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 6 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 366 429
Rank change year-on-year +144 +63 -285
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 768 293 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.94% 0.71% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.56% 1.83% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 489 166 293
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% +3.45%
75th Percentile £54,039 £89,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £99,375 £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 21,554 15,988 24,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.39% 39.01% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,670 7,538 16,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £38,679
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +4.65% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,400 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.83% +6.00% -

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +137 682 £31,500 -51.24% 276
UK excluding London +163 501 £30,500 -41.90% 248
North of England +88 255 £30,500 -39.00% 65
Work from Home +56 214 £62,500 +4.17% 57
London +36 203 £37,500 -55.88% 86
Yorkshire +44 140 £30,500 -35.79% 26
North West +42 88 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands +9 63 £30,500 -48.43% 35
West Midlands +19 52 £30,500 -48.43% 17
South East -9 47 £33,750 -49.25% 57
South West -21 40 £31,500 -33.68% 34
Scotland +8 39 £30,500 -41.90% 10
East of England -10 34 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East -3 27 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -18 18 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands - 11 £44,279 - 18
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 12

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 78 (10.16%) WordPress
2 54 (7.03%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.17%) Confluence
5 6 (0.78%) Apache
5 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.78%) Drupal
5 6 (0.78%) nginx
6 4 (0.52%) Documentum
6 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 79 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.16%) Chatbot
3 18 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 768 (100.00%) AWS
2 454 (59.11%) Azure
3 305 (39.71%) GitHub
4 110 (14.32%) Serverless
5 103 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (11.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (10.55%) GCP
9 77 (10.03%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
11 49 (6.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 44 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (4.82%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (4.17%) Apigee
18 19 (2.47%) Pulumi
19 17 (2.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (36.20%) Internet
2 28 (3.65%) Firewall
3 21 (2.73%) Broadband
4 20 (2.60%) Network Security
5 19 (2.47%) VPN
6 7 (0.91%) DNS
7 6 (0.78%) DHCP
7 6 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.78%) WAN
8 5 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.65%) SSL
9 4 (0.52%) LAN
9 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.52%) VLAN
9 4 (0.52%) Wireless
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.64%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.34%) NoSQL
3 31 (4.04%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.91%) Metadata
5 24 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.60%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (1.95%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.65%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.65%) Power BI
14 4 (0.52%) DB2
15 3 (0.39%) Big Data
15 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
16 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
17 1 (0.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 293 (38.15%) Git
2 54 (7.03%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.64%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.51%) GitLab
5 32 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 32 (4.17%) Maven
5 32 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.47%) Jaeger
7 16 (2.08%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.43%) JIRA
9 6 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.52%) MLflow
11 3 (0.39%) Selenium
12 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.13%) Gatling
12 1 (0.13%) JMeter
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 278 (36.20%) Multimedia
2 211 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 143 (18.62%) Finance
4 79 (10.29%) French Language
5 75 (9.77%) Retail
6 66 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (7.42%) Manufacturing
8 48 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.73%) Banking
10 42 (5.47%) Swedish Language
11 41 (5.34%) Financial Institution
12 25 (3.26%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.21%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.43%) Publishing
15 9 (1.17%) Law
16 6 (0.78%) Advertising
16 6 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.78%) Legal
17 5 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 329 (42.84%) Trainee
2 165 (21.48%) Developer
3 115 (14.97%) Trainee Developer
4 108 (14.06%) Analyst
5 104 (13.54%) Architect
6 102 (13.28%) Software Developer
7 101 (13.15%) Trainee Software Developer
8 80 (10.42%) Administrator
9 79 (10.29%) Service Analyst
9 79 (10.29%) Service Desk Analyst
10 72 (9.38%) Trainee Administrator
10 72 (9.38%) Web Administrator
11 51 (6.64%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (6.64%) Programmer
11 51 (6.64%) Trainee Programmer
12 48 (6.25%) Senior
13 42 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (4.95%) Lead
15 28 (3.65%) Data Architect
16 27 (3.52%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (36.20%) CSS
1 278 (36.20%) HTML
2 54 (7.03%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.03%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.03%) NumPy
2 54 (7.03%) Pandas
2 54 (7.03%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.03%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.34%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.30%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.17%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.17%) Jest
5 32 (4.17%) React
6 19 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (2.21%) .NET
7 17 (2.21%) AWS CDK
8 15 (1.95%) RESTful
9 14 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
10 13 (1.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.55%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.56%) Public Cloud
4 34 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.73%) PKI
6 15 (1.95%) e-Learning
7 13 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.65%) Clustering
12 5 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.65%) PACS
12 5 (0.65%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.52%) Blog
13 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.59%) Linux
2 38 (4.95%) Windows
3 32 (4.17%) Unix
4 11 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (36.46%) Mentoring
2 253 (32.94%) Cybersecurity
3 164 (21.35%) Agile
4 142 (18.49%) ITIL
5 141 (18.36%) Customer Service
6 132 (17.19%) CI/CD
7 130 (16.93%) DevOps
8 122 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 121 (15.76%) AI
10 86 (11.20%) Web Development
11 82 (10.68%) ITSM
11 82 (10.68%) Performance Metrics
12 74 (9.64%) Data Privacy
13 72 (9.38%) Machine Learning
14 69 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (8.85%) Migration
16 64 (8.33%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.81%) LLM
17 60 (7.81%) Visualisation
18 58 (7.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 446 (58.07%) Python
2 330 (42.97%) JavaScript
3 163 (21.22%) R
4 93 (12.11%) Java
5 81 (10.55%) Bash
6 59 (7.68%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.30%) Go
7 33 (4.30%) SQL
8 32 (4.17%) Groovy
9 31 (4.04%) C#
10 26 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.17%) C++
13 7 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.52%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 395 (51.43%) Azure Certification
2 386 (50.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 345 (44.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 157 (20.44%) Degree
5 97 (12.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 79 (10.29%) MCSE
7 60 (7.81%) Security Cleared
8 45 (5.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 42 (5.47%) SC Cleared
10 34 (4.43%) ITIL Certification
11 32 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (3.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
14 20 (2.60%) CISSP
15 17 (2.21%) CISM
16 14 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (1.30%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.17%) DV Cleared
19 7 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (11.07%) QA
2 30 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.73%) NIST
4 15 (1.95%) GDPR
4 15 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.56%) SOC 2
6 11 (1.43%) SLA
7 9 (1.17%) GRC
7 9 (1.17%) NCSC
8 8 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.65%) DICOM
11 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.26%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.26%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) Basel III
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (14.19%) Docker
2 19 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.91%) KVM
5 5 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.52%) iptables
7 3 (0.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (15.23%) Terraform
2 77 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.38%) Ansible
4 38 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.69%) HP Fortify
6 31 (4.04%) Grafana
7 20 (2.60%) Argo
8 19 (2.47%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.17%) Cilium
11 8 (1.04%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.65%) Puppet
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.26%) Packer
15 1 (0.13%) Consul
15 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 497 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 91 (11.85%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.21%) Google
4 28 (3.65%) VMware
5 22 (2.86%) Adobe
5 22 (2.86%) Apple
6 15 (1.95%) Databricks
7 12 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.56%) SAP
8 11 (1.43%) Workday
9 9 (1.17%) Cisco
10 6 (0.78%) IBM
11 5 (0.65%) Oracle
11 5 (0.65%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.65%) Splunk
11 5 (0.65%) Symantec
11 5 (0.65%) YouTube
12 4 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.52%) OpenText
12 4 (0.52%) Pega