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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 357 446
Rank change year-on-year +106 +89 -275
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 680 340 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.79% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 2.00% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 403 168 309
10th Percentile - £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.54% -13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,640 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £53,688 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.26% -23.30% -

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 22,644 17,016 25,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.90% 39.61% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,929 7,689 17,216
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +4.06% -7.19%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -1.96%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +88 613 £32,500 -50.00% 301
UK excluding London +98 438 £31,000 -42.26% 264
North of England +45 234 £30,500 -39.00% 69
Work from Home +3 198 £75,000 +25.00% 89
London +11 189 £50,000 -41.18% 94
Yorkshire +31 122 £30,500 -41.90% 28
North West -2 88 £30,500 -39.00% 28
Midlands +10 67 £31,500 -41.33% 39
West Midlands +13 59 £30,500 -43.19% 18
South East -12 38 £62,500 -6.02% 56
South West -39 33 £37,500 -33.91% 35
Scotland +9 29 £30,500 -41.90% 19
North East -10 24 £30,500 -32.22% 13
East of England -1 21 £37,500 -16.67% 34
Northern Ireland -25 13 £35,000 - 5
East Midlands - 8 £31,500 - 21
Wales - 3 £31,000 - 11

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 61 (8.97%) WordPress
2 54 (7.94%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.62%) Confluence
4 9 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.88%) Apache
5 6 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.74%) Drupal
6 5 (0.74%) nginx
7 4 (0.59%) Documentum
8 3 (0.44%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (9.71%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.09%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Weka
5 1 (0.15%) Maya
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (2.79%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 680 (100.00%) AWS
2 387 (56.91%) Azure
3 240 (35.29%) GitHub
4 99 (14.56%) Serverless
5 91 (13.38%) GCP
6 85 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (10.59%) Amazon S3
10 60 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (6.91%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (5.44%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.85%) Apigee
15 33 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.79%) Pulumi
18 18 (2.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 217 (31.91%) Internet
2 26 (3.82%) Firewall
3 21 (3.09%) Network Security
4 19 (2.79%) Broadband
5 18 (2.65%) VPN
6 9 (1.32%) WAN
7 8 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.03%) LAN
9 5 (0.74%) Wireless
10 4 (0.59%) DNS
10 4 (0.59%) IPv4
11 3 (0.44%) DHCP
11 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.29%) BGP
12 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.29%) OSPF
13 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.21%) DynamoDB
2 42 (6.18%) NoSQL
3 24 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.53%) Data Lake
3 24 (3.53%) Metadata
4 20 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 20 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.62%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.74%) Power BI
10 4 (0.59%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.44%) Big Data
11 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.15%) Flink
13 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 233 (34.26%) Git
2 56 (8.24%) GitLab
3 54 (7.94%) Visual Studio Code
4 52 (7.65%) Jenkins
5 33 (4.85%) Cypress.io
5 33 (4.85%) Maven
5 33 (4.85%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.79%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.35%) TeamCity
8 15 (2.21%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.91%) JIRA
10 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.59%) MLflow
12 3 (0.44%) Selenium
13 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.15%) Gatling
13 1 (0.15%) JMeter
13 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 217 (31.91%) Multimedia
2 184 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 126 (18.53%) Finance
4 73 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (10.29%) Retail
6 61 (8.97%) Manufacturing
7 58 (8.53%) French Language
8 44 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.29%) Banking
10 29 (4.26%) Financial Institution
11 20 (2.94%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.50%) Swedish Language
13 13 (1.91%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.18%) Advertising
14 8 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.03%) Law
15 7 (1.03%) Legal
16 6 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.74%) Electronics
17 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 268 (39.41%) Trainee
2 139 (20.44%) Developer
3 106 (15.59%) Analyst
4 94 (13.82%) Architect
5 90 (13.24%) Trainee Developer
6 78 (11.47%) Software Developer
7 77 (11.32%) Trainee Software Developer
8 66 (9.71%) Service Analyst
8 66 (9.71%) Service Desk Analyst
9 64 (9.41%) Administrator
10 60 (8.82%) Senior
11 56 (8.24%) Trainee Administrator
11 56 (8.24%) Web Administrator
12 51 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 51 (7.50%) Programmer
12 51 (7.50%) Trainee Programmer
13 40 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 39 (5.74%) Lead
15 28 (4.12%) Java Developer
16 23 (3.38%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (32.06%) CSS
1 218 (32.06%) HTML
2 54 (7.94%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.94%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.94%) NumPy
2 54 (7.94%) Pandas
2 54 (7.94%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.94%) Streamlit
3 47 (6.91%) Spring Boot
4 34 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.85%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.85%) Jest
6 29 (4.26%) React
7 19 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 16 (2.35%) .NET
8 16 (2.35%) AWS CDK
8 16 (2.35%) Kafka
9 15 (2.21%) Spring
10 13 (1.91%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.82%) Algorithms
1 60 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.18%) Public Cloud
3 34 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.53%) PKI
5 23 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.79%) e-Learning
8 15 (2.21%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.32%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.74%) Clustering
11 5 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.74%) PACS
11 5 (0.74%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.44%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.97%) Linux
2 30 (4.41%) Windows
3 27 (3.97%) Unix
4 9 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (36.47%) Mentoring
2 223 (32.79%) Cybersecurity
3 153 (22.50%) Agile
4 133 (19.56%) CI/CD
5 127 (18.68%) Customer Service
5 127 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (18.24%) AI
7 119 (17.50%) ITIL
8 118 (17.35%) DevOps
9 70 (10.29%) ITSM
10 69 (10.15%) Data Privacy
10 69 (10.15%) Web Development
11 67 (9.85%) Machine Learning
12 66 (9.71%) Performance Metrics
13 65 (9.56%) Migration
13 65 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (9.26%) Cost Optimisation
15 61 (8.97%) Containerisation
16 60 (8.82%) Visualisation
17 59 (8.68%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 376 (55.29%) Python
2 267 (39.26%) JavaScript
3 127 (18.68%) R
4 101 (14.85%) Java
5 78 (11.47%) Bash
6 57 (8.38%) TypeScript
7 34 (5.00%) SQL
8 33 (4.85%) Groovy
9 32 (4.71%) Go
10 29 (4.26%) C#
11 21 (3.09%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.91%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.47%) C++
14 8 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.44%) Bicep
16 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.15%) PHP
16 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 318 (46.76%) Azure Certification
2 310 (45.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 286 (42.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 127 (18.68%) Degree
5 100 (14.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 66 (9.71%) MCSE
7 61 (8.97%) Security Cleared
8 38 (5.59%) SC Cleared
9 34 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (4.56%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (3.68%) AWS Certified Developer
14 18 (2.65%) CISSP
15 17 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (2.21%) CISM
17 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.62%) Master's Degree
18 7 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 7 (1.03%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.29%) QA
2 26 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.79%) NIST
4 12 (1.76%) GDPR
4 12 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.76%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.32%) NCSC
6 8 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.18%) GRC
7 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.88%) SLA
8 5 (0.74%) DICOM
9 4 (0.59%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.29%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 109 (16.03%) Docker
2 22 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.18%) KVM
5 6 (0.88%) vSphere
6 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.59%) iptables
7 4 (0.59%) Squid
7 4 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 115 (16.91%) Terraform
2 76 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 51 (7.50%) Ansible
4 38 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.44%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.26%) Grafana
7 20 (2.94%) Argo
8 19 (2.79%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.18%) Cilium
10 8 (1.18%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.74%) Packer
11 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.74%) Puppet
11 5 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.59%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.15%) Consul
13 1 (0.15%) QRadar
13 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 432 (63.53%) Microsoft
2 89 (13.09%) ServiceNow
3 39 (5.74%) Google
4 36 (5.29%) Adobe
4 36 (5.29%) Apple
5 30 (4.41%) VMware
6 17 (2.50%) Databricks
7 10 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.32%) Cisco
8 9 (1.32%) Oracle
8 9 (1.32%) Splunk
9 6 (0.88%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.88%) SAP
10 5 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 5 (0.74%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.74%) Symantec
10 5 (0.74%) Workday
10 5 (0.74%) YouTube
11 4 (0.59%) OpenText
11 4 (0.59%) Pega