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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 373 396
Rank change year-on-year +177 +23 -248
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 824 332 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 0.71% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.09% 1.84% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 491 155 289
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,001 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £69,500
% change year-on-year -41.90% -24.46% -0.71%

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 20,126 18,050 21,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.72% 38.62% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,064 7,280 15,375
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,281 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +186 711 £30,750 -52.40% 480
UK excluding London +201 511 £30,500 -41.90% 505
Work from Home +105 285 £75,000 +25.00% 54
North of England +120 250 £30,500 -32.22% 132
London +59 226 £57,500 -34.29% 98
Yorkshire +46 140 £30,500 -32.22% 56
North West +65 81 £30,500 -40.49% 58
South East +28 59 £41,875 -30.79% 94
Midlands +19 55 £30,500 -52.79% 84
West Midlands +39 44 £30,500 -52.79% 30
Scotland +19 43 £30,500 -53.96% 40
South West +12 38 £30,500 -35.79% 70
Northern Ireland +3 33 - - 9
East of England +17 29 £80,000 +48.84% 51
North East +17 29 £30,500 -32.22% 24
East Midlands -27 11 £51,058 -7.17% 51
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 39

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 49 (5.95%) Jupyter
2 34 (4.13%) WordPress
3 11 (1.33%) Tomcat
3 11 (1.33%) WebSphere
4 10 (1.21%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.09%) Confluence
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.61%) Drupal
7 5 (0.61%) nginx
8 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 138 (16.75%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (6.07%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Weka
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
1 824 (100.00%) AWS
2 461 (55.95%) Azure
3 286 (34.71%) GitHub
4 168 (20.39%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (14.44%) Serverless
6 89 (10.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 85 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (9.71%) GCP
9 79 (9.59%) Amazon S3
10 55 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.34%) AWS Step Functions
12 41 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (3.76%) Amazon ECR
16 30 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (2.91%) Apigee
18 21 (2.55%) Entra ID
19 20 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (31.19%) Internet
2 28 (3.40%) Firewall
3 25 (3.03%) VPN
4 22 (2.67%) Broadband
5 19 (2.31%) Network Security
6 18 (2.18%) Remote Desktop
7 13 (1.58%) SSL
8 10 (1.21%) WAN
9 9 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.09%) VLAN
10 7 (0.85%) DNS
10 7 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.73%) DHCP
11 6 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.61%) VoIP
13 4 (0.49%) BGP
13 4 (0.49%) LAN
13 4 (0.49%) OSPF
14 3 (0.36%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.46%) DynamoDB
2 41 (4.98%) NoSQL
3 36 (4.37%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.64%) Metadata
5 24 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.43%) RDBMS
7 20 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.31%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.33%) DB2
11 9 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.49%) Big Data
14 3 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.24%) Power BI
16 1 (0.12%) GIS
16 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 276 (33.50%) Git
2 49 (5.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 45 (5.46%) Jenkins
4 41 (4.98%) GitLab
5 26 (3.16%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.91%) Maven
6 24 (2.91%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.31%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.70%) TeamCity
9 12 (1.46%) JIRA
10 10 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.49%) MLflow
13 2 (0.24%) Selenium
13 2 (0.24%) Vite
14 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 277 (33.62%) Social Skills
2 257 (31.19%) Multimedia
3 153 (18.57%) Finance
4 138 (16.75%) French Language
5 109 (13.23%) Swedish Language
6 70 (8.50%) Retail
7 64 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (6.43%) Banking
8 53 (6.43%) Manufacturing
9 49 (5.95%) Financial Institution
10 47 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 22 (2.67%) Retail Banking
13 16 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.33%) Law
14 11 (1.33%) Publishing
15 9 (1.09%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.73%) Legal
17 5 (0.61%) Local Government
17 5 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 306 (37.14%) Trainee
2 161 (19.54%) Analyst
3 160 (19.42%) Developer
4 138 (16.75%) Service Analyst
4 138 (16.75%) Service Desk Analyst
5 123 (14.93%) Trainee Developer
6 116 (14.08%) Architect
7 114 (13.83%) Software Developer
7 114 (13.83%) Trainee Software Developer
8 62 (7.52%) Senior
9 49 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 49 (5.95%) Programmer
9 49 (5.95%) Trainee Programmer
10 44 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 38 (4.61%) Lead
12 35 (4.25%) Administrator
13 30 (3.64%) Data Architect
14 29 (3.52%) Trainee Administrator
14 29 (3.52%) Web Administrator
15 21 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (31.19%) CSS
1 257 (31.19%) HTML
2 51 (6.19%) Hugging Face
2 51 (6.19%) NumPy
2 51 (6.19%) Pandas
3 49 (5.95%) Matplotlib
3 49 (5.95%) scikit-learn
3 49 (5.95%) Streamlit
4 35 (4.25%) Spring Boot
5 27 (3.28%) React
6 26 (3.16%) AngularJS
6 26 (3.16%) Jest
7 24 (2.91%) Gherkin
8 19 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
9 18 (2.18%) .NET
10 17 (2.06%) AWS CDK
11 15 (1.82%) Kafka
11 15 (1.82%) RESTful
12 12 (1.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.19%) Algorithms
3 41 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 22 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.67%) PKI
6 20 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.46%) e-Learning
10 8 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.85%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) PACS
12 5 (0.61%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (8.50%) Linux
2 50 (6.07%) Windows
3 41 (4.98%) Unix
4 16 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.20%) Mentoring
2 277 (33.62%) Cybersecurity
3 205 (24.88%) ITIL
4 177 (21.48%) Customer Service
5 155 (18.81%) Agile
6 144 (17.48%) ITSM
7 131 (15.90%) DevOps
8 128 (15.53%) CI/CD
9 123 (14.93%) Performance Metrics
10 120 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 113 (13.71%) AI
12 77 (9.34%) Migration
13 72 (8.74%) Data Privacy
14 71 (8.62%) Machine Learning
15 68 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (8.13%) Microservices
17 64 (7.77%) Computer Science
17 64 (7.77%) TOGAF
18 63 (7.65%) Containerisation
19 60 (7.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 432 (52.43%) Python
2 315 (38.23%) JavaScript
3 134 (16.26%) R
4 92 (11.17%) Java
5 74 (8.98%) Bash
6 57 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.49%) C#
8 32 (3.88%) SQL
9 29 (3.52%) Go
9 29 (3.52%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.91%) Groovy
11 9 (1.09%) Bicep
11 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.85%) C++
13 6 (0.73%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 433 (52.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 396 (48.06%) Azure Certification
3 316 (38.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 217 (26.33%) Degree
5 138 (16.75%) MCSE
6 111 (13.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 53 (6.43%) Security Cleared
7 53 (6.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 43 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (4.85%) SC Cleared
10 33 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
11 26 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 23 (2.79%) CISSP
13 21 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (2.43%) A+ Certification
15 17 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (2.06%) CISM
16 14 (1.70%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.09%) DV Cleared
18 8 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.41%) QA
2 36 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.03%) NIST
4 20 (2.43%) GDPR
5 18 (2.18%) SLA
6 16 (1.94%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.33%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.21%) NCSC
9 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.97%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.97%) GRC
11 5 (0.61%) DICOM
11 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.24%) GxP
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.12%) GAAP
14 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (12.86%) Docker
2 40 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.36%) iptables
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 110 (13.35%) Terraform
2 79 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 47 (5.70%) Ansible
4 36 (4.37%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.76%) Grafana
6 28 (3.40%) HP Fortify
7 20 (2.43%) Argo
8 19 (2.31%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.09%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.97%) Cilium
10 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.36%) Nessus
12 3 (0.36%) Puppet
13 1 (0.12%) Autotask
13 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 541 (65.66%) Microsoft
2 149 (18.08%) ServiceNow
3 48 (5.83%) VMware
4 38 (4.61%) Google
5 17 (2.06%) Adobe
5 17 (2.06%) Apple
5 17 (2.06%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.94%) IBM
7 15 (1.82%) SAP
8 11 (1.33%) Workday
9 10 (1.21%) Cisco
9 10 (1.21%) Databricks
10 5 (0.61%) Symantec
10 5 (0.61%) YouTube
11 4 (0.49%) OpenText
11 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.49%) Pega
12 3 (0.36%) Ariba
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle
12 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds