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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 287 451
Rank change year-on-year -16 +164 -294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 594 467 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.06% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 2.69% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 315 131 323
10th Percentile - £44,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,469 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £94,375 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,706 £98,750 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -38.02% -13.57% -

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 19,275 17,378 26,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.89% 39.56% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,381 7,273 17,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.91% +1.93% -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 6 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 6 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 -14 536 £37,500 -47.37% 293
UK excluding London -5 367 £37,500 -38.02% 221
Work from Home -50 199 £62,500 -6.38% 99
London +1 184 £55,000 -32.31% 105
North of England -40 174 £37,500 -42.31% 64
Yorkshire +31 82 £37,500 -46.43% 23
North West -69 73 £37,500 -33.33% 31
Midlands +12 61 £35,000 -34.81% 28
West Midlands -3 55 £35,000 -34.81% 16
South East +1 39 £62,500 -14.38% 54
South West -49 37 £47,000 -17.17% 32
Scotland +24 20 £30,750 -41.43% 8
North East -23 19 £37,500 -21.05% 10
East of England -6 17 £56,250 -33.82% 26
Northern Ireland -26 12 £39,000 - 3
Wales - 7 £51,619 - 8
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 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 54 (9.09%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.41%) WordPress
3 15 (2.53%) Confluence
4 10 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.01%) Apache
7 4 (0.67%) Documentum
8 3 (0.51%) JBoss
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 65 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.26%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
4 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (4.04%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 594 (100.00%) AWS
2 299 (50.34%) Azure
3 162 (27.27%) GitHub
4 92 (15.49%) GCP
5 90 (15.15%) Serverless
6 82 (13.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 82 (13.80%) Microsoft 365
7 73 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (11.95%) Amazon S3
9 61 (10.27%) Cloud Computing
10 50 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.57%) AWS Step Functions
13 33 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
13 33 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (4.88%) Apigee
15 23 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 129 (21.72%) Internet
2 31 (5.22%) Firewall
2 31 (5.22%) Network Security
3 19 (3.20%) VPN
4 18 (3.03%) Broadband
5 15 (2.53%) Software-Defined Networking
6 11 (1.85%) WAN
7 10 (1.68%) LAN
7 10 (1.68%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.35%) IPv4
8 8 (1.35%) Wireless
9 6 (1.01%) DNS
10 5 (0.84%) DHCP
10 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.51%) VLAN
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.17%) OSPF
13 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.07%) DynamoDB
3 28 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.54%) Metadata
5 18 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.84%) Power BI
9 3 (0.51%) Big Data
9 3 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.34%) GIS
10 2 (0.34%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.34%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.17%) Flink
Development Applications
1 145 (24.41%) Git
2 67 (11.28%) GitLab
3 55 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.05%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.05%) Maven
6 29 (4.88%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.87%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.03%) Jaeger
8 18 (3.03%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.86%) JIRA
10 13 (2.19%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.67%) MLflow
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 167 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.72%) Multimedia
3 122 (20.54%) Finance
4 74 (12.46%) Retail
5 71 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (9.93%) Manufacturing
7 49 (8.25%) French Language
8 42 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.89%) Banking
10 24 (4.04%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.69%) Swedish Language
12 15 (2.53%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.35%) Advertising
14 8 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Legal
16 5 (0.84%) Publishing
17 4 (0.67%) Electronics
17 4 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (30.30%) Trainee
2 108 (18.18%) Analyst
3 96 (16.16%) Developer
4 86 (14.48%) Architect
5 74 (12.46%) Senior
6 65 (10.94%) Service Analyst
6 65 (10.94%) Service Desk Analyst
7 51 (8.59%) Administrator
7 51 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (8.59%) Programmer
7 51 (8.59%) Trainee Programmer
8 48 (8.08%) Trainee Developer
9 46 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (7.24%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.24%) Web Administrator
11 42 (7.07%) Software Developer
12 41 (6.90%) Trainee Software Developer
13 33 (5.56%) Lead
14 28 (4.71%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (22.05%) CSS
1 131 (22.05%) HTML
2 57 (9.60%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.09%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.09%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.09%) NumPy
3 54 (9.09%) Pandas
3 54 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.09%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.39%) AngularJS
5 30 (5.05%) Jest
6 29 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 27 (4.55%) Spring
8 25 (4.21%) Kafka
9 22 (3.70%) React
10 18 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (2.19%) .NET
12 12 (2.02%) AWS CDK
13 11 (1.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.61%) Algorithms
3 45 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 29 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (4.71%) PKI
6 27 (4.55%) e-Learning
6 27 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.53%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.84%) PACS
12 5 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.51%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.93%) Linux
2 37 (6.23%) Windows
3 22 (3.70%) Unix
4 18 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (29.12%) Mentoring
2 157 (26.43%) Agile
3 153 (25.76%) CI/CD
4 150 (25.25%) Cybersecurity
5 140 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (21.55%) AI
7 124 (20.88%) Customer Service
8 123 (20.71%) ITIL
9 104 (17.51%) DevOps
10 68 (11.45%) ITSM
10 68 (11.45%) Machine Learning
11 65 (10.94%) Performance Metrics
12 64 (10.77%) Cost Optimisation
12 64 (10.77%) Data Privacy
13 61 (10.27%) LLM
14 60 (10.10%) Microservices
15 59 (9.93%) OO
15 59 (9.93%) Visualisation
16 58 (9.76%) Cloud Security
17 57 (9.60%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 288 (48.48%) Python
2 169 (28.45%) JavaScript
3 103 (17.34%) Java
4 81 (13.64%) R
5 75 (12.63%) Bash
6 48 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.57%) SQL
8 37 (6.23%) Go
9 30 (5.05%) Groovy
10 26 (4.38%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.87%) C#
12 11 (1.85%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.35%) C++
14 6 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.84%) Ruby
16 3 (0.51%) Bicep
17 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.17%) COBOL
17 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.17%) Natural
Qualifications
1 229 (38.55%) Azure Certification
2 216 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 198 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 126 (21.21%) Degree
5 101 (17.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.94%) MCSE
6 65 (10.94%) Security Cleared
7 43 (7.24%) SC Cleared
8 29 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 26 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
9 26 (4.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (3.03%) CISSP
13 16 (2.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (2.53%) CISM
15 11 (1.85%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.68%) CCNA
17 9 (1.52%) CCNP
17 9 (1.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.45%) QA
2 35 (5.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.20%) NIST
4 15 (2.53%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.02%) GRC
5 12 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.85%) GDPR
7 10 (1.68%) NCSC
8 8 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.35%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.84%) DICOM
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) COBIT
12 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 101 (17.00%) Docker
2 21 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.52%) vSphere
5 8 (1.35%) Squid
5 8 (1.35%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.01%) KVM
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) iptables
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 122 (20.54%) Terraform
2 86 (14.48%) Kubernetes
3 57 (9.60%) Ansible
4 39 (6.57%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.56%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.55%) Grafana
7 21 (3.54%) Argo
8 18 (3.03%) Kustomize
9 12 (2.02%) Cilium
10 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.52%) Packer
12 8 (1.35%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.84%) Puppet
15 2 (0.34%) QRadar
16 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.17%) Consul
16 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 339 (57.07%) Microsoft
2 94 (15.82%) ServiceNow
3 39 (6.57%) Apple
4 38 (6.40%) Adobe
5 35 (5.89%) Google
6 31 (5.22%) VMware
7 16 (2.69%) Databricks
7 16 (2.69%) Splunk
8 13 (2.19%) Cisco
8 13 (2.19%) Oracle
9 10 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.35%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.35%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.84%) SAP
11 5 (0.84%) Workday
12 4 (0.67%) OpenText
12 4 (0.67%) Pega
12 4 (0.67%) YouTube