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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 289 488
Rank change year-on-year -37 +199 -219
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 577 506 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.99% 2.94% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 254 165 255
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,400 £51,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.33% +5.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,750
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 19,272 17,216 23,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.13% 35.04% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,142 7,834 13,757
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,250 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
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 25 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 25 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 -34 537 £51,000 -27.14% 298
UK excluding London -72 314 £37,500 -42.31% 216
London +17 240 £77,500 - 140
Work from Home -116 170 £77,500 +16.08% 95
North of England -81 128 £37,500 -42.31% 61
North West -85 65 £37,500 -33.33% 30
Midlands -19 53 £37,500 -42.31% 29
West Midlands -10 48 £37,500 -42.31% 14
Yorkshire -8 47 £37,500 -42.31% 19
South West -53 46 £52,500 -7.48% 33
South East -24 41 £62,500 -9.42% 48
North East -36 16 £40,500 -14.74% 15
East of England -4 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
Scotland +23 9 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Northern Ireland -59 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 54 (9.36%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.63%) WordPress
3 16 (2.77%) Confluence
4 14 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
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 77 (13.34%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.23%) 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 7 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 577 (100.00%) AWS
2 203 (35.18%) Azure
3 131 (22.70%) Cloud Computing
4 115 (19.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 102 (17.68%) GitHub
5 102 (17.68%) Serverless
6 94 (16.29%) GCP
7 92 (15.94%) Microsoft 365
8 86 (14.90%) AWS Lambda
9 81 (14.04%) Amazon S3
10 72 (12.48%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (5.55%) AWS Step Functions
15 28 (4.85%) Amazon ECR
16 25 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (4.33%) Apigee
17 23 (3.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.17%) Internet
2 63 (10.92%) Network Security
3 41 (7.11%) Firewall
4 24 (4.16%) VPN
5 21 (3.64%) WAN
6 17 (2.95%) DNS
6 17 (2.95%) SD-WAN
6 17 (2.95%) Software-Defined Networking
7 16 (2.77%) LAN
8 15 (2.60%) DHCP
9 11 (1.91%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.56%) Wireless
11 8 (1.39%) IPv4
11 8 (1.39%) VLAN
12 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.69%) DMZ
15 3 (0.52%) BGP
16 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
16 2 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.97%) NoSQL
2 40 (6.93%) DynamoDB
3 39 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.99%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.29%) Metadata
6 14 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.08%) Big Data
9 10 (1.73%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.21%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.21%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.87%) Power BI
12 4 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (12.13%) GitLab
2 69 (11.96%) Git
3 58 (10.05%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.20%) Cucumber
6 27 (4.68%) Maven
7 26 (4.51%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.33%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.99%) JIRA
10 18 (3.12%) TeamCity
11 16 (2.77%) Bitbucket
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%) Apache Ivy
14 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 153 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 148 (25.65%) Finance
3 78 (13.52%) Retail
4 59 (10.23%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.23%) Multimedia
5 53 (9.19%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.32%) Swedish Language
7 38 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (5.37%) Banking
9 29 (5.03%) French Language
10 20 (3.47%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.91%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.21%) Military
14 6 (1.04%) Advertising
14 6 (1.04%) Billing
14 6 (1.04%) Legal
15 5 (0.87%) Law
16 4 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 123 (21.32%) Senior
2 110 (19.06%) Trainee
3 108 (18.72%) Analyst
4 93 (16.12%) Architect
5 77 (13.34%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.34%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.40%) Consultant
7 57 (9.88%) Developer
8 51 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.84%) Programmer
8 51 (8.84%) Trainee Programmer
9 49 (8.49%) Administrator
10 43 (7.45%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.45%) Web Administrator
11 36 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (5.03%) Security Consultant
14 27 (4.68%) Java Engineer
14 27 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.68%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.96%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.57%) CSS
2 61 (10.57%) 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 40 (6.93%) Kafka
5 39 (6.76%) Spring
6 32 (5.55%) AngularJS
7 26 (4.51%) Jest
8 25 (4.33%) AWS CDK
8 25 (4.33%) Gherkin
9 23 (3.99%) Node.js
10 18 (3.12%) React
11 15 (2.60%) .NET
12 13 (2.25%) REST
13 10 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 90 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.38%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.92%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 39 (6.76%) Public Cloud
6 35 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (5.89%) e-Learning
8 33 (5.72%) Data Centre
9 27 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (3.99%) PKI
11 13 (2.25%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.08%) Blog
12 12 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.21%) Fat Client
13 7 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.80%) Windows
2 38 (6.59%) Linux
3 20 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (32.58%) AI
2 163 (28.25%) CI/CD
3 154 (26.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (25.82%) Agile
5 148 (25.65%) Mentoring
6 133 (23.05%) Customer Service
7 126 (21.84%) ITIL
8 102 (17.68%) Machine Learning
9 100 (17.33%) Cloud Security
10 84 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
11 81 (14.04%) ITSM
12 79 (13.69%) DevOps
13 77 (13.34%) Performance Metrics
14 75 (13.00%) Migration
15 65 (11.27%) LLM
16 64 (11.09%) Microservices
17 62 (10.75%) Prompt Engineering
18 61 (10.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
19 60 (10.40%) Conversational UI
19 60 (10.40%) OO
Programming Languages
1 221 (38.30%) Python
2 109 (18.89%) Java
3 77 (13.34%) JavaScript
4 65 (11.27%) Bash
5 55 (9.53%) SQL
6 47 (8.15%) R
7 38 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 26 (4.51%) Groovy
9 25 (4.33%) Go
10 24 (4.16%) Ruby
11 23 (3.99%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.95%) C#
13 15 (2.60%) PHP
14 14 (2.43%) Perl
15 10 (1.73%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.04%) C++
16 6 (1.04%) COBOL
17 5 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.69%) Bicep
19 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 163 (28.25%) Degree
2 156 (27.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 142 (24.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 139 (24.09%) Azure Certification
5 133 (23.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 97 (16.81%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.34%) MCSE
8 49 (8.49%) SC Cleared
9 44 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.85%) CISSP
11 26 (4.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
13 19 (3.29%) Master's Degree
14 18 (3.12%) CCNA
14 18 (3.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 17 (2.95%) AWS Certified Developer
16 16 (2.77%) CCNP
17 14 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 13 (2.25%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.52%) QA
2 41 (7.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.81%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.47%) GDPR
5 18 (3.12%) NIST
6 14 (2.43%) GRC
7 13 (2.25%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.08%) NCSC
9 9 (1.56%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.39%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (1.04%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.52%) DICOM
12 3 (0.52%) SLA
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (11.44%) Docker
2 22 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.47%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.39%) Squid
4 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.39%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (22.01%) Terraform
2 66 (11.44%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.24%) Ansible
4 29 (5.03%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.29%) Grafana
6 13 (2.25%) Cilium
6 13 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.08%) Puppet
8 11 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.56%) Packer
10 8 (1.39%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.87%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.69%) Iperf
14 3 (0.52%) Argo
14 3 (0.52%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Consul
15 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 274 (47.49%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.85%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.37%) Oracle
4 29 (5.03%) VMware
5 25 (4.33%) Apple
6 24 (4.16%) Adobe
6 24 (4.16%) Cisco
7 23 (3.99%) Splunk
8 18 (3.12%) SAP
9 16 (2.77%) Google
10 15 (2.60%) Databricks
10 15 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.39%) CheckPoint
15 7 (1.21%) Avaya
15 7 (1.21%) Genesys
16 6 (1.04%) Salesforce
17 5 (0.87%) Infor