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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 413 367
Rank change year-on-year +231 -46 -188
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 821 326 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 0.61% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.21% 1.65% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 485 148 268
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £64,600 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% -7.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,775 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.21% -18.81% -7.14%

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 19,523 19,723 18,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.22% 37.14% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,879 7,632 13,027
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,921 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.63%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +216 708 £30,500 -51.20% 388
UK excluding London +223 488 £30,500 -42.21% 387
Work from Home +153 308 £75,000 +25.00% 112
London +125 247 £68,750 -20.29% 97
North of England +129 225 £30,500 -32.22% 94
Yorkshire +55 130 £30,500 -32.22% 38
North West +74 69 £30,500 -48.09% 42
South East +67 66 £47,500 -10.46% 84
Midlands +42 57 £30,500 -43.88% 48
West Midlands +65 47 £30,500 -43.19% 19
Scotland +17 42 £30,500 -54.81% 32
South West +29 33 £30,500 -56.43% 52
Northern Ireland +15 31 - - 6
East of England +35 30 £82,500 +53.49% 52
North East +24 26 £30,500 -32.22% 15
East Midlands -5 10 £51,058 -7.17% 29
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 24

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 34 (4.14%) WordPress
2 17 (2.07%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.07%) WebSphere
3 16 (1.95%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (1.46%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) nginx
6 8 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
8 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.49%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (16.93%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 821 (100.00%) AWS
2 498 (60.66%) Azure
3 307 (37.39%) GitHub
4 173 (21.07%) Microsoft 365
5 127 (15.47%) Serverless
6 91 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
7 90 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 88 (10.72%) Amazon S3
9 81 (9.87%) GCP
10 45 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (4.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (2.68%) Amazon ECR
18 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
19 19 (2.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 278 (33.86%) Internet
2 36 (4.38%) Firewall
3 29 (3.53%) VPN
4 24 (2.92%) Broadband
4 24 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.31%) SSL
6 18 (2.19%) Network Security
7 17 (2.07%) DNS
8 16 (1.95%) WAN
9 13 (1.58%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.34%) VLAN
10 11 (1.34%) VoIP
10 11 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (1.22%) LAN
12 8 (0.97%) DHCP
13 7 (0.85%) HTTP
14 6 (0.73%) FTP
14 6 (0.73%) SMTP
14 6 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.12%) DynamoDB
2 39 (4.75%) Data Lake
2 39 (4.75%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (3.65%) Metadata
6 23 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (2.07%) DB2
10 13 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.37%) Big Data
13 3 (0.37%) MySQL
14 2 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.24%) Power BI
14 2 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 304 (37.03%) Git
2 50 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.90%) GitLab
4 19 (2.31%) Cypress.io
4 19 (2.31%) Jaeger
5 18 (2.19%) JIRA
6 14 (1.71%) Maven
6 14 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.73%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.61%) Vite
11 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 2 (0.24%) Subversion
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 292 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 278 (33.86%) Multimedia
3 139 (16.93%) French Language
4 119 (14.49%) Swedish Language
5 106 (12.91%) Finance
6 68 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (7.31%) Banking
8 51 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (6.09%) Financial Institution
10 28 (3.41%) Public Sector
11 26 (3.17%) Retail Banking
12 25 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.71%) Retail
14 12 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.46%) Law
15 11 (1.34%) Publishing
16 8 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.73%) Legal
18 5 (0.61%) Local Government
18 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 278 (33.86%) Trainee
2 162 (19.73%) Analyst
3 161 (19.61%) Developer
4 139 (16.93%) Service Analyst
4 139 (16.93%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (16.32%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (15.23%) Software Developer
6 125 (15.23%) Trainee Software Developer
7 119 (14.49%) Architect
8 78 (9.50%) Senior
9 47 (5.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (5.24%) Lead
11 33 (4.02%) Administrator
12 30 (3.65%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.53%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.53%) Web Administrator
14 27 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.92%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.68%) Infrastructure Support
17 21 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (33.86%) CSS
1 278 (33.86%) HTML
2 31 (3.78%) React
3 25 (3.05%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.56%) AWS CDK
4 21 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (2.44%) LDAP
6 19 (2.31%) Jest
6 19 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.19%) .NET
8 16 (1.95%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.95%) LAPP Stack
8 16 (1.95%) WebSphere MQ
9 15 (1.83%) RESTful
10 14 (1.71%) Gherkin
11 12 (1.46%) Kafka
11 12 (1.46%) Spring
12 11 (1.34%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (1.34%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.19%) PKI
8 12 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.73%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.73%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.73%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.61%) Blog
13 5 (0.61%) Clustering
13 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.49%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 91 (11.08%) Linux
2 73 (8.89%) Windows
3 49 (5.97%) Unix
4 22 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.73%) VMS
7 5 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.24%) CentOS
10 2 (0.24%) Debian
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (43.24%) Mentoring
2 303 (36.91%) Cybersecurity
3 210 (25.58%) ITIL
4 153 (18.64%) Agile
5 149 (18.15%) ITSM
6 144 (17.54%) DevOps
7 130 (15.83%) CI/CD
7 130 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 123 (14.98%) Customer Service
9 119 (14.49%) Performance Metrics
10 80 (9.74%) Migration
11 75 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (8.65%) Containerisation
13 69 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (8.40%) TOGAF
14 66 (8.04%) Computer Science
14 66 (8.04%) Microservices
14 66 (8.04%) Roadmaps
15 61 (7.43%) AI
15 61 (7.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 423 (51.52%) Python
2 341 (41.53%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.54%) R
4 92 (11.21%) Java
5 70 (8.53%) Bash
6 55 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.12%) C#
8 38 (4.63%) SQL
9 36 (4.38%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.29%) Go
11 20 (2.44%) Groovy
12 10 (1.22%) Bicep
13 7 (0.85%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Perl
15 2 (0.24%) Ruby
15 2 (0.24%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 457 (55.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 430 (52.38%) Azure Certification
3 287 (34.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 229 (27.89%) Degree
5 139 (16.93%) MCSE
6 119 (14.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 61 (7.43%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 48 (5.85%) SC Cleared
10 46 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (3.65%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.17%) A+ Certification
14 24 (2.92%) CISSP
15 20 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (2.19%) Master's Degree
17 17 (2.07%) CISM
18 15 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 12 (1.46%) CCNP
20 10 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.23%) QA
2 34 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (3.41%) NIST
4 24 (2.92%) SLA
5 22 (2.68%) GDPR
6 14 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.22%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.97%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) GRC
14 2 (0.24%) DICOM
14 2 (0.24%) GxP
14 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) GAAP
15 1 (0.12%) MiFID
15 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (13.15%) Docker
2 49 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.95%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.85%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.49%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.49%) Postfix
7 4 (0.49%) Squid
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) iptables
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 113 (13.76%) Terraform
2 86 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.21%) Ansible
4 36 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.14%) Grafana
6 21 (2.56%) Argo
7 19 (2.31%) Kustomize
8 14 (1.71%) HP Fortify
9 10 (1.22%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.85%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Autotask
13 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 2 (0.24%) Puppet
15 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 526 (64.07%) Microsoft
2 158 (19.24%) ServiceNow
3 54 (6.58%) VMware
4 39 (4.75%) Google
5 24 (2.92%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.80%) IBM
7 17 (2.07%) Adobe
7 17 (2.07%) Apple
8 15 (1.83%) SAP
9 14 (1.71%) Cisco
10 11 (1.34%) Workday
11 6 (0.73%) Databricks
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle
12 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 5 (0.61%) YouTube
13 4 (0.49%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.49%) OpenText
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) Pega
14 3 (0.37%) OpenAI