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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 291 511
Rank change year-on-year -47 +220 -116
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 583 509 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.02% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.94% 2.92% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 240 169 206
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £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 19,825 17,429 21,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.66% 34.90% 25.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,571 7,847 11,767
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,150 £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 £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 13 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 13 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 -62 541 £60,000 -14.29% 511
UK excluding London -105 303 £50,000 -23.08% 346
London +24 256 £77,500 +1.64% 243
Work from Home -101 177 £85,000 +22.30% 220
North of England -105 113 £37,500 -42.31% 98
North West -92 57 £37,500 -40.00% 53
South West -40 52 £60,500 +6.62% 68
Midlands -27 50 £37,500 -44.44% 44
West Midlands -20 46 £37,500 -44.44% 26
South East -3 43 £62,500 -11.03% 64
Yorkshire -8 37 £37,500 -42.31% 29
North East -40 19 £59,000 +24.21% 18
East of England -15 15 £37,500 -55.88% 25
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 7
Scotland +20 9 £34,500 -34.29% 27
Northern Ireland -64 8 £40,750 - 15
East Midlands - 4 £31,500 - 18

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 (7.55%) WordPress
2 26 (4.46%) Jupyter
3 20 (3.43%) Confluence
4 17 (2.92%) 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 (0.51%) 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 73 (12.52%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (5.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.12%) 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
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 583 (100.00%) AWS
2 226 (38.77%) Azure
3 123 (21.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 113 (19.38%) GCP
5 106 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
6 101 (17.32%) GitHub
6 101 (17.32%) Serverless
7 90 (15.44%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (14.24%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (13.38%) Amazon S3
10 73 (12.52%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (4.63%) AWS Step Functions
15 24 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (3.43%) Apigee
19 19 (3.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.04%) Internet
2 64 (10.98%) Network Security
3 43 (7.38%) Firewall
4 27 (4.63%) WAN
5 24 (4.12%) VPN
6 21 (3.60%) SD-WAN
7 20 (3.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.26%) DNS
8 19 (3.26%) LAN
9 17 (2.92%) DHCP
10 14 (2.40%) TCP/IP
11 12 (2.06%) Wireless
12 9 (1.54%) VLAN
13 8 (1.37%) IPv4
14 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.69%) DMZ
17 3 (0.51%) BGP
17 3 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
17 3 (0.51%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 44 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (6.00%) DynamoDB
4 20 (3.43%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.26%) Metadata
6 14 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.89%) Big Data
8 11 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.20%) Power BI
10 7 (1.20%) 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 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (12.35%) Git
2 71 (12.18%) GitLab
3 55 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.83%) Cucumber
5 30 (5.15%) JIRA
6 26 (4.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (3.95%) Maven
8 21 (3.60%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.43%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.74%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) Taiga
12 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.34%) Ant
13 2 (0.34%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.34%) git-flow
13 2 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 168 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.21%) Finance
3 65 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.12%) Multimedia
5 53 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (8.23%) Swedish Language
7 46 (7.89%) Retail
8 45 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
9 34 (5.83%) Banking
10 32 (5.49%) Manufacturing
11 25 (4.29%) French Language
12 21 (3.60%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.92%) Aerospace
14 15 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (2.40%) Law
16 11 (1.89%) Marketing
17 9 (1.54%) Legal
18 8 (1.37%) Military
19 6 (1.03%) Billing
19 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (22.30%) Senior
2 110 (18.87%) Architect
3 105 (18.01%) Analyst
4 82 (14.07%) Trainee
5 73 (12.52%) Service Analyst
5 73 (12.52%) Service Desk Analyst
6 61 (10.46%) Consultant
7 54 (9.26%) Developer
8 49 (8.40%) Administrator
9 43 (7.38%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.38%) Web Administrator
10 41 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (5.32%) Java Engineer
13 30 (5.15%) Security Consultant
14 28 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
16 25 (4.29%) Lead
17 23 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
17 23 (3.95%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.01%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.81%) CSS
2 63 (10.81%) HTML
3 49 (8.40%) Kafka
4 45 (7.72%) Spring
5 30 (5.15%) AWS CDK
6 26 (4.46%) AngularJS
6 26 (4.46%) Hugging Face
6 26 (4.46%) Matplotlib
6 26 (4.46%) NumPy
6 26 (4.46%) Pandas
6 26 (4.46%) scikit-learn
6 26 (4.46%) Streamlit
7 23 (3.95%) Node.js
8 21 (3.60%) .NET
8 21 (3.60%) Jest
9 20 (3.43%) Gherkin
10 19 (3.26%) React
11 14 (2.40%) REST
12 10 (1.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 114 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 88 (15.09%) Onboarding
3 47 (8.06%) Enterprise Cloud
4 46 (7.89%) Public Cloud
5 39 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (6.52%) Algorithms
7 37 (6.35%) e-Learning
8 34 (5.83%) Data Centre
9 29 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (3.60%) PKI
12 14 (2.40%) Blog
13 13 (2.23%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.72%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.54%) Management Information System
16 9 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
17 8 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.40%) Windows
2 37 (6.35%) Linux
3 22 (3.77%) 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
1 184 (31.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 179 (30.70%) CI/CD
3 167 (28.64%) AI
4 165 (28.30%) Agile
5 162 (27.79%) Mentoring
6 127 (21.78%) ITIL
7 110 (18.87%) Cloud Security
8 101 (17.32%) Customer Service
9 93 (15.95%) Cybersecurity
9 93 (15.95%) DevOps
10 80 (13.72%) ITSM
10 80 (13.72%) Migration
11 79 (13.55%) Machine Learning
12 75 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (12.52%) Performance Metrics
14 72 (12.35%) Microservices
15 69 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
16 64 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
17 60 (10.29%) Analytics
17 60 (10.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 203 (34.82%) Python
2 113 (19.38%) Java
3 82 (14.07%) JavaScript
4 62 (10.63%) Bash
5 61 (10.46%) SQL
6 47 (8.06%) R
7 33 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 27 (4.63%) Go
9 24 (4.12%) Ruby
10 23 (3.95%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.60%) Groovy
12 18 (3.09%) C#
13 15 (2.57%) PHP
14 14 (2.40%) 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 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 2 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 164 (28.13%) Degree
2 152 (26.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 148 (25.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 146 (25.04%) Azure Certification
5 118 (20.24%) Security Cleared
6 108 (18.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 73 (12.52%) MCSE
8 70 (12.01%) SC Cleared
9 48 (8.23%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (4.97%) CISSP
12 23 (3.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (3.60%) CCNA
14 21 (3.60%) CCNP
14 21 (3.60%) Master's Degree
15 19 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
16 18 (3.09%) DV Cleared
17 17 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (12.86%) QA
2 41 (7.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.12%) GDPR
4 22 (3.77%) SOC 2
5 20 (3.43%) NIST
6 16 (2.74%) NCSC
7 13 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 13 (2.23%) Data Quality
7 13 (2.23%) GRC
8 10 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.72%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (1.03%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.69%) SLA
13 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 71 (12.18%) Docker
2 25 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.37%) vSphere
5 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.86%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 134 (22.98%) Terraform
2 75 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.38%) Ansible
4 22 (3.77%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.26%) Grafana
6 16 (2.74%) Puppet
7 14 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.89%) Cilium
10 10 (1.72%) Prometheus
11 9 (1.54%) Packer
12 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
13 6 (1.03%) Argo
14 4 (0.69%) Iperf
15 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.51%) QRadar
16 2 (0.34%) kaniko
17 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 246 (42.20%) Microsoft
2 100 (17.15%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.66%) Oracle
4 31 (5.32%) VMware
5 25 (4.29%) Apple
5 25 (4.29%) Cisco
5 25 (4.29%) Splunk
6 24 (4.12%) Adobe
7 22 (3.77%) Google
8 18 (3.09%) SAP
9 17 (2.92%) Palo Alto
10 15 (2.57%) Databricks
11 14 (2.40%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.06%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.20%) Avaya
14 7 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.20%) Genesys