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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 283 495
Rank change year-on-year -48 +212 -187
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 581 509 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.03% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 2.95% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 253 167 230
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,600 £51,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £69,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.19% -10.97% +2.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,250 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -41.15% -10.34% +3.57%

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 19,487 17,247 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 34.90% 25.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,330 7,845 12,930
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,000
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 £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -51 541 £52,500 -23.65% 329
UK excluding London -73 313 £38,250 -41.15% 231
London +21 245 £77,500 +3.33% 162
Work from Home -100 173 £77,500 +13.10% 114
North of England -77 125 £37,500 -42.31% 64
North West -82 65 £37,500 -33.33% 34
Midlands -24 52 £37,500 -44.44% 28
West Midlands -9 47 £37,500 -44.44% 13
South West -52 47 £52,500 -7.48% 42
Yorkshire -7 44 £37,500 -42.31% 20
South East -21 43 £62,500 -9.42% 54
North East -36 16 £40,500 -14.74% 13
East of England -12 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 4
Scotland +14 9 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Northern Ireland -57 9 £40,750 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 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 48 (8.26%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.57%) WordPress
3 18 (3.10%) Confluence
4 14 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) Apache
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) JBoss
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.25%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (9.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.13%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.20%) 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
Cloud Services
1 581 (100.00%) AWS
2 210 (36.14%) Azure
3 126 (21.69%) Cloud Computing
4 116 (19.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 102 (17.56%) GitHub
6 101 (17.38%) Serverless
7 97 (16.70%) GCP
8 93 (16.01%) Microsoft 365
9 84 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (13.60%) Amazon S3
11 72 (12.39%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (5.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 26 (4.48%) Amazon ECR
16 24 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (3.96%) Apigee
17 23 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.08%) Internet
2 64 (11.02%) Network Security
3 42 (7.23%) Firewall
4 25 (4.30%) VPN
5 24 (4.13%) WAN
6 19 (3.27%) DNS
6 19 (3.27%) SD-WAN
7 18 (3.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 17 (2.93%) LAN
9 16 (2.75%) DHCP
10 12 (2.07%) TCP/IP
11 10 (1.72%) Wireless
12 8 (1.38%) IPv4
12 8 (1.38%) VLAN
13 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.69%) DMZ
16 3 (0.52%) BGP
16 3 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
16 3 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 41 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (6.71%) DynamoDB
4 22 (3.79%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.10%) Metadata
6 13 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.07%) Big Data
8 10 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.38%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.20%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.86%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.86%) Power BI
12 4 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 70 (12.05%) Git
2 69 (11.88%) GitLab
3 56 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 48 (8.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 31 (5.34%) Cucumber
6 25 (4.30%) JIRA
6 25 (4.30%) Maven
7 24 (4.13%) Cypress.io
8 23 (3.96%) SonarQube
9 18 (3.10%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.75%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
12 3 (0.52%) Taiga
12 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
13 1 (0.17%) Ant
13 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) git-flow
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 160 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 148 (25.47%) Finance
3 71 (12.22%) Retail
4 59 (10.15%) Multimedia
5 53 (9.12%) Manufacturing
5 53 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.26%) Swedish Language
7 40 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (5.51%) Banking
9 29 (4.99%) French Language
10 20 (3.44%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.24%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.20%) Law
12 7 (1.20%) Military
13 6 (1.03%) Advertising
13 6 (1.03%) Billing
13 6 (1.03%) Legal
14 5 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 124 (21.34%) Senior
2 108 (18.59%) Analyst
3 104 (17.90%) Trainee
4 99 (17.04%) Architect
5 77 (13.25%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.25%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.33%) Consultant
7 57 (9.81%) Developer
8 49 (8.43%) Administrator
9 45 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 45 (7.75%) Programmer
9 45 (7.75%) Trainee Programmer
10 43 (7.40%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.40%) Web Administrator
11 38 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (4.99%) Security Consultant
14 28 (4.82%) Java Engineer
15 27 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.65%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.88%) Spring Boot
2 62 (10.67%) CSS
2 62 (10.67%) HTML
3 48 (8.26%) Hugging Face
3 48 (8.26%) Matplotlib
3 48 (8.26%) NumPy
3 48 (8.26%) Pandas
3 48 (8.26%) scikit-learn
3 48 (8.26%) Streamlit
4 42 (7.23%) Kafka
5 41 (7.06%) Spring
6 30 (5.16%) AngularJS
7 26 (4.48%) AWS CDK
8 24 (4.13%) Jest
8 24 (4.13%) Node.js
9 23 (3.96%) Gherkin
10 19 (3.27%) React
11 18 (3.10%) .NET
12 14 (2.41%) REST
13 10 (1.72%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.52%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 58 (9.98%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 41 (7.06%) Public Cloud
6 36 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (6.02%) e-Learning
8 34 (5.85%) Data Centre
9 28 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (3.96%) PKI
11 13 (2.24%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.07%) Blog
12 12 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.20%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.26%) Windows
2 38 (6.54%) Linux
3 21 (3.61%) 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%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (31.50%) AI
2 165 (28.40%) CI/CD
3 160 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (26.16%) Mentoring
5 151 (25.99%) Agile
6 127 (21.86%) Customer Service
6 127 (21.86%) ITIL
7 103 (17.73%) Cloud Security
8 96 (16.52%) Machine Learning
9 86 (14.80%) Cybersecurity
10 81 (13.94%) DevOps
10 81 (13.94%) ITSM
11 77 (13.25%) Performance Metrics
12 75 (12.91%) Migration
13 68 (11.70%) Microservices
14 62 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (10.50%) LLM
16 58 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
17 57 (9.81%) Analytics
17 57 (9.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 216 (37.18%) Python
2 110 (18.93%) Java
3 79 (13.60%) JavaScript
4 62 (10.67%) Bash
5 55 (9.47%) SQL
6 47 (8.09%) R
7 36 (6.20%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.13%) Go
8 24 (4.13%) Groovy
8 24 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 24 (4.13%) Ruby
9 18 (3.10%) C#
10 15 (2.58%) PHP
11 14 (2.41%) Perl
12 10 (1.72%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.03%) C++
13 6 (1.03%) COBOL
14 5 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.69%) Bicep
16 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 166 (28.57%) Degree
2 157 (27.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 144 (24.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 141 (24.27%) Azure Certification
5 127 (21.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 102 (17.56%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.25%) MCSE
8 54 (9.29%) SC Cleared
9 46 (7.92%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (4.99%) CISSP
11 27 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (4.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.44%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (3.27%) CCNA
14 19 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (3.27%) Master's Degree
15 18 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
15 18 (3.10%) CCNP
16 14 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (2.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.43%) QA
2 42 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.96%) SOC 2
4 21 (3.61%) GDPR
5 19 (3.27%) NIST
6 14 (2.41%) GRC
7 12 (2.07%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.07%) NCSC
8 10 (1.72%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.38%) PCI DSS
11 7 (1.20%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.52%) DICOM
13 3 (0.52%) SLA
14 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.17%) COBIT
15 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (11.36%) Docker
2 23 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.79%) Active Directory
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 2 (0.34%) iptables
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 129 (22.20%) Terraform
2 67 (11.53%) Kubernetes
3 37 (6.37%) Ansible
4 27 (4.65%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.10%) Grafana
6 13 (2.24%) Cilium
7 12 (2.07%) Puppet
7 12 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.89%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.55%) Packer
10 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.69%) Argo
11 4 (0.69%) Iperf
11 4 (0.69%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.52%) QRadar
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.17%) kaniko
Vendors
1 270 (46.47%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.73%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.34%) Oracle
3 31 (5.34%) VMware
4 25 (4.30%) Apple
5 24 (4.13%) Adobe
5 24 (4.13%) Cisco
5 24 (4.13%) Splunk
6 18 (3.10%) SAP
7 17 (2.93%) Google
8 16 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.58%) Databricks
10 12 (2.07%) Fortinet
11 11 (1.89%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.20%) Avaya
14 7 (1.20%) Genesys
15 6 (1.03%) Salesforce
16 5 (0.86%) Infor