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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 414 362
Rank change year-on-year +238 -52 -185
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 818 320 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 1.64% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 485 146 267
10th Percentile - £42,500 £44,600
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £54,000
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 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -19.23% -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 19,462 19,568 18,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 36.94% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,836 7,623 12,523
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 21 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 21 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 +221 706 £30,500 -51.20% 344
UK excluding London +232 488 £30,500 -41.90% 341
Work from Home +150 305 £75,000 +25.00% 58
London +125 246 £71,000 -18.86% 91
North of England +134 224 £30,500 -32.22% 91
Yorkshire +54 130 £30,500 -32.22% 39
North West +74 68 £30,500 -41.90% 41
South East +58 66 £47,500 -10.46% 70
Midlands +49 57 £30,500 -43.88% 44
West Midlands +53 47 £30,500 -43.19% 16
Scotland +24 42 £30,500 -54.81% 29
South West +36 34 £30,500 -56.43% 46
Northern Ireland +20 31 - - 4
East of England +26 30 £82,500 +53.49% 40
North East +30 26 £30,500 -32.22% 12
East Midlands -9 10 £51,058 -7.17% 28
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 20

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 (4.16%) WordPress
2 17 (2.08%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.08%) WebSphere
3 16 (1.96%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (1.22%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) nginx
6 8 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
8 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (16.99%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 818 (100.00%) AWS
2 500 (61.12%) Azure
3 305 (37.29%) GitHub
4 173 (21.15%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (15.28%) Serverless
6 90 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 86 (10.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 81 (9.90%) GCP
10 43 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (5.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (2.69%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (2.32%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.99%) Internet
2 35 (4.28%) Firewall
3 28 (3.42%) VPN
4 25 (3.06%) Broadband
5 24 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
6 19 (2.32%) SSL
7 18 (2.20%) Network Security
8 17 (2.08%) DNS
9 16 (1.96%) WAN
10 13 (1.59%) SD-WAN
11 11 (1.34%) TCP/IP
11 11 (1.34%) VLAN
11 11 (1.34%) VoIP
11 11 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (1.22%) LAN
13 8 (0.98%) DHCP
14 7 (0.86%) HTTP
15 6 (0.73%) FTP
15 6 (0.73%) SMTP
15 6 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 39 (4.77%) Data Lake
3 38 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (3.67%) Metadata
7 23 (2.81%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.44%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (2.08%) DB2
11 13 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.37%) Big Data
14 3 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.37%) MySQL
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
15 2 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 304 (37.16%) Git
2 50 (6.11%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.79%) GitLab
4 19 (2.32%) Cypress.io
4 19 (2.32%) Jaeger
5 17 (2.08%) JIRA
6 14 (1.71%) Maven
6 14 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.73%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.61%) Vite
11 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 2 (0.24%) Subversion
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Fiddler
13 1 (0.12%) JMeter
13 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.12%) NeoLoad
General
1 290 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.99%) Multimedia
3 139 (16.99%) French Language
4 119 (14.55%) Swedish Language
5 105 (12.84%) Finance
6 68 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (7.33%) Banking
8 52 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (6.11%) Financial Institution
10 28 (3.42%) Public Sector
11 26 (3.18%) Retail Banking
12 25 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.59%) Retail
14 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.47%) Law
15 11 (1.34%) Publishing
16 8 (0.98%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.61%) Legal
17 5 (0.61%) Local Government
17 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 278 (33.99%) Trainee
2 162 (19.80%) Developer
3 161 (19.68%) Analyst
4 139 (16.99%) Service Analyst
4 139 (16.99%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (16.38%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (15.28%) Software Developer
6 125 (15.28%) Trainee Software Developer
7 117 (14.30%) Architect
8 77 (9.41%) Senior
9 46 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (5.01%) Lead
11 33 (4.03%) Administrator
12 30 (3.67%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.55%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.55%) Web Administrator
14 27 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.93%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.69%) Infrastructure Support
17 20 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.99%) CSS
1 278 (33.99%) HTML
2 32 (3.91%) React
3 24 (2.93%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.57%) AWS CDK
4 21 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (2.44%) LDAP
6 19 (2.32%) Jest
6 19 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.20%) .NET
8 16 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
8 16 (1.96%) WebSphere MQ
9 15 (1.83%) RESTful
10 14 (1.71%) Gherkin
11 11 (1.34%) .NET Core
11 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET
11 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (1.34%) Kafka
11 11 (1.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.08%) PKI
8 13 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.73%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.73%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Clustering
12 5 (0.61%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.49%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.49%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.88%) Linux
2 73 (8.92%) Windows
3 49 (5.99%) Unix
4 22 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.73%) VMS
7 5 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.24%) CentOS
10 2 (0.24%) Debian
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (43.52%) Mentoring
2 303 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
3 209 (25.55%) ITIL
4 150 (18.34%) Agile
5 149 (18.22%) ITSM
6 141 (17.24%) DevOps
7 128 (15.65%) CI/CD
8 125 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 123 (15.04%) Customer Service
10 119 (14.55%) Performance Metrics
11 78 (9.54%) Migration
12 74 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (8.56%) Containerisation
14 67 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (8.19%) TOGAF
15 65 (7.95%) Microservices
15 65 (7.95%) Roadmaps
16 64 (7.82%) Computer Science
17 61 (7.46%) Data Modelling
18 59 (7.21%) AI
Programming Languages
1 421 (51.47%) Python
2 341 (41.69%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.60%) R
4 91 (11.12%) Java
5 69 (8.44%) Bash
6 57 (6.97%) TypeScript
7 41 (5.01%) C#
8 36 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.28%) SQL
10 26 (3.18%) Go
11 20 (2.44%) Groovy
12 10 (1.22%) Bicep
13 6 (0.73%) C++
13 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
13 6 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.24%) C
14 2 (0.24%) Perl
14 2 (0.24%) Ruby
14 2 (0.24%) Scala
15 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 459 (56.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 430 (52.57%) Azure Certification
3 286 (34.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 227 (27.75%) Degree
5 139 (16.99%) MCSE
6 118 (14.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 62 (7.58%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 49 (5.99%) SC Cleared
10 46 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (3.67%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.18%) A+ Certification
14 24 (2.93%) CISSP
15 21 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (2.20%) Master's Degree
17 17 (2.08%) CISM
18 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 12 (1.47%) CCNP
20 11 (1.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.53%) QA
2 34 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.55%) NIST
4 24 (2.93%) SLA
5 22 (2.69%) GDPR
6 14 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.86%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) GRC
14 2 (0.24%) GxP
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) Basel III
15 1 (0.12%) DICOM
15 1 (0.12%) GAAP
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 106 (12.96%) Docker
2 50 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.98%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.61%) vSphere
7 4 (0.49%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.49%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.49%) Postfix
7 4 (0.49%) Squid
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (13.45%) Terraform
2 84 (10.27%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.23%) Ansible
4 34 (4.16%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.91%) Grafana
6 21 (2.57%) Argo
7 19 (2.32%) Kustomize
8 14 (1.71%) HP Fortify
9 9 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.86%) Nessus
11 4 (0.49%) Cilium
12 3 (0.37%) Autotask
12 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.24%) Nagios
13 2 (0.24%) Puppet
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 530 (64.79%) Microsoft
2 156 (19.07%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.60%) VMware
4 38 (4.65%) Google
5 24 (2.93%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.69%) IBM
7 17 (2.08%) Adobe
7 17 (2.08%) Apple
8 15 (1.83%) Cisco
8 15 (1.83%) SAP
9 11 (1.34%) Workday
10 6 (0.73%) Databricks
11 5 (0.61%) Oracle
11 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 4 (0.49%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.37%) Ariba
13 3 (0.37%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.37%) YouTube
14 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg