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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 369 452
Rank change year-on-year +136 +83 -307
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 743 298 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.71% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.26% 1.80% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 461 170 304
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £97,625 £104,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,688 £70,000
% change year-on-year -43.19% -23.30% +0.80%

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 22,780 16,533 25,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.94% 39.42% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,935 7,702 17,118
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.59%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22 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 22 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 +110 667 £31,500 -51.24% 255
UK excluding London +150 486 £30,500 -43.19% 223
North of England +104 258 £30,500 -39.00% 58
Work from Home +54 207 £62,500 +4.17% 99
London +26 199 £37,500 -55.88% 82
Yorkshire +44 136 £30,500 -39.00% 21
North West +46 95 £30,500 -39.00% 26
Midlands -3 69 £30,500 -52.79% 27
West Midlands +10 59 £30,500 -52.79% 19
South East -19 44 £37,500 -43.61% 53
South West -39 36 £31,500 -44.49% 30
Scotland +14 34 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -18 27 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East of England -13 25 £37,500 -30.23% 30
Northern Ireland -24 15 £35,000 - 10
East Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 8
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 9

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 76 (10.23%) WordPress
2 54 (7.27%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.48%) Confluence
4 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.81%) Apache
5 6 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.81%) Drupal
5 6 (0.81%) nginx
6 4 (0.54%) Documentum
7 3 (0.40%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 76 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.40%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.62%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 743 (100.00%) AWS
2 437 (58.82%) Azure
3 293 (39.43%) GitHub
4 105 (14.13%) Serverless
5 95 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (11.98%) GCP
7 82 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 74 (9.96%) Amazon S3
10 60 (8.08%) Cloud Computing
11 51 (6.86%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (4.98%) Amazon ECR
14 37 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (4.44%) Apigee
17 31 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (2.56%) Pulumi
19 17 (2.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 269 (36.20%) Internet
2 27 (3.63%) Firewall
3 21 (2.83%) Broadband
3 21 (2.83%) Network Security
4 19 (2.56%) VPN
5 8 (1.08%) WAN
6 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.81%) LAN
7 6 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.67%) DNS
9 4 (0.54%) DHCP
9 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.54%) Wireless
10 3 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.40%) IPv4
10 3 (0.40%) VLAN
11 2 (0.27%) BGP
11 2 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.27%) OSPF
11 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.13%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 26 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 26 (3.50%) Metadata
4 23 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.69%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.88%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.67%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.54%) Power BI
12 3 (0.40%) Big Data
12 3 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.27%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.13%) Flink
14 1 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 284 (38.22%) Git
2 54 (7.27%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.86%) GitLab
3 51 (6.86%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.44%) Cypress.io
4 33 (4.44%) Maven
4 33 (4.44%) SonarQube
5 19 (2.56%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.75%) JIRA
8 11 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.54%) MLflow
11 3 (0.40%) Selenium
12 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.13%) Gatling
12 1 (0.13%) JMeter
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 269 (36.20%) Multimedia
2 199 (26.78%) Social Skills
3 128 (17.23%) Finance
4 73 (9.83%) Retail
5 69 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (9.15%) French Language
7 59 (7.94%) Manufacturing
8 47 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (5.11%) Banking
10 32 (4.31%) Financial Institution
11 27 (3.63%) Swedish Language
12 23 (3.10%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.02%) Retail Banking
14 10 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.21%) Law
16 8 (1.08%) Advertising
17 6 (0.81%) Legal
18 5 (0.67%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.67%) Local Government
18 5 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 320 (43.07%) Trainee
2 161 (21.67%) Developer
3 111 (14.94%) Analyst
4 110 (14.80%) Trainee Developer
5 97 (13.06%) Software Developer
6 96 (12.92%) Architect
6 96 (12.92%) Trainee Software Developer
7 78 (10.50%) Administrator
8 76 (10.23%) Service Analyst
8 76 (10.23%) Service Desk Analyst
9 70 (9.42%) Trainee Administrator
9 70 (9.42%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.86%) Programmer
10 51 (6.86%) Senior
10 51 (6.86%) Trainee Programmer
11 40 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (5.11%) Lead
13 28 (3.77%) Java Developer
14 25 (3.36%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (36.20%) CSS
1 269 (36.20%) HTML
2 54 (7.27%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.27%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.27%) NumPy
2 54 (7.27%) Pandas
2 54 (7.27%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.27%) Streamlit
3 42 (5.65%) Spring Boot
4 34 (4.58%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.44%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.44%) Jest
5 33 (4.44%) React
6 19 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.42%) .NET
7 18 (2.42%) AWS CDK
8 16 (2.15%) RESTful
9 14 (1.88%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (1.62%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.71%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.10%) PKI
6 22 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.02%) e-Learning
8 14 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.67%) Clustering
13 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.67%) PACS
13 5 (0.67%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.54%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.34%) Linux
2 31 (4.17%) Windows
3 29 (3.90%) Unix
4 10 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (37.55%) Mentoring
2 255 (34.32%) Cybersecurity
3 151 (20.32%) Agile
4 137 (18.44%) Customer Service
5 133 (17.90%) ITIL
6 130 (17.50%) CI/CD
7 122 (16.42%) DevOps
7 122 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (16.02%) AI
9 84 (11.31%) Web Development
10 80 (10.77%) ITSM
11 78 (10.50%) Performance Metrics
12 72 (9.69%) Data Privacy
13 70 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (9.29%) Machine Learning
15 67 (9.02%) Migration
16 63 (8.48%) Containerisation
17 60 (8.08%) Visualisation
18 59 (7.94%) LLM
18 59 (7.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 429 (57.74%) Python
2 319 (42.93%) JavaScript
3 159 (21.40%) R
4 95 (12.79%) Java
5 79 (10.63%) Bash
6 59 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.44%) Go
7 33 (4.44%) Groovy
8 32 (4.31%) SQL
9 29 (3.90%) C#
10 22 (2.96%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.21%) C++
13 7 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.40%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 374 (50.34%) Azure Certification
2 372 (50.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 336 (45.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 144 (19.38%) Degree
5 93 (12.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 76 (10.23%) MCSE
7 61 (8.21%) Security Cleared
8 40 (5.38%) SC Cleared
9 36 (4.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (3.50%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (2.83%) CISSP
15 17 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (2.29%) CISM
16 11 (1.48%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.35%) DV Cleared
18 7 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.90%) QA
2 30 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.96%) NIST
4 14 (1.88%) GDPR
5 13 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.75%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.21%) GRC
6 9 (1.21%) NCSC
7 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.94%) SLA
8 6 (0.81%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.67%) DICOM
9 5 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.27%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (14.67%) Docker
2 20 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.94%) KVM
5 5 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 5 (0.67%) vSphere
6 4 (0.54%) iptables
7 3 (0.40%) Squid
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (15.07%) Terraform
2 74 (9.96%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.59%) Ansible
4 38 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.98%) HP Fortify
6 29 (3.90%) Grafana
7 20 (2.69%) Argo
8 19 (2.56%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.21%) Cilium
11 8 (1.08%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.67%) Puppet
13 4 (0.54%) Packer
13 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.13%) Consul
15 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.13%) QRadar
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 487 (65.55%) Microsoft
2 93 (12.52%) ServiceNow
3 39 (5.25%) Google
4 29 (3.90%) Adobe
4 29 (3.90%) Apple
5 28 (3.77%) VMware
6 15 (2.02%) Databricks
7 11 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.35%) Cisco
9 9 (1.21%) Splunk
10 8 (1.08%) Oracle
11 6 (0.81%) SAP
12 5 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.67%) Symantec
12 5 (0.67%) Workday
12 5 (0.67%) YouTube
13 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.54%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.54%) OpenText
13 4 (0.54%) Pega