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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 281 505
Rank change year-on-year -47 +224 -224
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 575 503 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.02% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.89% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 251 161 270
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -10.97% +2.42%
75th Percentile £79,375 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £100,125
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 19,120 17,424 25,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.17% 35.38% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,125 7,829 15,435
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £39,749
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 19 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 19 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 -40 534 £50,000 -27.29% 243
UK excluding London -79 305 £37,500 -42.31% 207
London +15 244 £77,500 +3.33% 90
Work from Home -86 178 £67,500 +3.85% 63
North of England -88 126 £37,500 -42.31% 61
North West -84 65 £37,500 -40.00% 29
Midlands -13 51 £37,500 -38.78% 30
Yorkshire 0 49 £37,500 -42.31% 23
West Midlands -6 46 £37,500 -38.78% 15
South West -54 43 £52,500 -7.48% 25
South East -15 39 £62,500 -9.42% 50
East of England -11 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
North East -38 12 £37,500 -21.05% 12
Scotland +24 9 £37,500 -28.57% 14
Northern Ireland -53 9 £40,750 - 2
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 (9.39%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.65%) WordPress
3 17 (2.96%) Confluence
4 14 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.39%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.26%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.17%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 575 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (34.61%) Azure
3 133 (23.13%) Cloud Computing
4 114 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 103 (17.91%) Serverless
6 102 (17.74%) GitHub
7 92 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
8 88 (15.30%) GCP
9 87 (15.13%) AWS Lambda
10 81 (14.09%) Amazon S3
11 71 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (5.74%) AWS Step Functions
15 31 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (5.04%) Amazon ECR
17 26 (4.52%) Apigee
18 25 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 20 (3.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.22%) Internet
2 62 (10.78%) Network Security
3 41 (7.13%) Firewall
4 23 (4.00%) VPN
5 19 (3.30%) WAN
6 16 (2.78%) LAN
7 15 (2.61%) DNS
7 15 (2.61%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.61%) Software-Defined Networking
8 13 (2.26%) DHCP
9 10 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.39%) IPv4
10 8 (1.39%) VLAN
10 8 (1.39%) Wireless
11 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.04%) Broadband
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.70%) DMZ
15 3 (0.52%) BGP
16 2 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 40 (6.96%) DynamoDB
3 37 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.48%) Metadata
6 14 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.09%) Big Data
9 11 (1.91%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.22%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.04%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 71 (12.35%) GitLab
2 68 (11.83%) Git
3 58 (10.09%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.39%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.04%) Cucumber
6 27 (4.70%) Cypress.io
6 27 (4.70%) Maven
7 26 (4.52%) SonarQube
8 22 (3.83%) JIRA
9 18 (3.13%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.78%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.04%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 3 (0.52%) Taiga
13 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) JMeter
14 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 150 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 144 (25.04%) Finance
3 79 (13.74%) Retail
4 59 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.26%) Multimedia
5 48 (8.35%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.35%) Swedish Language
6 38 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.39%) Banking
8 29 (5.04%) French Language
9 20 (3.48%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.74%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.22%) Military
13 6 (1.04%) Advertising
13 6 (1.04%) Billing
14 5 (0.87%) Legal
15 4 (0.70%) Automotive
15 4 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 118 (20.52%) Senior
2 110 (19.13%) Trainee
3 108 (18.78%) Analyst
4 97 (16.87%) Architect
5 77 (13.39%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.39%) Service Desk Analyst
6 58 (10.09%) Consultant
7 57 (9.91%) Developer
8 51 (8.87%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.87%) Programmer
8 51 (8.87%) Trainee Programmer
9 49 (8.52%) Administrator
10 43 (7.48%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.48%) Web Administrator
11 36 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (6.26%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.70%) Security Consultant
12 27 (4.70%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (4.70%) Senior Consultant
13 26 (4.52%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.61%) CSS
2 61 (10.61%) HTML
3 54 (9.39%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.39%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.39%) NumPy
3 54 (9.39%) Pandas
3 54 (9.39%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.39%) Streamlit
4 38 (6.61%) Spring
5 37 (6.43%) Kafka
6 33 (5.74%) AngularJS
7 27 (4.70%) Jest
8 26 (4.52%) Gherkin
9 24 (4.17%) AWS CDK
10 22 (3.83%) Node.js
11 18 (3.13%) React
12 14 (2.43%) .NET
13 13 (2.26%) REST
14 10 (1.74%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.91%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.96%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 37 (6.43%) Public Cloud
6 33 (5.74%) Data Centre
6 33 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.74%) e-Learning
7 28 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (4.52%) PKI
10 13 (2.26%) Mainframe
11 12 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.91%) Blog
13 7 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.22%) Fat Client
13 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.22%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.83%) Linux
1 45 (7.83%) Windows
2 19 (3.30%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.57%) Unix
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (31.48%) AI
2 152 (26.43%) CI/CD
3 151 (26.26%) Agile
4 148 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (25.74%) Mentoring
5 133 (23.13%) Customer Service
6 127 (22.09%) ITIL
7 98 (17.04%) Cloud Security
7 98 (17.04%) Machine Learning
8 83 (14.43%) Cybersecurity
8 83 (14.43%) DevOps
9 79 (13.74%) ITSM
10 78 (13.57%) Migration
11 77 (13.39%) Performance Metrics
12 65 (11.30%) Microservices
13 62 (10.78%) LLM
13 62 (10.78%) Prompt Engineering
14 60 (10.43%) OO
14 60 (10.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 59 (10.26%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 224 (38.96%) Python
2 113 (19.65%) Java
3 83 (14.43%) JavaScript
4 72 (12.52%) Bash
5 56 (9.74%) SQL
6 47 (8.17%) R
7 39 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 28 (4.87%) Go
9 27 (4.70%) Groovy
10 24 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.17%) Ruby
11 17 (2.96%) C#
12 15 (2.61%) PHP
13 14 (2.43%) Perl
14 10 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.22%) C++
16 6 (1.04%) COBOL
17 5 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.70%) Bicep
19 2 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 162 (28.17%) Degree
2 156 (27.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 139 (24.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 139 (24.17%) Azure Certification
4 132 (22.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 93 (16.17%) Security Cleared
6 77 (13.39%) MCSE
7 44 (7.65%) SC Cleared
8 42 (7.30%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (5.04%) CISSP
10 27 (4.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (3.48%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (3.13%) Master's Degree
14 17 (2.96%) CCNA
15 15 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
15 15 (2.61%) CISM
16 14 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (2.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.57%) QA
2 42 (7.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.65%) GDPR
3 21 (3.65%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.48%) NIST
5 14 (2.43%) GRC
6 13 (2.26%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.09%) NCSC
8 10 (1.74%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.39%) Accessibility
10 8 (1.39%) ISO 9001
11 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.87%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.70%) DICOM
14 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.35%) SLA
15 1 (0.17%) COBIT
15 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 71 (12.35%) Docker
2 22 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.39%) Squid
4 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.39%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) KVM
6 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 128 (22.26%) Terraform
2 67 (11.65%) Kubernetes
3 41 (7.13%) Ansible
4 30 (5.22%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.65%) Grafana
5 21 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.26%) Cilium
7 11 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.74%) Puppet
9 9 (1.57%) Argo
9 9 (1.57%) Packer
10 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.39%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.04%) Kustomize
11 6 (1.04%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.70%) Iperf
13 3 (0.52%) QRadar
14 1 (0.17%) Consul
14 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 272 (47.30%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.09%) ServiceNow
3 30 (5.22%) VMware
4 29 (5.04%) Oracle
5 25 (4.35%) Apple
6 24 (4.17%) Adobe
6 24 (4.17%) Cisco
7 23 (4.00%) Splunk
8 22 (3.83%) Google
9 18 (3.13%) SAP
10 14 (2.43%) Databricks
10 14 (2.43%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.09%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (1.57%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.39%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.22%) Avaya
14 7 (1.22%) Genesys
15 6 (1.04%) IBM
15 6 (1.04%) Salesforce