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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 292 464
Rank change year-on-year -8 +172 -309
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 579 475 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.07% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.16% 2.77% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 307 131 322
10th Percentile - £44,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,469 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £94,375 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,640 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -38.02% -13.57% -

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 18,314 17,179 26,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.92% 38.83% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,424 7,284 17,187
10th Percentile £30,173 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -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 9 June 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 June 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 -25 523 £37,500 -47.37% 232
UK excluding London -21 356 £37,500 -38.02% 195
Work from Home -54 194 £62,500 -6.38% 192
London -25 182 £55,000 -32.31% 72
North of England -41 171 £37,500 -42.31% 55
Yorkshire +26 81 £37,500 -46.43% 24
North West -65 71 £37,500 -33.33% 25
Midlands +12 60 £35,000 -34.81% 28
West Midlands +7 54 £35,000 -34.81% 16
South West -39 38 £47,000 -17.17% 27
South East +4 36 £62,500 -14.38% 51
North East -25 19 £37,500 -21.05% 6
Scotland +24 18 £31,000 -40.95% 4
East of England +1 14 £37,500 -55.88% 23
Northern Ireland -27 11 £39,000 - 2
Wales - 8 £51,619 - 7
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 12

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 (9.33%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.60%) WordPress
3 15 (2.59%) Confluence
4 10 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.21%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.04%) Apache
7 4 (0.69%) Documentum
8 3 (0.52%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 64 (11.05%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.50%) Chatbot
3 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.15%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Magento
2 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 579 (100.00%) AWS
2 286 (49.40%) Azure
3 159 (27.46%) GitHub
4 93 (16.06%) GCP
5 90 (15.54%) Serverless
6 83 (14.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 79 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (12.26%) Amazon S3
10 61 (10.54%) Cloud Computing
11 50 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (6.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 34 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (5.70%) Amazon ECR
16 29 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (5.01%) Apigee
17 23 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 123 (21.24%) Internet
2 31 (5.35%) Network Security
3 30 (5.18%) Firewall
4 18 (3.11%) Broadband
4 18 (3.11%) VPN
5 15 (2.59%) Software-Defined Networking
6 11 (1.90%) WAN
7 10 (1.73%) LAN
7 10 (1.73%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.38%) IPv4
8 8 (1.38%) Wireless
9 6 (1.04%) DNS
10 5 (0.86%) DHCP
10 5 (0.86%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.52%) VLAN
12 2 (0.35%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.17%) BGP
13 1 (0.17%) OSPF
13 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.12%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.25%) DynamoDB
3 28 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.63%) Metadata
5 18 (3.11%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.11%) RDBMS
5 18 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (1.04%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.86%) Power BI
9 3 (0.52%) Big Data
9 3 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.35%) GIS
10 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.35%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.17%) Flink
Development Applications
1 141 (24.35%) Git
2 68 (11.74%) GitLab
3 56 (9.67%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.18%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.18%) Maven
6 29 (5.01%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.97%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.11%) Jaeger
8 18 (3.11%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.94%) JIRA
10 13 (2.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.69%) MLflow
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 158 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 123 (21.24%) Multimedia
3 119 (20.55%) Finance
4 74 (12.78%) Retail
5 68 (11.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (10.19%) Manufacturing
7 44 (7.60%) French Language
8 41 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (6.04%) Banking
10 24 (4.15%) Financial Institution
11 20 (3.45%) Swedish Language
12 16 (2.76%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.73%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.38%) Advertising
14 8 (1.38%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.21%) Legal
16 4 (0.69%) Automotive
16 4 (0.69%) Billing
16 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (30.05%) Trainee
2 103 (17.79%) Analyst
3 92 (15.89%) Developer
4 84 (14.51%) Architect
5 74 (12.78%) Senior
6 64 (11.05%) Service Analyst
6 64 (11.05%) Service Desk Analyst
7 51 (8.81%) Administrator
7 51 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 51 (8.81%) Programmer
7 51 (8.81%) Trainee Programmer
8 46 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 44 (7.60%) Trainee Developer
10 43 (7.43%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.43%) Web Administrator
11 40 (6.91%) Software Developer
12 39 (6.74%) Trainee Software Developer
13 33 (5.70%) Lead
14 28 (4.84%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (21.59%) CSS
1 125 (21.59%) HTML
2 57 (9.84%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.33%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.33%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.33%) NumPy
3 54 (9.33%) Pandas
3 54 (9.33%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.33%) Streamlit
4 32 (5.53%) AngularJS
5 30 (5.18%) Jest
6 29 (5.01%) Gherkin
7 27 (4.66%) Spring
8 25 (4.32%) Kafka
9 20 (3.45%) React
10 19 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (2.25%) .NET
13 12 (2.07%) AWS CDK
14 11 (1.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.88%) Algorithms
3 41 (7.08%) Public Cloud
4 29 (5.01%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (4.84%) PKI
6 27 (4.66%) e-Learning
6 27 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.59%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.86%) PACS
11 5 (0.86%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.52%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.19%) Linux
2 34 (5.87%) Windows
3 22 (3.80%) Unix
4 17 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (28.67%) Mentoring
2 156 (26.94%) Agile
3 154 (26.60%) CI/CD
4 141 (24.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 139 (24.01%) Cybersecurity
6 123 (21.24%) AI
7 121 (20.90%) Customer Service
7 121 (20.90%) ITIL
8 104 (17.96%) DevOps
9 67 (11.57%) ITSM
9 67 (11.57%) Machine Learning
10 64 (11.05%) Data Privacy
10 64 (11.05%) Performance Metrics
11 61 (10.54%) LLM
12 60 (10.36%) Cost Optimisation
12 60 (10.36%) Microservices
13 59 (10.19%) Cloud Security
13 59 (10.19%) OO
13 59 (10.19%) Visualisation
14 57 (9.84%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 283 (48.88%) Python
2 163 (28.15%) JavaScript
3 103 (17.79%) Java
4 79 (13.64%) R
5 76 (13.13%) Bash
6 48 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 39 (6.74%) SQL
8 37 (6.39%) Go
9 30 (5.18%) Groovy
10 26 (4.49%) PowerShell
11 23 (3.97%) C#
12 11 (1.90%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.38%) C++
14 6 (1.04%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.86%) Ruby
16 4 (0.69%) Bicep
17 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.17%) COBOL
17 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.17%) Natural
Qualifications
1 223 (38.51%) Azure Certification
2 209 (36.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 192 (33.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 122 (21.07%) Degree
5 99 (17.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 64 (11.05%) MCSE
6 64 (11.05%) Security Cleared
7 42 (7.25%) SC Cleared
8 29 (5.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 25 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (4.32%) ITIL Certification
10 24 (4.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (2.94%) CISSP
13 16 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (2.42%) CISM
15 11 (1.90%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.73%) CCNA
17 9 (1.55%) CCNP
17 9 (1.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.57%) QA
2 34 (5.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.28%) NIST
4 15 (2.59%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.07%) GRC
5 12 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.90%) GDPR
7 10 (1.73%) NCSC
8 8 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.86%) DICOM
10 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.35%) SLA
13 1 (0.17%) COBIT
13 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 101 (17.44%) Docker
2 20 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.38%) Squid
4 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.38%) vSphere
5 6 (1.04%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) iptables
7 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 123 (21.24%) Terraform
2 86 (14.85%) Kubernetes
3 57 (9.84%) Ansible
4 40 (6.91%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.70%) HP Fortify
6 28 (4.84%) Grafana
7 21 (3.63%) Argo
8 18 (3.11%) Kustomize
9 12 (2.07%) Cilium
10 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.55%) Packer
12 8 (1.38%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.86%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.86%) Puppet
15 2 (0.35%) QRadar
16 1 (0.17%) Consul
16 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
16 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 327 (56.48%) Microsoft
2 93 (16.06%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.22%) Google
4 35 (6.04%) Apple
5 34 (5.87%) Adobe
6 30 (5.18%) VMware
7 16 (2.76%) Databricks
7 16 (2.76%) Splunk
8 13 (2.25%) Oracle
9 12 (2.07%) Cisco
10 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.38%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.69%) OpenText
13 4 (0.69%) Pega
13 4 (0.69%) YouTube
14 3 (0.52%) Informatica
14 3 (0.52%) Workday