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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 286 484
Rank change year-on-year -35 +198 -330
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 557 484 475
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.07% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.78% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 287 145 313
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £74,125 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.31% -7.14% -

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 18,489 17,417 27,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.45% 38.51% 25.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,761 7,397 17,120
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,637
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.21% -12.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -36 507 £37,500 -46.43% 278
UK excluding London -31 322 £37,500 -42.31% 257
London +4 198 £70,000 -9.68% 82
Work from Home -72 183 £62,500 -3.85% 60
North of England -71 143 £37,500 -42.31% 57
North West -77 66 £37,500 -25.00% 25
Yorkshire +5 62 £37,500 -44.44% 25
Midlands -2 53 £37,500 -31.82% 34
West Midlands +3 48 £37,500 -31.82% 15
South West -56 43 £52,500 -7.48% 36
South East -7 34 £62,500 -12.59% 70
North East -30 15 £37,500 -21.05% 10
Scotland +20 14 £31,250 -40.48% 13
East of England -10 14 £37,500 -55.88% 37
Wales - 11 £53,310 - 8
Northern Ireland -25 10 £39,000 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 19

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 (9.69%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.90%) WordPress
3 17 (3.05%) Confluence
4 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.08%) Apache
7 4 (0.72%) Documentum
8 3 (0.54%) JBoss
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.36%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (13.29%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.87%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.31%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 557 (100.00%) AWS
2 234 (42.01%) Azure
3 130 (23.34%) GitHub
4 94 (16.88%) GCP
5 92 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (15.98%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (14.90%) Serverless
8 78 (14.00%) Cloud Computing
9 70 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (12.39%) Amazon S3
11 56 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.10%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (5.57%) Amazon ECR
15 27 (4.85%) Apigee
16 25 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 19 (3.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 96 (17.24%) Internet
2 39 (7.00%) Network Security
3 34 (6.10%) Firewall
4 20 (3.59%) VPN
5 16 (2.87%) WAN
6 15 (2.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.51%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.33%) LAN
9 12 (2.15%) Broadband
9 12 (2.15%) DNS
10 11 (1.97%) DHCP
11 9 (1.62%) TCP/IP
12 8 (1.44%) IPv4
12 8 (1.44%) Wireless
13 6 (1.08%) VLAN
14 5 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.54%) Wireshark
16 2 (0.36%) BGP
16 2 (0.36%) Cisco IPT
16 2 (0.36%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.54%) NoSQL
2 37 (6.64%) DynamoDB
3 30 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.59%) Metadata
6 12 (2.15%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.90%) Big Data
9 5 (0.90%) Power BI
10 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.54%) Redis
11 3 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 104 (18.67%) Git
2 67 (12.03%) GitLab
3 57 (10.23%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 28 (5.03%) Cypress.io
5 28 (5.03%) Maven
6 27 (4.85%) SonarQube
7 25 (4.49%) Cucumber
8 20 (3.59%) JIRA
9 19 (3.41%) TeamCity
10 15 (2.69%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.15%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.54%) Selenium
13 2 (0.36%) MLflow
14 1 (0.18%) Gatling
14 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.18%) Taiga
14 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 147 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 129 (23.16%) Finance
3 92 (16.52%) Multimedia
4 79 (14.18%) Retail
5 59 (10.59%) Manufacturing
6 49 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (7.00%) French Language
9 35 (6.28%) Swedish Language
10 33 (5.92%) Banking
11 28 (5.03%) Public Sector
12 24 (4.31%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.80%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.26%) Advertising
15 6 (1.08%) Legal
15 6 (1.08%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.72%) Automotive
16 4 (0.72%) Billing
16 4 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 143 (25.67%) Trainee
2 102 (18.31%) Analyst
3 91 (16.34%) Architect
4 87 (15.62%) Senior
5 74 (13.29%) Developer
5 74 (13.29%) Service Analyst
5 74 (13.29%) Service Desk Analyst
6 51 (9.16%) Administrator
6 51 (9.16%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 51 (9.16%) Programmer
6 51 (9.16%) Trainee Programmer
7 44 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (7.72%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.72%) Web Administrator
9 31 (5.57%) Trainee Developer
10 28 (5.03%) Lead
11 27 (4.85%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.67%) Java Developer
12 26 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
12 26 (4.67%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (16.88%) CSS
1 94 (16.88%) HTML
2 62 (11.13%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.69%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.69%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.69%) NumPy
3 54 (9.69%) Pandas
3 54 (9.69%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.69%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.75%) AngularJS
4 32 (5.75%) Spring
5 28 (5.03%) Jest
5 28 (5.03%) Kafka
6 27 (4.85%) Gherkin
7 18 (3.23%) React
8 16 (2.87%) Node.js
9 14 (2.51%) AWS CDK
10 13 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (1.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.31%) Algorithms
3 32 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (5.21%) e-Learning
5 29 (5.21%) PKI
6 26 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (4.13%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.59%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.08%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.08%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.90%) PACS
13 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.34%) Linux
2 39 (7.00%) Windows
3 17 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.51%) Unix
5 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (27.29%) CI/CD
2 150 (26.93%) Agile
3 145 (26.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 142 (25.49%) Mentoring
5 133 (23.88%) AI
6 130 (23.34%) Customer Service
7 127 (22.80%) ITIL
8 100 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
9 94 (16.88%) DevOps
10 77 (13.82%) Machine Learning
11 76 (13.64%) ITSM
12 74 (13.29%) Performance Metrics
13 72 (12.93%) Cloud Security
14 62 (11.13%) Data Privacy
15 61 (10.95%) LLM
15 61 (10.95%) Microservices
16 60 (10.77%) OO
17 58 (10.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 58 (10.41%) Visualisation
18 56 (10.05%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 251 (45.06%) Python
2 123 (22.08%) JavaScript
3 104 (18.67%) Java
4 72 (12.93%) Bash
5 61 (10.95%) R
6 43 (7.72%) SQL
7 42 (7.54%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.92%) Go
9 28 (5.03%) Groovy
10 27 (4.85%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.23%) C#
12 12 (2.15%) Ruby
13 11 (1.97%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.44%) C++
15 6 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.90%) PHP
17 4 (0.72%) Bicep
17 4 (0.72%) COBOL
17 4 (0.72%) Perl
18 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 186 (33.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 183 (32.85%) Azure Certification
3 163 (29.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 135 (24.24%) Degree
5 110 (19.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 74 (13.29%) MCSE
7 72 (12.93%) Security Cleared
8 43 (7.72%) SC Cleared
9 32 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (5.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.13%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (4.13%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (3.23%) CISSP
14 15 (2.69%) CCNA
15 14 (2.51%) CISM
16 13 (2.33%) CCNP
17 12 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (2.15%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.64%) QA
2 37 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.23%) NIST
3 18 (3.23%) SOC 2
4 15 (2.69%) GDPR
5 13 (2.33%) GRC
6 12 (2.15%) NCSC
7 11 (1.97%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.80%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.44%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.90%) DICOM
12 4 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.36%) SLA
14 1 (0.18%) COBIT
14 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 85 (15.26%) Docker
2 21 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.44%) Squid
4 8 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.44%) vSphere
5 6 (1.08%) KVM
6 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.72%) iptables
7 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (22.62%) Terraform
2 78 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 51 (9.16%) Ansible
4 32 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 31 (5.57%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.85%) Grafana
7 14 (2.51%) Argo
8 13 (2.33%) Cilium
9 12 (2.15%) Kustomize
10 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.62%) Packer
11 9 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.44%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.44%) ZABBIX
13 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
13 6 (1.08%) Puppet
14 2 (0.36%) Iperf
14 2 (0.36%) QRadar
15 1 (0.18%) Consul
15 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 295 (52.96%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.49%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.57%) VMware
4 29 (5.21%) Google
5 25 (4.49%) Apple
6 24 (4.31%) Adobe
7 21 (3.77%) Oracle
8 18 (3.23%) Splunk
9 16 (2.87%) Cisco
9 16 (2.87%) Databricks
10 11 (1.97%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.80%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.62%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.44%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.26%) SAP
15 5 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.72%) Infor
16 4 (0.72%) OpenText
16 4 (0.72%) Pega
16 4 (0.72%) YouTube