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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 455 382
Rank change year-on-year +246 -73 -137
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 674 315 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 0.49% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.93% 1.57% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 394 155 237
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% -13.87% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £97,000 £103,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £67,500
% change year-on-year -42.51% -21.41% -6.90%

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 17,142 20,004 15,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 31.30% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,809 8,241 10,967
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +262 585 £34,000 -43.80% 633
UK excluding London +213 384 £30,500 -42.51% 603
Work from Home +172 260 £75,000 +25.00% 177
London +149 224 £75,000 -11.76% 212
North of England +132 158 £30,500 -32.22% 143
Yorkshire +55 89 £30,500 -32.22% 43
South East +65 66 £47,500 -10.46% 162
North West +86 51 £30,500 -41.90% 80
Midlands +62 46 £30,500 -52.79% 95
West Midlands +68 37 £30,500 -52.79% 58
Scotland +20 31 £30,500 -56.43% 37
South West +40 29 £30,500 -46.96% 45
Northern Ireland +22 27 - - 16
East of England +35 26 £45,000 -10.00% 74
North East +27 18 £30,500 -32.22% 22
East Midlands +20 9 £51,058 -7.17% 36
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 33

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 28 (4.15%) WordPress
2 17 (2.52%) Confluence
2 17 (2.52%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.52%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.37%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (1.48%) nginx
5 9 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.74%) Apache
7 5 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.74%) Drupal
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 119 (17.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 674 (100.00%) AWS
2 406 (60.24%) Azure
3 215 (31.90%) GitHub
4 146 (21.66%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (14.39%) GCP
6 85 (12.61%) Serverless
7 70 (10.39%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 65 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 29 (4.30%) SaaS
13 28 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.37%) Entra ID
18 14 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 187 (27.74%) Internet
2 40 (5.93%) Firewall
3 33 (4.90%) DNS
4 29 (4.30%) VPN
5 24 (3.56%) Remote Desktop
6 21 (3.12%) WAN
7 19 (2.82%) SSL
8 16 (2.37%) DHCP
8 16 (2.37%) LAN
8 16 (2.37%) Network Security
8 16 (2.37%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.23%) VoIP
10 14 (2.08%) TCP/IP
10 14 (2.08%) VLAN
11 12 (1.78%) HTTP
11 12 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (1.63%) FTP
12 11 (1.63%) SMTP
12 11 (1.63%) SSH
13 7 (1.04%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (5.64%) Data Lake
3 35 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (4.75%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 30 (4.45%) Metadata
6 22 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.67%) DB2
8 17 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.34%) MySQL
11 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.89%) Big Data
13 5 (0.74%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.59%) Power BI
14 4 (0.59%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 216 (32.05%) Git
2 46 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.86%) JIRA
4 25 (3.71%) GitLab
5 11 (1.63%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.74%) Vite
9 4 (0.59%) Gatling
9 4 (0.59%) JMeter
9 4 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
10 3 (0.45%) Selenium
10 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.30%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.30%) Subversion
11 2 (0.30%) YouTrack
General
1 242 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 187 (27.74%) Multimedia
3 126 (18.69%) Finance
4 119 (17.66%) French Language
4 119 (17.66%) Swedish Language
5 70 (10.39%) Banking
6 52 (7.72%) Financial Institution
7 51 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.34%) Public Sector
10 31 (4.60%) Law
11 28 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (4.15%) Retail Banking
12 14 (2.08%) Retail
13 10 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.19%) Marketing
14 8 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.89%) Publishing
16 5 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 187 (27.74%) Trainee
2 124 (18.40%) Analyst
3 119 (17.66%) Service Analyst
3 119 (17.66%) Service Desk Analyst
4 112 (16.62%) Developer
5 107 (15.88%) Architect
6 91 (13.50%) Senior
6 91 (13.50%) Trainee Developer
7 86 (12.76%) Software Developer
7 86 (12.76%) Trainee Software Developer
8 33 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 33 (4.90%) Lead
9 30 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (4.15%) Data Architect
11 27 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
12 26 (3.86%) Administrator
13 24 (3.56%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
14 23 (3.41%) Trainee Administrator
14 23 (3.41%) Web Administrator
15 21 (3.12%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (28.04%) CSS
1 189 (28.04%) HTML
2 30 (4.45%) React
3 21 (3.12%) LDAP
3 21 (3.12%) Spring Boot
4 19 (2.82%) Spring
5 17 (2.52%) Kafka
6 16 (2.37%) LAPP Stack
6 16 (2.37%) WebSphere MQ
7 12 (1.78%) AWS CDK
7 12 (1.78%) RESTful
8 11 (1.63%) .NET
9 8 (1.19%) Jest
10 7 (1.04%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.04%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (1.04%) Blazor
10 7 (1.04%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (3.71%) Public Cloud
4 24 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.48%) Replication
9 10 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.34%) PKI
11 8 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.74%) Blog
13 5 (0.74%) Social Media
14 4 (0.59%) Clustering
14 4 (0.59%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.59%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.17%) Windows
2 75 (11.13%) Linux
3 29 (4.30%) Unix
4 26 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (3.71%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.63%) VMS
7 9 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.45%) CentOS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.30%) Debian
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (37.24%) Mentoring
2 201 (29.82%) Cybersecurity
3 186 (27.60%) ITIL
4 141 (20.92%) Agile
5 131 (19.44%) ITSM
6 127 (18.84%) CI/CD
7 121 (17.95%) DevOps
8 105 (15.58%) Customer Service
9 102 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 101 (14.99%) Performance Metrics
11 73 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (9.64%) Microservices
13 64 (9.50%) Containerisation
13 64 (9.50%) Migration
14 59 (8.75%) Cloud Security
14 59 (8.75%) TOGAF
15 56 (8.31%) Data Modelling
16 55 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (7.57%) Computer Science
18 46 (6.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 331 (49.11%) Python
2 226 (33.53%) JavaScript
3 98 (14.54%) R
4 77 (11.42%) Java
5 55 (8.16%) SQL
6 48 (7.12%) PowerShell
7 43 (6.38%) Bash
8 39 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 35 (5.19%) C#
10 16 (2.37%) Go
10 16 (2.37%) Groovy
11 10 (1.48%) Bicep
12 6 (0.89%) Perl
13 5 (0.74%) C++
13 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.45%) Scala
15 2 (0.30%) C
15 2 (0.30%) PROC SQL
15 2 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 349 (51.78%) Azure Certification
2 340 (50.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 208 (30.86%) Degree
4 195 (28.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 119 (17.66%) MCSE
6 115 (17.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 67 (9.94%) Security Cleared
8 60 (8.90%) SC Cleared
9 35 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 34 (5.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (3.86%) A+ Certification
13 25 (3.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (3.12%) CISSP
14 21 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (2.67%) Master's Degree
16 15 (2.23%) CCNP
17 13 (1.93%) DV Cleared
18 12 (1.78%) CISM
19 11 (1.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (16.47%) QA
2 33 (4.90%) NIST
3 30 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (4.15%) GDPR
5 22 (3.26%) SLA
6 9 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.34%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.04%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.04%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.74%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.74%) NCSC
10 4 (0.59%) GRC
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.15%) Basel III
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (11.28%) Docker
2 46 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.75%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.34%) DFS Replication
6 6 (0.89%) Dovecot
6 6 (0.89%) Postfix
7 5 (0.74%) KVM
7 5 (0.74%) Squid
8 4 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.59%) vSphere
9 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.30%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) iptables
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 93 (13.80%) Terraform
2 83 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.79%) Ansible
4 29 (4.30%) Grafana
5 17 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.19%) Nessus
6 8 (1.19%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.89%) Autotask
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.74%) SCCM
8 5 (0.74%) SCOM
8 5 (0.74%) WSUS
9 4 (0.59%) Cilium
10 3 (0.45%) Argo
10 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.45%) Puppet
11 2 (0.30%) logstash
11 2 (0.30%) Nagios
11 2 (0.30%) Salt
Vendors
1 406 (60.24%) Microsoft
2 140 (20.77%) ServiceNow
3 48 (7.12%) VMware
4 30 (4.45%) Google
5 29 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.26%) IBM
7 17 (2.52%) SAP
8 16 (2.37%) Cisco
9 12 (1.78%) Oracle
10 8 (1.19%) Ariba
11 6 (0.89%) Workday
12 5 (0.74%) Datto
12 5 (0.74%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (0.74%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.59%) Databricks
13 4 (0.59%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.59%) Symantec
14 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.45%) Informatica
14 3 (0.45%) Splunk