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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 374 423
Rank change year-on-year +170 +49 -276
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 814 308 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.93% 1.85% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 521 169 281
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +3.70%

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 20,715 16,664 23,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.48% 39.39% 27.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,332 7,508 16,292
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,670 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £59,199 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +7.63% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 20 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 20 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 +163 714 £31,000 -52.01% 291
UK excluding London +193 523 £30,500 -41.90% 266
North of England +108 257 £30,500 -34.41% 67
Work from Home +87 244 £75,000 +25.00% 82
London +38 218 £43,750 -50.00% 82
Yorkshire +50 140 £30,500 -32.22% 27
North West +52 88 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands +16 66 £30,500 -52.79% 36
West Midlands +37 52 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East +10 52 £33,750 -44.44% 58
Scotland +20 45 £30,500 -41.90% 11
South West -4 41 £30,750 -35.26% 39
East of England +5 34 £37,500 -40.00% 36
North East +1 29 £30,500 -32.22% 14
Northern Ireland -11 23 £31,000 -63.53% 8
East Midlands -40 14 £51,058 -7.17% 19
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 13

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 77 (9.46%) WordPress
2 54 (6.63%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.86%) Confluence
5 7 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (0.61%) Apache
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.61%) Drupal
6 5 (0.61%) nginx
7 4 (0.49%) Documentum
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 101 (12.41%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (6.63%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 814 (100.00%) AWS
2 484 (59.46%) Azure
3 322 (39.56%) GitHub
4 129 (15.85%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (13.27%) Serverless
6 82 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (9.58%) GCP
8 73 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.37%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (5.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (3.93%) Amazon ECR
16 31 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.19%) Apigee
18 20 (2.46%) Entra ID
19 19 (2.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 298 (36.61%) Internet
2 28 (3.44%) Firewall
3 23 (2.83%) VPN
4 21 (2.58%) Broadband
5 20 (2.46%) Network Security
6 10 (1.23%) SSL
6 10 (1.23%) WAN
7 9 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.86%) DNS
8 7 (0.86%) VLAN
9 6 (0.74%) DHCP
9 6 (0.74%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.49%) BGP
11 4 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.49%) LAN
11 4 (0.49%) OSPF
11 4 (0.49%) Wireless
12 3 (0.37%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.41%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.04%) NoSQL
3 32 (3.93%) Data Lake
4 29 (3.56%) Metadata
5 23 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.46%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.98%) DB2
11 6 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.49%) Power BI
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 1 (0.12%) GIS
15 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 311 (38.21%) Git
2 54 (6.63%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (5.53%) Jenkins
4 44 (5.41%) GitLab
5 26 (3.19%) Cypress.io
5 26 (3.19%) Maven
5 26 (3.19%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.33%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.84%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.11%) JIRA
10 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 2 (0.25%) Selenium
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 298 (36.61%) Multimedia
2 237 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 152 (18.67%) Finance
4 101 (12.41%) French Language
5 74 (9.09%) Retail
6 64 (7.86%) Swedish Language
7 63 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (6.88%) Manufacturing
9 50 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (5.90%) Banking
11 47 (5.77%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.95%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.33%) Retail Banking
14 13 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.47%) Law
16 11 (1.35%) Publishing
17 8 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.74%) Legal
19 5 (0.61%) Local Government
19 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 349 (42.87%) Trainee
2 169 (20.76%) Developer
3 125 (15.36%) Trainee Developer
4 124 (15.23%) Analyst
5 112 (13.76%) Architect
6 111 (13.64%) Software Developer
6 111 (13.64%) Trainee Software Developer
7 101 (12.41%) Service Analyst
7 101 (12.41%) Service Desk Analyst
8 79 (9.71%) Administrator
9 72 (8.85%) Trainee Administrator
9 72 (8.85%) Web Administrator
10 51 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (6.27%) Programmer
10 51 (6.27%) Trainee Programmer
11 43 (5.28%) Senior
12 41 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (4.42%) Lead
14 29 (3.56%) Data Architect
15 23 (2.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (36.61%) CSS
1 298 (36.61%) HTML
2 54 (6.63%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.63%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.63%) NumPy
2 54 (6.63%) Pandas
2 54 (6.63%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.63%) Streamlit
3 35 (4.30%) Spring Boot
4 31 (3.81%) React
5 27 (3.32%) AngularJS
6 26 (3.19%) Gherkin
6 26 (3.19%) Jest
7 19 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (2.21%) .NET
9 17 (2.09%) AWS CDK
10 14 (1.72%) RESTful
10 14 (1.72%) Tailwind CSS
11 12 (1.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.13%) Algorithms
3 38 (4.67%) Public Cloud
4 36 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.70%) PKI
6 21 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.72%) e-Learning
9 13 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.98%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.74%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.61%) Blog
16 5 (0.61%) Clustering
16 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.61%) PACS
16 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.11%) Linux
2 44 (5.41%) Windows
3 36 (4.42%) Unix
4 13 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (36.86%) Mentoring
2 271 (33.29%) Cybersecurity
3 164 (20.15%) ITIL
4 162 (19.90%) Customer Service
5 158 (19.41%) Agile
6 127 (15.60%) CI/CD
7 126 (15.48%) DevOps
8 118 (14.50%) AI
9 116 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 105 (12.90%) ITSM
11 104 (12.78%) Performance Metrics
12 86 (10.57%) Web Development
13 76 (9.34%) Data Privacy
14 74 (9.09%) Machine Learning
15 70 (8.60%) Migration
16 69 (8.48%) Problem-Solving
17 63 (7.74%) Containerisation
18 61 (7.49%) LLM
18 61 (7.49%) Microservices
19 59 (7.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 470 (57.74%) Python
2 351 (43.12%) JavaScript
3 173 (21.25%) R
4 88 (10.81%) Java
5 73 (8.97%) Bash
6 54 (6.63%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.18%) C#
8 31 (3.81%) Go
8 31 (3.81%) SQL
9 27 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 26 (3.19%) Groovy
11 10 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.98%) C++
13 7 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (0.74%) Bicep
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 430 (52.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 426 (52.33%) Azure Certification
3 364 (44.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 185 (22.73%) Degree
5 101 (12.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 101 (12.41%) MCSE
6 52 (6.39%) Security Cleared
7 48 (5.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 38 (4.67%) SC Cleared
9 37 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (3.93%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 24 (2.95%) AWS Certified Developer
13 22 (2.70%) CISSP
14 18 (2.21%) CISM
15 17 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.98%) CCNP
17 8 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (13.02%) QA
2 33 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.83%) NIST
4 18 (2.21%) GDPR
5 16 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.84%) SLA
7 11 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.11%) NCSC
9 8 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.98%) GRC
10 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.61%) DICOM
10 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.25%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.25%) GxP
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 103 (12.65%) Docker
2 21 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.86%) KVM
5 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.49%) iptables
6 4 (0.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 113 (13.88%) Terraform
2 78 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 47 (5.77%) Ansible
4 38 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.93%) Grafana
6 30 (3.69%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.46%) Argo
8 19 (2.33%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.98%) Cilium
10 8 (0.98%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.49%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 540 (66.34%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 38 (4.67%) Google
4 30 (3.69%) VMware
5 17 (2.09%) Adobe
5 17 (2.09%) Apple
6 13 (1.60%) Databricks
6 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.47%) SAP
8 11 (1.35%) IBM
8 11 (1.35%) Workday
9 10 (1.23%) Cisco
10 6 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.61%) Symantec
11 5 (0.61%) YouTube
12 4 (0.49%) OpenText
12 4 (0.49%) Pega
13 3 (0.37%) Oracle
13 3 (0.37%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.37%) Splunk