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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 282 453
Rank change year-on-year +6 +171 -291
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 631 457 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.07% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.67% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 348 141 318
10th Percentile - £44,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £53,688 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -4.92% -4.69%
75th Percentile £60,313 £93,750 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £100,000 £101,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -38.27% -13.21% -

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 21,154 17,090 26,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 40.01% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,373 7,092 17,176
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £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 28 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 28 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 -1 572 £37,500 -48.28% 274
UK excluding London +12 403 £37,500 -38.27% 226
North of England -27 201 £32,250 -50.38% 68
Work from Home -50 201 £62,500 -8.79% 73
London -13 184 £55,000 -33.33% 105
Yorkshire +34 99 £35,250 -47.78% 25
North West -66 80 £31,500 -51.54% 32
Midlands +7 65 £32,500 -39.47% 34
West Midlands +1 59 £32,500 -39.47% 15
South East +3 40 £62,500 -14.38% 45
South West -50 37 £37,500 -33.91% 30
Scotland +21 23 £30,500 -41.90% 16
North East -23 22 £30,500 -35.79% 11
East of England -13 21 £37,500 -55.88% 22
Northern Ireland -23 11 £35,000 - 3
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 19
Wales - 5 £51,619 - 10

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 (8.56%) Jupyter
2 53 (8.40%) WordPress
3 13 (2.06%) Confluence
4 9 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.95%) Apache
5 6 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.63%) Documentum
7 3 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.32%) Drupal
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 65 (10.30%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.72%) Chatbot
3 19 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (3.80%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 631 (100.00%) AWS
2 336 (53.25%) Azure
3 193 (30.59%) GitHub
4 92 (14.58%) GCP
4 92 (14.58%) Serverless
5 82 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (12.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 73 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (11.25%) Amazon S3
9 61 (9.67%) Cloud Computing
10 50 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (6.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (5.39%) Amazon ECR
15 31 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
16 30 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (4.75%) Apigee
17 23 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 164 (25.99%) Internet
2 29 (4.60%) Firewall
2 29 (4.60%) Network Security
3 19 (3.01%) VPN
4 18 (2.85%) Broadband
5 13 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.58%) WAN
7 9 (1.43%) LAN
7 9 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.11%) IPv4
8 7 (1.11%) Wireless
9 5 (0.79%) DNS
10 4 (0.63%) DHCP
10 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.48%) VLAN
12 2 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
13 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.16%) SSL
13 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.29%) NoSQL
2 44 (6.97%) DynamoDB
3 28 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.33%) Metadata
5 19 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.85%) RDBMS
6 18 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.79%) Power BI
11 4 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.48%) Big Data
12 3 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.32%) GIS
13 2 (0.32%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.16%) Flink
14 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 176 (27.89%) Git
2 64 (10.14%) GitLab
3 54 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 54 (8.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 31 (4.91%) Cypress.io
4 31 (4.91%) Maven
5 30 (4.75%) SonarQube
6 21 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.85%) Jaeger
7 18 (2.85%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.22%) JIRA
9 11 (1.74%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.63%) MLflow
11 3 (0.48%) Selenium
12 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.16%) Gatling
12 1 (0.16%) JMeter
12 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 173 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 164 (25.99%) Multimedia
3 120 (19.02%) Finance
4 75 (11.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (11.73%) Retail
6 60 (9.51%) Manufacturing
7 49 (7.77%) French Language
8 42 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (5.55%) Banking
10 24 (3.80%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.54%) Swedish Language
12 14 (2.22%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.43%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.43%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.27%) Advertising
16 7 (1.11%) Legal
17 5 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.79%) Publishing
18 4 (0.63%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 215 (34.07%) Trainee
2 113 (17.91%) Developer
3 111 (17.59%) Analyst
4 88 (13.95%) Architect
5 73 (11.57%) Senior
6 65 (10.30%) Service Analyst
6 65 (10.30%) Service Desk Analyst
7 63 (9.98%) Trainee Developer
8 59 (9.35%) Administrator
9 52 (8.24%) Software Developer
10 51 (8.08%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
10 51 (8.08%) Programmer
10 51 (8.08%) Trainee Administrator
10 51 (8.08%) Trainee Programmer
10 51 (8.08%) Trainee Software Developer
10 51 (8.08%) Web Administrator
11 46 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (5.39%) Lead
13 28 (4.44%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (26.31%) CSS
1 166 (26.31%) HTML
2 54 (8.56%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.56%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.56%) NumPy
2 54 (8.56%) Pandas
2 54 (8.56%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.56%) Streamlit
3 53 (8.40%) Spring Boot
4 32 (5.07%) AngularJS
5 31 (4.91%) Jest
6 30 (4.75%) Gherkin
7 27 (4.28%) React
8 23 (3.65%) Spring
9 22 (3.49%) Kafka
10 18 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.85%) OpenTelemetry
11 15 (2.38%) .NET
12 12 (1.90%) AWS CDK
12 12 (1.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.98%) Algorithms
1 63 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.29%) Public Cloud
3 30 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (4.28%) PKI
5 25 (3.96%) e-Learning
5 25 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.79%) PACS
12 5 (0.79%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.19%) Linux
2 34 (5.39%) Windows
3 23 (3.65%) Unix
4 16 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (31.54%) Mentoring
2 178 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
3 153 (24.25%) Agile
4 149 (23.61%) CI/CD
5 138 (21.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (20.29%) AI
7 125 (19.81%) Customer Service
8 122 (19.33%) ITIL
9 107 (16.96%) DevOps
10 67 (10.62%) Cost Optimisation
10 67 (10.62%) ITSM
11 66 (10.46%) Machine Learning
12 65 (10.30%) Data Privacy
12 65 (10.30%) Performance Metrics
13 63 (9.98%) Web Development
14 61 (9.67%) LLM
15 60 (9.51%) Visualisation
16 59 (9.35%) OO
17 58 (9.19%) Microservices
18 57 (9.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 322 (51.03%) Python
2 207 (32.81%) JavaScript
3 101 (16.01%) Java
3 101 (16.01%) R
4 75 (11.89%) Bash
5 51 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 37 (5.86%) SQL
7 36 (5.71%) Go
8 31 (4.91%) Groovy
9 25 (3.96%) C#
9 25 (3.96%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.27%) C++
12 6 (0.95%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.48%) Bicep
13 3 (0.48%) Ruby
14 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 263 (41.68%) Azure Certification
2 252 (39.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 232 (36.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 126 (19.97%) Degree
5 99 (15.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.30%) MCSE
7 61 (9.67%) Security Cleared
8 39 (6.18%) SC Cleared
9 29 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (4.28%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (3.01%) AWS Certified Developer
15 17 (2.69%) CISSP
16 14 (2.22%) CISM
17 10 (1.58%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.43%) CCNA
19 8 (1.27%) CCNP
19 8 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.78%) QA
2 35 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.01%) NIST
4 15 (2.38%) SOC 2
5 12 (1.90%) GRC
6 11 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.58%) GDPR
8 9 (1.43%) ISO 9001
9 8 (1.27%) NCSC
10 7 (1.11%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.79%) DICOM
13 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.48%) SLA
15 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.32%) EU AI Act
16 1 (0.16%) COBIT
16 1 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 103 (16.32%) Docker
2 21 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.27%) vSphere
5 7 (1.11%) Squid
5 7 (1.11%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.95%) KVM
7 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.63%) iptables
8 2 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (19.02%) Terraform
2 84 (13.31%) Kubernetes
3 55 (8.72%) Ansible
4 38 (6.02%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.39%) HP Fortify
6 28 (4.44%) Grafana
7 21 (3.33%) Argo
8 18 (2.85%) Kustomize
9 12 (1.90%) Cilium
10 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.27%) Packer
11 8 (1.27%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.11%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.79%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.79%) Puppet
15 1 (0.16%) Consul
15 1 (0.16%) QRadar
15 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 378 (59.90%) Microsoft
2 93 (14.74%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.50%) Adobe
3 41 (6.50%) Apple
4 34 (5.39%) Google
5 30 (4.75%) VMware
6 16 (2.54%) Databricks
7 13 (2.06%) Cisco
8 12 (1.90%) Splunk
9 11 (1.74%) Oracle
10 10 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.11%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.11%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.11%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.79%) SAP
12 5 (0.79%) Workday
13 4 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.63%) OpenText
13 4 (0.63%) Pega
13 4 (0.63%) YouTube