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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 289 512
Rank change year-on-year -32 +223 -238
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 582 504 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 2.85% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 264 159 287
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% -9.68% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £85,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £97,500 £100,500
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 19,096 17,678 26,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.55% 36.27% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,991 7,818 16,621
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 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
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 9 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 9 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 -28 537 £50,000 -28.06% 313
UK excluding London -66 311 £37,500 -42.31% 251
London +33 238 £76,250 - 123
Work from Home -92 180 £62,500 -3.85% 82
North of England -85 129 £37,500 -42.31% 59
North West -86 63 £37,500 -40.00% 27
Yorkshire +3 53 £37,500 -42.31% 23
Midlands -13 52 £37,500 -38.78% 37
West Midlands -12 47 £37,500 -38.78% 18
South West -55 42 £52,500 -7.48% 45
South East -17 41 £62,500 -11.03% 61
East of England -8 15 £37,500 -55.88% 27
North East -34 13 £37,500 -21.05% 12
Wales - 12 £55,000 - 6
Scotland +14 10 £37,500 -28.57% 17
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 (9.28%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.56%) WordPress
3 18 (3.09%) Confluence
4 13 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (12.71%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (9.97%) 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 5 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 582 (100.00%) AWS
2 209 (35.91%) Azure
3 122 (20.96%) Cloud Computing
4 115 (19.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 107 (18.38%) GitHub
6 102 (17.53%) Serverless
7 93 (15.98%) GCP
8 91 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
9 87 (14.95%) AWS Lambda
10 81 (13.92%) Amazon S3
11 71 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (9.28%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (6.19%) AWS Step Functions
15 33 (5.67%) Amazon ECR
16 30 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (4.98%) Apigee
18 27 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
19 23 (3.95%) Entra ID
20 22 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.40%) Internet
2 55 (9.45%) Network Security
3 39 (6.70%) Firewall
4 21 (3.61%) VPN
5 18 (3.09%) WAN
6 15 (2.58%) LAN
6 15 (2.58%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.41%) DNS
7 14 (2.41%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.23%) DHCP
9 12 (2.06%) Broadband
10 9 (1.55%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.37%) IPv4
11 8 (1.37%) VLAN
11 8 (1.37%) Wireless
12 7 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.69%) DMZ
15 2 (0.34%) BGP
15 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.93%) NoSQL
2 41 (7.04%) DynamoDB
3 36 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.44%) Metadata
6 13 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 12 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.72%) Big Data
8 10 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.86%) Power BI
11 5 (0.86%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.86%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.69%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 76 (13.06%) Git
2 73 (12.54%) GitLab
3 62 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.28%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.15%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.15%) Maven
6 29 (4.98%) SonarQube
7 28 (4.81%) Cucumber
8 23 (3.95%) JIRA
9 20 (3.44%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.75%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.06%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.69%) 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%) MLflow
14 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 149 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 143 (24.57%) Finance
3 81 (13.92%) Retail
4 65 (11.17%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.14%) Manufacturing
6 46 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (7.73%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.87%) Swedish Language
9 37 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (5.84%) French Language
11 31 (5.33%) Banking
12 21 (3.61%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.72%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.20%) Advertising
16 6 (1.03%) Military
17 5 (0.86%) Billing
18 4 (0.69%) Automotive
18 4 (0.69%) Electronics
18 4 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 116 (19.93%) Trainee
2 113 (19.42%) Senior
3 104 (17.87%) Analyst
4 95 (16.32%) Architect
5 74 (12.71%) Service Analyst
5 74 (12.71%) Service Desk Analyst
6 64 (11.00%) Developer
7 51 (8.76%) Administrator
7 51 (8.76%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (8.76%) Programmer
7 51 (8.76%) Trainee Programmer
8 50 (8.59%) Consultant
9 43 (7.39%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.39%) Web Administrator
10 42 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (5.33%) Lead
12 30 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (4.81%) Java Developer
14 27 (4.64%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (4.30%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 67 (11.51%) CSS
2 67 (11.51%) HTML
3 54 (9.28%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.28%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.28%) NumPy
3 54 (9.28%) Pandas
3 54 (9.28%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.28%) Streamlit
4 36 (6.19%) Spring
5 35 (6.01%) AngularJS
5 35 (6.01%) Kafka
6 30 (5.15%) Jest
7 29 (4.98%) Gherkin
8 22 (3.78%) AWS CDK
9 19 (3.26%) Node.js
10 18 (3.09%) React
11 13 (2.23%) .NET
11 13 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.26%) Cloud Native
2 67 (11.51%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.82%) Algorithms
4 40 (6.87%) Enterprise Cloud
5 36 (6.19%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.50%) e-Learning
6 32 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (5.33%) Data Centre
8 28 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (4.81%) PKI
9 11 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.89%) Mainframe
10 10 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.37%) Blog
11 8 (1.37%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.20%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.62%) Linux
2 47 (8.08%) Windows
3 19 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.58%) Unix
5 5 (0.86%) 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
1 172 (29.55%) AI
2 162 (27.84%) Agile
3 158 (27.15%) CI/CD
3 158 (27.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (25.95%) Mentoring
5 130 (22.34%) Customer Service
6 129 (22.16%) ITIL
7 99 (17.01%) DevOps
8 93 (15.98%) Machine Learning
9 92 (15.81%) Cloud Security
10 82 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
11 76 (13.06%) ITSM
11 76 (13.06%) Migration
12 74 (12.71%) Performance Metrics
13 64 (11.00%) Microservices
14 62 (10.65%) LLM
15 61 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (10.48%) OO
16 60 (10.31%) Prompt Engineering
17 59 (10.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 237 (40.72%) Python
2 119 (20.45%) Java
3 96 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 82 (14.09%) Bash
5 52 (8.93%) SQL
6 48 (8.25%) R
7 42 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 35 (6.01%) Go
9 30 (5.15%) Groovy
10 27 (4.64%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.61%) Ruby
12 19 (3.26%) C#
13 13 (2.23%) PHP
14 12 (2.06%) Kotlin
14 12 (2.06%) Perl
15 9 (1.55%) C++
16 7 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (0.86%) COBOL
18 4 (0.69%) Bicep
19 2 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 158 (27.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 152 (26.12%) Degree
3 150 (25.77%) Azure Certification
4 137 (23.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 136 (23.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 93 (15.98%) Security Cleared
7 74 (12.71%) MCSE
8 44 (7.56%) SC Cleared
9 39 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 25 (4.30%) CISSP
11 25 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (3.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (2.92%) CCNA
15 16 (2.75%) CISM
16 15 (2.58%) AWS Certified Developer
16 15 (2.58%) Master's Degree
17 13 (2.23%) CCNP
18 12 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.06%) QA
2 40 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.44%) GDPR
3 20 (3.44%) NIST
3 20 (3.44%) SOC 2
4 13 (2.23%) GRC
5 12 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.89%) NCSC
7 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.37%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.20%) Accessibility
11 6 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.86%) DICOM
12 5 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.34%) SLA
15 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 86 (14.78%) Docker
2 23 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.37%) Squid
4 8 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.37%) vSphere
5 7 (1.20%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.69%) iptables
7 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (23.88%) Terraform
2 79 (13.57%) Kubernetes
3 52 (8.93%) Ansible
4 33 (5.67%) HP Fortify
5 31 (5.33%) Prometheus
6 27 (4.64%) Grafana
7 15 (2.58%) Argo
8 13 (2.23%) Cilium
9 12 (2.06%) Kustomize
10 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.72%) Puppet
11 10 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.55%) Packer
13 8 (1.37%) Proxmox
13 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.69%) Iperf
15 3 (0.52%) QRadar
16 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
16 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 272 (46.74%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.70%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.67%) VMware
4 29 (4.98%) Google
5 27 (4.64%) Oracle
6 25 (4.30%) Apple
7 24 (4.12%) Adobe
8 22 (3.78%) Cisco
8 22 (3.78%) Splunk
9 15 (2.58%) Databricks
9 15 (2.58%) SAP
10 13 (2.23%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.06%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.55%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.37%) CheckPoint
13 8 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.86%) Avaya
14 5 (0.86%) Genesys
14 5 (0.86%) IBM
14 5 (0.86%) Salesforce