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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 394 393
Rank change year-on-year +206 -1 -245
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 829 331 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 0.65% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 1.72% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 494 151 293
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,261
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £74,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £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 19,723 19,201 20,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.46% 37.56% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,933 7,470 14,662
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £76,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 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 5 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 +209 713 £30,500 -52.79% 381
UK excluding London +219 497 £30,500 -41.90% 358
Work from Home +140 303 £75,000 +25.00% 84
London +108 243 £66,250 -24.29% 107
North of England +124 235 £30,500 -32.22% 95
Yorkshire +57 134 £30,500 -32.22% 38
North West +64 74 £30,500 -41.90% 46
South East +50 64 £33,750 -36.38% 66
Midlands +48 55 £30,500 -44.55% 56
West Midlands +53 45 £30,500 -48.43% 25
Scotland +26 44 £30,500 -61.88% 27
South West +29 34 £30,500 -53.08% 50
Northern Ireland +11 31 - - 6
East of England +30 30 £82,500 +53.49% 42
North East +14 27 £30,500 -32.22% 12
East Midlands -13 10 £51,058 -7.17% 31
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 19

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 34 (4.10%) WordPress
2 15 (1.81%) Jupyter
2 15 (1.81%) Tomcat
2 15 (1.81%) WebSphere
3 14 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (1.21%) Confluence
5 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.72%) nginx
7 5 (0.60%) Apache
7 5 (0.60%) Drupal
8 4 (0.48%) Documentum
9 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (16.77%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.93%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 829 (100.00%) AWS
2 490 (59.11%) Azure
3 307 (37.03%) GitHub
4 170 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
5 130 (15.68%) Serverless
6 94 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
7 92 (11.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 86 (10.37%) Amazon S3
9 80 (9.65%) GCP
10 43 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (4.95%) AWS Step Functions
12 38 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
18 21 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.53%) Internet
2 32 (3.86%) Firewall
3 26 (3.14%) VPN
4 24 (2.90%) Broadband
4 24 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
5 18 (2.17%) Network Security
6 17 (2.05%) SSL
7 12 (1.45%) WAN
8 11 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.21%) DNS
10 9 (1.09%) VLAN
10 9 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.84%) VoIP
13 6 (0.72%) DHCP
13 6 (0.72%) LAN
14 5 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.48%) BGP
15 4 (0.48%) OSPF
15 4 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.43%) DynamoDB
2 40 (4.83%) NoSQL
3 38 (4.58%) Data Lake
4 31 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.62%) Metadata
6 29 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.41%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.81%) DB2
10 13 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.60%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.48%) Big Data
14 3 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 302 (36.43%) Git
2 48 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.34%) GitLab
4 22 (2.65%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.29%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.05%) Maven
6 17 (2.05%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.93%) JIRA
8 15 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.21%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.60%) Vite
13 4 (0.48%) MLflow
14 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 283 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.53%) Multimedia
3 139 (16.77%) French Language
4 121 (14.60%) Finance
5 119 (14.35%) Swedish Language
6 68 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (7.00%) Banking
8 49 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (5.91%) Financial Institution
9 30 (3.62%) Retail
10 26 (3.14%) Retail Banking
11 25 (3.02%) Public Sector
12 21 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.45%) Law
15 11 (1.33%) Publishing
16 6 (0.72%) Legal
16 6 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 293 (35.34%) Trainee
2 164 (19.78%) Developer
3 162 (19.54%) Analyst
4 139 (16.77%) Service Analyst
4 139 (16.77%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (16.16%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (15.08%) Software Developer
6 125 (15.08%) Trainee Software Developer
7 120 (14.48%) Architect
8 75 (9.05%) Senior
9 45 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (5.07%) Lead
11 34 (4.10%) Administrator
12 30 (3.62%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.50%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.50%) Web Administrator
14 27 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.90%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.41%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.53%) CSS
1 278 (33.53%) HTML
2 31 (3.74%) React
3 29 (3.50%) Spring Boot
4 22 (2.65%) Jest
5 21 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (2.41%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.41%) AWS CDK
7 19 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (2.17%) .NET
8 18 (2.17%) Hugging Face
9 17 (2.05%) Gherkin
9 17 (2.05%) NumPy
9 17 (2.05%) Pandas
10 15 (1.81%) LDAP
10 15 (1.81%) Matplotlib
10 15 (1.81%) RESTful
10 15 (1.81%) scikit-learn
10 15 (1.81%) Streamlit
11 14 (1.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 40 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (4.10%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.17%) PKI
8 17 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.84%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.60%) Blog
13 5 (0.60%) Clustering
13 5 (0.60%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.60%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.60%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 83 (10.01%) Linux
2 62 (7.48%) Windows
3 47 (5.67%) Unix
4 20 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) CentOS
7 2 (0.24%) Debian
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (42.94%) Mentoring
2 300 (36.19%) Cybersecurity
3 209 (25.21%) ITIL
4 155 (18.70%) Agile
5 147 (17.73%) ITSM
6 141 (17.01%) DevOps
7 138 (16.65%) Customer Service
8 131 (15.80%) CI/CD
9 130 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 118 (14.23%) Performance Metrics
11 79 (9.53%) AI
11 79 (9.53%) Migration
12 73 (8.81%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (8.44%) Containerisation
14 69 (8.32%) TOGAF
15 68 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (7.96%) Roadmaps
17 65 (7.84%) Computer Science
17 65 (7.84%) Microservices
18 61 (7.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 433 (52.23%) Python
2 341 (41.13%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.37%) R
4 93 (11.22%) Java
5 73 (8.81%) Bash
6 57 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.83%) C#
8 34 (4.10%) SQL
9 33 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 28 (3.38%) Go
11 18 (2.17%) Groovy
12 10 (1.21%) Bicep
13 7 (0.84%) C++
13 7 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 455 (54.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 423 (51.03%) Azure Certification
3 303 (36.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 222 (26.78%) Degree
5 139 (16.77%) MCSE
6 121 (14.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 56 (6.76%) Security Cleared
7 56 (6.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 47 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (5.19%) SC Cleared
10 33 (3.98%) ITIL Certification
11 28 (3.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 26 (3.14%) A+ Certification
13 25 (3.02%) CISSP
14 19 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (2.17%) CISM
16 16 (1.93%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.21%) CCNP
17 10 (1.21%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.08%) QA
2 34 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.26%) NIST
4 22 (2.65%) GDPR
4 22 (2.65%) SLA
5 14 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.21%) NCSC
8 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.97%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.48%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) DICOM
13 2 (0.24%) GxP
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) Basel III
14 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (13.15%) Docker
2 47 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.84%) KVM
6 5 (0.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.48%) vSphere
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.12%) Postfix
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 111 (13.39%) Terraform
2 89 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.27%) Ansible
4 35 (4.22%) Prometheus
5 33 (3.98%) Grafana
6 21 (2.53%) Argo
7 19 (2.29%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.05%) HP Fortify
9 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.97%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.48%) Cilium
10 4 (0.48%) Nessus
11 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 535 (64.54%) Microsoft
2 154 (18.58%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.39%) VMware
4 39 (4.70%) Google
5 22 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.41%) IBM
7 17 (2.05%) Adobe
7 17 (2.05%) Apple
8 15 (1.81%) SAP
9 12 (1.45%) Cisco
10 11 (1.33%) Workday
11 6 (0.72%) Databricks
12 5 (0.60%) Symantec
12 5 (0.60%) YouTube
13 4 (0.48%) OpenText
13 4 (0.48%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.48%) Pega
14 3 (0.36%) Ariba
14 3 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.36%) Oracle