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 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 291 467
Rank change year-on-year -7 +176 -311
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 568 478 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.08% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.12% 2.77% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 300 136 324
10th Percentile - £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -5.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £94,063 £85,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -40.00% -10.71% -0.36%

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 18,177 17,253 27,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 38.84% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,508 7,311 17,250
10th Percentile £30,461 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,928 £38,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.72% +2.12% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -28 513 £37,500 -46.43% 315
UK excluding London -28 346 £37,500 -40.00% 231
Work from Home -51 192 £62,500 -8.79% 186
London -6 182 £57,500 -26.98% 141
North of England -50 163 £37,500 -42.31% 80
Yorkshire +26 76 £37,500 -44.44% 26
North West -63 70 £37,500 -33.33% 48
Midlands +13 58 £37,500 -39.36% 38
West Midlands +3 52 £37,500 -39.36% 27
South West -52 38 £50,000 -11.89% 32
South East +7 36 £62,500 -26.47% 48
Scotland +30 17 £31,000 -40.95% 16
North East -24 17 £37,500 -21.05% 6
East of England -7 14 £37,500 -55.88% 12
Northern Ireland -20 11 £39,000 - 2
Wales - 9 £51,619 - 6
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 11

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 (9.51%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.75%) WordPress
3 16 (2.82%) Confluence
4 9 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.06%) Apache
7 4 (0.70%) Documentum
8 3 (0.53%) JBoss
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 64 (11.27%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.68%) Chatbot
3 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.23%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 568 (100.00%) AWS
2 270 (47.54%) Azure
3 149 (26.23%) GitHub
4 91 (16.02%) GCP
5 86 (15.14%) Serverless
6 82 (14.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (12.15%) Amazon S3
10 61 (10.74%) Cloud Computing
11 51 (8.98%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (6.16%) AWS Step Functions
14 34 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
16 28 (4.93%) Apigee
17 26 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 23 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
20 18 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 112 (19.72%) Internet
2 34 (5.99%) Firewall
2 34 (5.99%) Network Security
3 21 (3.70%) VPN
4 18 (3.17%) Broadband
5 15 (2.64%) Software-Defined Networking
5 15 (2.64%) WAN
6 13 (2.29%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.11%) LAN
8 10 (1.76%) DNS
9 9 (1.58%) DHCP
10 8 (1.41%) IPv4
10 8 (1.41%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.41%) Wireless
11 5 (0.88%) VLAN
12 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.35%) BGP
13 2 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
13 2 (0.35%) SSL
13 2 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.10%) NoSQL
2 39 (6.87%) DynamoDB
3 29 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.52%) Metadata
5 18 (3.17%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.88%) Power BI
11 4 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.70%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.53%) Big Data
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
13 2 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.35%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 127 (22.36%) Git
2 68 (11.97%) GitLab
3 56 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.51%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.11%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.11%) Maven
6 28 (4.93%) SonarQube
7 24 (4.23%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.17%) Jaeger
8 18 (3.17%) JIRA
8 18 (3.17%) TeamCity
9 14 (2.46%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.53%) MLflow
10 3 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.18%) Gatling
12 1 (0.18%) JMeter
12 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 158 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.48%) Finance
3 112 (19.72%) Multimedia
4 75 (13.20%) Retail
5 66 (11.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (10.39%) Manufacturing
7 44 (7.75%) French Language
8 41 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (6.16%) Banking
10 25 (4.40%) Financial Institution
11 20 (3.52%) Swedish Language
12 16 (2.82%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.41%) Advertising
15 7 (1.23%) Legal
15 7 (1.23%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.70%) Automotive
16 4 (0.70%) Billing
16 4 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 163 (28.70%) Trainee
2 103 (18.13%) Analyst
3 86 (15.14%) Architect
3 86 (15.14%) Developer
4 76 (13.38%) Senior
5 64 (11.27%) Service Analyst
5 64 (11.27%) Service Desk Analyst
6 51 (8.98%) Administrator
6 51 (8.98%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 51 (8.98%) Programmer
6 51 (8.98%) Trainee Programmer
7 45 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (7.57%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.57%) Web Administrator
9 41 (7.22%) Trainee Developer
10 37 (6.51%) Software Developer
11 36 (6.34%) Trainee Software Developer
12 34 (5.99%) Lead
13 27 (4.75%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (20.07%) CSS
1 114 (20.07%) HTML
2 59 (10.39%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.51%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.51%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.51%) NumPy
3 54 (9.51%) Pandas
3 54 (9.51%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.51%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.63%) AngularJS
5 29 (5.11%) Jest
5 29 (5.11%) Spring
6 28 (4.93%) Gherkin
7 26 (4.58%) Kafka
8 19 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.35%) React
9 18 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (2.11%) Node.js
11 10 (1.76%) .NET
12 9 (1.58%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.09%) Algorithms
3 41 (7.22%) Public Cloud
4 29 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.11%) PKI
5 28 (4.93%) e-Learning
6 24 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.88%) PACS
11 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.53%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.21%) Linux
2 36 (6.34%) Windows
3 21 (3.70%) Unix
4 18 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.18%) AIX
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (27.64%) Mentoring
2 154 (27.11%) Agile
3 152 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 139 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (22.54%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (22.01%) AI
7 120 (21.13%) Customer Service
8 118 (20.77%) ITIL
9 100 (17.61%) DevOps
10 69 (12.15%) Machine Learning
11 67 (11.80%) ITSM
12 64 (11.27%) Performance Metrics
13 63 (11.09%) Data Privacy
14 62 (10.92%) LLM
15 60 (10.56%) Cloud Security
15 60 (10.56%) Microservices
16 59 (10.39%) Visualisation
17 58 (10.21%) Cost Optimisation
17 58 (10.21%) OO
18 57 (10.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 271 (47.71%) Python
2 151 (26.58%) JavaScript
3 103 (18.13%) Java
4 75 (13.20%) Bash
5 71 (12.50%) R
6 47 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 41 (7.22%) SQL
8 38 (6.69%) Go
9 29 (5.11%) Groovy
10 26 (4.58%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.70%) C#
12 10 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.23%) C++
14 6 (1.06%) Ruby
15 5 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.70%) Bicep
17 2 (0.35%) COBOL
18 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.18%) Natural
18 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 210 (36.97%) Azure Certification
2 198 (34.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 182 (32.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 124 (21.83%) Degree
5 99 (17.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 64 (11.27%) MCSE
7 63 (11.09%) Security Cleared
8 42 (7.39%) SC Cleared
9 29 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (2.99%) CISSP
15 14 (2.46%) CISM
16 13 (2.29%) AWS Certified Developer
16 13 (2.29%) CCNA
17 12 (2.11%) CCNP
18 11 (1.94%) Master's Degree
19 9 (1.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.62%) QA
2 36 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.52%) NIST
4 16 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 13 (2.29%) GRC
6 12 (2.11%) GDPR
6 12 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.94%) NCSC
8 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.88%) DICOM
11 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.35%) SLA
13 1 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 95 (16.73%) Docker
2 19 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.46%) 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%) iptables
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (21.13%) Terraform
2 85 (14.96%) Kubernetes
3 56 (9.86%) Ansible
4 39 (6.87%) Prometheus
5 32 (5.63%) HP Fortify
6 26 (4.58%) Grafana
7 21 (3.70%) Argo
8 18 (3.17%) Kustomize
9 13 (2.29%) Cilium
10 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.58%) Packer
11 8 (1.41%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.41%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.88%) Puppet
14 2 (0.35%) QRadar
15 1 (0.18%) Consul
15 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 314 (55.28%) Microsoft
2 93 (16.37%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.16%) Apple
3 35 (6.16%) Google
4 34 (5.99%) Adobe
5 29 (5.11%) VMware
6 17 (2.99%) Splunk
7 15 (2.64%) Databricks
7 15 (2.64%) Oracle
8 14 (2.46%) Cisco
9 10 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.41%) CheckPoint
12 5 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.70%) OpenText
13 4 (0.70%) Pega
13 4 (0.70%) YouTube
14 3 (0.53%) Informatica
14 3 (0.53%) SAP