 (7.87%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.49%) LLM
17 60 (7.49%) Visualisation
18 59 (7.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 468 (58.43%) Python
2 351 (43.82%) JavaScript
3 173 (21.60%) R
4 93 (11.61%) Java
5 81 (10.11%) Bash
6 59 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.12%) C#
7 33 (4.12%) Go
7 33 (4.12%) SQL
8 32 (4.00%) Groovy
9 26 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.12%) C++
12 7 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.62%) Bicep
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.12%) PHP
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 418 (52.18%) Azure Certification
2 414 (51.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 364 (45.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 167 (20.85%) Degree
5 94 (11.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 88 (10.99%) MCSE
7 60 (7.49%) Security Cleared
8 45 (5.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 43 (5.37%) SC Cleared
10 35 (4.37%) ITIL Certification
11 33 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.25%) AWS Certified Developer
14 20 (2.50%) CISSP
15 17 (2.12%) CISM
16 14 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.12%) DV Cleared
19 7 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.87%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.74%) QA
2 31 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.75%) NIST
4 15 (1.87%) GDPR
4 15 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.50%) SLA
5 12 (1.50%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.12%) GRC
6 9 (1.12%) NCSC
7 8 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.62%) DICOM
10 5 (0.62%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.25%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.25%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 108 (13.48%) Docker
2 19 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.87%) KVM
5 5 (0.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.50%) iptables
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 118 (14.73%) Terraform
2 77 (9.61%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.12%) Ansible
4 38 (4.74%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.49%) HP Fortify
6 32 (4.00%) Grafana
7 20 (2.50%) Argo
8 19 (2.37%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.12%) Cilium
11 8 (1.00%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.75%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.62%) Puppet
14 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.12%) Consul
15 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.12%) Packer
15 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 519 (64.79%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.86%) ServiceNow
3 40 (4.99%) Google
4 28 (3.50%) VMware
5 17 (2.12%) Adobe
5 17 (2.12%) Apple
6 15 (1.87%) Databricks
7 12 (1.50%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.50%) SAP
8 11 (1.37%) Workday
9 10 (1.25%) Cisco
10 7 (0.87%) IBM
11 6 (0.75%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.62%) Symantec
12 5 (0.62%) YouTube
13 4 (0.50%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.50%) OpenText
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle
13 4 (0.50%) Pega
13 4 (0.50%) Splunk