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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 279 487
Rank change year-on-year -59 +208 -198
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 584 512 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.04% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.97% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 257 169 250
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,000 £78,125
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -11.68% +3.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £63,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -41.18% -12.07% +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 19,350 17,239 22,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 34.97% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,179 7,833 13,320
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
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 28 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 28 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 -41 543 £52,000 -24.38% 320
UK excluding London -72 316 £37,500 -41.18% 229
London +14 244 £77,500 - 152
Work from Home -115 173 £77,500 +16.08% 105
North of England -84 129 £37,500 -42.31% 63
North West -79 66 £37,500 -33.33% 33
Midlands -18 52 £37,500 -42.31% 30
West Midlands -3 47 £37,500 -42.31% 15
South West -47 47 £52,500 -7.48% 41
Yorkshire -10 46 £37,500 -42.31% 19
South East +4 42 £62,500 -3.85% 52
North East -32 17 £40,250 -15.26% 14
East of England -8 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
Scotland +20 9 £37,500 -28.57% 14
Northern Ireland -60 9 £40,750 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 15

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 53 (9.08%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.53%) WordPress
3 16 (2.74%) Confluence
4 13 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.68%) Apache
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.51%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (9.93%) 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
2 205 (35.10%) Azure
3 131 (22.43%) Cloud Computing
4 118 (20.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 103 (17.64%) GitHub
6 102 (17.47%) Serverless
7 96 (16.44%) GCP
8 92 (15.75%) Microsoft 365
9 86 (14.73%) AWS Lambda
10 82 (14.04%) Amazon S3
11 72 (12.33%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (5.31%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
16 25 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.11%) Apigee
17 24 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.01%) Internet
2 64 (10.96%) Network Security
3 42 (7.19%) Firewall
4 25 (4.28%) VPN
5 22 (3.77%) WAN
6 19 (3.25%) DNS
7 18 (3.08%) SD-WAN
8 17 (2.91%) Software-Defined Networking
9 16 (2.74%) DHCP
9 16 (2.74%) LAN
10 12 (2.05%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.54%) Wireless
12 8 (1.37%) IPv4
12 8 (1.37%) VLAN
13 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.68%) DMZ
16 3 (0.51%) BGP
17 2 (0.34%) MPLS
17 2 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.39%) NoSQL
2 41 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (6.85%) DynamoDB
4 23 (3.94%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.25%) Metadata
6 13 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.05%) 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 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.86%) Power BI
12 4 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (12.16%) GitLab
2 69 (11.82%) Git
3 57 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 53 (9.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 32 (5.48%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.45%) Maven
7 25 (4.28%) Cypress.io
8 24 (4.11%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.94%) JIRA
10 18 (3.08%) TeamCity
11 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 3 (0.51%) Taiga
13 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.17%) Apache Ivy
14 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 156 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 150 (25.68%) Finance
3 77 (13.18%) Retail
4 59 (10.10%) Multimedia
5 58 (9.93%) Manufacturing
6 53 (9.08%) Public Sector
7 48 (8.22%) Swedish Language
8 39 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (5.48%) Banking
10 29 (4.97%) French Language
11 21 (3.60%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.88%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.20%) Military
15 6 (1.03%) Advertising
15 6 (1.03%) Billing
15 6 (1.03%) Law
15 6 (1.03%) Legal
16 5 (0.86%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 126 (21.58%) Senior
2 109 (18.66%) Trainee
3 108 (18.49%) Analyst
4 95 (16.27%) Architect
5 77 (13.18%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.18%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.27%) Consultant
7 58 (9.93%) Developer
8 50 (8.56%) Administrator
8 50 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 50 (8.56%) Programmer
8 50 (8.56%) Trainee Programmer
9 43 (7.36%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.36%) Web Administrator
10 36 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.97%) Java Engineer
12 29 (4.97%) Security Consultant
13 27 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.99%) Spring Boot
2 62 (10.62%) CSS
2 62 (10.62%) HTML
3 53 (9.08%) Hugging Face
3 53 (9.08%) Matplotlib
3 53 (9.08%) NumPy
3 53 (9.08%) Pandas
3 53 (9.08%) scikit-learn
3 53 (9.08%) Streamlit
4 41 (7.02%) Kafka
4 41 (7.02%) Spring
5 31 (5.31%) AngularJS
6 25 (4.28%) AWS CDK
6 25 (4.28%) Jest
7 24 (4.11%) Gherkin
7 24 (4.11%) Node.js
8 19 (3.25%) React
9 17 (2.91%) .NET
10 14 (2.40%) REST
11 10 (1.71%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 94 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.21%) Onboarding
3 62 (10.62%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 41 (7.02%) Public Cloud
6 37 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (6.16%) e-Learning
8 34 (5.82%) Data Centre
9 29 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (3.94%) PKI
12 13 (2.23%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.05%) Blog
13 12 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.20%) Fat Client
15 7 (1.20%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.88%) Windows
2 39 (6.68%) 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%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (32.19%) AI
2 168 (28.77%) CI/CD
3 160 (27.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (25.86%) Agile
4 151 (25.86%) Mentoring
5 132 (22.60%) Customer Service
6 125 (21.40%) ITIL
7 103 (17.64%) Cloud Security
8 101 (17.29%) Machine Learning
9 85 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
10 82 (14.04%) DevOps
11 81 (13.87%) ITSM
12 77 (13.18%) Performance Metrics
13 75 (12.84%) Migration
14 68 (11.64%) Microservices
15 65 (11.13%) LLM
16 61 (10.45%) Prompt Engineering
17 60 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (10.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 59 (10.10%) OO
Programming Languages
1 221 (37.84%) Python
2 110 (18.84%) Java
3 79 (13.53%) JavaScript
4 64 (10.96%) Bash
5 56 (9.59%) SQL
6 47 (8.05%) R
7 37 (6.34%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.28%) Go
8 25 (4.28%) Groovy
9 24 (4.11%) Ruby
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
1 165 (28.25%) Degree
2 157 (26.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 145 (24.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 139 (23.80%) Azure Certification
5 132 (22.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 98 (16.78%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.18%) MCSE
8 50 (8.56%) SC Cleared
9 45 (7.71%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.79%) CISSP
11 27 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (4.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (3.25%) CCNA
14 19 (3.25%) Master's Degree
15 18 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
15 18 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (2.91%) CCNP
17 14 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 13 (2.23%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.36%) QA
2 42 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.94%) SOC 2
4 21 (3.60%) GDPR
5 19 (3.25%) NIST
6 14 (2.40%) GRC
7 12 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.05%) NCSC
8 9 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
9 8 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 7 (1.20%) HIPAA
11 6 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.51%) DICOM
12 3 (0.51%) SLA
13 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 67 (11.47%) Docker
2 22 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.37%) vSphere
5 5 (0.86%) KVM
6 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) iptables
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 129 (22.09%) Terraform
2 68 (11.64%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.16%) Ansible
4 28 (4.79%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.25%) Grafana
6 13 (2.23%) Cilium
6 13 (2.23%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.05%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.05%) Puppet
8 11 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.54%) Packer
10 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.86%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.68%) Iperf
14 3 (0.51%) Argo
14 3 (0.51%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Consul
15 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 274 (46.92%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.64%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.31%) Oracle
4 30 (5.14%) VMware
5 25 (4.28%) Apple
6 24 (4.11%) Adobe
6 24 (4.11%) Cisco
7 23 (3.94%) Splunk
8 18 (3.08%) SAP
9 17 (2.91%) Google
10 16 (2.74%) Palo Alto
11 15 (2.57%) Databricks
12 12 (2.05%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.71%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
16 7 (1.20%) Avaya
16 7 (1.20%) Genesys
17 6 (1.03%) Salesforce
18 5 (0.86%) Infor