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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 477 392
Rank change year-on-year +229 -85 -70
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 610 345 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 0.44% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.60% 1.64% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 207 181 345
10th Percentile £28,250 £43,421 £46,783
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,988 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,435 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.95% - -

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 16,961 20,985 18,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.29% 26.87% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,492 9,796 12,175
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,170 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -4.27% +6.36%
75th Percentile £73,500 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 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 18 September 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 +234 573 £65,000 -10.34% 607
UK excluding London +246 386 £57,435 -17.95% 498
Work from Home +222 357 £72,500 -4.92% 124
North of England +159 239 £62,500 -1.96% 118
North West +134 200 £30,500 -52.16% 63
London +108 189 £75,000 -3.23% 259
South East +63 50 £69,000 +22.11% 146
South West +90 36 £56,745 -24.34% 42
West Midlands +49 36 £57,500 -20.69% 47
Midlands +40 36 £57,500 -20.69% 77
Yorkshire +39 32 £65,000 +4.00% 40
Northern Ireland +24 12 - - 7
Scotland +29 8 £30,500 -56.43% 36
East of England -12 8 £100,000 +105.13% 45
North East - 7 £42,500 - 17

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (4.26%) Confluence
2 13 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.48%) Tomcat
3 9 (1.48%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (1.31%) nginx
5 7 (1.15%) Apache
5 7 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 55 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 610 (100.00%) AWS
2 416 (68.20%) Azure
3 286 (46.89%) GCP
4 75 (12.30%) Serverless
5 71 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (10.82%) Amazon S3
6 66 (10.82%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (9.51%) GitHub
8 52 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 43 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (4.92%) SaaS
12 29 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.44%) AWS KMS
16 17 (2.79%) Route 53
17 16 (2.62%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
19 13 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.21%) Firewall
2 41 (6.72%) Internet
3 38 (6.23%) DNS
4 25 (4.10%) VPN
5 24 (3.93%) Remote Desktop
6 19 (3.11%) WAN
7 17 (2.79%) LAN
7 17 (2.79%) Network Security
8 16 (2.62%) FTP
8 16 (2.62%) HTTP
8 16 (2.62%) SMTP
8 16 (2.62%) SSH
9 13 (2.13%) DHCP
9 13 (2.13%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.80%) VoIP
11 10 (1.64%) VLAN
12 9 (1.48%) SSL
13 8 (1.31%) Broadband
13 8 (1.31%) IMAP
13 8 (1.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 46 (7.54%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (6.72%) Data Lake
4 33 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 25 (4.10%) Metadata
8 21 (3.44%) Big Data
9 20 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (2.46%) MySQL
12 13 (2.13%) SQL Server
13 12 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.80%) DB2
14 11 (1.80%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.48%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.48%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.15%) CockroachDB
17 6 (0.98%) Power BI
18 5 (0.82%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 68 (11.15%) Git
2 49 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.74%) JIRA
4 17 (2.79%) GitLab
5 16 (2.62%) Vagrant
6 8 (1.31%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.98%) Selenium
7 6 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.82%) JMeter
8 5 (0.82%) JUnit
8 5 (0.82%) Vite
9 4 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.66%) Gatling
9 4 (0.66%) Mockito
9 4 (0.66%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.66%) YouTrack
10 2 (0.33%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 248 (40.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 150 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 107 (17.54%) Finance
4 62 (10.16%) Banking
5 55 (9.02%) French Language
5 55 (9.02%) Law
5 55 (9.02%) Swedish Language
6 44 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (6.39%) Multimedia
8 33 (5.41%) Financial Institution
8 33 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (3.93%) Retail Banking
11 15 (2.46%) Marketing
11 15 (2.46%) Retail
12 8 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.98%) Legal
14 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 274 (44.92%) Senior
2 206 (33.77%) Software Engineer
3 182 (29.84%) Senior Software Engineer
4 92 (15.08%) Architect
5 58 (9.51%) Analyst
6 55 (9.02%) Service Analyst
6 55 (9.02%) Service Desk Analyst
7 45 (7.38%) Lead
8 39 (6.39%) Developer
8 39 (6.39%) Trainee
9 34 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.10%) AWS Architect
11 25 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 25 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.93%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
13 23 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.44%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (30.33%) Node.js
2 178 (29.18%) .NET
3 48 (7.87%) HTML
4 46 (7.54%) CSS
5 42 (6.89%) Kafka
6 28 (4.59%) React
7 22 (3.61%) Spring
7 22 (3.61%) Spring Boot
8 17 (2.79%) LDAP
9 11 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (1.64%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.48%) GraphQL
11 9 (1.48%) LAPP Stack
11 9 (1.48%) WebSphere MQ
12 8 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (1.31%) RESTful
12 8 (1.31%) Vue
13 6 (0.98%) AWS CDK
13 6 (0.98%) HTML5
13 6 (0.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 188 (30.82%) Linux Command Line
2 180 (29.51%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (29.18%) Cyberattack
4 70 (11.48%) Cloud Native
5 39 (6.39%) Management Information System
6 31 (5.08%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.46%) Replication
9 12 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.15%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.15%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.98%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 251 (41.15%) Linux
2 71 (11.64%) Windows
3 21 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.28%) Unix
5 17 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (2.62%) VMS
7 14 (2.30%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (1.64%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.49%) CentOS
10 2 (0.33%) Debian
11 1 (0.16%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (53.77%) Agile
2 293 (48.03%) Mentoring
3 243 (39.84%) Software Engineering
4 239 (39.18%) Cloud Security
5 236 (38.69%) Microservices
6 216 (35.41%) Machine Learning
7 203 (33.28%) Data Engineering
8 198 (32.46%) Scrum
9 194 (31.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 193 (31.64%) User Experience
11 154 (25.25%) CI/CD
12 130 (21.31%) DevOps
13 101 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 96 (15.74%) ITIL
15 74 (12.13%) Cybersecurity
16 71 (11.64%) Containerisation
17 67 (10.98%) ITSM
18 56 (9.18%) Computer Science
18 56 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
19 51 (8.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 365 (59.84%) Python
2 267 (43.77%) Java
3 253 (41.48%) JavaScript
4 203 (33.28%) Go
5 182 (29.84%) C++
5 182 (29.84%) Rust
6 85 (13.93%) SQL
7 51 (8.36%) PowerShell
8 35 (5.74%) Bash
9 28 (4.59%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.77%) R
11 21 (3.44%) C#
12 19 (3.11%) Groovy
13 8 (1.31%) Perl
14 5 (0.82%) Bicep
14 5 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.66%) Scala
16 3 (0.49%) PROC SQL
17 2 (0.33%) Ruby
17 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 276 (45.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 249 (40.82%) Security Cleared
3 197 (32.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 192 (31.48%) Azure Certification
5 186 (30.49%) DV Cleared
6 137 (22.46%) Degree
7 117 (19.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 64 (10.49%) SC Cleared
9 57 (9.34%) MCSE
10 47 (7.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 33 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (3.93%) A+ Certification
13 22 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (3.44%) Master's Degree
15 19 (3.11%) CISSP
16 17 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (1.97%) CCNP
18 12 (1.97%) PMI Certification
18 12 (1.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.85%) QA
2 43 (7.05%) GDPR
3 34 (5.57%) NIST
4 22 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (3.44%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.80%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.48%) SLA
8 7 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.66%) NCSC
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (13.44%) Docker
2 36 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (5.25%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.30%) DFS Replication
6 9 (1.48%) Dovecot
6 9 (1.48%) Postfix
7 8 (1.31%) Squid
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Flume
8 3 (0.49%) HDFS
8 3 (0.49%) KVM
8 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.16%) iptables
10 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (17.38%) Kubernetes
2 98 (16.07%) Terraform
3 45 (7.38%) Ansible
4 36 (5.90%) Grafana
5 34 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.48%) Nessus
6 9 (1.48%) Proxmox
7 8 (1.31%) Puppet
8 7 (1.15%) Argo
8 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 7 (1.15%) SCCM
8 7 (1.15%) SCOM
8 7 (1.15%) WSUS
9 5 (0.82%) Autotask
10 4 (0.66%) Salt
11 3 (0.49%) Kibana
11 3 (0.49%) logstash
11 3 (0.49%) Oozie
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 174 (28.52%) Microsoft
2 78 (12.79%) ServiceNow
3 53 (8.69%) Google
4 36 (5.90%) VMware
5 19 (3.11%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.79%) Oracle
7 15 (2.46%) Cisco
8 12 (1.97%) IBM
8 12 (1.97%) SAP
9 8 (1.31%) Ariba
9 8 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.15%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.98%) Databricks
11 6 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.98%) Splunk
12 5 (0.82%) CheckPoint
12 5 (0.82%) Datto
12 5 (0.82%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.66%) Meraki
14 3 (0.49%) Informatica