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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 295 507
Rank change year-on-year -26 +212 -224
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 577 505 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.87% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 263 160 281
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £69,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% -10.32% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -42.31% -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 19,193 17,591 26,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 35.88% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,063 7,782 16,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 11 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 11 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 -37 531 £50,000 -27.54% 268
UK excluding London -62 313 £37,500 -42.31% 231
London +24 232 £76,250 - 94
Work from Home -98 175 £65,000 - 74
North of England -85 130 £37,500 -42.31% 58
North West -84 64 £37,500 -40.00% 27
Yorkshire +11 53 £37,500 -42.31% 23
Midlands -17 51 £37,500 -34.78% 36
West Midlands -8 46 £37,500 -34.78% 17
South East -9 42 £62,500 -11.03% 64
South West -57 42 £52,500 -7.48% 30
East of England -7 15 £37,500 -55.88% 27
North East -39 13 £37,500 -21.05% 11
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 5
Scotland +13 10 £37,500 -28.57% 12
Northern Ireland -52 10 £40,750 - 2
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 19

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 54 (9.36%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.63%) WordPress
3 19 (3.29%) Confluence
4 13 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.69%) Documentum
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
7 3 (0.52%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (10.05%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.16%) Cloudability
2 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 577 (100.00%) AWS
2 209 (36.22%) Azure
3 122 (21.14%) Cloud Computing
4 115 (19.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 110 (19.06%) GitHub
6 101 (17.50%) Serverless
7 93 (16.12%) GCP
8 91 (15.77%) Microsoft 365
9 88 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
10 82 (14.21%) Amazon S3
11 74 (12.82%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (6.07%) AWS Step Functions
15 33 (5.72%) Amazon ECR
16 30 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (5.03%) Apigee
18 28 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
19 23 (3.99%) Entra ID
20 21 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.52%) Internet
2 57 (9.88%) Network Security
3 41 (7.11%) Firewall
4 23 (3.99%) VPN
5 18 (3.12%) WAN
6 15 (2.60%) LAN
6 15 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.43%) DNS
7 14 (2.43%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.25%) DHCP
9 9 (1.56%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.39%) IPv4
10 8 (1.39%) VLAN
10 8 (1.39%) Wireless
11 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.04%) Broadband
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.69%) DMZ
15 2 (0.35%) BGP
15 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.15%) NoSQL
2 43 (7.45%) DynamoDB
3 37 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.16%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.47%) Metadata
6 13 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.73%) Big Data
7 10 (1.73%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.04%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.87%) Power BI
10 5 (0.87%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 75 (13.00%) Git
2 73 (12.65%) GitLab
3 62 (10.75%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.20%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.20%) Maven
6 29 (5.03%) SonarQube
7 28 (4.85%) Cucumber
8 24 (4.16%) JIRA
9 20 (3.47%) TeamCity
10 17 (2.95%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.04%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 3 (0.52%) Taiga
13 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) JMeter
14 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 150 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 144 (24.96%) Finance
3 81 (14.04%) Retail
4 65 (11.27%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.23%) Manufacturing
6 46 (7.97%) Public Sector
7 40 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (6.93%) Swedish Language
8 37 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
9 34 (5.89%) French Language
10 30 (5.20%) Banking
11 21 (3.64%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.73%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.04%) Advertising
14 6 (1.04%) Military
15 5 (0.87%) Billing
15 5 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.69%) Automotive
16 4 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 116 (20.10%) Trainee
2 114 (19.76%) Senior
3 104 (18.02%) Analyst
4 97 (16.81%) Architect
5 74 (12.82%) Service Analyst
5 74 (12.82%) Service Desk Analyst
6 65 (11.27%) Developer
7 51 (8.84%) Administrator
7 51 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (8.84%) Programmer
7 51 (8.84%) Trainee Programmer
8 50 (8.67%) Consultant
9 43 (7.45%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.45%) Web Administrator
10 37 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.85%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
14 25 (4.33%) Java Engineer
14 25 (4.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.31%) Spring Boot
2 67 (11.61%) CSS
2 67 (11.61%) HTML
3 54 (9.36%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.36%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.36%) NumPy
3 54 (9.36%) Pandas
3 54 (9.36%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.36%) Streamlit
4 37 (6.41%) Spring
5 36 (6.24%) AngularJS
6 35 (6.07%) Kafka
7 30 (5.20%) Jest
8 29 (5.03%) Gherkin
9 22 (3.81%) AWS CDK
10 21 (3.64%) Node.js
11 18 (3.12%) React
12 14 (2.43%) .NET
13 12 (2.08%) REST
14 10 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 67 (11.61%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.92%) Algorithms
4 40 (6.93%) Enterprise Cloud
5 36 (6.24%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.55%) e-Learning
6 32 (5.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (5.37%) Data Centre
8 28 (4.85%) PKI
9 27 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.08%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.39%) Blog
13 8 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (1.04%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.67%) Linux
2 47 (8.15%) Windows
3 19 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.56%) Unix
5 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (29.98%) AI
2 159 (27.56%) Agile
3 158 (27.38%) CI/CD
4 149 (25.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 145 (25.13%) Mentoring
6 130 (22.53%) Customer Service
7 129 (22.36%) ITIL
8 95 (16.46%) Cloud Security
9 93 (16.12%) Machine Learning
10 91 (15.77%) DevOps
11 85 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
12 77 (13.34%) Migration
13 76 (13.17%) ITSM
14 74 (12.82%) Performance Metrics
15 65 (11.27%) Microservices
16 62 (10.75%) LLM
17 61 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (10.57%) OO
18 60 (10.40%) Prompt Engineering
19 59 (10.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 232 (40.21%) Python
2 115 (19.93%) Java
3 90 (15.60%) JavaScript
4 76 (13.17%) Bash
5 53 (9.19%) SQL
6 48 (8.32%) R
7 42 (7.28%) TypeScript
8 30 (5.20%) Groovy
9 29 (5.03%) Go
10 27 (4.68%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.81%) Ruby
12 20 (3.47%) C#
13 13 (2.25%) PHP
14 12 (2.08%) Kotlin
14 12 (2.08%) Perl
15 9 (1.56%) C++
16 7 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
17 6 (1.04%) COBOL
18 4 (0.69%) Bicep
19 2 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 160 (27.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 155 (26.86%) Degree
3 150 (26.00%) Azure Certification
4 139 (24.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 137 (23.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 93 (16.12%) Security Cleared
7 74 (12.82%) MCSE
8 44 (7.63%) SC Cleared
9 39 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (5.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.68%) CISSP
12 25 (4.33%) ITIL Certification
13 23 (3.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
15 17 (2.95%) CCNA
16 16 (2.77%) AWS Certified Developer
16 16 (2.77%) CISM
16 16 (2.77%) Master's Degree
17 13 (2.25%) CCNP
18 12 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.17%) QA
2 40 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.47%) GDPR
3 20 (3.47%) NIST
3 20 (3.47%) SOC 2
4 13 (2.25%) GRC
5 12 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.08%) NCSC
6 10 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.39%) ISO 9001
9 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.87%) DICOM
12 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.35%) SLA
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 77 (13.34%) Docker
2 23 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.12%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.39%) Squid
4 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.39%) vSphere
5 7 (1.21%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.69%) iptables
7 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 131 (22.70%) Terraform
2 71 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 45 (7.80%) Ansible
4 33 (5.72%) HP Fortify
5 26 (4.51%) Grafana
6 24 (4.16%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.25%) Cilium
8 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.73%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.73%) Puppet
9 10 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.56%) Argo
10 9 (1.56%) Packer
11 8 (1.39%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.39%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.04%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.69%) Iperf
14 3 (0.52%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Consul
15 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 274 (47.49%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.85%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.72%) VMware
4 27 (4.68%) Oracle
5 25 (4.33%) Apple
6 24 (4.16%) Adobe
7 23 (3.99%) Google
7 23 (3.99%) Splunk
8 22 (3.81%) Cisco
9 15 (2.60%) SAP
10 14 (2.43%) Databricks
11 13 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.08%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.56%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.39%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
15 5 (0.87%) Avaya
15 5 (0.87%) IBM
15 5 (0.87%) Infor
15 5 (0.87%) Salesforce