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 21 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 360 439
Rank change year-on-year +151 +79 -294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 816 309 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.92% 1.87% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 522 168 279
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,519 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% -6.67% +0.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £89,063 £86,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £103,750
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 20,801 16,565 23,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.40% 39.20% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,395 7,512 16,278
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,606 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,869 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,313 £75,000 £72,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +151 716 £31,000 -52.01% 290
UK excluding London +188 524 £30,500 -41.90% 267
North of England +102 257 £30,500 -34.41% 67
Work from Home +87 245 £75,000 +25.00% 80
London +38 219 £43,750 -49.28% 81
Yorkshire +50 140 £30,500 -32.22% 29
North West +52 88 £30,500 -39.00% 25
Midlands +22 66 £30,500 -52.79% 34
West Midlands +29 52 £30,500 -52.79% 15
South East +11 52 £33,750 -44.44% 60
Scotland +24 45 £30,500 -41.90% 12
South West -4 42 £31,000 -34.74% 39
East of England +8 34 £37,500 -40.00% 36
North East +2 29 £30,500 -32.22% 14
Northern Ireland -12 23 £31,000 -63.53% 8
East Midlands -35 14 £51,058 -7.17% 19
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 13

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 78 (9.56%) WordPress
2 54 (6.62%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.98%) Confluence
4 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (0.74%) Apache
6 6 (0.74%) Drupal
6 6 (0.74%) nginx
7 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
8 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 101 (12.38%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (6.62%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 816 (100.00%) AWS
2 486 (59.56%) Azure
3 323 (39.58%) GitHub
4 129 (15.81%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (13.24%) Serverless
6 83 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 80 (9.80%) GCP
8 78 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (9.07%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.35%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (5.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 41 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
17 31 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (3.19%) Apigee
19 20 (2.45%) Entra ID
20 19 (2.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 298 (36.52%) Internet
2 28 (3.43%) Firewall
3 23 (2.82%) VPN
4 21 (2.57%) Broadband
5 20 (2.45%) Network Security
6 11 (1.35%) WAN
7 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.23%) SSL
8 7 (0.86%) DNS
8 7 (0.86%) VLAN
9 6 (0.74%) DHCP
9 6 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.61%) LAN
10 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.61%) Wireless
11 4 (0.49%) BGP
11 4 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.49%) OSPF
12 3 (0.37%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.39%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.02%) NoSQL
3 32 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 29 (3.55%) Metadata
5 24 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.45%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.21%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.98%) DB2
11 6 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.49%) Power BI
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 1 (0.12%) GIS
15 1 (0.12%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 311 (38.11%) Git
2 54 (6.62%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 44 (5.39%) GitLab
5 26 (3.19%) Cypress.io
5 26 (3.19%) Maven
5 26 (3.19%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.33%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.84%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.23%) JIRA
9 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.49%) MLflow
11 2 (0.25%) Selenium
12 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.12%) Gatling
12 1 (0.12%) JMeter
12 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 298 (36.52%) Multimedia
2 238 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 152 (18.63%) Finance
4 101 (12.38%) French Language
5 74 (9.07%) Retail
6 64 (7.84%) Swedish Language
7 63 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (6.86%) Manufacturing
9 50 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (5.88%) Banking
11 47 (5.76%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.94%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.33%) Retail Banking
14 13 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.47%) Law
16 11 (1.35%) Publishing
17 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.74%) Legal
19 5 (0.61%) Local Government
19 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 349 (42.77%) Trainee
2 169 (20.71%) Developer
3 125 (15.32%) Trainee Developer
4 124 (15.20%) Analyst
5 112 (13.73%) Architect
6 111 (13.60%) Software Developer
6 111 (13.60%) Trainee Software Developer
7 101 (12.38%) Service Analyst
7 101 (12.38%) Service Desk Analyst
8 79 (9.68%) Administrator
9 72 (8.82%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (8.82%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.25%) Programmer
10 51 (6.25%) Trainee Programmer
11 43 (5.27%) Senior
12 41 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.41%) Lead
14 29 (3.55%) Data Architect
15 23 (2.82%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (36.52%) CSS
1 298 (36.52%) HTML
2 54 (6.62%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.62%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.62%) NumPy
2 54 (6.62%) Pandas
2 54 (6.62%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.62%) Streamlit
3 35 (4.29%) Spring Boot
4 31 (3.80%) React
5 27 (3.31%) AngularJS
6 26 (3.19%) Gherkin
6 26 (3.19%) Jest
7 19 (2.33%) .NET
7 19 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.08%) AWS CDK
9 14 (1.72%) RESTful
9 14 (1.72%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.11%) Algorithms
3 38 (4.66%) Public Cloud
4 36 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.70%) PKI
6 21 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.72%) e-Learning
9 13 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (0.98%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.61%) Blog
15 5 (0.61%) Clustering
15 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.61%) PACS
15 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.21%) Linux
2 45 (5.51%) Windows
3 36 (4.41%) Unix
4 13 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (36.89%) Mentoring
2 271 (33.21%) Cybersecurity
3 165 (20.22%) ITIL
4 162 (19.85%) Customer Service
5 158 (19.36%) Agile
6 128 (15.69%) CI/CD
7 127 (15.56%) DevOps
8 118 (14.46%) AI
9 117 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 105 (12.87%) ITSM
11 104 (12.75%) Performance Metrics
12 86 (10.54%) Web Development
13 76 (9.31%) Data Privacy
14 74 (9.07%) Machine Learning
15 70 (8.58%) Migration
16 69 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
17 63 (7.72%) Containerisation
18 61 (7.48%) LLM
18 61 (7.48%) Microservices
19 59 (7.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 470 (57.60%) Python
2 351 (43.01%) JavaScript
3 173 (21.20%) R
4 88 (10.78%) Java
5 73 (8.95%) Bash
6 54 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.17%) C#
8 31 (3.80%) Go
8 31 (3.80%) SQL
9 27 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 26 (3.19%) Groovy
11 10 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.98%) C++
13 7 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (0.74%) Bicep
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.12%) PHP
15 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 431 (52.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 428 (52.45%) Azure Certification
3 364 (44.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 185 (22.67%) Degree
5 102 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 101 (12.38%) MCSE
7 54 (6.62%) Security Cleared
8 48 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 39 (4.78%) SC Cleared
10 37 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 24 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
14 22 (2.70%) CISSP
15 18 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (2.21%) CISM
16 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.10%) CCNP
18 8 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 8 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.99%) QA
2 33 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.82%) NIST
4 18 (2.21%) GDPR
5 16 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.84%) SLA
7 11 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.23%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.98%) GRC
11 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.61%) DICOM
11 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.25%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.25%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) Basel III
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 104 (12.75%) Docker
2 21 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.86%) KVM
5 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.49%) iptables
6 4 (0.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 114 (13.97%) Terraform
2 78 (9.56%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.88%) Ansible
4 38 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.92%) Grafana
6 30 (3.68%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.45%) Argo
8 19 (2.33%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.98%) Cilium
10 8 (0.98%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.61%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Consul
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Nessus
14 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 541 (66.30%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.60%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.78%) Google
4 30 (3.68%) VMware
5 17 (2.08%) Adobe
5 17 (2.08%) Apple
6 13 (1.59%) Databricks
6 13 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.47%) SAP
8 11 (1.35%) Cisco
8 11 (1.35%) IBM
8 11 (1.35%) Workday
9 7 (0.86%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.61%) Symantec
10 5 (0.61%) YouTube
11 4 (0.49%) OpenText
11 4 (0.49%) Pega
12 3 (0.37%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.37%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.37%) Splunk