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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 360 439
Rank change year-on-year +153 +79 -294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 808 297 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.83% 1.84% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 520 167 286
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £57,813 £90,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £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 21,106 16,107 23,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.29% 39.32% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,447 7,511 16,513
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,482 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,100 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +148 710 £31,000 -52.01% 276
UK excluding London +169 525 £30,500 -41.90% 248
North of England +100 262 £30,500 -34.41% 65
Work from Home +68 234 £75,000 +25.00% 57
London +42 213 £37,500 -56.52% 86
Yorkshire +49 144 £30,500 -32.22% 26
North West +44 88 £30,500 -39.00% 27
Midlands +5 66 £30,500 -52.79% 35
West Midlands +25 52 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East +2 50 £33,750 -44.67% 57
Scotland +13 45 £30,500 -41.90% 10
South West -3 42 £31,000 -34.74% 34
East of England +1 34 £37,500 -40.00% 30
North East +2 30 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Northern Ireland -14 21 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands -29 14 £51,058 -7.17% 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 (9.65%) WordPress
2 54 (6.68%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.99%) Confluence
5 7 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.74%) Apache
6 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.74%) Drupal
6 6 (0.74%) nginx
6 6 (0.74%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (0.50%) Documentum
8 3 (0.37%) JBoss
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 92 (11.39%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (6.81%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Maya
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 808 (100.00%) AWS
2 481 (59.53%) Azure
3 324 (40.10%) GitHub
4 118 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (13.99%) Serverless
6 87 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (9.65%) Amazon S3
9 77 (9.53%) GCP
10 60 (7.43%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (5.82%) AWS Step Functions
12 42 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
13 39 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (4.46%) Amazon ECR
15 35 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
17 30 (3.71%) Apigee
18 19 (2.35%) Pulumi
18 19 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 298 (36.88%) Internet
2 28 (3.47%) Firewall
3 21 (2.60%) Broadband
4 20 (2.48%) Network Security
4 20 (2.48%) VPN
5 9 (1.11%) SSL
6 8 (0.99%) WAN
7 7 (0.87%) DNS
7 7 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.74%) DHCP
8 6 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.62%) LAN
9 5 (0.62%) VLAN
9 5 (0.62%) Wireless
10 4 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.25%) BGP
12 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.25%) OSPF
12 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.94%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.07%) NoSQL
3 32 (3.96%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.71%) Metadata
5 26 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.48%) RDBMS
6 20 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.87%) DB2
13 6 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.62%) Power BI
15 3 (0.37%) Big Data
15 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
16 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
17 1 (0.12%) GIS
Development Applications
1 311 (38.49%) Git
2 54 (6.68%) Visual Studio Code
3 50 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 48 (5.94%) GitLab
5 30 (3.71%) Cypress.io
5 30 (3.71%) Maven
5 30 (3.71%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.35%) Jaeger
7 15 (1.86%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.24%) JIRA
10 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.50%) MLflow
12 3 (0.37%) Selenium
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Gatling
13 1 (0.12%) JMeter
13 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 298 (36.88%) Multimedia
2 229 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 151 (18.69%) Finance
4 92 (11.39%) French Language
5 74 (9.16%) Retail
6 62 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (6.93%) Manufacturing
8 55 (6.81%) Swedish Language
9 51 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (5.82%) Banking
11 46 (5.69%) Financial Institution
12 25 (3.09%) Public Sector
13 18 (2.23%) Retail Banking
14 12 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.36%) Law
15 11 (1.36%) Publishing
16 7 (0.87%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.74%) Advertising
17 6 (0.74%) Legal
18 5 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 349 (43.19%) Trainee
2 172 (21.29%) Developer
3 125 (15.47%) Trainee Developer
4 116 (14.36%) Analyst
5 113 (13.99%) Architect
6 112 (13.86%) Software Developer
7 111 (13.74%) Trainee Software Developer
8 92 (11.39%) Service Analyst
8 92 (11.39%) Service Desk Analyst
9 79 (9.78%) Administrator
10 72 (8.91%) Trainee Administrator
10 72 (8.91%) Web Administrator
11 51 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (6.31%) Programmer
11 51 (6.31%) Trainee Programmer
12 45 (5.57%) Senior
13 41 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (4.70%) Lead
15 29 (3.59%) Data Architect
16 25 (3.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (36.88%) CSS
1 298 (36.88%) HTML
2 54 (6.68%) Hugging Face
2 54 (6.68%) Matplotlib
2 54 (6.68%) NumPy
2 54 (6.68%) Pandas
2 54 (6.68%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.68%) Streamlit
3 39 (4.83%) Spring Boot
4 31 (3.84%) AngularJS
4 31 (3.84%) React
5 30 (3.71%) Gherkin
5 30 (3.71%) Jest
6 19 (2.35%) .NET
6 19 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (2.10%) AWS CDK
8 14 (1.73%) RESTful
8 14 (1.73%) Tailwind CSS
9 12 (1.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.18%) Algorithms
3 36 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.72%) PKI
5 21 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.86%) e-Learning
8 13 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (0.99%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.74%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.62%) Blog
14 5 (0.62%) Clustering
14 5 (0.62%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.62%) PACS
14 5 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.29%) Linux
2 41 (5.07%) Windows
3 35 (4.33%) Unix
4 13 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (37.13%) Mentoring
2 271 (33.54%) Cybersecurity
3 163 (20.17%) Agile
4 159 (19.68%) ITIL
5 153 (18.94%) Customer Service
6 131 (16.21%) DevOps
7 130 (16.09%) CI/CD
8 119 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 117 (14.48%) AI
10 96 (11.88%) ITSM
11 95 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
12 86 (10.64%) Web Development
13 75 (9.28%) Data Privacy
14 73 (9.03%) Machine Learning
15 71 (8.79%) Migration
16 70 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
17 63 (7.80%) Containerisation
18 61 (7.55%) Microservices
19 60 (7.43%) LLM
19 60 (7.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 469 (58.04%) Python
2 352 (43.56%) JavaScript
3 173 (21.41%) R
4 92 (11.39%) Java
5 78 (9.65%) Bash
6 58 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.21%) C#
8 32 (3.96%) SQL
9 31 (3.84%) Go
10 30 (3.71%) Groovy
11 26 (3.22%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.99%) C++
14 7 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
15 6 (0.74%) Bicep
16 1 (0.12%) C
16 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
16 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 424 (52.48%) Azure Certification
2 422 (52.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 364 (45.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 173 (21.41%) Degree
5 102 (12.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 92 (11.39%) MCSE
7 59 (7.30%) Security Cleared
8 48 (5.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 44 (5.45%) SC Cleared
10 36 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 25 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (2.60%) CISSP
15 18 (2.23%) CISM
16 14 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.99%) DV Cleared
19 7 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.87%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (12.00%) QA
2 31 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.60%) NIST
4 17 (2.10%) GDPR
5 16 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.73%) SLA
7 11 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.24%) NCSC
9 9 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.99%) GRC
11 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.62%) DICOM
11 5 (0.62%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.25%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.25%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.12%) Basel III
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (13.24%) Docker
2 20 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.87%) KVM
5 5 (0.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.50%) iptables
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (14.23%) Terraform
2 76 (9.41%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.94%) Ansible
4 38 (4.70%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.21%) HP Fortify
6 32 (3.96%) Grafana
7 20 (2.48%) Argo
8 19 (2.35%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.99%) Cilium
10 8 (0.99%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.62%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.12%) Autotask
14 1 (0.12%) Consul
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Nessus
14 1 (0.12%) Packer
14 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 528 (65.35%) Microsoft
2 101 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.83%) Google
4 28 (3.47%) VMware
5 17 (2.10%) Adobe
5 17 (2.10%) Apple
6 15 (1.86%) Databricks
7 13 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.49%) SAP
9 11 (1.36%) Workday
10 10 (1.24%) Cisco
10 10 (1.24%) IBM
11 6 (0.74%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.62%) Symantec
12 5 (0.62%) YouTube
13 4 (0.50%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.50%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.50%) OpenText
13 4 (0.50%) Pega
13 4 (0.50%) Splunk