AWS Certification Job Trends

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies citing AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	402	217	451
Rank change year-on-year	-185	+234	-62
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification	531	648	320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.43%	1.23%	0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category	2.42%	3.67%	1.62%
Number of salaries quoted	187	347	150
10^th Percentile	£47,750	-	£42,500
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£28,250	£51,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£50,000	£71,250
Median % change year-on-year	+50.00%	-29.82%	-5.00%
75^th Percentile	£89,375	£77,500	£80,000
90^th Percentile	£105,000	£97,500	£97,050
UK excluding London median annual salary	£67,500	£30,500	£56,988
% change year-on-year	+121.31%	-46.48%	-12.33%

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 citing academic qualifications or professional certifications.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing academic qualifications or professional certifications	21,928	17,634	19,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	17.76%	33.49%	29.27%
Number of salaries quoted	12,334	7,865	8,055
10^th Percentile	£32,750	£28,250	£32,750
25^th Percentile	£43,750	£36,250	£44,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£58,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-5.17%	+0.87%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£75,000	£76,250
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£90,000	£90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,500	£47,520	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+16.79%	-13.60%	+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 Salary Trend

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 13 November 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 13 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-173	473	£77,500	+53.38%	579
UK excluding London	-232	243	£67,500	+121.31%	308
London	-60	241	£85,000	+13.33%	304
Work from Home	-164	150	£77,500	+3.33%	370
North of England	-140	74	£77,750	+154.92%	85
South East	-88	57	£65,000	+36.84%	83
South West	-56	50	£73,750	+83.23%	45
North West	-98	34	£62,500	+104.92%	51
Midlands	-89	32	£67,500	+82.43%	56
North East	-52	30	£80,500	+163.93%	20
West Midlands	-66	26	£57,500	+88.52%	51
East of England	-62	15	£85,000	+53.85%	12
Wales	-63	10	£80,000	+164.46%	7
Yorkshire	-91	10	£72,500	+137.70%	14
East Midlands	-48	6	£67,500	+32.20%	5
Scotland	-31	3	-	-	20
Northern Ireland	-109	2	£42,500	-	15

AWS Certification Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, job vacancies citing AWS Certification also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing AWS Certification.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	531
2	Infrastructure as Code	42.4%	225
3	CI/CD	40.1%	213
4	Azure	36.7%	195
5	AI	35.4%	188
6	Agile	33.9%	180
7	Mentoring	31.8%	169
8	Degree	28.6%	152
9	Microsoft	28.2%	150
9	Python	28.2%	150
11	AWS Certified Solutions Architect	27.3%	145
12	AWS CloudFormation	26.6%	141
13	Security Cleared	26.4%	140
14	Terraform	25.6%	136
15	Azure Certification	24.1%	128
15	Cloud Security	24.1%	128
17	Continuous Improvement	23.4%	124
18	DevOps	22.6%	120
19	Java	21.5%	114
20	GCP	19.4%	103
20	Problem-Solving	19.4%	103
22	Serverless	18.5%	98
23	ITIL	18.3%	97
24	Microservices	17.9%	95
24	Roadmaps	17.9%	95
26	SC Cleared	17.5%	93
27	SQL	16.4%	87
27	Technical Leadership	16.4%	87
29	Observability	16.2%	86
30	Cloud Computing	15.6%	83

AWS Certification Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Degree	28.6%	152
2	AWS Certified Solutions Architect	27.3%	145
3	Security Cleared	26.4%	140
4	Azure Certification	24.1%	128
5	SC Cleared	17.5%	93
6	Microsoft Certification	12.6%	67
7	CISSP	8.9%	47
8	MCSE	7.5%	40
9	Cisco Certification	7.0%	37
10	BPSS Clearance	6.4%	34
10	Computer Science Degree	6.4%	34
12	AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner	6.0%	32
13	TOGAF Certification	5.6%	30
14	DV Cleared	5.1%	27
15	CISM	3.8%	20
16	Master's Degree	3.6%	19
17	AWS Certified DevOps Engineer	3.0%	16
17	CCNP	3.0%	16
19	CCNA	2.8%	15
20	AWS Certified Developer	2.6%	14