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 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 459 374
Rank change year-on-year +250 -85 -128
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 666 320 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.24% 0.48% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.85% 1.56% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 378 156 241
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £64,800 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.34% -13.60% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -10.34%

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 17,307 20,465 15,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.10% 30.48% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,965 8,452 10,937
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +0.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,122 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.51% +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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +242 581 £47,500 -22.13% 596
UK excluding London +217 370 £30,500 -42.51% 550
Work from Home +182 260 £75,000 +25.00% 124
London +138 232 £75,000 -11.76% 195
North of England +142 150 £30,500 -32.22% 134
Yorkshire +48 82 £30,500 -32.22% 44
South East +80 64 £47,500 -10.46% 140
North West +94 51 £30,500 -41.90% 74
Midlands +58 46 £31,000 -52.01% 95
West Midlands +78 37 £30,500 -52.79% 62
South West +45 30 £30,500 -52.16% 35
Scotland +17 29 £30,500 -56.43% 36
Northern Ireland +28 27 - - 18
East of England +36 23 £80,000 +68.42% 65
North East +32 17 £30,500 -32.22% 19
East Midlands +23 9 £51,058 -7.17% 33
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 30

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 25 (3.75%) WordPress
2 19 (2.85%) Confluence
3 17 (2.55%) Tomcat
3 17 (2.55%) WebSphere
4 16 (2.40%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (1.50%) nginx
6 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.90%) Apache
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.60%) Drupal
10 3 (0.45%) SAS
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 119 (17.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.90%) 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 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 666 (100.00%) AWS
2 393 (59.01%) Azure
3 202 (30.33%) GitHub
4 145 (21.77%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (15.02%) GCP
6 84 (12.61%) Serverless
7 71 (10.66%) Amazon S3
8 64 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 31 (4.65%) SaaS
13 28 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (2.25%) Entra ID
18 15 (2.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 174 (26.13%) Internet
2 41 (6.16%) Firewall
3 35 (5.26%) DNS
4 29 (4.35%) VPN
5 24 (3.60%) Remote Desktop
6 21 (3.15%) WAN
7 19 (2.85%) SSL
8 16 (2.40%) DHCP
8 16 (2.40%) LAN
8 16 (2.40%) Network Security
8 16 (2.40%) SD-WAN
9 15 (2.25%) VoIP
10 14 (2.10%) TCP/IP
10 14 (2.10%) VLAN
11 13 (1.95%) HTTP
12 12 (1.80%) FTP
12 12 (1.80%) SMTP
12 12 (1.80%) SSH
12 12 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.05%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 36 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 29 (4.35%) Metadata
7 20 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.70%) DB2
9 17 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.65%) MySQL
12 8 (1.20%) Big Data
13 7 (1.05%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.75%) CockroachDB
15 4 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (0.60%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 204 (30.63%) Git
2 47 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.35%) JIRA
4 25 (3.75%) GitLab
5 12 (1.80%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.75%) Vite
11 4 (0.60%) Gatling
11 4 (0.60%) JMeter
11 4 (0.60%) Selenium
11 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.45%) JUnit
12 3 (0.45%) Maven
12 3 (0.45%) Mockito
12 3 (0.45%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.45%) YouTrack
General
1 243 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 173 (25.98%) Multimedia
3 133 (19.97%) Finance
4 119 (17.87%) French Language
4 119 (17.87%) Swedish Language
5 76 (11.41%) Banking
6 61 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (7.96%) Financial Institution
8 50 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (6.31%) Law
10 36 (5.41%) Public Sector
11 28 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (4.05%) Retail Banking
13 14 (2.10%) Retail
14 11 (1.65%) Marketing
15 10 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.05%) Publishing
18 6 (0.90%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 173 (25.98%) Trainee
2 124 (18.62%) Analyst
3 119 (17.87%) Service Analyst
3 119 (17.87%) Service Desk Analyst
4 106 (15.92%) Architect
5 103 (15.47%) Developer
6 93 (13.96%) Senior
7 83 (12.46%) Trainee Developer
8 81 (12.16%) Software Developer
8 81 (12.16%) Trainee Software Developer
9 39 (5.86%) Lead
10 33 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.05%) Data Architect
12 27 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.60%) Administrator
13 24 (3.60%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
14 21 (3.15%) Trainee Administrator
14 21 (3.15%) Web Administrator
15 20 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (26.58%) CSS
1 177 (26.58%) HTML
2 29 (4.35%) React
3 24 (3.60%) Spring Boot
4 22 (3.30%) Kafka
4 22 (3.30%) LDAP
4 22 (3.30%) Spring
5 16 (2.40%) LAPP Stack
5 16 (2.40%) WebSphere MQ
6 10 (1.50%) AWS CDK
6 10 (1.50%) RESTful
7 9 (1.35%) .NET
7 9 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.20%) GraphQL
8 8 (1.20%) Jest
9 6 (0.90%) Node.js
10 5 (0.75%) Next.js
10 5 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.75%) Serverless Framework
10 5 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 28 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.65%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.65%) Replication
9 10 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.20%) PKI
11 7 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.05%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.90%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.75%) Blog
13 5 (0.75%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.75%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.16%) Windows
2 74 (11.11%) Linux
3 28 (4.20%) Unix
4 25 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.80%) VMS
6 10 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) CentOS
8 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
9 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (36.04%) Mentoring
2 189 (28.38%) Cybersecurity
3 185 (27.78%) ITIL
4 148 (22.22%) Agile
5 133 (19.97%) CI/CD
6 131 (19.67%) ITSM
7 120 (18.02%) DevOps
8 105 (15.77%) Customer Service
9 102 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 101 (15.17%) Performance Metrics
11 72 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (9.91%) Microservices
13 62 (9.31%) Containerisation
13 62 (9.31%) Migration
14 60 (9.01%) TOGAF
15 57 (8.56%) Cloud Security
16 56 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (8.41%) Data Modelling
17 53 (7.96%) Computer Science
18 52 (7.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 324 (48.65%) Python
2 215 (32.28%) JavaScript
3 92 (13.81%) R
4 84 (12.61%) Java
5 62 (9.31%) SQL
6 48 (7.21%) PowerShell
7 42 (6.31%) Bash
8 40 (6.01%) TypeScript
9 35 (5.26%) C#
10 21 (3.15%) Go
11 17 (2.55%) Groovy
12 10 (1.50%) Bicep
13 6 (0.90%) Perl
14 5 (0.75%) C++
14 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.45%) Rust
15 3 (0.45%) Scala
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.30%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 338 (50.75%) Azure Certification
2 326 (48.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 211 (31.68%) Degree
4 181 (27.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 120 (18.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 119 (17.87%) MCSE
7 67 (10.06%) Security Cleared
8 62 (9.31%) SC Cleared
9 36 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 34 (5.11%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (3.90%) A+ Certification
13 25 (3.75%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (3.15%) CISSP
15 20 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (2.70%) Master's Degree
17 15 (2.25%) CCNP
18 12 (1.80%) CISM
18 12 (1.80%) DV Cleared
18 12 (1.80%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (16.67%) QA
2 33 (4.95%) NIST
3 29 (4.35%) GDPR
3 29 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.15%) SLA
5 9 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.35%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.05%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.75%) NCSC
10 4 (0.60%) GRC
10 4 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.15%) GAAP
12 1 (0.15%) GxP
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (11.26%) Docker
2 44 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.80%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.50%) DFS Replication
6 7 (1.05%) Dovecot
6 7 (1.05%) Postfix
7 6 (0.90%) Squid
8 4 (0.60%) KVM
8 4 (0.60%) vSphere
9 3 (0.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
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 97 (14.56%) Terraform
2 89 (13.36%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.86%) Ansible
4 30 (4.50%) Grafana
5 20 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.35%) Nessus
6 9 (1.35%) Proxmox
7 6 (0.90%) Autotask
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 5 (0.75%) SCCM
8 5 (0.75%) SCOM
8 5 (0.75%) WSUS
9 4 (0.60%) Cilium
9 4 (0.60%) Puppet
10 3 (0.45%) Argo
10 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.45%) Salt
11 2 (0.30%) Kibana
11 2 (0.30%) logstash
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 390 (58.56%) Microsoft
2 141 (21.17%) ServiceNow
3 46 (6.91%) VMware
4 34 (5.11%) Google
5 28 (4.20%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.30%) IBM
7 17 (2.55%) SAP
8 15 (2.25%) Cisco
9 14 (2.10%) Oracle
10 8 (1.20%) Ariba
11 6 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (0.90%) Workday
12 5 (0.75%) Databricks
12 5 (0.75%) Datto
12 5 (0.75%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.60%) Splunk
14 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.45%) Informatica
14 3 (0.45%) Symantec