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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 379 401
Rank change year-on-year +182 +22 -253
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 822 317 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 0.70% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.07% 1.79% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 490 153 290
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,001 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% -

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 20,181 17,731 21,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.57% 38.90% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,105 7,184 15,374
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,525 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +176 711 £30,750 -52.40% 463
UK excluding London +206 512 £30,500 -41.90% 473
Work from Home +114 282 £75,000 +25.00% 57
North of England +109 250 £30,500 -32.22% 125
London +65 225 £57,500 -34.29% 101
Yorkshire +46 140 £30,500 -32.22% 54
North West +66 81 £30,500 -40.49% 53
South East +23 59 £41,875 -30.79% 91
Midlands +16 56 £30,500 -52.79% 82
West Midlands +45 45 £30,500 -52.79% 30
Scotland +24 43 £30,500 -41.90% 32
South West +8 38 £30,500 -35.79% 67
Northern Ireland +4 33 - - 6
East of England +17 29 £80,000 +48.84% 46
North East +11 29 £30,500 -32.22% 24
East Midlands -23 11 £51,058 -7.17% 49
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 38

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 50 (6.08%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.14%) WordPress
3 11 (1.34%) Tomcat
3 11 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 10 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.97%) Confluence
7 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
8 5 (0.61%) nginx
9 4 (0.49%) Documentum
10 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (16.79%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.20%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 822 (100.00%) AWS
2 458 (55.72%) Azure
3 285 (34.67%) GitHub
4 168 (20.44%) Microsoft 365
5 118 (14.36%) Serverless
6 87 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 84 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (9.73%) GCP
9 78 (9.49%) Amazon S3
10 56 (6.81%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 40 (4.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
17 30 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (2.92%) Apigee
19 21 (2.55%) Entra ID
20 19 (2.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 257 (31.27%) Internet
2 28 (3.41%) Firewall
3 25 (3.04%) VPN
4 22 (2.68%) Broadband
5 19 (2.31%) Network Security
6 18 (2.19%) Remote Desktop
7 13 (1.58%) SSL
8 10 (1.22%) WAN
9 9 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.09%) VLAN
10 7 (0.85%) DNS
10 7 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.73%) DHCP
11 6 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.61%) VoIP
13 4 (0.49%) BGP
13 4 (0.49%) LAN
13 4 (0.49%) OSPF
14 3 (0.36%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.47%) DynamoDB
2 41 (4.99%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.65%) Metadata
5 24 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.43%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.31%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.34%) DB2
10 8 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.49%) Big Data
13 3 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.24%) Power BI
15 1 (0.12%) GIS
15 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 276 (33.58%) Git
2 50 (6.08%) Visual Studio Code
3 44 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 41 (4.99%) GitLab
5 26 (3.16%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.92%) Maven
6 24 (2.92%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.31%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.70%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.34%) JIRA
10 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.49%) MLflow
13 2 (0.24%) Selenium
13 2 (0.24%) Vite
14 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 276 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 257 (31.27%) Multimedia
3 153 (18.61%) Finance
4 138 (16.79%) French Language
5 109 (13.26%) Swedish Language
6 70 (8.52%) Retail
7 64 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (6.45%) Banking
8 53 (6.45%) Manufacturing
9 49 (5.96%) Financial Institution
10 47 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
11 25 (3.04%) Public Sector
12 22 (2.68%) Retail Banking
13 15 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.34%) Law
14 11 (1.34%) Publishing
15 9 (1.09%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.73%) Legal
17 5 (0.61%) Local Government
17 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 307 (37.35%) Trainee
2 161 (19.59%) Analyst
3 160 (19.46%) Developer
4 138 (16.79%) Service Analyst
4 138 (16.79%) Service Desk Analyst
5 123 (14.96%) Trainee Developer
6 115 (13.99%) Architect
7 114 (13.87%) Software Developer
7 114 (13.87%) Trainee Software Developer
8 60 (7.30%) Senior
9 50 (6.08%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 50 (6.08%) Programmer
9 50 (6.08%) Trainee Programmer
10 43 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 38 (4.62%) Lead
12 35 (4.26%) Administrator
13 30 (3.65%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.53%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.53%) Web Administrator
15 21 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (31.27%) CSS
1 257 (31.27%) HTML
2 52 (6.33%) Hugging Face
2 52 (6.33%) NumPy
2 52 (6.33%) Pandas
3 50 (6.08%) Matplotlib
3 50 (6.08%) scikit-learn
3 50 (6.08%) Streamlit
4 35 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 27 (3.28%) React
6 26 (3.16%) AngularJS
6 26 (3.16%) Jest
7 24 (2.92%) Gherkin
8 19 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
9 18 (2.19%) .NET
10 17 (2.07%) AWS CDK
11 15 (1.82%) Kafka
11 15 (1.82%) RESTful
12 12 (1.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.33%) Algorithms
3 41 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.68%) PKI
6 19 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.46%) e-Learning
10 8 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.85%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) PACS
12 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (8.39%) Linux
2 49 (5.96%) Windows
3 41 (4.99%) Unix
4 16 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.29%) Mentoring
2 277 (33.70%) Cybersecurity
3 204 (24.82%) ITIL
4 178 (21.65%) Customer Service
5 154 (18.73%) Agile
6 144 (17.52%) ITSM
7 130 (15.82%) DevOps
8 127 (15.45%) CI/CD
9 123 (14.96%) Performance Metrics
10 118 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 114 (13.87%) AI
12 77 (9.37%) Migration
13 73 (8.88%) Data Privacy
14 72 (8.76%) Machine Learning
15 68 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (8.15%) Microservices
17 64 (7.79%) Computer Science
18 63 (7.66%) Containerisation
18 63 (7.66%) TOGAF
19 59 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 432 (52.55%) Python
2 315 (38.32%) JavaScript
3 134 (16.30%) R
4 92 (11.19%) Java
5 73 (8.88%) Bash
6 57 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.50%) C#
8 32 (3.89%) SQL
9 29 (3.53%) Go
10 28 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 24 (2.92%) Groovy
12 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.97%) Bicep
14 7 (0.85%) C++
15 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.12%) C
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 433 (52.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 394 (47.93%) Azure Certification
3 317 (38.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 216 (26.28%) Degree
5 138 (16.79%) MCSE
6 110 (13.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 53 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 51 (6.20%) Security Cleared
9 43 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (4.62%) SC Cleared
11 33 (4.01%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 23 (2.80%) CISSP
14 21 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.43%) A+ Certification
16 17 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (2.07%) CISM
17 13 (1.58%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.09%) DV Cleared
19 8 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.45%) QA
2 36 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.04%) NIST
4 20 (2.43%) GDPR
5 18 (2.19%) SLA
6 16 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
9 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.97%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.97%) GRC
11 5 (0.61%) DICOM
11 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.24%) GxP
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) GAAP
14 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (12.90%) Docker
2 40 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.36%) iptables
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 108 (13.14%) Terraform
2 78 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.60%) Ansible
4 36 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.65%) Grafana
6 28 (3.41%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.43%) Argo
8 19 (2.31%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.09%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.97%) Cilium
10 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.36%) Nessus
12 3 (0.36%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 542 (65.94%) Microsoft
2 149 (18.13%) ServiceNow
3 48 (5.84%) VMware
4 38 (4.62%) Google
5 17 (2.07%) Adobe
5 17 (2.07%) Apple
5 17 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.95%) IBM
7 14 (1.70%) SAP
8 11 (1.34%) Workday
9 10 (1.22%) Cisco
9 10 (1.22%) Databricks
10 5 (0.61%) Symantec
10 5 (0.61%) YouTube
11 4 (0.49%) OpenText
11 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.49%) Pega
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle
12 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.24%) Ariba