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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 292 455
Rank change year-on-year +14 +163 -289
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 638 465 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.06% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.64% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 359 161 319
10th Percentile - £42,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £60,000 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £98,750 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £56,745 £70,000
% change year-on-year -33.91% -18.94% -

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 21,135 17,582 26,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.91% 40.04% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,169 7,539 17,165
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £41,000 £38,354
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 £73,315 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -4.18%

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 21 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 21 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 +13 576 £37,500 -46.43% 261
UK excluding London +16 406 £37,500 -33.91% 225
North of England -22 210 £31,500 -40.00% 65
Work from Home -35 199 £62,500 -0.40% 66
London -1 186 £55,000 -33.33% 85
Yorkshire +42 106 £37,500 -31.82% 26
North West -56 83 £31,500 -45.22% 30
Midlands +13 64 £32,000 -40.40% 34
West Midlands -5 59 £32,000 -40.40% 14
South East -1 38 £62,000 -24.85% 44
South West -49 34 £37,500 -33.91% 31
Scotland +18 24 £30,500 -41.90% 15
North East -21 21 £30,500 -35.79% 9
East of England +2 20 £37,500 -55.88% 22
Northern Ireland -28 11 £35,000 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 20
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 56 (8.78%) WordPress
2 54 (8.46%) Jupyter
3 13 (2.04%) Confluence
4 9 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.94%) Apache
5 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.63%) Documentum
7 3 (0.47%) Drupal
7 3 (0.47%) JBoss
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 61 (9.56%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (8.62%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Weka
5 1 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (3.76%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 638 (100.00%) AWS
2 344 (53.92%) Azure
3 198 (31.03%) GitHub
4 97 (15.20%) Serverless
5 93 (14.58%) GCP
6 84 (13.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (11.91%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (11.29%) Amazon S3
10 61 (9.56%) Cloud Computing
11 51 (7.99%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (7.21%) AWS Step Functions
13 38 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
15 33 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (5.17%) Apigee
15 33 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 172 (26.96%) Internet
2 30 (4.70%) Firewall
3 27 (4.23%) Network Security
4 20 (3.13%) VPN
5 18 (2.82%) Broadband
6 12 (1.88%) Software-Defined Networking
7 11 (1.72%) WAN
8 10 (1.57%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.41%) LAN
10 7 (1.10%) Wireless
11 6 (0.94%) DNS
11 6 (0.94%) IPv4
12 5 (0.78%) DHCP
12 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.47%) VLAN
14 2 (0.31%) BGP
14 2 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
14 2 (0.31%) OSPF
15 1 (0.16%) MPLS
15 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.52%) DynamoDB
2 44 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 25 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.29%) Metadata
5 20 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.98%) RDBMS
6 19 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.25%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.78%) Power BI
11 4 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.47%) Big Data
12 3 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.31%) GIS
13 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.31%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 187 (29.31%) Git
2 64 (10.03%) GitLab
3 56 (8.78%) Jenkins
4 54 (8.46%) Visual Studio Code
5 34 (5.33%) Cypress.io
5 34 (5.33%) Maven
6 33 (5.17%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.98%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.82%) Jaeger
9 17 (2.66%) TeamCity
10 14 (2.19%) JIRA
11 11 (1.72%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.63%) MLflow
13 3 (0.47%) Selenium
14 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.16%) Gatling
14 1 (0.16%) JMeter
14 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 175 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 172 (26.96%) Multimedia
3 124 (19.44%) Finance
4 76 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (11.29%) Retail
6 60 (9.40%) Manufacturing
7 49 (7.68%) French Language
8 42 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
9 34 (5.33%) Banking
10 24 (3.76%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 12 (1.88%) Swedish Language
13 10 (1.57%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.25%) Advertising
14 8 (1.25%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.10%) Legal
16 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Law
16 5 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 223 (34.95%) Trainee
2 120 (18.81%) Developer
3 107 (16.77%) Analyst
4 88 (13.79%) Architect
5 70 (10.97%) Senior
6 69 (10.82%) Trainee Developer
7 61 (9.56%) Administrator
7 61 (9.56%) Service Analyst
7 61 (9.56%) Service Desk Analyst
8 57 (8.93%) Software Developer
9 56 (8.78%) Trainee Software Developer
10 53 (8.31%) Trainee Administrator
10 53 (8.31%) Web Administrator
11 51 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (7.99%) Programmer
11 51 (7.99%) Trainee Programmer
12 44 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (5.96%) Lead
14 29 (4.55%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (27.27%) CSS
1 174 (27.27%) HTML
2 54 (8.46%) Hugging Face
2 54 (8.46%) Matplotlib
2 54 (8.46%) NumPy
2 54 (8.46%) Pandas
2 54 (8.46%) scikit-learn
2 54 (8.46%) Spring Boot
2 54 (8.46%) Streamlit
3 35 (5.49%) AngularJS
4 34 (5.33%) Jest
5 33 (5.17%) Gherkin
6 30 (4.70%) React
7 22 (3.45%) Spring
8 20 (3.13%) Kafka
9 18 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (2.35%) .NET
10 15 (2.35%) AWS CDK
11 13 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 63 (9.87%) Algorithms
3 46 (7.21%) Public Cloud
4 32 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (4.08%) PKI
6 24 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (3.61%) e-Learning
8 21 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (2.66%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.25%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.78%) Clustering
13 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.78%) PACS
13 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.72%) Linux
2 34 (5.33%) Windows
3 26 (4.08%) Unix
4 14 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (32.76%) Mentoring
2 184 (28.84%) Cybersecurity
3 157 (24.61%) Agile
4 149 (23.35%) CI/CD
5 136 (21.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (20.06%) AI
7 122 (19.12%) Customer Service
8 117 (18.34%) ITIL
9 114 (17.87%) DevOps
10 67 (10.50%) Cost Optimisation
11 66 (10.34%) Data Privacy
11 66 (10.34%) Machine Learning
11 66 (10.34%) Web Development
12 64 (10.03%) ITSM
13 61 (9.56%) Performance Metrics
14 60 (9.40%) Visualisation
15 59 (9.25%) LLM
15 59 (9.25%) OO
16 58 (9.09%) Containerisation
16 58 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 332 (52.04%) Python
2 219 (34.33%) JavaScript
3 104 (16.30%) Java
4 103 (16.14%) R
5 77 (12.07%) Bash
6 57 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 37 (5.80%) SQL
8 34 (5.33%) Go
8 34 (5.33%) Groovy
9 26 (4.08%) C#
10 24 (3.76%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.41%) C++
13 7 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.47%) Bicep
14 3 (0.47%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.16%) C
15 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 271 (42.48%) Azure Certification
2 257 (40.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 240 (37.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 120 (18.81%) Degree
5 99 (15.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 62 (9.72%) Security Cleared
7 61 (9.56%) MCSE
8 39 (6.11%) SC Cleared
9 31 (4.86%) ITIL Certification
10 29 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 28 (4.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
14 22 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (2.82%) CISSP
16 15 (2.35%) CISM
17 9 (1.41%) CCNP
17 9 (1.41%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.41%) Master's Degree
18 8 (1.25%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.03%) QA
2 29 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.98%) NIST
4 14 (2.19%) SOC 2
5 11 (1.72%) GDPR
5 11 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.57%) GRC
7 8 (1.25%) NCSC
8 6 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.94%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.94%) SLA
9 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.78%) DICOM
9 5 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.31%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 110 (17.24%) Docker
2 24 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.25%) vSphere
5 7 (1.10%) KVM
6 6 (0.94%) Squid
6 6 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.63%) iptables
9 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (18.81%) Terraform
2 83 (13.01%) Kubernetes
3 56 (8.78%) Ansible
4 38 (5.96%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.80%) HP Fortify
6 29 (4.55%) Grafana
7 21 (3.29%) Argo
8 18 (2.82%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.57%) Cilium
9 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.25%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.10%) Packer
12 6 (0.94%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.78%) Puppet
13 5 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.16%) Consul
14 1 (0.16%) QRadar
14 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 383 (60.03%) Microsoft
2 89 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.43%) Adobe
3 41 (6.43%) Apple
4 35 (5.49%) Google
5 33 (5.17%) VMware
6 16 (2.51%) Databricks
7 13 (2.04%) Cisco
8 12 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.72%) Splunk
10 10 (1.57%) Oracle
11 8 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.10%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.78%) SAP
13 5 (0.78%) Symantec
13 5 (0.78%) Workday
14 4 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.63%) OpenText
14 4 (0.63%) YouTube