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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 252 474
Rank change year-on-year -123 +222 -86
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 524 587 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.19% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.57% 3.47% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 169 187 184
10th Percentile £47,600 £28,250 £43,520
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,165 £57,372
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -8.47% -4.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £96,775
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -10.71% -

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 20,380 16,904 20,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 34.40% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 7,419 9,820
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,720 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,756
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.36% -3.87%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -122 486 £77,500 +13.10% 1,094
UK excluding London -175 251 £66,000 +5.60% 766
London -1 246 £85,000 +13.33% 578
Work from Home -139 176 £85,000 +19.30% 709
North of England -142 85 £69,250 +6.54% 207
South East -42 47 £65,000 -7.47% 92
South West -67 47 £70,000 +23.36% 135
North West -122 44 £53,750 -14.00% 120
Midlands -40 43 £90,000 +38.46% 96
West Midlands -35 38 £90,000 +38.46% 71
North East -45 21 £80,500 +89.41% 55
Yorkshire -53 20 £68,750 +5.77% 34
Wales - 12 £80,000 - 6
East of England -28 8 £100,000 - 40
Northern Ireland -83 6 £42,500 - 82
East Midlands - 5 £73,750 - 25
Scotland +1 3 - - 109

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 20 (3.82%) Confluence
2 17 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.95%) Apache Pig
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.76%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) Apache
5 3 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.38%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 66 (12.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (4.58%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 524 (100.00%) AWS
2 187 (35.69%) Azure
3 131 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 116 (22.14%) GCP
5 102 (19.47%) Serverless
6 82 (15.65%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (15.65%) Microsoft 365
7 80 (15.27%) Amazon S3
7 80 (15.27%) Cloud Computing
8 70 (13.36%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (9.73%) GitHub
10 46 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (6.68%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (4.58%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (4.01%) OCI
16 20 (3.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (3.63%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.55%) Network Security
2 55 (10.50%) Firewall
3 29 (5.53%) WAN
4 28 (5.34%) VPN
5 23 (4.39%) SD-WAN
6 21 (4.01%) LAN
7 20 (3.82%) Internet
7 20 (3.82%) Software-Defined Networking
8 19 (3.63%) DNS
9 17 (3.24%) DHCP
10 14 (2.67%) TCP/IP
10 14 (2.67%) Wireless
11 9 (1.72%) VLAN
12 8 (1.53%) IPv4
13 7 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.95%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.76%) DMZ
16 3 (0.57%) 3GPP
16 3 (0.57%) BGP
16 3 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.64%) NoSQL
2 48 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.73%) DynamoDB
4 18 (3.44%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.24%) Metadata
6 16 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.10%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.91%) Big Data
10 8 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.53%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (1.34%) SAP HANA
12 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.95%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.95%) Power BI
14 4 (0.76%) GIS
15 3 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (13.93%) GitLab
2 48 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 39 (7.44%) Cucumber
4 29 (5.53%) JIRA
5 21 (4.01%) Git
6 18 (3.44%) Maven
7 16 (3.05%) Cypress.io
8 15 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 13 (2.48%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.57%) Taiga
11 3 (0.57%) VersionOne
12 2 (0.38%) Ant
12 2 (0.38%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.38%) git-flow
12 2 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.19%) ERwin
13 1 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 167 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 130 (24.81%) Finance
3 74 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 58 (11.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (9.16%) Swedish Language
7 40 (7.63%) Banking
8 26 (4.96%) Retail
9 23 (4.39%) Aerospace
10 21 (4.01%) Financial Institution
10 21 (4.01%) French Language
11 14 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.48%) Law
13 12 (2.29%) Military
14 11 (2.10%) Marketing
15 9 (1.72%) Legal
16 7 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.15%) Digital Health
17 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (26.34%) Senior
2 131 (25.00%) Architect
3 101 (19.27%) Analyst
4 66 (12.60%) Service Analyst
4 66 (12.60%) Service Desk Analyst
5 60 (11.45%) Consultant
6 44 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (7.25%) Java Engineer
8 36 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.11%) Developer
10 31 (5.92%) Security Consultant
11 30 (5.73%) Lead
12 28 (5.34%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (5.34%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (5.15%) AWS Architect
14 26 (4.96%) Senior Architect
15 25 (4.77%) Senior Consultant
16 22 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (4.20%) Principal Engineer
16 22 (4.20%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (26.15%) Terraform
2 72 (13.74%) Spring Boot
3 57 (10.88%) Kafka
4 52 (9.92%) Spring
5 31 (5.92%) AWS CDK
6 21 (4.01%) .NET
6 21 (4.01%) AngularJS
6 21 (4.01%) Node.js
7 16 (3.05%) Jest
8 15 (2.86%) Gherkin
9 14 (2.67%) REST
10 12 (2.29%) React
10 12 (2.29%) Web Services
11 11 (2.10%) LangChain
11 11 (2.10%) LlamaIndex
12 10 (1.91%) OAuth
12 10 (1.91%) OpenAPI
12 10 (1.91%) Ruby on Rails
13 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (1.72%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 127 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 94 (17.94%) Onboarding
3 50 (9.54%) Public Cloud
4 47 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (8.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 40 (7.63%) e-Learning
6 36 (6.87%) Data Centre
7 35 (6.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (4.20%) PKI
10 16 (3.05%) Management Information System
11 15 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (2.86%) Security Posture
12 14 (2.67%) Blog
13 13 (2.48%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.29%) Algorithms
14 12 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 10 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.97%) Windows
2 40 (7.63%) Linux
3 22 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
6 2 (0.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (39.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 190 (36.26%) CI/CD
3 168 (32.06%) Agile
4 164 (31.30%) Mentoring
5 163 (31.11%) AI
6 128 (24.43%) Cloud Security
7 120 (22.90%) ITIL
8 104 (19.85%) DevOps
9 90 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
11 84 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (15.65%) Microservices
13 80 (15.27%) Migration
13 80 (15.27%) Technical Leadership
14 79 (15.08%) Roadmaps
15 73 (13.93%) ITSM
16 68 (12.98%) Customer Service
17 67 (12.79%) Performance Metrics
18 64 (12.21%) Architectural Patterns
18 64 (12.21%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.85%) Python
2 115 (21.95%) Java
3 70 (13.36%) SQL
4 60 (11.45%) Bash
5 30 (5.73%) Go
6 29 (5.53%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.96%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.58%) Ruby
9 22 (4.20%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.44%) C#
11 16 (3.05%) Groovy
12 15 (2.86%) PHP
13 14 (2.67%) Perl
14 7 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.15%) C++
15 6 (1.15%) COBOL
16 4 (0.76%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.38%) C
17 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (30.73%) Degree
2 156 (29.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 128 (24.43%) Security Cleared
4 100 (19.08%) Azure Certification
5 89 (16.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 76 (14.50%) SC Cleared
7 66 (12.60%) MCSE
8 52 (9.92%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (8.21%) CISSP
10 29 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (4.77%) DV Cleared
13 24 (4.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 23 (4.39%) CCNP
15 22 (4.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (4.01%) CCNA
16 21 (4.01%) Master's Degree
17 20 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.82%) CISM
18 17 (3.24%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.98%) QA
2 48 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (5.53%) NIST
4 25 (4.77%) GDPR
5 21 (4.01%) NCSC
6 20 (3.82%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.67%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.48%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.48%) GRC
9 12 (2.29%) HIPAA
10 10 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.53%) ISO 9001
12 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
13 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.76%) SLA
16 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.19%) COBIT
17 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 63 (12.02%) Docker
2 26 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.77%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.53%) Squid
4 8 (1.53%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.53%) vSphere
5 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.95%) KVM
5 5 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (14.50%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.97%) Ansible
3 21 (4.01%) Grafana
4 16 (3.05%) Puppet
4 16 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.86%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.67%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.72%) Cilium
7 9 (1.72%) Packer
8 8 (1.53%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.34%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.15%) Argo
11 4 (0.76%) Iperf
12 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.57%) QRadar
13 2 (0.38%) CASB
13 2 (0.38%) kaniko
14 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 174 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 96 (18.32%) ServiceNow
3 37 (7.06%) Oracle
3 37 (7.06%) VMware
4 30 (5.73%) Cisco
5 25 (4.77%) Apple
5 25 (4.77%) Splunk
6 24 (4.58%) Adobe
6 24 (4.58%) Google
7 18 (3.44%) SAP
8 17 (3.24%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.86%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.29%) Databricks
10 12 (2.29%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.53%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.34%) Avaya
12 7 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.34%) Genesys