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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 411 362
Rank change year-on-year +233 -49 -173
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 774 324 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 0.60% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.02% 1.67% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 472 147 240
10th Percentile - £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -7.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £86,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -10.34%

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 19,236 19,381 15,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.50% 35.73% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,736 7,644 10,758
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,122 £55,000 £51,589
% change year-on-year -12.51% +6.61% +3.18%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +222 668 £30,500 -51.20% 500
UK excluding London +222 474 £30,500 -42.51% 448
Work from Home +158 284 £75,000 +25.00% 229
London +116 226 £70,500 -19.43% 221
North of England +140 218 £30,500 -32.22% 78
Yorkshire +58 124 £30,500 -32.22% 35
North West +73 69 £30,500 -48.09% 32
South East +42 64 £47,500 -10.46% 175
Midlands +49 55 £30,500 -44.55% 60
West Midlands +53 45 £30,500 -48.43% 36
Scotland +24 41 £30,500 -46.96% 19
South West +36 33 £30,500 -56.43% 39
East of England +37 30 £80,000 +48.84% 62
Northern Ireland +21 29 - - 3
North East +30 25 £30,500 -32.22% 13
East Midlands -7 10 £51,058 -7.17% 23
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 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 34 (4.39%) WordPress
2 17 (2.20%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.20%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.07%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (1.16%) Confluence
4 9 (1.16%) nginx
5 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.65%) Drupal
8 4 (0.52%) Apache
8 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 129 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 774 (100.00%) AWS
2 494 (63.82%) Azure
3 297 (38.37%) GitHub
4 162 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (14.60%) Serverless
6 80 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (10.21%) GCP
8 78 (10.08%) Amazon S3
9 75 (9.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (4.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.33%) SaaS
19 16 (2.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 272 (35.14%) Internet
2 34 (4.39%) Firewall
3 28 (3.62%) VPN
4 24 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.45%) DNS
5 19 (2.45%) SSL
5 19 (2.45%) WAN
6 16 (2.07%) Network Security
7 14 (1.81%) SD-WAN
7 14 (1.81%) VoIP
8 13 (1.68%) Broadband
8 13 (1.68%) LAN
8 13 (1.68%) TCP/IP
8 13 (1.68%) VLAN
9 12 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.29%) DHCP
11 7 (0.90%) HTTP
11 7 (0.90%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.04%) Data Lake
2 38 (4.91%) DynamoDB
3 34 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.88%) Metadata
6 27 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.20%) DB2
9 16 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.03%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.65%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.65%) MySQL
14 3 (0.39%) Big Data
14 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.26%) Power BI
16 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 295 (38.11%) Git
2 43 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.23%) GitLab
4 16 (2.07%) JIRA
5 14 (1.81%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.16%) Maven
6 9 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.90%) Jaeger
9 6 (0.78%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.65%) Vite
11 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.39%) MLflow
12 2 (0.26%) Subversion
13 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
13 1 (0.13%) Gatling
13 1 (0.13%) JMeter
13 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 278 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 272 (35.14%) Multimedia
3 129 (16.67%) French Language
4 119 (15.37%) Swedish Language
5 102 (13.18%) Finance
6 60 (7.75%) Banking
7 56 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (6.33%) Financial Institution
10 28 (3.62%) Public Sector
11 26 (3.36%) Retail Banking
12 24 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.55%) Retail
14 11 (1.42%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.42%) Law
15 10 (1.29%) Publishing
16 9 (1.16%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.65%) Legal
17 5 (0.65%) Local Government
17 5 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 272 (35.14%) Trainee
2 154 (19.90%) Developer
3 151 (19.51%) Analyst
4 129 (16.67%) Service Analyst
4 129 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 129 (16.67%) Trainee Developer
5 120 (15.50%) Software Developer
5 120 (15.50%) Trainee Software Developer
6 114 (14.73%) Architect
7 76 (9.82%) Senior
8 37 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (4.01%) Administrator
10 30 (3.88%) Data Architect
11 29 (3.75%) Trainee Administrator
11 29 (3.75%) Web Administrator
12 27 (3.49%) Lead
12 27 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.10%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
14 23 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.84%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (35.14%) CSS
1 272 (35.14%) HTML
2 32 (4.13%) React
3 20 (2.58%) AWS CDK
3 20 (2.58%) LDAP
4 19 (2.45%) Spring Boot
5 17 (2.20%) .NET
6 16 (2.07%) LAPP Stack
6 16 (2.07%) WebSphere MQ
7 14 (1.81%) Jest
7 14 (1.81%) RESTful
8 11 (1.42%) .NET Core
8 11 (1.42%) AngularJS
8 11 (1.42%) ASP.NET
8 11 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (1.42%) Blazor
8 11 (1.42%) Spring
9 9 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.16%) Gherkin
9 9 (1.16%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (4.01%) Public Cloud
4 24 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.68%) PKI
8 13 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.90%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.78%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.65%) Blog
12 5 (0.65%) Clustering
13 4 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.52%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.52%) Replication
13 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.30%) Windows
2 71 (9.17%) Linux
3 36 (4.65%) Unix
4 22 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.78%) VMS
7 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.26%) CentOS
10 2 (0.26%) Debian
10 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (43.28%) Mentoring
2 295 (38.11%) Cybersecurity
3 195 (25.19%) ITIL
4 140 (18.09%) ITSM
5 130 (16.80%) Agile
6 119 (15.37%) DevOps
7 116 (14.99%) CI/CD
8 114 (14.73%) Customer Service
9 109 (14.08%) Performance Metrics
10 102 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 74 (9.56%) Migration
12 71 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (8.27%) Computer Science
13 64 (8.27%) Microservices
13 64 (8.27%) TOGAF
14 61 (7.88%) Data Modelling
15 60 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (7.62%) Containerisation
17 55 (7.11%) AI
18 52 (6.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 398 (51.42%) Python
2 321 (41.47%) JavaScript
3 143 (18.48%) R
4 74 (9.56%) Java
5 52 (6.72%) TypeScript
6 50 (6.46%) Bash
7 40 (5.17%) C#
8 37 (4.78%) SQL
9 33 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.94%) Groovy
11 12 (1.55%) Go
12 10 (1.29%) Bicep
13 4 (0.52%) C++
13 4 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.26%) C
14 2 (0.26%) Perl
14 2 (0.26%) Ruby
14 2 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 445 (57.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 425 (54.91%) Azure Certification
3 279 (36.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 219 (28.29%) Degree
5 129 (16.67%) MCSE
6 114 (14.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 57 (7.36%) Security Cleared
8 50 (6.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 48 (6.20%) SC Cleared
10 47 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (3.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 27 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (3.36%) A+ Certification
14 22 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (2.71%) CISSP
16 20 (2.58%) Master's Degree
17 14 (1.81%) CISM
18 13 (1.68%) CCNP
19 11 (1.42%) DV Cleared
20 9 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (15.12%) QA
2 32 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (3.88%) NIST
4 24 (3.10%) SLA
5 22 (2.84%) GDPR
6 12 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.03%) NCSC
9 7 (0.90%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.52%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) GxP
12 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) GAAP
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (10.98%) Docker
2 50 (6.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.68%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.78%) KVM
6 5 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.65%) vSphere
7 4 (0.52%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.52%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.52%) Postfix
7 4 (0.52%) Squid
8 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (11.37%) Terraform
2 68 (8.79%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.39%) Ansible
4 26 (3.36%) Grafana
5 18 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.16%) Argo
6 9 (1.16%) HP Fortify
7 7 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 7 (0.90%) Nessus
7 7 (0.90%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.65%) Autotask
9 4 (0.52%) Cilium
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 519 (67.05%) Microsoft
2 144 (18.60%) ServiceNow
3 52 (6.72%) VMware
4 27 (3.49%) Google
5 24 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.84%) IBM
7 17 (2.20%) Adobe
7 17 (2.20%) Apple
8 16 (2.07%) Cisco
8 16 (2.07%) SAP
9 10 (1.29%) Workday
10 5 (0.65%) Ariba
10 5 (0.65%) Databricks
10 5 (0.65%) Oracle
10 5 (0.65%) Symantec
11 4 (0.52%) Datto
11 4 (0.52%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.52%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.39%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.26%) Arista