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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 288 502
Rank change year-on-year -28 +214 -322
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 558 491 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.05% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.82% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 271 152 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,100 £51,250
25th Percentile £33,625 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 18,713 17,417 26,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.40% 37.38% 25.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,863 7,532 16,939
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,501
25th Percentile £42,996 £38,750 £38,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.21% -12.04%
75th Percentile £79,688 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -36 511 £48,500 -30.71% 381
UK excluding London -63 308 £37,500 -42.31% 301
London +5 214 £75,000 - 145
Work from Home -73 181 £62,500 -3.85% 209
North of England -80 132 £37,500 -42.31% 75
North West -84 64 £37,500 -40.00% 47
Yorkshire +4 54 £37,500 -42.31% 22
Midlands -18 53 £37,500 -37.50% 49
West Midlands -15 48 £37,500 -37.50% 33
South West -54 41 £52,500 -7.48% 32
South East -12 35 £62,500 -12.59% 82
East of England -6 14 £37,500 -55.88% 31
North East -41 14 £37,500 -21.05% 9
Scotland +26 12 £34,500 -34.29% 23
Wales - 11 £53,310 - 9
Northern Ireland -21 10 £39,000 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 16

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 (9.68%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.89%) WordPress
3 18 (3.23%) Confluence
4 11 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.08%) Apache
7 4 (0.72%) Documentum
7 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.54%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pig
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 75 (13.44%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.86%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.30%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 558 (100.00%) AWS
2 215 (38.53%) Azure
3 114 (20.43%) GitHub
4 100 (17.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 94 (16.85%) GCP
6 92 (16.49%) Cloud Computing
7 91 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
8 85 (15.23%) Serverless
9 75 (13.44%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (13.26%) Amazon S3
11 61 (10.93%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (6.27%) AWS Step Functions
14 34 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (5.73%) Amazon ECR
16 28 (5.02%) Apigee
17 25 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 21 (3.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 81 (14.52%) Internet
2 46 (8.24%) Network Security
3 37 (6.63%) Firewall
4 21 (3.76%) VPN
5 17 (3.05%) WAN
6 15 (2.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.51%) LAN
7 14 (2.51%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.33%) DNS
9 12 (2.15%) Broadband
9 12 (2.15%) DHCP
10 9 (1.61%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.43%) IPv4
11 8 (1.43%) Wireless
12 7 (1.25%) VLAN
13 6 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.54%) DMZ
16 2 (0.36%) BGP
16 2 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.81%) DynamoDB
3 31 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.94%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.58%) Metadata
6 12 (2.15%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.25%) Big Data
9 6 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.90%) Power BI
11 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.54%) Redis
12 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 87 (15.59%) Git
2 69 (12.37%) GitLab
3 59 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.20%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.20%) Maven
6 28 (5.02%) SonarQube
7 26 (4.66%) Cucumber
8 21 (3.76%) JIRA
9 19 (3.41%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.87%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.15%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.54%) Selenium
14 2 (0.36%) MLflow
15 1 (0.18%) Gatling
15 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
15 1 (0.18%) Taiga
15 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 147 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 137 (24.55%) Finance
3 80 (14.34%) Retail
4 75 (13.44%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.57%) Manufacturing
6 48 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (6.99%) French Language
8 38 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (6.45%) Swedish Language
10 34 (6.09%) Public Sector
11 32 (5.73%) Banking
12 23 (4.12%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.79%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.25%) Advertising
16 5 (0.90%) Legal
16 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.72%) Automotive
17 4 (0.72%) Billing
17 4 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 126 (22.58%) Trainee
2 104 (18.64%) Analyst
3 92 (16.49%) Senior
4 91 (16.31%) Architect
5 75 (13.44%) Service Analyst
5 75 (13.44%) Service Desk Analyst
6 65 (11.65%) Developer
7 51 (9.14%) Administrator
7 51 (9.14%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (9.14%) Programmer
7 51 (9.14%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (7.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (7.71%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.71%) Web Administrator
9 30 (5.38%) Lead
10 29 (5.20%) Consultant
11 27 (4.84%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
12 23 (4.12%) Java Engineer
12 23 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.80%) CSS
1 77 (13.80%) HTML
2 65 (11.65%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.68%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.68%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.68%) NumPy
3 54 (9.68%) Pandas
3 54 (9.68%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.68%) Streamlit
4 34 (6.09%) AngularJS
4 34 (6.09%) Spring
5 31 (5.56%) Kafka
6 29 (5.20%) Jest
7 28 (5.02%) Gherkin
8 18 (3.23%) React
9 17 (3.05%) Node.js
10 16 (2.87%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
13 10 (1.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.98%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.29%) Algorithms
3 37 (6.63%) Onboarding
4 34 (6.09%) Public Cloud
5 32 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (5.38%) e-Learning
7 28 (5.02%) PKI
8 27 (4.84%) Data Centre
8 27 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.43%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.90%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (9.68%) Linux
2 43 (7.71%) Windows
3 18 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.69%) Unix
5 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (27.60%) CI/CD
2 153 (27.42%) Agile
3 150 (26.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (26.34%) AI
5 137 (24.55%) Mentoring
6 131 (23.48%) Customer Service
7 129 (23.12%) ITIL
8 95 (17.03%) DevOps
9 86 (15.41%) Cybersecurity
10 82 (14.70%) Machine Learning
11 80 (14.34%) Cloud Security
12 77 (13.80%) ITSM
13 75 (13.44%) Performance Metrics
14 61 (10.93%) Data Privacy
14 61 (10.93%) LLM
14 61 (10.93%) OO
15 60 (10.75%) Microservices
16 59 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (10.57%) Migration
17 58 (10.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 235 (42.11%) Python
2 107 (19.18%) Java
3 104 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 75 (13.44%) Bash
5 54 (9.68%) R
6 47 (8.42%) SQL
7 41 (7.35%) TypeScript
8 33 (5.91%) Go
9 29 (5.20%) Groovy
10 27 (4.84%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.87%) C#
12 14 (2.51%) Ruby
13 11 (1.97%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.43%) C++
15 7 (1.25%) PHP
16 6 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (1.08%) Perl
17 4 (0.72%) Bicep
17 4 (0.72%) COBOL
18 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 168 (30.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 162 (29.03%) Azure Certification
3 147 (26.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 140 (25.09%) Degree
5 117 (20.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 78 (13.98%) Security Cleared
7 75 (13.44%) MCSE
8 43 (7.71%) SC Cleared
9 35 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
12 23 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 22 (3.94%) CISSP
14 16 (2.87%) CCNA
14 16 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (2.69%) CISM
16 14 (2.51%) Master's Degree
17 13 (2.33%) CCNP
18 12 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.80%) QA
2 38 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.41%) NIST
3 19 (3.41%) SOC 2
4 15 (2.69%) GDPR
5 13 (2.33%) GRC
6 11 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.97%) NCSC
6 11 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.43%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.90%) DICOM
10 4 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.36%) SLA
12 1 (0.18%) COBIT
12 1 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 85 (15.23%) Docker
2 21 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.43%) Squid
4 8 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.43%) 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
1 130 (23.30%) Terraform
2 78 (13.98%) Kubernetes
3 52 (9.32%) Ansible
4 32 (5.73%) HP Fortify
4 32 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 27 (4.84%) Grafana
6 14 (2.51%) Argo
7 13 (2.33%) Cilium
8 12 (2.15%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.61%) Packer
11 8 (1.43%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.43%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.43%) Puppet
11 8 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.54%) Iperf
13 2 (0.36%) QRadar
14 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 279 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.64%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.56%) VMware
4 29 (5.20%) Google
5 25 (4.48%) Apple
6 24 (4.30%) Adobe
7 22 (3.94%) Oracle
8 19 (3.41%) Splunk
9 17 (3.05%) Cisco
10 16 (2.87%) Databricks
11 12 (2.15%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.97%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.61%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.43%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.43%) SAP
15 6 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.72%) Infor
16 4 (0.72%) OpenText
16 4 (0.72%) Pega
16 4 (0.72%) YouTube