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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 285 506
Rank change year-on-year -54 +221 -127
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 576 514 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.03% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.91% 2.97% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 236 164 207
10th Percentile £28,250 £45,750 £45,850
25th Percentile £33,750 £54,688 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -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 19,800 17,327 21,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.43% 34.71% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,633 7,823 11,617
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,375 £41,250
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 £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,400 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +12.80% -2.91% -1.90%

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 19 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 19 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 -57 534 £62,000 -11.43% 577
UK excluding London -97 298 £52,000 -20.00% 485
London +23 254 £77,500 - 248
Work from Home -117 174 £85,000 +21.43% 356
North of England -108 107 £40,000 -38.46% 152
North West -99 55 £37,500 -40.00% 79
Midlands -22 52 £37,500 -42.31% 72
South West -46 51 £60,500 +6.62% 58
West Midlands -17 46 £37,500 -42.31% 50
South East -19 45 £62,500 -11.03% 65
Yorkshire -12 33 £37,500 -42.31% 25
North East -40 19 £66,000 +38.95% 51
East of England -18 15 £37,500 -55.88% 28
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 4
Scotland +2 8 £31,500 -40.00% 62
Northern Ireland -78 7 £40,750 - 46
East Midlands - 6 £31,500 - 22

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 (7.64%) WordPress
2 20 (3.47%) Confluence
3 17 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.95%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
7 3 (0.52%) nginx
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.82%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.17%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 576 (100.00%) AWS
2 230 (39.93%) Azure
3 126 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 111 (19.27%) GCP
5 103 (17.88%) Serverless
6 99 (17.19%) GitHub
7 97 (16.84%) Cloud Computing
8 85 (14.76%) AWS Lambda
8 85 (14.76%) Microsoft 365
9 82 (14.24%) Amazon S3
10 71 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (4.69%) AWS Step Functions
14 27 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (3.65%) Amazon ECR
15 21 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (3.47%) OCI
17 19 (3.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.19%) Internet
2 67 (11.63%) Network Security
3 46 (7.99%) Firewall
4 27 (4.69%) WAN
5 24 (4.17%) VPN
6 21 (3.65%) SD-WAN
7 20 (3.47%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.30%) DNS
8 19 (3.30%) LAN
9 17 (2.95%) DHCP
10 14 (2.43%) TCP/IP
11 12 (2.08%) Wireless
12 9 (1.56%) VLAN
13 8 (1.39%) IPv4
14 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.69%) DMZ
17 3 (0.52%) 3GPP
17 3 (0.52%) BGP
17 3 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 48 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.73%) DynamoDB
4 21 (3.65%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.47%) Metadata
6 16 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.91%) Big Data
8 11 (1.91%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.22%) Power BI
11 7 (1.22%) SAP HANA
12 6 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.69%) GIS
15 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (12.50%) Git
2 71 (12.33%) GitLab
3 53 (9.20%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.90%) Cucumber
5 30 (5.21%) JIRA
6 21 (3.65%) Maven
7 19 (3.30%) Cypress.io
8 18 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 17 (2.95%) Visual Studio Code
10 16 (2.78%) Bitbucket
11 14 (2.43%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.52%) Taiga
13 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
14 2 (0.35%) Ant
14 2 (0.35%) Apache Ivy
14 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.35%) git-flow
14 2 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
14 2 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 166 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 142 (24.65%) Finance
3 67 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.24%) Multimedia
5 54 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (8.33%) Swedish Language
7 47 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (6.08%) Banking
8 35 (6.08%) Retail
9 23 (3.99%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.65%) Financial Institution
11 20 (3.47%) Aerospace
11 20 (3.47%) French Language
12 15 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.43%) Law
14 11 (1.91%) Marketing
15 10 (1.74%) Military
16 9 (1.56%) Legal
17 6 (1.04%) Billing
17 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (22.74%) Senior
2 117 (20.31%) Architect
3 100 (17.36%) Analyst
4 73 (12.67%) Trainee
5 68 (11.81%) Service Analyst
5 68 (11.81%) Service Desk Analyst
6 62 (10.76%) Consultant
7 51 (8.85%) Developer
8 49 (8.51%) Administrator
9 43 (7.47%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.47%) Web Administrator
10 41 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (5.56%) Java Engineer
13 31 (5.38%) Security Consultant
14 28 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.69%) Senior Consultant
16 26 (4.51%) AWS Architect
16 26 (4.51%) Lead
17 25 (4.34%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.98%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.94%) CSS
2 63 (10.94%) HTML
3 50 (8.68%) Kafka
4 46 (7.99%) Spring
5 30 (5.21%) AWS CDK
6 24 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.82%) Node.js
8 21 (3.65%) .NET
9 19 (3.30%) Jest
10 18 (3.13%) Gherkin
10 18 (3.13%) React
11 17 (2.95%) Hugging Face
11 17 (2.95%) Matplotlib
11 17 (2.95%) NumPy
11 17 (2.95%) Pandas
11 17 (2.95%) scikit-learn
11 17 (2.95%) Streamlit
12 14 (2.43%) REST
13 10 (1.74%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 117 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 89 (15.45%) Onboarding
3 47 (8.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 46 (7.99%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (6.42%) e-Learning
7 35 (6.08%) Data Centre
8 29 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (4.86%) Algorithms
9 28 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (3.30%) PKI
11 14 (2.43%) Blog
12 13 (2.26%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (2.08%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.91%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.51%) Windows
2 37 (6.42%) Linux
3 22 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.35%) Solaris
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 180 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 169 (29.34%) Mentoring
4 165 (28.65%) Agile
5 159 (27.60%) AI
6 121 (21.01%) ITIL
7 115 (19.97%) Cloud Security
8 99 (17.19%) DevOps
9 94 (16.32%) Cybersecurity
10 87 (15.10%) Customer Service
11 83 (14.41%) Migration
12 80 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 75 (13.02%) ITSM
14 74 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
15 71 (12.33%) Machine Learning
15 71 (12.33%) Microservices
16 69 (11.98%) Performance Metrics
16 69 (11.98%) Technical Leadership
17 64 (11.11%) Roadmaps
18 61 (10.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 195 (33.85%) Python
2 112 (19.44%) Java
3 81 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 64 (11.11%) SQL
5 61 (10.59%) Bash
6 47 (8.16%) R
7 30 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 27 (4.69%) Go
9 24 (4.17%) Ruby
10 23 (3.99%) PowerShell
11 19 (3.30%) Groovy
12 18 (3.13%) C#
13 15 (2.60%) PHP
14 14 (2.43%) Perl
15 9 (1.56%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.04%) C++
16 6 (1.04%) COBOL
17 5 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 2 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 161 (27.95%) Degree
2 152 (26.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 149 (25.87%) Azure Certification
4 147 (25.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 123 (21.35%) Security Cleared
6 99 (17.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 73 (12.67%) SC Cleared
8 68 (11.81%) MCSE
9 48 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (5.56%) CISSP
11 31 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (3.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (3.82%) Master's Degree
13 22 (3.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (3.65%) CCNA
14 21 (3.65%) CCNP
14 21 (3.65%) DV Cleared
15 18 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
16 16 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.15%) QA
2 42 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.51%) GDPR
4 23 (3.99%) NIST
5 20 (3.47%) SOC 2
6 17 (2.95%) NCSC
7 13 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 13 (2.26%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.08%) HIPAA
9 11 (1.91%) GRC
10 10 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.39%) ISO 9001
12 7 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.69%) SLA
15 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
16 1 (0.17%) COBIT
16 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 70 (12.15%) Docker
2 25 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.39%) Squid
4 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.39%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.87%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 136 (23.61%) Terraform
2 74 (12.85%) Kubernetes
3 44 (7.64%) Ansible
4 19 (3.30%) Grafana
5 18 (3.13%) HP Fortify
6 17 (2.95%) Puppet
7 15 (2.60%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.74%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.56%) Cilium
10 9 (1.56%) Packer
11 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.39%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.04%) Argo
13 4 (0.69%) Iperf
14 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.52%) QRadar
15 2 (0.35%) kaniko
16 1 (0.17%) CASB
Vendors
1 238 (41.32%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.49%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.25%) Oracle
4 31 (5.38%) VMware
5 25 (4.34%) Apple
5 25 (4.34%) Cisco
5 25 (4.34%) Splunk
6 24 (4.17%) Adobe
7 22 (3.82%) Google
8 18 (3.13%) SAP
9 17 (2.95%) Palo Alto
10 16 (2.78%) Databricks
11 15 (2.60%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.08%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.39%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.22%) Avaya
14 7 (1.22%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.22%) Genesys