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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 297 482
Rank change year-on-year -14 +185 -326
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 564 483 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.07% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.06% 2.78% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 283 143 317
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £73,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 18,443 17,398 27,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.47% 38.52% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,713 7,385 17,210
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,671
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,890 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,738
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.29% -12.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -25 516 £37,500 -46.43% 272
UK excluding London -49 327 £37,500 -42.31% 248
London -3 200 £67,500 -12.90% 84
Work from Home -58 193 £62,500 -3.85% 56
North of England -58 147 £37,500 -42.31% 61
North West -66 67 £37,500 -25.00% 29
Yorkshire +20 65 £37,500 -42.31% 25
Midlands -14 55 £37,500 -36.81% 33
West Midlands -5 49 £37,500 -36.81% 14
South West -49 44 £52,500 -7.48% 34
South East -8 34 £62,500 -12.59% 70
North East -39 15 £37,500 -21.05% 10
Scotland +24 14 £31,250 -40.48% 8
East of England -8 14 £37,500 -55.88% 34
Northern Ireland -27 10 £39,000 - 4
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 7
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 19

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 (9.57%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.80%) WordPress
3 17 (3.01%) Confluence
4 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.06%) Apache
7 4 (0.71%) Documentum
8 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) SAS
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 74 (13.12%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.75%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.26%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 564 (100.00%) AWS
2 236 (41.84%) Azure
3 128 (22.70%) GitHub
4 94 (16.67%) GCP
5 90 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (15.78%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (14.72%) Serverless
8 78 (13.83%) Cloud Computing
9 68 (12.06%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (11.52%) Amazon S3
11 54 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (6.03%) AWS Step Functions
14 32 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (5.50%) Amazon ECR
16 27 (4.79%) Apigee
17 25 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (3.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 96 (17.02%) Internet
2 39 (6.91%) Network Security
3 34 (6.03%) Firewall
4 20 (3.55%) VPN
5 18 (3.19%) Broadband
6 16 (2.84%) WAN
7 15 (2.66%) Software-Defined Networking
8 14 (2.48%) SD-WAN
9 13 (2.30%) LAN
10 12 (2.13%) DNS
11 11 (1.95%) DHCP
12 9 (1.60%) TCP/IP
13 8 (1.42%) IPv4
13 8 (1.42%) Wireless
14 6 (1.06%) VLAN
15 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
17 2 (0.35%) BGP
17 2 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
17 2 (0.35%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.69%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.74%) DynamoDB
3 26 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.72%) Data Lake
4 21 (3.72%) Metadata
5 18 (3.19%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.89%) Big Data
8 5 (0.89%) Power BI
9 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.53%) Redis
10 3 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.53%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 104 (18.44%) Git
2 67 (11.88%) GitLab
3 55 (9.75%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 28 (4.96%) Cypress.io
5 28 (4.96%) Maven
6 27 (4.79%) SonarQube
7 25 (4.43%) Cucumber
8 20 (3.55%) JIRA
9 19 (3.37%) TeamCity
10 18 (3.19%) Jaeger
11 15 (2.66%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.53%) Selenium
13 2 (0.35%) MLflow
14 1 (0.18%) Gatling
14 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.18%) Taiga
14 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 152 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 129 (22.87%) Finance
3 92 (16.31%) Multimedia
4 79 (14.01%) Retail
5 59 (10.46%) Manufacturing
6 57 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (6.91%) French Language
8 35 (6.21%) Swedish Language
9 33 (5.85%) Banking
10 26 (4.61%) Public Sector
11 24 (4.26%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.77%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.24%) Advertising
14 6 (1.06%) Legal
14 6 (1.06%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.71%) Automotive
15 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 4 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 143 (25.35%) Trainee
2 104 (18.44%) Analyst
3 92 (16.31%) Architect
4 87 (15.43%) Senior
5 74 (13.12%) Developer
5 74 (13.12%) Service Analyst
5 74 (13.12%) Service Desk Analyst
6 51 (9.04%) Administrator
6 51 (9.04%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 51 (9.04%) Programmer
6 51 (9.04%) Trainee Programmer
7 45 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (7.62%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.62%) Web Administrator
9 34 (6.03%) Lead
10 31 (5.50%) Trainee Developer
11 27 (4.79%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.61%) Java Developer
12 26 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
12 26 (4.61%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (16.67%) CSS
1 94 (16.67%) HTML
2 60 (10.64%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.57%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.57%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.57%) NumPy
3 54 (9.57%) Pandas
3 54 (9.57%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.57%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.67%) AngularJS
4 32 (5.67%) Spring
5 28 (4.96%) Jest
5 28 (4.96%) Kafka
6 27 (4.79%) Gherkin
7 19 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (3.19%) React
9 14 (2.48%) Node.js
10 12 (2.13%) AWS CDK
11 10 (1.77%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.17%) Algorithms
3 34 (6.03%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (5.14%) e-Learning
5 29 (5.14%) PKI
6 28 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (4.43%) Onboarding
8 20 (3.55%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.24%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.89%) PACS
13 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.71%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.28%) Linux
2 39 (6.91%) Windows
3 20 (3.55%) Unix
4 17 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (27.48%) Agile
2 150 (26.60%) CI/CD
2 150 (26.60%) Mentoring
3 147 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (23.58%) AI
5 130 (23.05%) Customer Service
6 127 (22.52%) ITIL
7 100 (17.73%) Cybersecurity
7 100 (17.73%) DevOps
8 76 (13.48%) ITSM
9 75 (13.30%) Machine Learning
10 74 (13.12%) Performance Metrics
11 68 (12.06%) Cloud Security
12 62 (10.99%) Data Privacy
13 61 (10.82%) LLM
13 61 (10.82%) Microservices
14 60 (10.64%) OO
15 58 (10.28%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 58 (10.28%) Visualisation
16 56 (9.93%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 259 (45.92%) Python
2 131 (23.23%) JavaScript
3 110 (19.50%) Java
4 78 (13.83%) Bash
5 61 (10.82%) R
6 44 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 43 (7.62%) SQL
8 39 (6.91%) Go
9 28 (4.96%) Groovy
10 27 (4.79%) PowerShell
11 20 (3.55%) C#
12 11 (1.95%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.77%) Ruby
14 8 (1.42%) C++
15 6 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.89%) PHP
17 4 (0.71%) Bicep
17 4 (0.71%) Perl
18 2 (0.35%) COBOL
19 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 188 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 185 (32.80%) Azure Certification
3 163 (28.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 136 (24.11%) Degree
5 110 (19.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 74 (13.12%) MCSE
7 73 (12.94%) Security Cleared
8 44 (7.80%) SC Cleared
9 32 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (3.19%) CISSP
14 15 (2.66%) CCNA
15 14 (2.48%) CISM
16 13 (2.30%) CCNP
17 12 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (1.95%) Master's Degree
19 9 (1.60%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.48%) QA
2 37 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.19%) NIST
3 18 (3.19%) SOC 2
4 15 (2.66%) GDPR
5 13 (2.30%) GRC
6 11 (1.95%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.77%) NCSC
8 8 (1.42%) ISO 9001
9 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.89%) DICOM
11 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.35%) SLA
12 1 (0.18%) COBIT
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 91 (16.13%) Docker
2 21 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.42%) Squid
4 8 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.42%) vSphere
5 6 (1.06%) KVM
6 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.71%) iptables
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 128 (22.70%) Terraform
2 84 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.11%) Ansible
4 38 (6.74%) Prometheus
5 31 (5.50%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.79%) Grafana
7 20 (3.55%) Argo
8 18 (3.19%) Kustomize
9 13 (2.30%) Cilium
10 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.60%) Packer
12 8 (1.42%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.42%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
14 6 (1.06%) Puppet
15 2 (0.35%) Iperf
15 2 (0.35%) QRadar
16 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
16 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 297 (52.66%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.26%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.21%) Google
4 31 (5.50%) VMware
5 27 (4.79%) Apple
6 26 (4.61%) Adobe
7 19 (3.37%) Oracle
8 18 (3.19%) Splunk
9 16 (2.84%) Cisco
9 16 (2.84%) Databricks
10 11 (1.95%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.42%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.24%) SAP
15 5 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.71%) Infor
16 4 (0.71%) OpenText
16 4 (0.71%) Pega
16 4 (0.71%) YouTube