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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 373 449
Rank change year-on-year +143 +76 -299
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 745 299 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.71% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.27% 1.81% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 463 172 307
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £64,600 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.01% -13.87% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £98,625 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,688 £70,000
% change year-on-year -43.19% -23.30% +0.80%

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 22,775 16,481 25,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.86% 39.30% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,939 7,704 17,187
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +6.19% -6.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +136 669 £31,500 -51.24% 233
UK excluding London +157 486 £30,500 -43.19% 208
North of England +98 258 £30,500 -39.00% 53
Work from Home +66 205 £62,500 +4.17% 82
London +18 201 £37,500 -55.88% 73
Yorkshire +50 136 £30,500 -39.00% 21
North West +46 95 £30,500 -39.00% 22
Midlands +9 68 £30,500 -52.79% 26
West Midlands +11 59 £30,500 -52.79% 17
South East -11 44 £37,500 -43.61% 50
South West -35 36 £31,500 -44.49% 29
Scotland +9 34 £30,500 -41.90% 9
North East -20 27 £30,500 -32.22% 10
East of England -21 26 £37,500 -30.23% 29
Northern Ireland -24 15 £35,000 - 8
East Midlands - 9 £34,500 - 9
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 8

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 76 (10.20%) WordPress
2 54 (7.25%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.48%) Confluence
4 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.81%) Apache
5 6 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.81%) Drupal
5 6 (0.81%) nginx
6 4 (0.54%) Documentum
7 3 (0.40%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 76 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.38%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Maya
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.61%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 745 (100.00%) AWS
2 440 (59.06%) Azure
3 293 (39.33%) GitHub
4 105 (14.09%) Serverless
5 95 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (11.81%) GCP
7 82 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 76 (10.20%) Amazon S3
10 60 (8.05%) Cloud Computing
11 51 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (4.97%) Amazon ECR
14 37 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (4.43%) Apigee
17 31 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (2.55%) Pulumi
19 17 (2.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 269 (36.11%) Internet
2 26 (3.49%) Firewall
3 21 (2.82%) Broadband
4 20 (2.68%) Network Security
5 19 (2.55%) VPN
6 8 (1.07%) WAN
7 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.81%) LAN
8 6 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.67%) DNS
10 4 (0.54%) DHCP
10 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.54%) Wireless
11 3 (0.40%) IPv4
11 3 (0.40%) VLAN
12 2 (0.27%) BGP
12 2 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.27%) OSPF
12 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.11%) DynamoDB
2 42 (5.64%) NoSQL
3 26 (3.49%) Data Lake
3 26 (3.49%) Metadata
4 24 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.68%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.88%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.67%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.67%) Power BI
12 3 (0.40%) Big Data
12 3 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.27%) Spark SQL
14 1 (0.13%) Flink
14 1 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 284 (38.12%) Git
2 54 (7.25%) Visual Studio Code
3 52 (6.98%) GitLab
4 51 (6.85%) Jenkins
5 33 (4.43%) Cypress.io
5 33 (4.43%) Maven
5 33 (4.43%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.55%) Jaeger
7 15 (2.01%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.74%) JIRA
9 12 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.54%) MLflow
12 3 (0.40%) Selenium
13 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.13%) Gatling
13 1 (0.13%) JMeter
13 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 269 (36.11%) Multimedia
2 200 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 128 (17.18%) Finance
4 71 (9.53%) Retail
5 69 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (9.13%) French Language
7 60 (8.05%) Manufacturing
8 47 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (4.97%) Banking
10 31 (4.16%) Financial Institution
11 27 (3.62%) Swedish Language
12 23 (3.09%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.01%) Retail Banking
14 10 (1.34%) Law
14 10 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.07%) Advertising
16 6 (0.81%) Legal
17 5 (0.67%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.67%) Local Government
17 5 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 320 (42.95%) Trainee
2 161 (21.61%) Developer
3 110 (14.77%) Analyst
3 110 (14.77%) Trainee Developer
4 97 (13.02%) Architect
4 97 (13.02%) Software Developer
5 96 (12.89%) Trainee Software Developer
6 78 (10.47%) Administrator
7 76 (10.20%) Service Analyst
7 76 (10.20%) Service Desk Analyst
8 70 (9.40%) Trainee Administrator
8 70 (9.40%) Web Administrator
9 51 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 51 (6.85%) Programmer
9 51 (6.85%) Senior
9 51 (6.85%) Trainee Programmer
10 40 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (5.23%) Lead
12 28 (3.76%) Java Developer
13 25 (3.36%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (36.11%) CSS
1 269 (36.11%) HTML
2 54 (7.25%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.25%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.25%) NumPy
2 54 (7.25%) Pandas
2 54 (7.25%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.25%) Streamlit
3 43 (5.77%) Spring Boot
4 34 (4.56%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.43%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.43%) Jest
5 33 (4.43%) React
6 19 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.42%) .NET
7 18 (2.42%) AWS CDK
8 16 (2.15%) RESTful
9 14 (1.88%) Tailwind CSS
10 13 (1.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.79%) Algorithms
3 36 (4.83%) Public Cloud
4 35 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.09%) PKI
6 22 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.95%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.15%) e-Learning
8 14 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.67%) Clustering
13 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.67%) PACS
13 5 (0.67%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.54%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.32%) Linux
2 31 (4.16%) Windows
3 29 (3.89%) Unix
4 10 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (37.72%) Mentoring
2 256 (34.36%) Cybersecurity
3 152 (20.40%) Agile
4 137 (18.39%) Customer Service
5 133 (17.85%) ITIL
6 131 (17.58%) CI/CD
7 124 (16.64%) DevOps
7 124 (16.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 120 (16.11%) AI
9 84 (11.28%) Web Development
10 80 (10.74%) ITSM
11 77 (10.34%) Performance Metrics
12 72 (9.66%) Data Privacy
13 70 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (9.26%) Machine Learning
15 68 (9.13%) Migration
16 62 (8.32%) Containerisation
17 60 (8.05%) Microservices
17 60 (8.05%) Visualisation
18 59 (7.92%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 428 (57.45%) Python
2 319 (42.82%) JavaScript
3 159 (21.34%) R
4 96 (12.89%) Java
5 78 (10.47%) Bash
6 59 (7.92%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.43%) Groovy
7 33 (4.43%) SQL
8 32 (4.30%) Go
9 29 (3.89%) C#
10 22 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.61%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.21%) C++
13 7 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.40%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 376 (50.47%) Azure Certification
2 372 (49.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 336 (45.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 144 (19.33%) Degree
5 95 (12.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 76 (10.20%) MCSE
7 61 (8.19%) Security Cleared
8 40 (5.37%) SC Cleared
9 37 (4.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (4.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (3.49%) AWS Certified Developer
14 20 (2.68%) CISSP
15 16 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (2.15%) CISM
16 12 (1.61%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
18 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
19 6 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.87%) QA
2 28 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.82%) NIST
4 13 (1.74%) GDPR
5 12 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.61%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.21%) NCSC
7 8 (1.07%) GRC
8 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.94%) SLA
9 6 (0.81%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.67%) DICOM
10 5 (0.67%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.27%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (14.63%) Docker
2 20 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.94%) KVM
5 5 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 5 (0.67%) vSphere
6 4 (0.54%) iptables
7 3 (0.40%) Squid
7 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 113 (15.17%) Terraform
2 73 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.58%) Ansible
4 38 (5.10%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.97%) HP Fortify
6 29 (3.89%) Grafana
7 20 (2.68%) Argo
8 19 (2.55%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.07%) Cilium
10 8 (1.07%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.67%) Puppet
11 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.54%) Packer
13 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.13%) Consul
14 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.13%) QRadar
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 488 (65.50%) Microsoft
2 93 (12.48%) ServiceNow
3 39 (5.23%) Google
4 29 (3.89%) Adobe
4 29 (3.89%) Apple
5 28 (3.76%) VMware
6 17 (2.28%) Databricks
7 11 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.34%) Cisco
9 9 (1.21%) Oracle
9 9 (1.21%) Splunk
10 6 (0.81%) SAP
11 5 (0.67%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.67%) Symantec
11 5 (0.67%) Workday
11 5 (0.67%) YouTube
12 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.54%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.54%) OpenText
12 4 (0.54%) Pega