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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 454 376
Rank change year-on-year +240 -78 -127
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 663 323 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 0.48% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.75% 1.62% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 357 153 254
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,400 £103,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £56,988 £63,750
% change year-on-year -46.48% -10.61% -12.07%

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 17,690 19,895 16,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.39% 29.27% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,893 8,139 11,143
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,375 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +2.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +243 579 £47,500 -26.92% 693
UK excluding London +216 367 £30,500 -46.48% 548
Work from Home +174 258 £75,000 +11.11% 166
London +135 234 £75,000 -5.06% 260
North of England +118 134 £30,500 -32.22% 156
South East +73 72 £47,500 -10.46% 129
Yorkshire +47 69 £30,500 -32.22% 52
North West +80 47 £30,500 -41.90% 90
Midlands +62 47 £31,500 -51.24% 93
West Midlands +50 39 £30,500 -52.79% 59
South West +59 34 £30,500 -52.16% 43
Scotland +6 29 £30,500 -56.43% 30
Northern Ireland +27 27 - - 7
East of England +27 23 £55,250 +10.50% 67
North East +25 18 £30,500 -32.22% 17
East Midlands +16 8 £51,058 -35.16% 34
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 26

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 21 (3.17%) Confluence
1 21 (3.17%) WordPress
2 17 (2.56%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 13 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.51%) nginx
6 9 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.06%) Apache
8 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.60%) SAS
11 2 (0.30%) Drupal
12 1 (0.15%) CMS
12 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 119 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 663 (100.00%) AWS
2 386 (58.22%) Azure
3 190 (28.66%) GitHub
4 147 (22.17%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (16.44%) GCP
6 83 (12.52%) Serverless
7 73 (11.01%) Amazon S3
8 66 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (5.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 34 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (4.83%) SaaS
14 31 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (2.56%) Route 53
19 16 (2.41%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 161 (24.28%) Internet
2 45 (6.79%) Firewall
3 37 (5.58%) DNS
4 29 (4.37%) VPN
5 24 (3.62%) Remote Desktop
6 21 (3.17%) WAN
7 19 (2.87%) SSL
8 17 (2.56%) LAN
8 17 (2.56%) Network Security
9 16 (2.41%) SD-WAN
10 15 (2.26%) DHCP
10 15 (2.26%) HTTP
10 15 (2.26%) VoIP
11 14 (2.11%) FTP
11 14 (2.11%) SMTP
11 14 (2.11%) SSH
11 14 (2.11%) VLAN
12 13 (1.96%) TCP/IP
13 12 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (1.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.24%) NoSQL
2 44 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (6.49%) Data Lake
4 40 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (4.37%) DynamoDB
5 29 (4.37%) Metadata
6 28 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (2.71%) Big Data
8 18 (2.71%) DB2
9 16 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (1.96%) MySQL
11 11 (1.66%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.21%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.06%) CockroachDB
14 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.90%) Power BI
15 5 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 193 (29.11%) Git
2 50 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.83%) JIRA
4 22 (3.32%) GitLab
5 14 (2.11%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.75%) Selenium
9 5 (0.75%) Vite
10 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.60%) Gatling
10 4 (0.60%) JMeter
10 4 (0.60%) JUnit
10 4 (0.60%) Mockito
10 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.60%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.60%) YouTrack
11 2 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 251 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 159 (23.98%) Multimedia
3 139 (20.97%) Finance
4 119 (17.95%) French Language
4 119 (17.95%) Swedish Language
5 81 (12.22%) Banking
6 73 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (8.90%) Law
8 54 (8.14%) Financial Institution
9 51 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
10 36 (5.43%) Public Sector
11 28 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.92%) Retail Banking
13 14 (2.11%) Marketing
13 14 (2.11%) Retail
14 11 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.06%) Publishing
15 7 (1.06%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.90%) Legal
17 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (23.98%) Trainee
2 124 (18.70%) Analyst
3 119 (17.95%) Service Analyst
3 119 (17.95%) Service Desk Analyst
4 99 (14.93%) Architect
5 98 (14.78%) Senior
6 96 (14.48%) Developer
7 75 (11.31%) Trainee Developer
8 74 (11.16%) Software Developer
8 74 (11.16%) Trainee Software Developer
9 44 (6.64%) Lead
10 36 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.22%) Software Engineer
13 27 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (3.92%) Data Architect
15 24 (3.62%) AWS Architect
15 24 (3.62%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 23 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.32%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (24.89%) CSS
1 165 (24.89%) HTML
2 38 (5.73%) Kafka
3 33 (4.98%) React
4 24 (3.62%) LDAP
4 24 (3.62%) Spring
4 24 (3.62%) Spring Boot
5 16 (2.41%) LAPP Stack
5 16 (2.41%) WebSphere MQ
6 11 (1.66%) GraphQL
7 9 (1.36%) RESTful
8 8 (1.21%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.21%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.06%) .NET
9 7 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.06%) Serverless Framework
10 6 (0.90%) HTML5
10 6 (0.90%) REST
10 6 (0.90%) Vue
11 5 (0.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 34 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 24 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (1.96%) Replication
7 12 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.51%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.21%) PKI
12 7 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.06%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.06%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.75%) Blog
13 5 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 84 (12.67%) Windows
2 77 (11.61%) Linux
3 26 (3.92%) Unix
4 25 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.11%) VMS
7 12 (1.81%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (1.51%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.45%) CentOS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.30%) Debian
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (34.24%) Mentoring
2 179 (27.00%) ITIL
3 176 (26.55%) Cybersecurity
4 165 (24.89%) Agile
5 153 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 129 (19.46%) ITSM
7 125 (18.85%) DevOps
8 114 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 105 (15.84%) Customer Service
10 101 (15.23%) Performance Metrics
11 72 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (9.95%) Containerisation
13 64 (9.65%) Microservices
13 64 (9.65%) Software Engineering
14 62 (9.35%) Data Modelling
15 60 (9.05%) Cloud Security
15 60 (9.05%) Migration
16 59 (8.90%) AI
17 58 (8.75%) Computer Science
17 58 (8.75%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 324 (48.87%) Python
2 204 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 90 (13.57%) Java
4 87 (13.12%) R
5 80 (12.07%) SQL
6 50 (7.54%) PowerShell
7 41 (6.18%) Bash
8 36 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 32 (4.83%) C#
10 26 (3.92%) Go
11 16 (2.41%) Groovy
12 10 (1.51%) Bicep
13 7 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.90%) C++
14 6 (0.90%) Perl
15 4 (0.60%) Rust
15 4 (0.60%) Scala
16 3 (0.45%) PROC SQL
17 2 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 330 (49.77%) Azure Certification
2 310 (46.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 216 (32.58%) Degree
4 168 (25.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 121 (18.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 120 (18.10%) MCSE
7 70 (10.56%) Security Cleared
8 65 (9.80%) SC Cleared
9 39 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (4.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (3.92%) A+ Certification
13 25 (3.77%) Master's Degree
14 22 (3.32%) AWS Certified Developer
15 19 (2.87%) CISSP
16 16 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
17 15 (2.26%) CCNP
18 13 (1.96%) PMI Certification
19 12 (1.81%) PMP
20 11 (1.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (16.89%) QA
2 37 (5.58%) GDPR
3 33 (4.98%) NIST
4 27 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.71%) SLA
6 10 (1.51%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.60%) GRC
11 4 (0.60%) NCSC
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.15%) GAAP
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (11.61%) Docker
2 42 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (4.98%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.81%) DFS Replication
6 9 (1.36%) Dovecot
6 9 (1.36%) Postfix
7 8 (1.21%) Squid
8 5 (0.75%) KVM
9 3 (0.45%) Apache Flume
9 3 (0.45%) HDFS
9 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.45%) vSphere
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) iptables
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 108 (16.29%) Terraform
2 101 (15.23%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.03%) Ansible
4 34 (5.13%) Grafana
5 24 (3.62%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.66%) Nessus
6 11 (1.66%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.90%) Autotask
7 6 (0.90%) Puppet
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.75%) SCCM
8 5 (0.75%) SCOM
8 5 (0.75%) WSUS
9 4 (0.60%) Cilium
9 4 (0.60%) Salt
10 3 (0.45%) Argo
10 3 (0.45%) Kibana
10 3 (0.45%) logstash
10 3 (0.45%) Oozie
11 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 373 (56.26%) Microsoft
2 144 (21.72%) ServiceNow
3 44 (6.64%) Google
3 44 (6.64%) VMware
4 25 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.32%) IBM
6 17 (2.56%) SAP
7 16 (2.41%) Cisco
8 15 (2.26%) Oracle
9 8 (1.21%) Ariba
9 8 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.06%) Databricks
11 6 (0.90%) Splunk
11 6 (0.90%) Workday
12 5 (0.75%) Datto
12 5 (0.75%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.60%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.60%) Informatica
13 4 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.45%) Dynatrace