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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 289 510
Rank change year-on-year -41 +221 -228
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 576 503 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.02% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.87% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 252 161 278
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £52,125
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -10.97% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £85,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £63,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -41.18% -12.07% +3.57%

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 19,066 17,500 25,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.30% 35.62% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,988 7,816 16,221
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 16 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 16 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 -42 535 £50,000 -27.29% 253
UK excluding London -84 307 £37,500 -41.18% 215
London +16 243 £77,500 +1.64% 92
Work from Home -92 179 £65,000 - 70
North of England -81 126 £37,500 -42.31% 60
North West -81 65 £37,500 -40.00% 32
Midlands -4 51 £37,500 -34.78% 34
Yorkshire 0 49 £37,500 -42.31% 21
West Midlands -19 46 £37,500 -34.78% 19
South West -48 43 £52,500 -7.48% 29
South East +6 41 £62,500 -11.03% 50
East of England -5 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
North East -45 12 £37,500 -21.05% 10
Scotland +19 9 £37,500 -28.57% 14
Northern Ireland -50 9 £40,750 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 15

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 (9.38%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.64%) WordPress
3 17 (2.95%) Confluence
4 14 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.37%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.17%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 576 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (34.38%) Azure
3 133 (23.09%) Cloud Computing
4 115 (19.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 104 (18.06%) GitHub
6 103 (17.88%) Serverless
7 92 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
8 88 (15.28%) GCP
9 87 (15.10%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (13.89%) Amazon S3
11 71 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (5.73%) AWS Step Functions
15 30 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (5.03%) Amazon ECR
17 26 (4.51%) Apigee
18 25 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 20 (3.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.19%) Internet
2 61 (10.59%) Network Security
3 43 (7.47%) Firewall
4 25 (4.34%) VPN
5 19 (3.30%) WAN
6 16 (2.78%) LAN
7 15 (2.60%) DNS
7 15 (2.60%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
8 13 (2.26%) DHCP
9 10 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.39%) IPv4
10 8 (1.39%) VLAN
10 8 (1.39%) Wireless
11 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.04%) Broadband
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.69%) DMZ
15 3 (0.52%) BGP
16 2 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.85%) NoSQL
2 40 (6.94%) DynamoDB
3 36 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.47%) Metadata
6 14 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.08%) Big Data
9 11 (1.91%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.22%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.04%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (12.50%) GitLab
2 68 (11.81%) Git
3 58 (10.07%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.21%) Cucumber
6 27 (4.69%) Cypress.io
6 27 (4.69%) Maven
7 26 (4.51%) SonarQube
8 22 (3.82%) JIRA
9 18 (3.13%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.78%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.04%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 3 (0.52%) Taiga
13 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) JMeter
14 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 149 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.17%) Finance
3 81 (14.06%) Retail
4 59 (10.24%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.24%) Multimedia
5 48 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.33%) Swedish Language
6 38 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (5.38%) Banking
9 29 (5.03%) French Language
10 20 (3.47%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.74%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.22%) Military
14 6 (1.04%) Advertising
14 6 (1.04%) Billing
15 4 (0.69%) Automotive
15 4 (0.69%) Electronics
15 4 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 120 (20.83%) Senior
2 110 (19.10%) Trainee
3 108 (18.75%) Analyst
4 96 (16.67%) Architect
5 77 (13.37%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.37%) Service Desk Analyst
6 58 (10.07%) Consultant
7 57 (9.90%) Developer
8 51 (8.85%) Administrator
8 51 (8.85%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.85%) Programmer
8 51 (8.85%) Trainee Programmer
9 43 (7.47%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.47%) Web Administrator
10 36 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 27 (4.69%) Java Engineer
12 27 (4.69%) Security Consultant
12 27 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (4.69%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.15%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.59%) CSS
2 61 (10.59%) HTML
3 54 (9.38%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.38%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.38%) NumPy
3 54 (9.38%) Pandas
3 54 (9.38%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.38%) Streamlit
4 39 (6.77%) Spring
5 38 (6.60%) Kafka
6 33 (5.73%) AngularJS
7 27 (4.69%) Jest
8 26 (4.51%) Gherkin
9 24 (4.17%) AWS CDK
10 22 (3.82%) Node.js
11 18 (3.13%) React
12 14 (2.43%) .NET
13 13 (2.26%) REST
14 10 (1.74%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 85 (14.76%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.89%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.94%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 38 (6.60%) Public Cloud
6 34 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
6 34 (5.90%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.73%) Data Centre
8 30 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (4.51%) PKI
11 13 (2.26%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.91%) Blog
14 8 (1.39%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.22%) Fat Client
15 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.16%) Linux
2 45 (7.81%) Windows
3 19 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.56%) Unix
5 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (31.77%) AI
2 155 (26.91%) CI/CD
3 151 (26.22%) Agile
4 150 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 149 (25.87%) Mentoring
6 133 (23.09%) Customer Service
7 127 (22.05%) ITIL
8 98 (17.01%) Cloud Security
8 98 (17.01%) Machine Learning
9 85 (14.76%) DevOps
10 82 (14.24%) Cybersecurity
11 79 (13.72%) ITSM
12 78 (13.54%) Migration
13 77 (13.37%) Performance Metrics
14 66 (11.46%) Microservices
15 62 (10.76%) LLM
15 62 (10.76%) Prompt Engineering
16 60 (10.42%) OO
16 60 (10.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 59 (10.24%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 226 (39.24%) Python
2 114 (19.79%) Java
3 83 (14.41%) JavaScript
4 74 (12.85%) Bash
5 57 (9.90%) SQL
6 47 (8.16%) R
7 39 (6.77%) TypeScript
8 30 (5.21%) Go
9 27 (4.69%) Groovy
10 24 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.17%) Ruby
11 17 (2.95%) C#
12 15 (2.60%) PHP
13 14 (2.43%) Perl
14 10 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.22%) C++
16 6 (1.04%) COBOL
17 5 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.69%) Bicep
19 2 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 161 (27.95%) Degree
2 156 (27.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 139 (24.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 139 (24.13%) Azure Certification
4 132 (22.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 93 (16.15%) Security Cleared
6 77 (13.37%) MCSE
7 44 (7.64%) SC Cleared
8 41 (7.12%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (4.86%) CISSP
10 27 (4.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 17 (2.95%) CCNA
13 17 (2.95%) Master's Degree
14 15 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (2.60%) CISM
15 14 (2.43%) CCNP
16 13 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.54%) QA
2 41 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.65%) GDPR
3 21 (3.65%) SOC 2
4 19 (3.30%) NIST
5 13 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.26%) GRC
6 12 (2.08%) NCSC
7 10 (1.74%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.39%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.39%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.87%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.69%) DICOM
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.35%) SLA
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 71 (12.33%) Docker
2 22 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.39%) Squid
4 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.39%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 129 (22.40%) Terraform
2 69 (11.98%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.47%) Ansible
4 30 (5.21%) HP Fortify
5 23 (3.99%) Grafana
5 23 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.26%) Cilium
7 10 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.74%) Puppet
7 10 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.56%) Argo
8 9 (1.56%) Packer
9 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.39%) Proxmox
9 8 (1.39%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.04%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.69%) Iperf
12 3 (0.52%) QRadar
13 1 (0.17%) Consul
13 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 271 (47.05%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.06%) ServiceNow
3 32 (5.56%) VMware
4 28 (4.86%) Oracle
5 25 (4.34%) Apple
6 24 (4.17%) Adobe
6 24 (4.17%) Cisco
7 23 (3.99%) Splunk
8 22 (3.82%) Google
9 18 (3.13%) SAP
10 14 (2.43%) Databricks
10 14 (2.43%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (1.56%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.39%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.22%) Avaya
14 7 (1.22%) Genesys
15 6 (1.04%) IBM
15 6 (1.04%) Salesforce