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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 284 505
Rank change year-on-year -55 +221 -145
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 584 508 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.02% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.96% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 249 166 218
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -9.68% +2.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,188 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -37.69% -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 19,581 17,170 21,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.90% 34.61% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,350 7,870 12,046
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,944
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -4.17%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -40 542 £55,000 -21.43% 607
UK excluding London -85 311 £40,500 -37.69% 384
London +22 248 £77,500 +1.64% 294
Work from Home -102 177 £80,000 +16.34% 306
North of England -89 123 £37,500 -42.31% 101
North West -95 62 £37,500 -40.00% 60
Midlands -26 51 £37,500 -44.44% 51
South West -46 48 £56,500 -0.43% 72
West Midlands -24 46 £37,500 -44.44% 34
South East -13 43 £62,500 -9.42% 99
Yorkshire -11 41 £37,500 -42.31% 28
North East -35 20 £52,000 +9.47% 14
East of England -18 15 £37,500 -55.88% 27
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 7
Scotland +12 9 £37,500 -28.57% 22
Northern Ireland -68 9 £40,750 - 7
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 17

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 44 (7.53%) WordPress
2 39 (6.68%) Jupyter
3 18 (3.08%) Confluence
4 15 (2.57%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.68%) Apache
6 4 (0.68%) JBoss
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (7.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.11%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 584 (100.00%) AWS
2 218 (37.33%) Azure
3 118 (20.21%) AWS CloudFormation
3 118 (20.21%) Cloud Computing
4 106 (18.15%) GCP
5 104 (17.81%) GitHub
6 99 (16.95%) Serverless
7 93 (15.92%) Microsoft 365
8 82 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (13.36%) Amazon S3
10 72 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 25 (4.28%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (3.77%) Apigee
17 18 (3.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.01%) Internet
2 65 (11.13%) Network Security
3 42 (7.19%) Firewall
4 25 (4.28%) VPN
4 25 (4.28%) WAN
5 20 (3.42%) DNS
5 20 (3.42%) SD-WAN
6 19 (3.25%) Software-Defined Networking
7 17 (2.91%) DHCP
7 17 (2.91%) LAN
8 13 (2.23%) TCP/IP
9 10 (1.71%) Wireless
10 8 (1.37%) IPv4
10 8 (1.37%) VLAN
11 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.68%) DMZ
14 3 (0.51%) BGP
14 3 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.73%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (6.34%) DynamoDB
4 21 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.08%) Metadata
6 12 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.88%) Big Data
8 10 (1.71%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.20%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.86%) Power BI
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (12.16%) GitLab
2 70 (11.99%) Git
3 55 (9.42%) Jenkins
4 39 (6.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 33 (5.65%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.45%) JIRA
7 24 (4.11%) Maven
8 23 (3.94%) Cypress.io
9 22 (3.77%) SonarQube
10 18 (3.08%) TeamCity
11 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 3 (0.51%) Taiga
13 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
14 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
15 1 (0.17%) Gatling
15 1 (0.17%) git-flow
15 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
15 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 165 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 146 (25.00%) Finance
3 62 (10.62%) Retail
4 59 (10.10%) Multimedia
5 58 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.22%) Swedish Language
7 46 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (7.53%) Manufacturing
9 42 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (5.48%) Banking
11 29 (4.97%) French Language
12 21 (3.60%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.40%) Aerospace
13 14 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.88%) Law
15 8 (1.37%) Marketing
16 7 (1.20%) Legal
16 7 (1.20%) Military
17 6 (1.03%) Billing
17 6 (1.03%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 130 (22.26%) Senior
2 108 (18.49%) Analyst
3 102 (17.47%) Architect
4 95 (16.27%) Trainee
5 77 (13.18%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.18%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.27%) Consultant
7 56 (9.59%) Developer
8 49 (8.39%) Administrator
9 43 (7.36%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.36%) Web Administrator
10 38 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 36 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (6.16%) Programmer
11 36 (6.16%) Trainee Programmer
12 30 (5.14%) Java Engineer
13 29 (4.97%) Security Consultant
14 27 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.99%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.79%) CSS
2 63 (10.79%) HTML
3 46 (7.88%) Kafka
4 43 (7.36%) Spring
5 39 (6.68%) Hugging Face
5 39 (6.68%) Matplotlib
5 39 (6.68%) NumPy
5 39 (6.68%) Pandas
5 39 (6.68%) scikit-learn
5 39 (6.68%) Streamlit
6 28 (4.79%) AngularJS
7 27 (4.62%) AWS CDK
8 23 (3.94%) Jest
8 23 (3.94%) Node.js
9 22 (3.77%) Gherkin
10 20 (3.42%) .NET
11 19 (3.25%) React
12 14 (2.40%) REST
13 10 (1.71%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 104 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 86 (14.73%) Onboarding
3 50 (8.56%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 44 (7.53%) Public Cloud
6 38 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (6.34%) e-Learning
8 34 (5.82%) Data Centre
9 29 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 28 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (3.94%) PKI
12 13 (2.23%) Blog
12 13 (2.23%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.37%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.22%) Windows
2 38 (6.51%) Linux
3 21 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (30.48%) AI
2 176 (30.14%) CI/CD
3 171 (29.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (26.88%) Mentoring
5 156 (26.71%) Agile
6 127 (21.75%) ITIL
7 118 (20.21%) Customer Service
8 106 (18.15%) Cloud Security
9 90 (15.41%) Machine Learning
10 88 (15.07%) Cybersecurity
11 86 (14.73%) DevOps
12 82 (14.04%) ITSM
13 77 (13.18%) Performance Metrics
14 76 (13.01%) Migration
15 72 (12.33%) Microservices
16 67 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
18 59 (10.10%) Computer Science
19 58 (9.93%) Analytics
19 58 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 212 (36.30%) Python
2 112 (19.18%) Java
3 81 (13.87%) JavaScript
4 63 (10.79%) Bash
5 57 (9.76%) SQL
6 47 (8.05%) R
7 35 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 26 (4.45%) Go
9 24 (4.11%) Ruby
10 23 (3.94%) Groovy
10 23 (3.94%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.08%) C#
12 15 (2.57%) PHP
13 14 (2.40%) Perl
14 10 (1.71%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.03%) C++
15 6 (1.03%) COBOL
16 5 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.68%) Bicep
18 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 167 (28.60%) Degree
2 157 (26.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 146 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 143 (24.49%) Azure Certification
5 119 (20.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 106 (18.15%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.18%) MCSE
8 58 (9.93%) SC Cleared
9 46 (7.88%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (4.79%) CISSP
12 23 (3.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.42%) CCNA
13 20 (3.42%) Master's Degree
13 20 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (3.25%) AWS Certified Developer
14 19 (3.25%) CCNP
15 18 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (2.40%) DV Cleared
17 13 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.36%) QA
2 42 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.94%) SOC 2
4 22 (3.77%) GDPR
5 19 (3.25%) NIST
6 14 (2.40%) GRC
6 14 (2.40%) NCSC
7 12 (2.05%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.88%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.37%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.37%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.51%) SLA
13 2 (0.34%) DICOM
13 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (11.64%) Docker
2 23 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.37%) vSphere
5 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.86%) KVM
6 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) iptables
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 131 (22.43%) Terraform
2 70 (11.99%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.51%) Ansible
4 26 (4.45%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.25%) Grafana
6 13 (2.23%) Cilium
6 13 (2.23%) Puppet
7 12 (2.05%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.05%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.54%) Packer
10 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.86%) Argo
12 4 (0.68%) Iperf
12 4 (0.68%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.51%) QRadar
14 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.34%) kaniko
15 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 261 (44.69%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.64%) ServiceNow
3 32 (5.48%) Oracle
4 31 (5.31%) VMware
5 25 (4.28%) Apple
6 24 (4.11%) Adobe
6 24 (4.11%) Cisco
6 24 (4.11%) Splunk
7 20 (3.42%) Google
8 18 (3.08%) SAP
9 17 (2.91%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.57%) Databricks
11 12 (2.05%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.88%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.20%) Avaya
14 7 (1.20%) Genesys
15 6 (1.03%) F5
15 6 (1.03%) Salesforce