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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 290 495
Rank change year-on-year -44 +205 -219
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 569 508 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.95% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 250 164 258
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,300 £52,125
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £78,125
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -10.40% +3.25%
75th Percentile £79,688 £88,125 £85,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -42.31% -10.34% +3.57%

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 19,109 17,231 23,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.05% 35.10% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,081 7,814 14,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 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 23 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 -57 528 £50,000 -28.57% 306
UK excluding London -71 306 £37,500 -42.31% 223
London +23 238 £77,500 - 139
Work from Home -105 171 £72,500 +11.54% 102
North of England -90 123 £37,500 -42.31% 61
North West -83 64 £37,500 -40.00% 27
Midlands -11 53 £37,500 -42.31% 31
West Midlands -16 48 £37,500 -42.31% 15
Yorkshire +1 47 £37,500 -42.31% 22
South West -50 43 £52,500 -7.48% 32
South East -4 41 £62,500 -3.85% 49
East of England 0 15 £37,500 -55.88% 23
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
North East -44 12 £37,500 -21.05% 15
Scotland +25 9 £37,500 -28.57% 18
Northern Ireland -60 9 £40,750 - 4
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 (9.49%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.73%) WordPress
3 17 (2.99%) Confluence
4 13 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.88%) Apache
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) Documentum
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.53%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.22%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 569 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (34.45%) Azure
3 132 (23.20%) Cloud Computing
4 114 (20.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 103 (18.10%) GitHub
6 102 (17.93%) Serverless
7 93 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
8 87 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (15.29%) GCP
9 81 (14.24%) Amazon S3
10 70 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (6.68%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (4.75%) Amazon ECR
16 24 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (4.22%) Apigee
17 23 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.34%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.36%) Internet
2 62 (10.90%) Network Security
3 40 (7.03%) Firewall
4 22 (3.87%) VPN
5 19 (3.34%) WAN
6 16 (2.81%) LAN
7 15 (2.64%) DNS
7 15 (2.64%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.64%) Software-Defined Networking
8 13 (2.28%) DHCP
9 10 (1.76%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.41%) IPv4
10 8 (1.41%) VLAN
10 8 (1.41%) Wireless
11 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.88%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.70%) DMZ
14 3 (0.53%) BGP
15 2 (0.35%) OSPF
15 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 39 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (6.85%) DynamoDB
3 23 (4.04%) Data Lake
4 19 (3.34%) Metadata
5 14 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.11%) Big Data
8 10 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.23%) SAP HANA
9 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.88%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.88%) Power BI
11 4 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (12.48%) GitLab
2 69 (12.13%) Git
3 57 (10.02%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.49%) Visual Studio Code
5 31 (5.45%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.57%) Maven
7 25 (4.39%) Cypress.io
8 24 (4.22%) SonarQube
9 23 (4.04%) JIRA
10 18 (3.16%) TeamCity
11 16 (2.81%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.53%) Selenium
13 3 (0.53%) Taiga
13 3 (0.53%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.18%) Ant
14 1 (0.18%) Gatling
14 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.18%) JMeter
14 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 152 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 146 (25.66%) Finance
3 79 (13.88%) Retail
4 59 (10.37%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.37%) Multimedia
5 49 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.44%) Swedish Language
7 37 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (5.45%) Banking
10 29 (5.10%) French Language
11 20 (3.51%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.93%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.23%) Military
15 6 (1.05%) Advertising
15 6 (1.05%) Billing
16 4 (0.70%) Automotive
16 4 (0.70%) Electronics
16 4 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 120 (21.09%) Senior
2 110 (19.33%) Trainee
3 109 (19.16%) Analyst
4 91 (15.99%) Architect
5 77 (13.53%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.53%) Service Desk Analyst
6 59 (10.37%) Consultant
7 56 (9.84%) Developer
8 51 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.96%) Programmer
8 51 (8.96%) Trainee Programmer
9 50 (8.79%) Administrator
10 43 (7.56%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.56%) Web Administrator
11 36 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
13 28 (4.92%) Java Engineer
13 28 (4.92%) Security Consultant
14 27 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.75%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (12.13%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.72%) CSS
2 61 (10.72%) HTML
3 54 (9.49%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.49%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.49%) NumPy
3 54 (9.49%) Pandas
3 54 (9.49%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.49%) Streamlit
4 40 (7.03%) Spring
5 39 (6.85%) Kafka
6 31 (5.45%) AngularJS
7 25 (4.39%) Jest
8 24 (4.22%) AWS CDK
8 24 (4.22%) Gherkin
9 23 (4.04%) Node.js
10 18 (3.16%) React
11 15 (2.64%) .NET
12 13 (2.28%) REST
13 10 (1.76%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 80 (14.06%) Onboarding
3 63 (11.07%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 39 (6.85%) Public Cloud
6 36 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (6.15%) e-Learning
8 33 (5.80%) Data Centre
9 29 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 24 (4.22%) PKI
12 13 (2.28%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.93%) Blog
15 7 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.23%) Fat Client
15 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.23%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.91%) Windows
2 39 (6.85%) Linux
3 19 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (32.16%) AI
2 156 (27.42%) CI/CD
3 147 (25.83%) Agile
3 147 (25.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (25.31%) Mentoring
5 133 (23.37%) Customer Service
6 126 (22.14%) ITIL
7 99 (17.40%) Cloud Security
7 99 (17.40%) Machine Learning
8 83 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
9 81 (14.24%) ITSM
10 78 (13.71%) DevOps
11 77 (13.53%) Performance Metrics
12 76 (13.36%) Migration
13 65 (11.42%) Microservices
14 62 (10.90%) LLM
15 61 (10.72%) Prompt Engineering
16 60 (10.54%) OO
17 59 (10.37%) Conversational UI
17 59 (10.37%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 219 (38.49%) Python
2 107 (18.80%) Java
3 77 (13.53%) JavaScript
4 64 (11.25%) Bash
5 57 (10.02%) SQL
6 47 (8.26%) R
7 37 (6.50%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.39%) Groovy
9 24 (4.22%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.22%) Ruby
10 23 (4.04%) Go
11 18 (3.16%) C#
12 15 (2.64%) PHP
13 14 (2.46%) Perl
14 10 (1.76%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.23%) C++
16 6 (1.05%) COBOL
17 5 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.70%) Bicep
19 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 162 (28.47%) Degree
2 156 (27.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 142 (24.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 134 (23.55%) Azure Certification
5 132 (23.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 94 (16.52%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.53%) MCSE
8 45 (7.91%) SC Cleared
9 42 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (4.75%) CISSP
11 25 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 24 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (3.34%) Master's Degree
15 18 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (2.99%) CCNA
17 16 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
18 14 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 14 (2.46%) CCNP
19 13 (2.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.71%) QA
2 41 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.87%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.51%) GDPR
5 18 (3.16%) NIST
6 14 (2.46%) GRC
7 13 (2.28%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.76%) NCSC
9 9 (1.58%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (1.05%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.53%) DICOM
12 3 (0.53%) SLA
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.18%) COBIT
14 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (11.25%) Docker
2 22 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.34%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.41%) Squid
4 8 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.41%) vSphere
5 5 (0.88%) KVM
6 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 123 (21.62%) Terraform
2 63 (11.07%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.33%) Ansible
4 28 (4.92%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.69%) Grafana
6 15 (2.64%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.28%) Cilium
8 11 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.93%) Puppet
8 11 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.58%) Packer
10 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.41%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.05%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.70%) Iperf
13 3 (0.53%) Argo
13 3 (0.53%) QRadar
14 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.18%) Consul
14 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 273 (47.98%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.28%) ServiceNow
3 30 (5.27%) Oracle
3 30 (5.27%) VMware
4 25 (4.39%) Apple
5 24 (4.22%) Adobe
5 24 (4.22%) Cisco
6 23 (4.04%) Splunk
7 18 (3.16%) SAP
8 15 (2.64%) Google
9 14 (2.46%) Databricks
9 14 (2.46%) Palo Alto
10 12 (2.11%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.76%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.41%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.23%) Avaya
14 7 (1.23%) Genesys
15 6 (1.05%) Salesforce
16 5 (0.88%) Infor