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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 290 489
Rank change year-on-year -39 +199 -212
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 579 509 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 2.95% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 256 167 254
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,600 £51,625
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £79,296
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -11.72% +4.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -42.31% -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 19,330 17,254 22,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.12% 35.00% 25.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,188 7,851 13,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,000 £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 £72,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,500
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 26 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 26 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 -38 539 £52,000 -25.18% 305
UK excluding London -75 315 £37,500 -42.31% 215
London +17 241 £77,500 - 146
Work from Home -114 172 £77,500 +16.08% 95
North of England -87 128 £37,500 -42.31% 60
North West -84 66 £37,500 -33.33% 30
Midlands -17 53 £37,500 -42.31% 29
West Midlands -7 48 £37,500 -42.31% 14
South West -54 47 £52,500 -7.48% 36
Yorkshire -9 46 £37,500 -42.31% 19
South East -15 41 £62,500 -9.42% 48
North East -36 16 £40,500 -14.74% 14
East of England -10 15 £37,500 -55.88% 20
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
Scotland +25 9 £37,500 -28.57% 14
Northern Ireland -58 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 54 (9.33%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.60%) WordPress
3 16 (2.76%) Confluence
4 14 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) 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 (13.30%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.19%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.15%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.21%) 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
Cloud Services
1 579 (100.00%) AWS
2 204 (35.23%) Azure
3 132 (22.80%) Cloud Computing
4 114 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 102 (17.62%) GitHub
6 101 (17.44%) Serverless
7 96 (16.58%) GCP
8 92 (15.89%) Microsoft 365
9 85 (14.68%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (13.82%) Amazon S3
11 71 (12.26%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (5.35%) AWS Step Functions
16 27 (4.66%) Amazon ECR
17 24 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.15%) Apigee
18 23 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.13%) Internet
2 63 (10.88%) Network Security
3 41 (7.08%) Firewall
4 24 (4.15%) VPN
5 21 (3.63%) WAN
6 18 (3.11%) DNS
7 17 (2.94%) SD-WAN
7 17 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
8 16 (2.76%) LAN
9 15 (2.59%) DHCP
10 11 (1.90%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.55%) Wireless
12 8 (1.38%) IPv4
12 8 (1.38%) VLAN
13 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.69%) DMZ
16 3 (0.52%) BGP
17 2 (0.35%) MPLS
17 2 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.94%) NoSQL
2 39 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (6.74%) DynamoDB
3 23 (3.97%) Data Lake
4 19 (3.28%) Metadata
5 14 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.07%) Big Data
8 10 (1.73%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.21%) SAP HANA
9 7 (1.21%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.86%) Power BI
11 4 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (11.92%) Git
1 69 (11.92%) GitLab
2 57 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 30 (5.18%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.49%) Maven
6 25 (4.32%) Cypress.io
7 24 (4.15%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.97%) JIRA
9 18 (3.11%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.76%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
12 3 (0.52%) Taiga
12 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
13 1 (0.17%) Ant
13 1 (0.17%) Apache Ivy
13 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 155 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 149 (25.73%) Finance
3 78 (13.47%) Retail
4 59 (10.19%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.19%) Multimedia
5 53 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.29%) Swedish Language
7 39 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
9 31 (5.35%) Banking
10 29 (5.01%) French Language
11 20 (3.45%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.90%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.21%) Military
15 6 (1.04%) Advertising
15 6 (1.04%) Billing
15 6 (1.04%) Law
15 6 (1.04%) Legal
16 4 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 124 (21.42%) Senior
2 110 (19.00%) Trainee
3 108 (18.65%) Analyst
4 94 (16.23%) Architect
5 77 (13.30%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.30%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.36%) Consultant
7 56 (9.67%) Developer
8 51 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.81%) Programmer
8 51 (8.81%) Trainee Programmer
9 50 (8.64%) Administrator
10 43 (7.43%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.43%) Web Administrator
11 36 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (5.01%) Security Consultant
14 27 (4.66%) Java Engineer
14 27 (4.66%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.66%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.74%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.54%) CSS
2 61 (10.54%) HTML
3 54 (9.33%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.33%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.33%) NumPy
3 54 (9.33%) Pandas
3 54 (9.33%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.33%) Streamlit
4 40 (6.91%) Kafka
5 39 (6.74%) Spring
6 31 (5.35%) AngularJS
7 25 (4.32%) AWS CDK
7 25 (4.32%) Jest
8 24 (4.15%) Gherkin
9 23 (3.97%) Node.js
10 18 (3.11%) React
11 15 (2.59%) .NET
12 13 (2.25%) REST
13 10 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 91 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.34%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.88%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.12%) Enterprise Cloud
5 39 (6.74%) Public Cloud
6 35 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (5.87%) Data Centre
7 34 (5.87%) e-Learning
8 27 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (3.97%) PKI
10 13 (2.25%) Mainframe
11 12 (2.07%) Blog
11 12 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.21%) Fat Client
13 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.21%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.94%) Windows
2 39 (6.74%) Linux
3 21 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.35%) 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 (32.47%) AI
2 164 (28.32%) CI/CD
3 156 (26.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (25.56%) Agile
4 148 (25.56%) Mentoring
5 133 (22.97%) Customer Service
6 125 (21.59%) ITIL
7 102 (17.62%) Cloud Security
7 102 (17.62%) Machine Learning
8 85 (14.68%) Cybersecurity
9 81 (13.99%) ITSM
10 79 (13.64%) DevOps
11 77 (13.30%) Performance Metrics
12 75 (12.95%) Migration
13 65 (11.23%) LLM
14 64 (11.05%) Microservices
15 62 (10.71%) Prompt Engineering
16 61 (10.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 60 (10.36%) Conversational UI
17 60 (10.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 221 (38.17%) Python
2 108 (18.65%) Java
3 77 (13.30%) JavaScript
4 64 (11.05%) Bash
5 55 (9.50%) SQL
6 47 (8.12%) R
7 37 (6.39%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.32%) Go
8 25 (4.32%) Groovy
9 24 (4.15%) Ruby
10 23 (3.97%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.94%) C#
12 15 (2.59%) PHP
13 14 (2.42%) Perl
14 10 (1.73%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.04%) C++
15 6 (1.04%) COBOL
16 5 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.69%) Bicep
18 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 163 (28.15%) Degree
2 157 (27.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 142 (24.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 139 (24.01%) Azure Certification
5 133 (22.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 98 (16.93%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.30%) MCSE
8 50 (8.64%) SC Cleared
9 44 (7.60%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.84%) CISSP
11 26 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (4.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (3.28%) Master's Degree
15 18 (3.11%) CCNA
15 18 (3.11%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
17 16 (2.76%) CCNP
18 14 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 13 (2.25%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.47%) QA
2 42 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.97%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.45%) GDPR
5 19 (3.28%) NIST
6 14 (2.42%) GRC
7 13 (2.25%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.07%) NCSC
9 9 (1.55%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.38%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (1.04%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.52%) DICOM
12 3 (0.52%) SLA
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 65 (11.23%) Docker
2 22 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.63%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.38%) Squid
4 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.38%) vSphere
5 5 (0.86%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (21.93%) Terraform
2 66 (11.40%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.22%) Ansible
4 28 (4.84%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.28%) Grafana
6 13 (2.25%) Cilium
6 13 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.07%) Puppet
8 11 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.55%) Packer
10 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.86%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.69%) Iperf
14 3 (0.52%) Argo
14 3 (0.52%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.17%) kaniko
Vendors
1 275 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.79%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.35%) Oracle
4 30 (5.18%) VMware
5 25 (4.32%) Apple
6 24 (4.15%) Adobe
6 24 (4.15%) Cisco
7 23 (3.97%) Splunk
8 18 (3.11%) SAP
9 17 (2.94%) Google
10 15 (2.59%) Databricks
10 15 (2.59%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.07%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.21%) Avaya
15 7 (1.21%) Genesys
16 6 (1.04%) Salesforce
17 5 (0.86%) Infor