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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 373 393
Rank change year-on-year +188 +20 -247
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 850 337 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 0.71% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 1.85% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 513 159 292
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -22.22% -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 20,233 18,245 21,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.01% 38.52% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,130 7,313 14,909
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.99%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +186 733 £30,500 -52.79% 322
UK excluding London +203 530 £30,500 -41.90% 323
Work from Home +119 288 £75,000 +25.00% 45
North of England +122 260 £30,500 -32.22% 82
London +67 232 £57,500 -34.29% 80
Yorkshire +46 144 £30,500 -32.22% 32
North West +64 85 £30,500 -39.00% 41
South East +33 59 £41,875 -23.86% 59
Midlands +29 58 £30,500 -52.79% 49
West Midlands +41 47 £30,500 -52.79% 22
Scotland +23 47 £30,500 -53.96% 25
South West +24 40 £30,500 -35.79% 52
Northern Ireland +6 33 - - 4
North East +21 31 £30,500 -32.22% 10
East of England +17 29 £80,000 +48.84% 40
East Midlands -22 11 £51,058 -7.17% 27
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 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 48 (5.65%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.00%) WordPress
3 12 (1.41%) Tomcat
3 12 (1.41%) WebSphere
4 11 (1.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.06%) Confluence
6 6 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.59%) Apache
7 5 (0.59%) Drupal
7 5 (0.59%) nginx
8 4 (0.47%) Documentum
9 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (16.24%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (5.76%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 850 (100.00%) AWS
2 484 (56.94%) Azure
3 306 (36.00%) GitHub
4 168 (19.76%) Microsoft 365
5 123 (14.47%) Serverless
6 89 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 87 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
8 83 (9.76%) GCP
9 80 (9.41%) Amazon S3
10 54 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 41 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (3.65%) Amazon ECR
17 30 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (2.82%) Apigee
19 21 (2.47%) Entra ID
20 20 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 277 (32.59%) Internet
2 28 (3.29%) Firewall
3 25 (2.94%) VPN
4 22 (2.59%) Broadband
5 19 (2.24%) Network Security
6 18 (2.12%) Remote Desktop
7 14 (1.65%) SSL
8 10 (1.18%) WAN
9 9 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.06%) VLAN
10 7 (0.82%) DNS
10 7 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.71%) DHCP
11 6 (0.71%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.59%) VoIP
13 4 (0.47%) BGP
13 4 (0.47%) LAN
13 4 (0.47%) OSPF
14 3 (0.35%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.29%) DynamoDB
2 42 (4.94%) NoSQL
3 36 (4.24%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.53%) Metadata
5 25 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.35%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.24%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.41%) DB2
10 11 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.59%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.47%) Big Data
14 3 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
16 1 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 297 (34.94%) Git
2 48 (5.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 41 (4.82%) GitLab
5 27 (3.18%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.82%) Maven
6 24 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.24%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.65%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.53%) JIRA
10 10 (1.18%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.47%) MLflow
13 3 (0.35%) Vite
14 2 (0.24%) Selenium
15 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 279 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 277 (32.59%) Multimedia
3 152 (17.88%) Finance
4 138 (16.24%) French Language
5 109 (12.82%) Swedish Language
6 69 (8.12%) Retail
7 65 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (6.47%) Banking
9 52 (6.12%) Manufacturing
10 49 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (5.76%) Financial Institution
11 26 (3.06%) Public Sector
12 23 (2.71%) Retail Banking
13 17 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.29%) Law
14 11 (1.29%) Publishing
15 10 (1.18%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.71%) Legal
17 5 (0.59%) Local Government
17 5 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 325 (38.24%) Trainee
2 170 (20.00%) Developer
3 161 (18.94%) Analyst
4 138 (16.24%) Service Analyst
4 138 (16.24%) Service Desk Analyst
5 133 (15.65%) Trainee Developer
6 124 (14.59%) Software Developer
6 124 (14.59%) Trainee Software Developer
7 118 (13.88%) Architect
8 64 (7.53%) Senior
9 48 (5.65%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 48 (5.65%) Programmer
9 48 (5.65%) Trainee Programmer
10 45 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.59%) Lead
12 36 (4.24%) Administrator
13 30 (3.53%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.41%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.41%) Web Administrator
15 22 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (32.59%) CSS
1 277 (32.59%) HTML
2 50 (5.88%) Hugging Face
2 50 (5.88%) NumPy
2 50 (5.88%) Pandas
3 48 (5.65%) Matplotlib
3 48 (5.65%) scikit-learn
3 48 (5.65%) Streamlit
4 36 (4.24%) Spring Boot
5 28 (3.29%) React
6 27 (3.18%) Jest
7 26 (3.06%) AngularJS
8 24 (2.82%) Gherkin
9 19 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
10 18 (2.12%) .NET
11 17 (2.00%) AWS CDK
12 15 (1.76%) Kafka
12 15 (1.76%) RESTful
13 13 (1.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 42 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.59%) PKI
6 20 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.29%) e-Learning
11 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.59%) Blog
14 5 (0.59%) Clustering
14 5 (0.59%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.59%) PACS
14 5 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.47%) Linux
2 51 (6.00%) Windows
3 42 (4.94%) Unix
4 17 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (40.71%) Mentoring
2 297 (34.94%) Cybersecurity
3 207 (24.35%) ITIL
4 176 (20.71%) Customer Service
5 159 (18.71%) Agile
6 144 (16.94%) ITSM
7 135 (15.88%) DevOps
8 131 (15.41%) CI/CD
9 123 (14.47%) Performance Metrics
10 122 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (13.18%) AI
12 79 (9.29%) Migration
13 72 (8.47%) Data Privacy
14 70 (8.24%) Machine Learning
14 70 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (8.12%) Microservices
16 67 (7.88%) Computer Science
16 67 (7.88%) Containerisation
17 65 (7.65%) TOGAF
18 61 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 455 (53.53%) Python
2 337 (39.65%) JavaScript
3 144 (16.94%) R
4 96 (11.29%) Java
5 74 (8.71%) Bash
6 59 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.59%) C#
8 32 (3.76%) SQL
9 30 (3.53%) PowerShell
10 29 (3.41%) Go
11 24 (2.82%) Groovy
12 9 (1.06%) Bicep
12 9 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.82%) C++
14 6 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
16 1 (0.12%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 454 (53.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 419 (49.29%) Azure Certification
3 335 (39.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 221 (26.00%) Degree
5 138 (16.24%) MCSE
6 113 (13.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 54 (6.35%) Security Cleared
7 54 (6.35%) TOGAF Certification
8 45 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (4.82%) SC Cleared
10 34 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (3.18%) AWS Certified Developer
12 23 (2.71%) CISSP
13 21 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (2.35%) A+ Certification
15 17 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (2.00%) CISM
16 14 (1.65%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
18 8 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (15.06%) QA
2 36 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.94%) NIST
4 20 (2.35%) GDPR
5 19 (2.24%) SLA
6 16 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.29%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.18%) NCSC
9 9 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.94%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.94%) GRC
11 5 (0.59%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.59%) DICOM
11 5 (0.59%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.24%) GxP
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.12%) Basel III
13 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (12.82%) Docker
2 41 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.82%) KVM
6 5 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.47%) vSphere
8 3 (0.35%) iptables
8 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 112 (13.18%) Terraform
2 82 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.76%) Ansible
4 36 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.65%) Grafana
6 28 (3.29%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.35%) Argo
8 19 (2.24%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.06%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.94%) Cilium
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.35%) Nessus
12 3 (0.35%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 562 (66.12%) Microsoft
2 150 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 49 (5.76%) VMware
4 39 (4.59%) Google
5 18 (2.12%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.00%) Adobe
6 17 (2.00%) Apple
6 17 (2.00%) IBM
7 15 (1.76%) SAP
8 11 (1.29%) Workday
9 10 (1.18%) Cisco
10 9 (1.06%) Databricks
11 5 (0.59%) Symantec
11 5 (0.59%) YouTube
12 4 (0.47%) OpenText
12 4 (0.47%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.47%) Pega
13 3 (0.35%) Ariba
13 3 (0.35%) Oracle
13 3 (0.35%) SolarWinds