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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 285 495
Rank change year-on-year -32 +210 -212
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 580 503 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 2.84% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 261 158 286
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £53,125
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £69,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.37% -10.32% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,625
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 19,131 17,684 26,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 36.13% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,003 7,773 16,471
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 10 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 10 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 -41 535 £50,000 -27.54% 293
UK excluding London -68 311 £37,500 -42.31% 243
London +26 237 £76,250 +1.67% 113
Work from Home -75 180 £65,000 - 81
North of England -89 130 £37,500 -42.31% 60
North West -82 64 £37,500 -40.00% 28
Yorkshire +6 53 £37,500 -42.31% 23
Midlands -15 51 £37,500 -38.78% 35
West Midlands -4 46 £37,500 -38.78% 16
South West -53 42 £52,500 -7.48% 36
South East -20 41 £62,500 -11.03% 67
East of England -3 15 £37,500 -55.88% 27
North East -36 13 £37,500 -21.05% 12
Wales - 12 £55,000 - 5
Scotland +21 10 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Northern Ireland -52 10 £40,750 - 1
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 (9.31%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.59%) WordPress
3 19 (3.28%) Confluence
4 13 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) 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 (12.76%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (10.00%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.14%) 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
1 580 (100.00%) AWS
2 209 (36.03%) Azure
3 122 (21.03%) Cloud Computing
4 114 (19.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 108 (18.62%) GitHub
6 99 (17.07%) Serverless
7 93 (16.03%) GCP
8 91 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
9 86 (14.83%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (13.79%) Amazon S3
11 72 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (6.03%) AWS Step Functions
15 33 (5.69%) Amazon ECR
16 29 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (5.00%) Apigee
17 27 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (3.97%) Entra ID
19 21 (3.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.45%) Internet
2 57 (9.83%) Network Security
3 41 (7.07%) Firewall
4 23 (3.97%) VPN
5 18 (3.10%) WAN
6 15 (2.59%) LAN
6 15 (2.59%) Software-Defined Networking
7 14 (2.41%) DNS
7 14 (2.41%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.24%) DHCP
9 11 (1.90%) Broadband
10 9 (1.55%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.38%) IPv4
11 8 (1.38%) VLAN
11 8 (1.38%) Wireless
12 7 (1.21%) 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 51 (8.79%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.24%) DynamoDB
3 35 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.45%) Metadata
6 13 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.90%) RDBMS
7 11 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.72%) Big Data
8 10 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.21%) 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 75 (12.93%) Git
2 73 (12.59%) GitLab
3 61 (10.52%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.31%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.17%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.17%) Maven
6 29 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 28 (4.83%) Cucumber
8 24 (4.14%) JIRA
9 20 (3.45%) TeamCity
10 17 (2.93%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.90%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.86%) 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 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 144 (24.83%) Finance
3 81 (13.97%) Retail
4 65 (11.21%) Multimedia
5 59 (10.17%) Manufacturing
6 45 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (7.76%) Public Sector
7 40 (6.90%) Swedish Language
8 37 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
9 34 (5.86%) French Language
10 30 (5.17%) Banking
11 21 (3.62%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.03%) Advertising
14 6 (1.03%) Military
15 5 (0.86%) Billing
15 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.69%) Automotive
16 4 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 116 (20.00%) Trainee
2 113 (19.48%) Senior
3 104 (17.93%) Analyst
4 96 (16.55%) Architect
5 74 (12.76%) Service Analyst
5 74 (12.76%) Service Desk Analyst
6 64 (11.03%) Developer
7 51 (8.79%) Administrator
7 51 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (8.79%) Programmer
7 51 (8.79%) Trainee Programmer
8 50 (8.62%) Consultant
9 43 (7.41%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.41%) Web Administrator
10 40 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
12 30 (5.17%) Lead
13 28 (4.83%) Java Developer
14 27 (4.66%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (4.31%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.07%) Spring Boot
2 67 (11.55%) CSS
2 67 (11.55%) HTML
3 54 (9.31%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.31%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.31%) NumPy
3 54 (9.31%) Pandas
3 54 (9.31%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.31%) Streamlit
4 37 (6.38%) Spring
5 36 (6.21%) AngularJS
6 35 (6.03%) Kafka
7 30 (5.17%) Jest
8 29 (5.00%) Gherkin
9 21 (3.62%) AWS CDK
10 20 (3.45%) Node.js
11 18 (3.10%) React
12 13 (2.24%) .NET
13 12 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.31%) Cloud Native
2 67 (11.55%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.86%) Algorithms
4 40 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 36 (6.21%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (5.52%) e-Learning
6 32 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (5.34%) Data Centre
8 28 (4.83%) PKI
9 27 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.90%) Mainframe
11 10 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.38%) Blog
12 8 (1.38%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 55 (9.48%) Linux
2 47 (8.10%) Windows
3 19 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.41%) 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
1 171 (29.48%) AI
2 162 (27.93%) Agile
3 156 (26.90%) CI/CD
4 153 (26.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (25.86%) Mentoring
6 130 (22.41%) Customer Service
7 129 (22.24%) ITIL
8 96 (16.55%) DevOps
9 94 (16.21%) Cloud Security
10 92 (15.86%) Machine Learning
11 84 (14.48%) Cybersecurity
12 76 (13.10%) ITSM
12 76 (13.10%) Migration
13 74 (12.76%) Performance Metrics
14 64 (11.03%) Microservices
15 61 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (10.52%) LLM
15 61 (10.52%) OO
16 60 (10.34%) Prompt Engineering
17 59 (10.17%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 237 (40.86%) Python
2 119 (20.52%) Java
3 95 (16.38%) JavaScript
4 81 (13.97%) Bash
5 53 (9.14%) SQL
6 48 (8.28%) R
7 42 (7.24%) TypeScript
8 34 (5.86%) Go
9 30 (5.17%) Groovy
10 27 (4.66%) PowerShell
11 21 (3.62%) Ruby
12 19 (3.28%) C#
13 13 (2.24%) PHP
14 12 (2.07%) Kotlin
14 12 (2.07%) Perl
15 9 (1.55%) C++
16 7 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (0.86%) COBOL
18 4 (0.69%) Bicep
19 2 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 160 (27.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 155 (26.72%) Degree
3 150 (25.86%) Azure Certification
4 137 (23.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 137 (23.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 93 (16.03%) Security Cleared
6 74 (12.76%) MCSE
7 44 (7.59%) SC Cleared
8 39 (6.72%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (5.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (4.66%) CISSP
11 25 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (2.93%) CCNA
15 16 (2.76%) CISM
15 16 (2.76%) Master's Degree
16 15 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
17 13 (2.24%) CCNP
18 12 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.10%) QA
2 40 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.45%) GDPR
3 20 (3.45%) NIST
3 20 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 13 (2.24%) GRC
5 12 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.90%) NCSC
7 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.21%) 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 82 (14.14%) Docker
2 23 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.38%) Squid
4 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.38%) 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 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 135 (23.28%) Terraform
2 76 (13.10%) Kubernetes
3 50 (8.62%) Ansible
4 33 (5.69%) HP Fortify
5 29 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.48%) Grafana
7 14 (2.41%) Argo
8 13 (2.24%) Cilium
9 11 (1.90%) Kustomize
9 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.72%) Puppet
10 10 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.55%) Packer
12 8 (1.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.69%) Iperf
14 3 (0.52%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 274 (47.24%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.76%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.69%) VMware
4 28 (4.83%) Google
5 27 (4.66%) Oracle
6 25 (4.31%) Apple
7 24 (4.14%) Adobe
8 23 (3.97%) Splunk
9 22 (3.79%) Cisco
10 15 (2.59%) SAP
11 14 (2.41%) Databricks
12 13 (2.24%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.07%) Fortinet
14 9 (1.55%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
15 8 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
16 5 (0.86%) Avaya
16 5 (0.86%) Genesys
16 5 (0.86%) IBM
16 5 (0.86%) Salesforce