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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 286 511
Rank change year-on-year -62 +225 -124
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 572 517 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.03% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.89% 3.00% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 231 164 199
10th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £43,421
25th Percentile £33,750 £56,745 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -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 19,787 17,205 21,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 34.42% 25.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,767 7,812 11,376
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £36,925 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,479 £52,000
% change year-on-year +16.21% -4.85% -0.95%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -78 532 £65,000 -7.14% 882
UK excluding London -112 294 £55,000 -15.38% 678
London +29 255 £80,000 +6.67% 430
Work from Home -115 175 £85,000 +21.43% 515
North of England -120 99 £52,500 -19.23% 173
Midlands -9 55 £37,500 -46.43% 95
North West -115 53 £34,500 -46.92% 91
South West -57 50 £60,500 +6.62% 129
South East -32 48 £62,500 -11.03% 94
West Midlands -16 47 £37,500 -46.43% 64
Yorkshire -39 26 £47,500 -32.14% 38
North East -36 20 £80,000 +68.42% 46
East of England -17 15 £37,500 -59.46% 40
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 8
East Midlands - 8 £37,500 - 31
Scotland +12 7 £31,250 -40.48% 79
Northern Ireland -75 7 £40,750 - 63

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 44 (7.69%) WordPress
2 20 (3.50%) Confluence
3 17 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) nginx
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (11.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.20%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 572 (100.00%) AWS
2 234 (40.91%) Azure
3 127 (22.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 111 (19.41%) GCP
5 102 (17.83%) Serverless
6 101 (17.66%) GitHub
7 85 (14.86%) Cloud Computing
7 85 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (14.51%) AWS Lambda
9 80 (13.99%) Amazon S3
10 68 (11.89%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (4.20%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (3.50%) OCI
17 19 (3.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 77 (13.46%) Internet
2 69 (12.06%) Network Security
3 50 (8.74%) Firewall
4 28 (4.90%) WAN
5 25 (4.37%) VPN
6 22 (3.85%) SD-WAN
7 20 (3.50%) LAN
7 20 (3.50%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.32%) DNS
9 17 (2.97%) DHCP
10 14 (2.45%) TCP/IP
11 13 (2.27%) Wireless
12 9 (1.57%) VLAN
13 8 (1.40%) IPv4
14 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.70%) DMZ
17 3 (0.52%) 3GPP
17 3 (0.52%) BGP
17 3 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (9.79%) NoSQL
2 49 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.24%) DynamoDB
4 19 (3.32%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.15%) Metadata
6 16 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.92%) Big Data
8 11 (1.92%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.40%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.22%) Power BI
10 7 (1.22%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.70%) GIS
14 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (12.94%) Git
2 70 (12.24%) GitLab
3 50 (8.74%) Jenkins
4 35 (6.12%) Cucumber
5 30 (5.24%) JIRA
6 18 (3.15%) Maven
7 16 (2.80%) Bitbucket
7 16 (2.80%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.62%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.45%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.52%) Taiga
12 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
13 2 (0.35%) Ant
13 2 (0.35%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.35%) git-flow
13 2 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.17%) ERwin
General
1 168 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 133 (23.25%) Finance
3 69 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.49%) Multimedia
5 56 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (8.39%) Swedish Language
7 47 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (6.29%) Banking
9 25 (4.37%) Retail
10 22 (3.85%) Aerospace
11 20 (3.50%) Financial Institution
11 20 (3.50%) French Language
12 15 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.45%) Law
14 11 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.92%) Marketing
14 11 (1.92%) Military
15 9 (1.57%) Legal
16 6 (1.05%) Billing
16 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (23.43%) Senior
2 123 (21.50%) Architect
3 100 (17.48%) Analyst
4 68 (11.89%) Service Analyst
4 68 (11.89%) Service Desk Analyst
5 62 (10.84%) Consultant
5 62 (10.84%) Trainee
6 50 (8.74%) Administrator
7 47 (8.22%) Developer
8 43 (7.52%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (7.52%) Web Administrator
9 42 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (5.94%) Java Engineer
12 31 (5.42%) Security Consultant
13 28 (4.90%) Lead
13 28 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.72%) AWS Architect
14 27 (4.72%) Senior Consultant
15 26 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (23.95%) Terraform
2 68 (11.89%) Spring Boot
3 64 (11.19%) CSS
3 64 (11.19%) HTML
4 52 (9.09%) Kafka
5 48 (8.39%) Spring
6 30 (5.24%) AWS CDK
7 21 (3.67%) .NET
7 21 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 21 (3.67%) Node.js
8 18 (3.15%) React
9 16 (2.80%) Jest
10 15 (2.62%) Gherkin
11 14 (2.45%) REST
12 10 (1.75%) OAuth
12 10 (1.75%) OpenAPI
12 10 (1.75%) Ruby on Rails
12 10 (1.75%) Web Services
13 9 (1.57%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (1.57%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 120 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 91 (15.91%) Onboarding
3 47 (8.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 47 (8.22%) Public Cloud
4 42 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (6.47%) e-Learning
6 36 (6.29%) Data Centre
7 31 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.50%) PKI
10 16 (2.80%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.45%) Blog
12 13 (2.27%) Mainframe
12 13 (2.27%) Management Information System
12 13 (2.27%) Security Posture
13 12 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.57%) Windows
2 38 (6.64%) Linux
3 22 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.35%) Solaris
6 2 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 184 (32.17%) CI/CD
3 174 (30.42%) Mentoring
4 164 (28.67%) Agile
5 153 (26.75%) AI
6 119 (20.80%) Cloud Security
6 119 (20.80%) ITIL
7 101 (17.66%) DevOps
8 97 (16.96%) Cybersecurity
9 84 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (14.34%) Migration
11 76 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (13.11%) Customer Service
12 75 (13.11%) ITSM
12 75 (13.11%) Microservices
13 73 (12.76%) Technical Leadership
14 71 (12.41%) Roadmaps
15 69 (12.06%) Performance Metrics
16 61 (10.66%) Machine Learning
17 59 (10.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 186 (32.52%) Python
2 111 (19.41%) Java
3 82 (14.34%) JavaScript
4 66 (11.54%) SQL
5 59 (10.31%) Bash
6 48 (8.39%) R
7 28 (4.90%) Go
7 28 (4.90%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.20%) Ruby
9 23 (4.02%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.15%) C#
11 16 (2.80%) Groovy
12 15 (2.62%) PHP
13 14 (2.45%) Perl
14 8 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.05%) C++
15 6 (1.05%) COBOL
16 5 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 161 (28.15%) Degree
2 155 (27.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 153 (26.75%) Azure Certification
4 148 (25.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 125 (21.85%) Security Cleared
6 88 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 74 (12.94%) SC Cleared
8 68 (11.89%) MCSE
9 48 (8.39%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (6.12%) CISSP
11 31 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (4.02%) DV Cleared
14 22 (3.85%) CCNP
14 22 (3.85%) Master's Degree
14 22 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (3.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.67%) CCNA
16 17 (2.97%) AWS Certified Developer
16 17 (2.97%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.24%) QA
2 45 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.72%) GDPR
4 26 (4.55%) NIST
5 20 (3.50%) SOC 2
6 19 (3.32%) NCSC
7 13 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 13 (2.27%) Data Quality
8 12 (2.10%) GRC
8 12 (2.10%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.40%) ISO 9001
11 7 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.70%) SLA
15 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.17%) COBIT
16 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 67 (11.71%) Docker
2 25 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.40%) Squid
3 8 (1.40%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.40%) vSphere
4 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.87%) KVM
5 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 45 (7.87%) Ansible
3 20 (3.50%) Grafana
4 17 (2.97%) Puppet
5 15 (2.62%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.62%) Progress Chef
5 15 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.57%) Cilium
7 9 (1.57%) Packer
8 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.40%) ZABBIX
9 6 (1.05%) Argo
10 4 (0.70%) Iperf
10 4 (0.70%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.52%) QRadar
12 2 (0.35%) CASB
12 2 (0.35%) kaniko
13 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 231 (40.38%) Microsoft
2 95 (16.61%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.29%) Oracle
4 33 (5.77%) VMware
5 26 (4.55%) Cisco
6 25 (4.37%) Apple
6 25 (4.37%) Splunk
7 24 (4.20%) Adobe
8 22 (3.85%) Google
9 18 (3.15%) SAP
10 17 (2.97%) Palo Alto
11 15 (2.62%) Red Hat
12 14 (2.45%) Databricks
13 12 (2.10%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.40%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.22%) Avaya
15 7 (1.22%) Dynatrace
15 7 (1.22%) Genesys