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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 426 362
Rank change year-on-year +235 -64 -81
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 761 326 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 0.58% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.89% 1.66% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 450 151 223
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £86,875
90th Percentile £94,125 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -10.34%

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 19,576 19,661 15,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.03% 35.00% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,866 7,996 10,487
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 24 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +235 660 £30,500 -52.79% 458
UK excluding London +216 461 £30,500 -42.51% 431
Work from Home +169 287 £75,000 +25.00% 183
London +119 226 £71,750 -18.00% 124
North of England +132 208 £30,500 -32.22% 109
Yorkshire +61 117 £30,500 -32.22% 45
North West +86 68 £30,500 -48.09% 49
South East +59 67 £47,500 -10.46% 109
Midlands +50 55 £30,500 -49.00% 76
West Midlands +69 45 £30,500 -52.79% 46
Scotland +18 37 £30,500 -52.16% 27
East of England +36 32 £80,000 +48.84% 49
South West +38 29 £30,500 -56.43% 45
Northern Ireland +22 29 - - 3
North East +27 23 £30,500 -32.22% 17
East Midlands -7 10 £51,058 -7.17% 29
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 17

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 (4.47%) WordPress
2 17 (2.23%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.23%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.10%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (1.58%) Confluence
5 9 (1.18%) nginx
6 8 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.66%) Drupal
9 4 (0.53%) Apache
9 4 (0.53%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 129 (16.95%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.26%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 761 (100.00%) AWS
2 482 (63.34%) Azure
3 270 (35.48%) GitHub
4 160 (21.02%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (13.93%) Serverless
6 85 (11.17%) GCP
7 79 (10.38%) Amazon S3
7 79 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (4.47%) AWS Step Functions
11 33 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (3.02%) SaaS
16 20 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 245 (32.19%) Internet
2 40 (5.26%) Firewall
3 31 (4.07%) VPN
4 24 (3.15%) DNS
4 24 (3.15%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (2.76%) WAN
6 19 (2.50%) SSL
7 17 (2.23%) Network Security
8 15 (1.97%) LAN
8 15 (1.97%) SD-WAN
8 15 (1.97%) VoIP
9 14 (1.84%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.84%) VLAN
10 13 (1.71%) Broadband
11 12 (1.58%) DHCP
11 12 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (1.18%) HTTP
13 8 (1.05%) FTP
13 8 (1.05%) SMTP
13 8 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.12%) Data Lake
2 37 (4.86%) DynamoDB
3 34 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 29 (3.81%) Metadata
6 23 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.23%) DB2
8 16 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.79%) MySQL
13 5 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.66%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.39%) Big Data
14 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.26%) Power BI
16 1 (0.13%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 270 (35.48%) Git
2 48 (6.31%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.81%) GitLab
4 19 (2.50%) JIRA
5 14 (1.84%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.18%) Maven
6 9 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.05%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.05%) Vagrant
8 7 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.92%) Jaeger
9 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.66%) Vite
11 4 (0.53%) Gatling
11 4 (0.53%) JMeter
12 3 (0.39%) Selenium
13 2 (0.26%) MLflow
13 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.26%) Subversion
14 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
General
1 281 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 245 (32.19%) Multimedia
3 129 (16.95%) French Language
4 119 (15.64%) Swedish Language
5 112 (14.72%) Finance
6 60 (7.88%) Banking
7 56 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (6.44%) Financial Institution
9 31 (4.07%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (3.42%) Retail Banking
11 14 (1.84%) Retail
12 13 (1.71%) Law
13 11 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.31%) Publishing
15 9 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.66%) Local Government
17 5 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 245 (32.19%) Trainee
2 151 (19.84%) Analyst
3 142 (18.66%) Developer
4 129 (16.95%) Service Analyst
4 129 (16.95%) Service Desk Analyst
5 118 (15.51%) Architect
6 115 (15.11%) Trainee Developer
7 106 (13.93%) Software Developer
7 106 (13.93%) Trainee Software Developer
8 81 (10.64%) Senior
9 35 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (4.07%) Administrator
11 30 (3.94%) Lead
12 29 (3.81%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (3.81%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.81%) Web Administrator
13 27 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (3.15%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 22 (2.89%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (32.19%) CSS
1 245 (32.19%) HTML
2 32 (4.20%) React
3 21 (2.76%) Spring Boot
4 20 (2.63%) LDAP
5 19 (2.50%) AWS CDK
6 17 (2.23%) .NET
7 16 (2.10%) LAPP Stack
7 16 (2.10%) RESTful
7 16 (2.10%) WebSphere MQ
8 14 (1.84%) Jest
9 13 (1.71%) Spring
10 11 (1.45%) .NET Core
10 11 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.45%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (1.45%) Blazor
11 9 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (1.18%) Gherkin
11 9 (1.18%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.07%) Public Cloud
3 30 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.45%) PKI
10 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.92%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.79%) Replication
13 5 (0.66%) Blog
13 5 (0.66%) Clustering
13 5 (0.66%) Social Media
14 4 (0.53%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (10.38%) Windows
2 75 (9.86%) Linux
3 36 (4.73%) Unix
4 24 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.05%) VMS
7 6 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.26%) CentOS
10 2 (0.26%) Debian
10 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (40.34%) Mentoring
2 270 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
3 204 (26.81%) ITIL
4 142 (18.66%) ITSM
5 141 (18.53%) Agile
6 129 (16.95%) DevOps
7 121 (15.90%) CI/CD
8 116 (15.24%) Customer Service
9 109 (14.32%) Performance Metrics
10 103 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 72 (9.46%) Migration
12 69 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (8.94%) Microservices
13 68 (8.94%) TOGAF
14 65 (8.54%) Containerisation
15 62 (8.15%) Computer Science
16 61 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (7.62%) Data Modelling
18 56 (7.36%) AI
18 56 (7.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 376 (49.41%) Python
2 292 (38.37%) JavaScript
3 130 (17.08%) R
4 78 (10.25%) Java
5 51 (6.70%) Bash
6 50 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.52%) SQL
8 40 (5.26%) C#
9 36 (4.73%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.23%) Groovy
11 12 (1.58%) Go
12 10 (1.31%) Bicep
13 4 (0.53%) C++
13 4 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.26%) C
14 2 (0.26%) Ruby
14 2 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 416 (54.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 405 (53.22%) Azure Certification
3 251 (32.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 222 (29.17%) Degree
5 129 (16.95%) MCSE
6 120 (15.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 63 (8.28%) Security Cleared
8 54 (7.10%) SC Cleared
9 46 (6.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 44 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (3.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 27 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (3.42%) A+ Certification
14 24 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (2.89%) CISSP
16 20 (2.63%) Master's Degree
17 14 (1.84%) CCNP
18 13 (1.71%) CISM
19 12 (1.58%) DV Cleared
20 9 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (15.64%) QA
2 33 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.34%) NIST
3 24 (3.15%) GDPR
3 24 (3.15%) SLA
4 12 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.92%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.79%) NCSC
10 5 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.53%) GRC
11 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.26%) GxP
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) Basel III
13 1 (0.13%) GAAP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 89 (11.70%) Docker
2 49 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.79%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.79%) KVM
6 5 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.66%) vSphere
7 4 (0.53%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.53%) Postfix
7 4 (0.53%) Squid
8 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) iptables
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (11.83%) Terraform
2 76 (9.99%) Kubernetes
3 38 (4.99%) Ansible
4 27 (3.55%) Grafana
5 19 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.18%) Argo
6 9 (1.18%) HP Fortify
7 7 (0.92%) Kustomize
7 7 (0.92%) Nessus
7 7 (0.92%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.79%) Autotask
9 4 (0.53%) Cilium
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.26%) Nagios
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
11 1 (0.13%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
11 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 492 (64.65%) Microsoft
2 146 (19.19%) ServiceNow
3 51 (6.70%) VMware
4 27 (3.55%) Google
5 25 (3.29%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.89%) IBM
7 19 (2.50%) SAP
8 17 (2.23%) Adobe
8 17 (2.23%) Apple
9 16 (2.10%) Cisco
10 10 (1.31%) Workday
11 8 (1.05%) Ariba
12 6 (0.79%) Oracle
13 5 (0.66%) Datto
13 5 (0.66%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.66%) Symantec
14 4 (0.53%) Databricks
14 4 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
15 3 (0.39%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.39%) SolarWinds