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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 389 455
Rank change year-on-year +135 +66 -292
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 687 291 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.69% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 1.73% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 413 170 311
10th Percentile - £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £66,763 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.82% -10.98% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £89,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,640 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £53,688 £70,000
% change year-on-year -42.26% -23.30% -

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 22,650 16,818 25,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.18% 39.76% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,878 7,662 17,265
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.90% -6.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.79%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +125 619 £32,000 -50.77% 234
UK excluding London +143 443 £31,000 -42.26% 200
North of England +90 238 £30,500 -39.00% 50
Work from Home +42 195 £75,000 +25.00% 81
London -9 190 £50,000 -41.18% 78
Yorkshire +37 126 £30,500 -41.90% 18
North West +41 87 £30,500 -39.00% 21
Midlands +6 66 £31,500 -41.33% 28
West Midlands +7 58 £30,500 -43.19% 18
South East -7 39 £50,000 -24.81% 54
South West -45 33 £37,500 -33.91% 22
Scotland -1 30 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -14 25 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East of England -10 21 £37,500 -16.67% 27
Northern Ireland -26 13 £35,000 - 4
East Midlands - 8 £31,500 - 10
Wales - 3 £31,000 - 8

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 62 (9.02%) WordPress
2 54 (7.86%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.60%) Confluence
4 9 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.87%) Drupal
5 6 (0.87%) nginx
6 4 (0.58%) Documentum
7 3 (0.44%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (9.61%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.01%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Weka
5 1 (0.15%) Maya
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.33%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 687 (100.00%) AWS
2 391 (56.91%) Azure
3 246 (35.81%) GitHub
4 100 (14.56%) Serverless
5 90 (13.10%) GCP
6 85 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (10.48%) Amazon S3
10 60 (8.73%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (6.84%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (5.39%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.80%) Apigee
15 33 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.77%) Pulumi
18 18 (2.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 223 (32.46%) Internet
2 25 (3.64%) Firewall
3 20 (2.91%) Network Security
4 19 (2.77%) Broadband
5 18 (2.62%) VPN
6 8 (1.16%) WAN
7 7 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.87%) LAN
9 4 (0.58%) DNS
9 4 (0.58%) IPv4
9 4 (0.58%) Wireless
10 3 (0.44%) DHCP
10 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.29%) BGP
11 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.29%) OSPF
12 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.13%) DynamoDB
2 42 (6.11%) NoSQL
3 25 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.49%) Data Lake
4 24 (3.49%) Metadata
5 20 (2.91%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.73%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.73%) Power BI
11 3 (0.44%) Big Data
11 3 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.29%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.15%) Flink
13 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 239 (34.79%) Git
2 55 (8.01%) GitLab
3 54 (7.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 52 (7.57%) Jenkins
5 33 (4.80%) Cypress.io
5 33 (4.80%) Maven
5 33 (4.80%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.77%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.33%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.89%) JIRA
10 9 (1.31%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.58%) MLflow
12 3 (0.44%) Selenium
13 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.15%) Gatling
13 1 (0.15%) JMeter
13 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 223 (32.46%) Multimedia
2 187 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 129 (18.78%) Finance
4 71 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (10.19%) Retail
6 61 (8.88%) Manufacturing
7 58 (8.44%) French Language
8 46 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.24%) Banking
10 29 (4.22%) Financial Institution
11 21 (3.06%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.47%) Swedish Language
13 13 (1.89%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.16%) Advertising
15 8 (1.16%) Law
16 7 (1.02%) Legal
17 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.73%) Electronics
18 5 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 274 (39.88%) Trainee
2 142 (20.67%) Developer
3 103 (14.99%) Analyst
4 93 (13.54%) Architect
4 93 (13.54%) Trainee Developer
5 81 (11.79%) Software Developer
6 80 (11.64%) Trainee Software Developer
7 66 (9.61%) Service Analyst
7 66 (9.61%) Service Desk Analyst
8 64 (9.32%) Administrator
9 57 (8.30%) Senior
10 56 (8.15%) Trainee Administrator
10 56 (8.15%) Web Administrator
11 51 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (7.42%) Programmer
11 51 (7.42%) Trainee Programmer
12 41 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
13 40 (5.82%) Lead
14 28 (4.08%) Java Developer
15 24 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (32.61%) CSS
1 224 (32.61%) HTML
2 54 (7.86%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.86%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.86%) NumPy
2 54 (7.86%) Pandas
2 54 (7.86%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.86%) Streamlit
3 46 (6.70%) Spring Boot
4 34 (4.95%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.80%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.80%) Jest
6 29 (4.22%) React
7 19 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
8 16 (2.33%) .NET
8 16 (2.33%) AWS CDK
9 15 (2.18%) Kafka
10 14 (2.04%) Spring
11 13 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.73%) Algorithms
3 41 (5.97%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.49%) PKI
6 23 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.62%) e-Learning
9 14 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.02%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.73%) Clustering
12 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.73%) PACS
12 5 (0.73%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.88%) Linux
2 30 (4.37%) Windows
3 27 (3.93%) Unix
4 9 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (36.54%) Mentoring
2 227 (33.04%) Cybersecurity
3 153 (22.27%) Agile
4 132 (19.21%) CI/CD
5 127 (18.49%) Customer Service
6 125 (18.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 122 (17.76%) AI
8 119 (17.32%) DevOps
8 119 (17.32%) ITIL
9 70 (10.19%) Data Privacy
9 70 (10.19%) ITSM
10 69 (10.04%) Web Development
11 68 (9.90%) Machine Learning
12 67 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (9.61%) Performance Metrics
14 65 (9.46%) Migration
15 62 (9.02%) Containerisation
16 60 (8.73%) Cost Optimisation
16 60 (8.73%) Visualisation
17 59 (8.59%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 381 (55.46%) Python
2 273 (39.74%) JavaScript
3 130 (18.92%) R
4 101 (14.70%) Java
5 78 (11.35%) Bash
6 57 (8.30%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.80%) Groovy
7 33 (4.80%) SQL
8 32 (4.66%) Go
9 29 (4.22%) C#
10 21 (3.06%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.46%) C++
13 8 (1.16%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.44%) Bicep
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) C
15 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.15%) PHP
15 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 324 (47.16%) Azure Certification
2 316 (46.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 292 (42.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 128 (18.63%) Degree
5 98 (14.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 66 (9.61%) MCSE
7 61 (8.88%) Security Cleared
8 38 (5.53%) SC Cleared
9 34 (4.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (4.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 19 (2.77%) CISSP
15 17 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (2.18%) CISM
17 11 (1.60%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.60%) Master's Degree
18 7 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
19 6 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.19%) QA
2 27 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.91%) NIST
4 12 (1.75%) GDPR
4 12 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.75%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.31%) NCSC
6 8 (1.16%) GRC
7 7 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.87%) SLA
9 5 (0.73%) DICOM
9 5 (0.73%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.29%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 111 (16.16%) Docker
2 22 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.16%) KVM
5 6 (0.87%) vSphere
6 5 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.58%) iptables
7 4 (0.58%) Squid
7 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 114 (16.59%) Terraform
2 77 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.28%) Ansible
4 38 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.39%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.22%) Grafana
7 20 (2.91%) Argo
8 19 (2.77%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.16%) Cilium
10 8 (1.16%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.73%) Packer
11 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.73%) Puppet
11 5 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.15%) Consul
13 1 (0.15%) QRadar
13 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 435 (63.32%) Microsoft
2 86 (12.52%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.82%) Google
4 33 (4.80%) Adobe
4 33 (4.80%) Apple
5 30 (4.37%) VMware
6 17 (2.47%) Databricks
7 10 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.31%) Oracle
8 9 (1.31%) Splunk
9 8 (1.16%) Cisco
10 6 (0.87%) SAP
11 5 (0.73%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.73%) Symantec
11 5 (0.73%) Workday
11 5 (0.73%) YouTube
12 4 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.58%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.58%) OpenText
12 4 (0.58%) Pega