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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 362 439
Rank change year-on-year +139 +77 -294
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 765 294 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.71% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.47% 1.82% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 474 165 298
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £53,951 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £97,500 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -25.00% +3.70%

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 22,039 16,173 25,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.99% 39.24% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,807 7,601 17,111
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £57,500 £54,850
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% +4.83% -4.61%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -

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 April 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 April 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 +126 685 £31,500 -50.43% 243
UK excluding London +144 497 £30,500 -41.90% 209
North of England +92 256 £30,500 -39.00% 60
Work from Home +56 222 £75,000 +25.00% 73
London +34 207 £37,500 -55.88% 80
Yorkshire +38 136 £30,500 -39.00% 22
North West +39 93 £30,500 -39.00% 29
Midlands +4 68 £30,500 -52.79% 27
West Midlands +24 57 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East -8 47 £35,625 -46.43% 46
South West -23 38 £31,500 -33.68% 30
Scotland +20 37 £30,500 -41.90% 6
East of England -10 30 £37,500 -40.00% 25
North East -7 27 £30,500 -32.22% 9
Northern Ireland -29 16 £31,000 - 7
East Midlands - 11 £44,279 - 10
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 9

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 77 (10.07%) WordPress
2 54 (7.06%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.31%) Confluence
5 6 (0.78%) Apache
5 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.78%) Drupal
5 6 (0.78%) nginx
6 4 (0.52%) Documentum
6 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 85 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.19%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 765 (100.00%) AWS
2 444 (58.04%) Azure
3 297 (38.82%) GitHub
4 108 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
4 108 (14.12%) Serverless
5 89 (11.63%) GCP
6 85 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
8 76 (9.93%) Amazon S3
9 60 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (6.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 44 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (4.18%) Apigee
16 31 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.48%) Pulumi
18 18 (2.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 271 (35.42%) Internet
2 27 (3.53%) Firewall
3 21 (2.75%) Broadband
4 20 (2.61%) Network Security
5 18 (2.35%) VPN
6 6 (0.78%) DNS
6 6 (0.78%) WAN
7 5 (0.65%) DHCP
7 5 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (0.65%) SSL
7 5 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.52%) LAN
8 4 (0.52%) Wireless
9 3 (0.39%) VLAN
10 2 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.26%) IPv4
11 1 (0.13%) MPLS
11 1 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.36%) NoSQL
3 29 (3.79%) Data Lake
3 29 (3.79%) Metadata
4 24 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.61%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.96%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.65%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.52%) DB2
12 4 (0.52%) Power BI
13 3 (0.39%) Big Data
13 3 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
15 1 (0.13%) Flink
Development Applications
1 286 (37.39%) Git
2 54 (7.06%) Visual Studio Code
3 50 (6.54%) GitLab
3 50 (6.54%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.18%) Cypress.io
4 32 (4.18%) Maven
4 32 (4.18%) SonarQube
5 19 (2.48%) Jaeger
6 18 (2.35%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.57%) JIRA
8 11 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.52%) MLflow
11 3 (0.39%) Selenium
12 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.13%) Gatling
12 1 (0.13%) JMeter
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 271 (35.42%) Multimedia
2 214 (27.97%) Social Skills
3 139 (18.17%) Finance
4 77 (10.07%) French Language
5 75 (9.80%) Retail
6 69 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (7.58%) Manufacturing
8 48 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.75%) Banking
10 39 (5.10%) Financial Institution
11 36 (4.71%) Swedish Language
12 24 (3.14%) Public Sector
13 16 (2.09%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.18%) Law
16 8 (1.05%) Publishing
17 7 (0.92%) Advertising
18 6 (0.78%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.78%) Legal
19 5 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 322 (42.09%) Trainee
2 161 (21.05%) Developer
3 118 (15.42%) Analyst
4 111 (14.51%) Trainee Developer
5 102 (13.33%) Architect
6 98 (12.81%) Software Developer
7 97 (12.68%) Trainee Software Developer
8 85 (11.11%) Service Analyst
8 85 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
9 79 (10.33%) Administrator
10 71 (9.28%) Trainee Administrator
10 71 (9.28%) Web Administrator
11 51 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (6.67%) Programmer
11 51 (6.67%) Trainee Programmer
12 49 (6.41%) Senior
13 41 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 37 (4.84%) Lead
15 27 (3.53%) Data Architect
15 27 (3.53%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (35.42%) CSS
1 271 (35.42%) HTML
2 54 (7.06%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.06%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.06%) NumPy
2 54 (7.06%) Pandas
2 54 (7.06%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.06%) Streamlit
3 41 (5.36%) Spring Boot
4 33 (4.31%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.18%) Gherkin
5 32 (4.18%) Jest
5 32 (4.18%) React
6 19 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.35%) .NET
8 17 (2.22%) AWS CDK
9 16 (2.09%) RESTful
10 14 (1.83%) Tailwind CSS
11 12 (1.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (4.58%) Public Cloud
4 23 (3.01%) PKI
5 22 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 15 (1.96%) e-Learning
7 14 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.65%) Clustering
13 5 (0.65%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.65%) PACS
13 5 (0.65%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (8.50%) Linux
2 36 (4.71%) Windows
3 32 (4.18%) Unix
4 10 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (36.47%) Mentoring
2 252 (32.94%) Cybersecurity
3 160 (20.92%) Agile
4 148 (19.35%) Customer Service
4 148 (19.35%) ITIL
5 131 (17.12%) CI/CD
6 126 (16.47%) DevOps
7 122 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 121 (15.82%) AI
9 89 (11.63%) ITSM
10 88 (11.50%) Performance Metrics
11 85 (11.11%) Web Development
12 73 (9.54%) Data Privacy
13 71 (9.28%) Machine Learning
14 70 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (8.89%) Migration
16 66 (8.63%) Containerisation
17 60 (7.84%) Microservices
17 60 (7.84%) Visualisation
18 59 (7.71%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 438 (57.25%) Python
2 324 (42.35%) JavaScript
3 160 (20.92%) R
4 96 (12.55%) Java
5 80 (10.46%) Bash
6 59 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.44%) Go
8 32 (4.18%) C#
8 32 (4.18%) Groovy
8 32 (4.18%) SQL
9 24 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.70%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.31%) C++
12 8 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) Bicep
14 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 384 (50.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 383 (50.07%) Azure Certification
3 338 (44.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 162 (21.18%) Degree
5 98 (12.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 85 (11.11%) MCSE
7 61 (7.97%) Security Cleared
8 42 (5.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 41 (5.36%) SC Cleared
10 34 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
11 32 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 27 (3.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 22 (2.88%) CISSP
15 18 (2.35%) CISM
16 15 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (1.31%) DV Cleared
17 10 (1.31%) Master's Degree
18 8 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.90%) QA
2 32 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.88%) NIST
4 15 (1.96%) GDPR
4 15 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.83%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.31%) GRC
6 10 (1.31%) SLA
7 9 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.18%) NCSC
8 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.65%) DICOM
10 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.26%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 110 (14.38%) Docker
2 20 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.05%) KVM
5 5 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.52%) iptables
6 4 (0.52%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Squid
7 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 116 (15.16%) Terraform
2 77 (10.07%) Kubernetes
3 48 (6.27%) Ansible
4 38 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.71%) HP Fortify
6 30 (3.92%) Grafana
7 20 (2.61%) Argo
8 19 (2.48%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.31%) Cilium
11 8 (1.05%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.65%) Puppet
13 3 (0.39%) Packer
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.26%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.13%) Consul
15 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 499 (65.23%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.20%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.23%) Google
4 28 (3.66%) VMware
5 26 (3.40%) Adobe
5 26 (3.40%) Apple
6 15 (1.96%) Databricks
7 13 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.18%) Cisco
8 9 (1.18%) SAP
9 8 (1.05%) Workday
10 6 (0.78%) IBM
10 6 (0.78%) Oracle
10 6 (0.78%) Splunk
11 5 (0.65%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.65%) Symantec
11 5 (0.65%) YouTube
12 4 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.52%) OpenText
12 4 (0.52%) Pega