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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 360 430
Rank change year-on-year +135 +70 -284
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 761 294 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.46% 1.82% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 475 165 298
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £53,995 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £97,500 £105,750
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 22,011 16,124 24,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 39.22% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,795 7,597 17,048
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £57,500 £54,995
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% +4.55% -4.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £92,700 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -

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 12 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 12 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 +125 678 £31,500 -50.43% 276
UK excluding London +152 493 £30,500 -41.90% 248
North of England +87 252 £30,500 -39.00% 65
Work from Home +67 217 £75,000 +25.00% 57
London +25 206 £37,500 -55.88% 86
Yorkshire +42 136 £30,500 -39.00% 26
North West +32 89 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands 0 65 £30,500 -52.79% 35
West Midlands +17 54 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East -7 47 £35,625 -46.43% 57
Scotland +16 38 £30,500 -41.90% 10
South West -21 38 £31,500 -33.68% 34
East of England -9 30 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East -7 27 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -22 18 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands - 11 £44,279 - 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 77 (10.12%) WordPress
2 54 (7.10%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.18%) Confluence
5 6 (0.79%) Apache
5 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.79%) Drupal
5 6 (0.79%) nginx
6 4 (0.53%) Documentum
6 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.53%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 84 (11.04%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.23%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 761 (100.00%) AWS
2 441 (57.95%) Azure
3 297 (39.03%) GitHub
4 108 (14.19%) Serverless
5 107 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
6 85 (11.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 85 (11.17%) GCP
7 83 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (10.12%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.88%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (6.44%) AWS Step Functions
11 44 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (4.86%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (4.20%) Apigee
16 31 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.50%) Pulumi
18 18 (2.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 271 (35.61%) Internet
2 27 (3.55%) Firewall
3 21 (2.76%) Broadband
4 20 (2.63%) Network Security
5 18 (2.37%) VPN
6 6 (0.79%) DNS
6 6 (0.79%) WAN
7 5 (0.66%) DHCP
7 5 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.66%) SSL
7 5 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.53%) LAN
8 4 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.53%) Wireless
9 3 (0.39%) VLAN
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.70%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 29 (3.81%) Data Lake
3 29 (3.81%) Metadata
4 24 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.97%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.66%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.66%) Power BI
13 4 (0.53%) DB2
14 3 (0.39%) Big Data
14 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
16 1 (0.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 285 (37.45%) Git
2 54 (7.10%) Visual Studio Code
3 49 (6.44%) GitLab
3 49 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.20%) Cypress.io
4 32 (4.20%) Maven
4 32 (4.20%) SonarQube
5 19 (2.50%) Jaeger
6 18 (2.37%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.45%) JIRA
8 6 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.53%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Selenium
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) JMeter
11 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 271 (35.61%) Multimedia
2 213 (27.99%) Social Skills
3 141 (18.53%) Finance
4 80 (10.51%) French Language
5 75 (9.86%) Retail
6 65 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (7.49%) Manufacturing
8 48 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.78%) Banking
10 41 (5.39%) Swedish Language
11 40 (5.26%) Financial Institution
12 24 (3.15%) Public Sector
13 16 (2.10%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.18%) Law
16 8 (1.05%) Publishing
17 7 (0.92%) Advertising
18 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.79%) Legal
19 5 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 322 (42.31%) Trainee
2 161 (21.16%) Developer
3 113 (14.85%) Analyst
4 111 (14.59%) Trainee Developer
5 102 (13.40%) Architect
6 98 (12.88%) Software Developer
7 97 (12.75%) Trainee Software Developer
8 84 (11.04%) Service Analyst
8 84 (11.04%) Service Desk Analyst
9 79 (10.38%) Administrator
10 71 (9.33%) Trainee Administrator
10 71 (9.33%) Web Administrator
11 51 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (6.70%) Programmer
11 51 (6.70%) Trainee Programmer
12 45 (5.91%) Senior
13 41 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
14 36 (4.73%) Lead
15 27 (3.55%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (35.61%) CSS
1 271 (35.61%) HTML
2 54 (7.10%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.10%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.10%) NumPy
2 54 (7.10%) Pandas
2 54 (7.10%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.10%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.39%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.34%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.20%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.20%) Jest
5 32 (4.20%) React
6 19 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.37%) .NET
8 17 (2.23%) AWS CDK
9 16 (2.10%) RESTful
10 14 (1.84%) Tailwind CSS
11 13 (1.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.62%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (4.60%) Public Cloud
4 23 (3.02%) PKI
5 22 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.97%) e-Learning
8 14 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.66%) Clustering
14 5 (0.66%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.66%) PACS
14 5 (0.66%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.53%) Blog
15 4 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.41%) Linux
2 35 (4.60%) Windows
3 32 (4.20%) Unix
4 10 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (36.14%) Mentoring
2 248 (32.59%) Cybersecurity
3 160 (21.02%) Agile
4 147 (19.32%) Customer Service
4 147 (19.32%) ITIL
5 132 (17.35%) CI/CD
6 127 (16.69%) DevOps
7 122 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (15.64%) AI
9 88 (11.56%) ITSM
10 87 (11.43%) Performance Metrics
11 85 (11.17%) Web Development
12 73 (9.59%) Data Privacy
13 71 (9.33%) Machine Learning
14 70 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
15 67 (8.80%) Migration
16 65 (8.54%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.88%) LLM
17 60 (7.88%) Microservices
17 60 (7.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 438 (57.56%) Python
2 324 (42.58%) JavaScript
3 160 (21.02%) R
4 95 (12.48%) Java
5 79 (10.38%) Bash
6 59 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.47%) Go
8 33 (4.34%) SQL
9 32 (4.20%) C#
9 32 (4.20%) Groovy
10 23 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.71%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.31%) C++
13 8 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.26%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 383 (50.33%) Azure Certification
1 383 (50.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 338 (44.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 161 (21.16%) Degree
4 94 (12.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 84 (11.04%) MCSE
6 60 (7.88%) Security Cleared
7 42 (5.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 41 (5.39%) SC Cleared
9 34 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
10 32 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (3.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 22 (2.89%) CISSP
14 18 (2.37%) CISM
15 14 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (1.31%) DV Cleared
16 10 (1.31%) Master's Degree
17 8 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (11.83%) QA
2 32 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.89%) NIST
4 15 (1.97%) GDPR
4 15 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.84%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.31%) GRC
6 10 (1.31%) SLA
7 9 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.18%) NCSC
8 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.66%) DICOM
10 5 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.26%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (14.32%) Docker
2 19 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.05%) KVM
5 5 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.53%) iptables
7 3 (0.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 115 (15.11%) Terraform
2 76 (9.99%) Kubernetes
3 47 (6.18%) Ansible
4 38 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.73%) HP Fortify
6 30 (3.94%) Grafana
7 20 (2.63%) Argo
8 19 (2.50%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.31%) Cilium
11 8 (1.05%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.66%) Puppet
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.26%) Packer
15 1 (0.13%) Consul
15 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 494 (64.91%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.61%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.26%) Google
4 27 (3.55%) VMware
5 22 (2.89%) Adobe
5 22 (2.89%) Apple
6 15 (1.97%) Databricks
7 12 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.18%) Cisco
8 9 (1.18%) SAP
9 8 (1.05%) Workday
10 6 (0.79%) IBM
11 5 (0.66%) Oracle
11 5 (0.66%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.66%) Splunk
11 5 (0.66%) Symantec
11 5 (0.66%) YouTube
12 4 (0.53%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.53%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.53%) OpenText