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 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 284 494
Rank change year-on-year -64 +210 -103
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 580 507 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.01% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.92% 2.92% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 242 166 202
10th Percentile £28,250 £45,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £54,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,188 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% -

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 19,877 17,392 21,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.60% 34.77% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,640 7,876 11,651
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.00% -2.91% -1.90%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -61 537 £60,000 -14.29% 522
UK excluding London -110 303 £50,000 -23.08% 376
London +21 253 £77,500 +1.64% 238
Work from Home -118 171 £85,000 +22.30% 208
North of England -109 113 £37,500 -42.31% 103
North West -97 57 £37,500 -40.00% 58
South West -59 52 £60,500 +6.62% 70
Midlands -13 51 £37,500 -46.43% 44
West Midlands -19 47 £37,500 -46.43% 23
South East -29 43 £62,500 -11.03% 71
Yorkshire -15 37 £37,500 -42.31% 32
North East -47 19 £59,000 +24.21% 15
East of England -22 15 £37,500 -55.88% 31
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 8
Scotland +8 9 £34,500 -34.29% 34
Northern Ireland -64 7 £40,750 - 18
East Midlands - 4 £31,500 - 21

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 44 (7.59%) WordPress
2 26 (4.48%) Jupyter
3 20 (3.45%) Confluence
4 17 (2.93%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.86%) Apache
6 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
6 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.69%) JBoss
7 4 (0.69%) SAS
8 3 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (11.72%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (5.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.14%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 580 (100.00%) AWS
2 227 (39.14%) Azure
3 124 (21.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 110 (18.97%) GCP
5 106 (18.28%) Cloud Computing
6 103 (17.76%) Serverless
7 99 (17.07%) GitHub
8 85 (14.66%) AWS Lambda
8 85 (14.66%) Microsoft 365
9 81 (13.97%) Amazon S3
10 73 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (4.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 27 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (3.97%) Amazon ECR
16 22 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (3.45%) Apigee
17 20 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.10%) Internet
2 65 (11.21%) Network Security
3 44 (7.59%) Firewall
4 27 (4.66%) WAN
5 24 (4.14%) VPN
6 21 (3.62%) SD-WAN
7 20 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.28%) DNS
8 19 (3.28%) LAN
9 17 (2.93%) DHCP
10 14 (2.41%) TCP/IP
11 12 (2.07%) Wireless
12 9 (1.55%) VLAN
13 8 (1.38%) IPv4
14 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.69%) DMZ
17 3 (0.52%) 3GPP
17 3 (0.52%) BGP
17 3 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.97%) NoSQL
2 47 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (6.03%) DynamoDB
4 19 (3.28%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.10%) Metadata
6 14 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.90%) Big Data
8 11 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.38%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.21%) Power BI
10 7 (1.21%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.69%) GIS
14 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (12.41%) Git
2 70 (12.07%) GitLab
3 55 (9.48%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.69%) Cucumber
5 30 (5.17%) JIRA
6 26 (4.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (3.97%) Maven
8 21 (3.62%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.45%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.76%) Bitbucket
11 14 (2.41%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 3 (0.52%) Taiga
13 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
14 2 (0.34%) Ant
14 2 (0.34%) Apache Ivy
14 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.34%) git-flow
14 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 164 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.34%) Finance
3 66 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.17%) Multimedia
5 53 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (8.28%) Swedish Language
7 47 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (7.59%) Retail
9 32 (5.52%) Banking
9 32 (5.52%) Manufacturing
10 20 (3.45%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.45%) French Language
11 18 (3.10%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.41%) Law
14 11 (1.90%) Marketing
15 9 (1.55%) Legal
15 9 (1.55%) Military
16 6 (1.03%) Billing
16 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (22.24%) Senior
2 113 (19.48%) Architect
3 100 (17.24%) Analyst
4 82 (14.14%) Trainee
5 68 (11.72%) Service Analyst
5 68 (11.72%) Service Desk Analyst
6 62 (10.69%) Consultant
7 54 (9.31%) Developer
8 49 (8.45%) Administrator
9 43 (7.41%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.41%) Web Administrator
10 41 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (5.34%) Security Consultant
13 30 (5.17%) Java Engineer
14 28 (4.83%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.66%) Senior Consultant
16 25 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
16 25 (4.31%) Lead
17 24 (4.14%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.90%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.86%) CSS
2 63 (10.86%) HTML
3 48 (8.28%) Kafka
4 44 (7.59%) Spring
5 30 (5.17%) AWS CDK
6 26 (4.48%) AngularJS
6 26 (4.48%) Hugging Face
6 26 (4.48%) Matplotlib
6 26 (4.48%) NumPy
6 26 (4.48%) Pandas
6 26 (4.48%) scikit-learn
6 26 (4.48%) Streamlit
7 23 (3.97%) Node.js
8 21 (3.62%) .NET
8 21 (3.62%) Jest
9 20 (3.45%) Gherkin
10 19 (3.28%) React
11 14 (2.41%) REST
12 10 (1.72%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 111 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 88 (15.17%) Onboarding
3 47 (8.10%) Enterprise Cloud
4 45 (7.76%) Public Cloud
5 38 (6.55%) Algorithms
5 38 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (6.03%) e-Learning
7 34 (5.86%) Data Centre
8 28 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (3.28%) PKI
10 14 (2.41%) Blog
11 13 (2.24%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.07%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.45%) Windows
2 37 (6.38%) Linux
3 22 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.34%) Solaris
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (32.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 176 (30.34%) CI/CD
3 167 (28.79%) AI
4 165 (28.45%) Mentoring
5 163 (28.10%) Agile
6 122 (21.03%) ITIL
7 113 (19.48%) Cloud Security
8 96 (16.55%) Customer Service
8 96 (16.55%) DevOps
9 93 (16.03%) Cybersecurity
10 80 (13.79%) Migration
11 79 (13.62%) Machine Learning
12 77 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 75 (12.93%) ITSM
14 72 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (11.90%) Microservices
16 68 (11.72%) Performance Metrics
17 66 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
18 62 (10.69%) Roadmaps
19 60 (10.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 203 (35.00%) Python
2 112 (19.31%) Java
3 82 (14.14%) JavaScript
4 62 (10.69%) Bash
5 60 (10.34%) SQL
6 47 (8.10%) R
7 33 (5.69%) TypeScript
8 27 (4.66%) Go
9 24 (4.14%) Ruby
10 23 (3.97%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.62%) Groovy
12 18 (3.10%) C#
13 15 (2.59%) PHP
14 14 (2.41%) Perl
15 10 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.03%) C++
16 6 (1.03%) COBOL
17 5 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 2 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 160 (27.59%) Degree
2 149 (25.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 147 (25.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 146 (25.17%) Azure Certification
5 120 (20.69%) Security Cleared
6 108 (18.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 71 (12.24%) SC Cleared
8 68 (11.72%) MCSE
9 48 (8.28%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.17%) CISSP
10 30 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (3.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (3.79%) Master's Degree
12 22 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (3.62%) CCNA
13 21 (3.62%) CCNP
14 19 (3.28%) AWS Certified Developer
14 19 (3.28%) DV Cleared
15 17 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.07%) QA
2 40 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.48%) GDPR
4 21 (3.62%) NIST
5 20 (3.45%) SOC 2
6 16 (2.76%) NCSC
7 13 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 13 (2.24%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.07%) HIPAA
9 11 (1.90%) GRC
10 10 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
12 7 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.69%) SLA
15 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
16 1 (0.17%) COBIT
16 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 71 (12.24%) Docker
2 25 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.38%) Squid
4 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.38%) vSphere
5 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.86%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 135 (23.28%) Terraform
2 73 (12.59%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.41%) Ansible
4 20 (3.45%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.28%) Grafana
6 16 (2.76%) Puppet
7 14 (2.41%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.72%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.55%) Cilium
10 9 (1.55%) Packer
11 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.03%) Argo
13 4 (0.69%) Iperf
14 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.52%) QRadar
15 2 (0.34%) kaniko
16 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 244 (42.07%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.38%) ServiceNow
3 35 (6.03%) Oracle
4 31 (5.34%) VMware
5 25 (4.31%) Apple
5 25 (4.31%) Cisco
5 25 (4.31%) Splunk
6 24 (4.14%) Adobe
7 22 (3.79%) Google
8 18 (3.10%) SAP
9 17 (2.93%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.59%) Red Hat
11 14 (2.41%) Databricks
12 12 (2.07%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.21%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.21%) Avaya
14 7 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.21%) Genesys