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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 293 499
Rank change year-on-year -31 +206 -221
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 569 504 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.97% 2.93% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 248 163 258
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,200 £52,125
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £70,000 £79,296
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -11.72% +4.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £85,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,375
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 19,163 17,224 23,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.06% 35.09% 25.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,087 7,823 14,072
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,424 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
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 24 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 24 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 -43 529 £50,000 -28.06% 321
UK excluding London -69 308 £37,500 -42.31% 239
London +21 238 £77,500 - 144
Work from Home -108 169 £77,500 +19.23% 110
North of England -95 124 £37,500 -42.31% 69
North West -88 65 £37,500 -33.33% 33
Midlands -15 53 £37,500 -42.31% 31
West Midlands -19 48 £37,500 -42.31% 16
Yorkshire -3 46 £37,500 -42.31% 21
South West -49 45 £52,500 -7.48% 43
South East -3 40 £62,500 -3.85% 48
East of England -6 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
North East -37 13 £37,500 -21.05% 18
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
Scotland +20 9 £37,500 -28.57% 18
Northern Ireland -58 9 £40,750 - 4
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 (9.49%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.73%) WordPress
3 16 (2.81%) Confluence
4 13 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.88%) Apache
5 5 (0.88%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.53%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.22%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 569 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (34.80%) Azure
3 131 (23.02%) Cloud Computing
4 114 (20.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 102 (17.93%) GitHub
6 101 (17.75%) Serverless
7 92 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (15.82%) GCP
9 85 (14.94%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (13.88%) Amazon S3
11 71 (12.48%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
16 27 (4.75%) Amazon ECR
17 24 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.22%) Apigee
18 22 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (3.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.36%) Internet
2 62 (10.90%) Network Security
3 39 (6.85%) Firewall
4 21 (3.69%) VPN
5 19 (3.34%) WAN
6 16 (2.81%) LAN
6 16 (2.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 15 (2.64%) DNS
7 15 (2.64%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.28%) DHCP
9 10 (1.76%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.41%) IPv4
10 8 (1.41%) VLAN
10 8 (1.41%) Wireless
11 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.88%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.70%) DMZ
14 3 (0.53%) BGP
15 2 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
15 2 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 39 (6.85%) DynamoDB
3 38 (6.68%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (4.04%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.34%) Metadata
6 14 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.11%) Big Data
9 10 (1.76%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.23%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.88%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.88%) Power BI
12 4 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (12.13%) Git
1 69 (12.13%) GitLab
2 57 (10.02%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 30 (5.27%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.57%) Maven
6 25 (4.39%) Cypress.io
7 24 (4.22%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.04%) JIRA
9 18 (3.16%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.81%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.53%) Selenium
12 3 (0.53%) Taiga
12 3 (0.53%) VersionOne
13 1 (0.18%) Apache Ivy
13 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.18%) Gatling
13 1 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 151 (26.54%) Social Skills
2 148 (26.01%) Finance
3 78 (13.71%) Retail
4 59 (10.37%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.37%) Multimedia
5 51 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.44%) Swedish Language
7 37 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (5.45%) Banking
10 29 (5.10%) French Language
11 20 (3.51%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.23%) Military
15 6 (1.05%) Advertising
15 6 (1.05%) Billing
15 6 (1.05%) Legal
16 5 (0.88%) Law
17 4 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 122 (21.44%) Senior
2 110 (19.33%) Trainee
3 108 (18.98%) Analyst
4 92 (16.17%) Architect
5 77 (13.53%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.53%) Service Desk Analyst
6 59 (10.37%) Consultant
7 56 (9.84%) Developer
8 51 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.96%) Programmer
8 51 (8.96%) Trainee Programmer
9 49 (8.61%) Administrator
10 43 (7.56%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.56%) Web Administrator
11 36 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 28 (4.92%) Security Consultant
14 27 (4.75%) Java Engineer
14 27 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.75%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.95%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.72%) CSS
2 61 (10.72%) HTML
3 54 (9.49%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.49%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.49%) NumPy
3 54 (9.49%) Pandas
3 54 (9.49%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.49%) Streamlit
4 39 (6.85%) Kafka
4 39 (6.85%) Spring
5 31 (5.45%) AngularJS
6 25 (4.39%) AWS CDK
6 25 (4.39%) Jest
7 24 (4.22%) Gherkin
8 23 (4.04%) Node.js
9 18 (3.16%) React
10 15 (2.64%) .NET
11 13 (2.28%) REST
12 10 (1.76%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 81 (14.24%) Onboarding
3 63 (11.07%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 38 (6.68%) Public Cloud
6 35 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (5.98%) e-Learning
8 33 (5.80%) Data Centre
9 27 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (4.04%) PKI
12 13 (2.28%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.11%) Blog
13 12 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.23%) Fat Client
14 7 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.23%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.73%) Windows
2 37 (6.50%) Linux
3 19 (3.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (32.51%) AI
2 158 (27.77%) CI/CD
3 149 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (25.66%) Agile
5 144 (25.31%) Mentoring
6 133 (23.37%) Customer Service
7 125 (21.97%) ITIL
8 100 (17.57%) Machine Learning
9 98 (17.22%) Cloud Security
10 83 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
11 81 (14.24%) ITSM
12 77 (13.53%) Performance Metrics
13 76 (13.36%) DevOps
14 75 (13.18%) Migration
15 64 (11.25%) LLM
15 64 (11.25%) Microservices
16 61 (10.72%) Prompt Engineering
17 60 (10.54%) OO
17 60 (10.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 59 (10.37%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 219 (38.49%) Python
2 107 (18.80%) Java
3 77 (13.53%) JavaScript
4 64 (11.25%) Bash
5 55 (9.67%) SQL
6 47 (8.26%) R
7 37 (6.50%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.39%) Go
8 25 (4.39%) Groovy
9 24 (4.22%) Ruby
10 23 (4.04%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.99%) C#
12 15 (2.64%) PHP
13 14 (2.46%) Perl
14 10 (1.76%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.05%) C++
15 6 (1.05%) COBOL
16 5 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.70%) Bicep
18 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 162 (28.47%) Degree
2 156 (27.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 141 (24.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 134 (23.55%) Azure Certification
5 133 (23.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 94 (16.52%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.53%) MCSE
8 46 (8.08%) SC Cleared
9 42 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (4.75%) CISSP
11 25 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (3.34%) Master's Degree
14 18 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
15 17 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
15 17 (2.99%) CCNA
16 14 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (2.46%) CCNP
17 13 (2.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.71%) QA
2 41 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.87%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.51%) GDPR
5 18 (3.16%) NIST
6 14 (2.46%) GRC
7 13 (2.28%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.93%) NCSC
9 9 (1.58%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (1.05%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.53%) DICOM
12 3 (0.53%) SLA
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.18%) COBIT
14 1 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 64 (11.25%) Docker
2 22 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.34%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.41%) Squid
4 8 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.41%) vSphere
5 5 (0.88%) KVM
6 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.53%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (21.97%) Terraform
2 65 (11.42%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.33%) Ansible
4 28 (4.92%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.34%) Grafana
6 13 (2.28%) Cilium
6 13 (2.28%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.11%) Puppet
8 11 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.58%) Packer
10 8 (1.41%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.88%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.70%) Iperf
14 3 (0.53%) Argo
14 3 (0.53%) QRadar
15 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.18%) kaniko
Vendors
1 274 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 103 (18.10%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.45%) Oracle
4 29 (5.10%) VMware
5 25 (4.39%) Apple
6 24 (4.22%) Adobe
6 24 (4.22%) Cisco
7 23 (4.04%) Splunk
8 18 (3.16%) SAP
9 15 (2.64%) Google
10 14 (2.46%) Databricks
10 14 (2.46%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.11%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.76%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.41%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.23%) Avaya
15 7 (1.23%) Genesys
16 6 (1.05%) Salesforce
17 5 (0.88%) Infor