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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 366 450
Rank change year-on-year +139 +84 -304
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 747 297 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.71% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.28% 1.80% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 464 169 304
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 £53,800 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £97,750 £104,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,688 £70,000
% change year-on-year -43.19% -23.30% +1.49%

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 22,765 16,527 25,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.95% 39.51% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,907 7,674 17,111
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +6.48% -6.29%
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 21 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 21 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 +124 672 £31,500 -51.24% 252
UK excluding London +148 487 £30,500 -43.19% 221
North of England +98 259 £30,500 -39.00% 57
Work from Home +53 210 £75,000 +25.00% 97
London +16 202 £37,500 -55.88% 77
Yorkshire +45 137 £30,500 -39.00% 23
North West +41 95 £30,500 -39.00% 23
Midlands +12 69 £30,500 -52.79% 27
West Midlands +9 59 £30,500 -52.79% 18
South East -20 44 £37,500 -43.61% 50
South West -40 37 £34,500 -39.20% 33
Scotland +10 34 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -14 27 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East of England -20 25 £37,500 -30.23% 29
Northern Ireland -28 14 £31,000 - 10
East Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 9
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 9

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 (10.17%) WordPress
2 54 (7.23%) Jupyter
3 11 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.47%) Confluence
4 6 (0.80%) Apache
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.80%) Drupal
4 6 (0.80%) nginx
5 4 (0.54%) Documentum
6 3 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 76 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.36%) Chatbot
3 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.54%) 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
1 747 (100.00%) AWS
2 438 (58.63%) Azure
3 294 (39.36%) GitHub
4 108 (14.46%) Serverless
5 95 (12.72%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (12.05%) GCP
7 84 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
8 82 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 76 (10.17%) Amazon S3
10 60 (8.03%) Cloud Computing
11 51 (6.83%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (4.95%) Amazon ECR
14 37 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (4.42%) Apigee
16 31 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.54%) Pulumi
18 17 (2.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 269 (36.01%) Internet
2 27 (3.61%) Firewall
3 22 (2.95%) Network Security
4 21 (2.81%) Broadband
5 19 (2.54%) VPN
6 8 (1.07%) WAN
7 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.80%) LAN
8 6 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.67%) DNS
10 4 (0.54%) DHCP
10 4 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
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%) OSPF
12 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.10%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 28 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 28 (3.75%) Metadata
4 23 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (2.68%) RDBMS
5 20 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.67%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 3 (0.40%) Big Data
13 3 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.27%) Spark SQL
15 1 (0.13%) Flink
15 1 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 284 (38.02%) Git
2 54 (7.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 51 (6.83%) GitLab
3 51 (6.83%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.42%) Cypress.io
4 33 (4.42%) Maven
4 33 (4.42%) SonarQube
5 19 (2.54%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.28%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.74%) JIRA
8 11 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.54%) MLflow
11 3 (0.40%) Selenium
12 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.13%) Gatling
12 1 (0.13%) JMeter
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 269 (36.01%) Multimedia
2 201 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 129 (17.27%) Finance
4 74 (9.91%) Retail
5 71 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (9.10%) French Language
7 59 (7.90%) Manufacturing
8 46 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
9 39 (5.22%) Banking
10 33 (4.42%) Financial Institution
11 27 (3.61%) Swedish Language
12 23 (3.08%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.01%) Retail Banking
14 10 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.20%) Law
16 8 (1.07%) Advertising
17 6 (0.80%) Legal
18 5 (0.67%) Local Government
18 5 (0.67%) Police
18 5 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 320 (42.84%) Trainee
2 161 (21.55%) Developer
3 111 (14.86%) Analyst
4 110 (14.73%) Trainee Developer
5 99 (13.25%) Architect
6 97 (12.99%) Software Developer
7 96 (12.85%) Trainee Software Developer
8 78 (10.44%) Administrator
9 76 (10.17%) Service Analyst
9 76 (10.17%) Service Desk Analyst
10 70 (9.37%) Trainee Administrator
10 70 (9.37%) Web Administrator
11 51 (6.83%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
11 51 (6.83%) Programmer
11 51 (6.83%) Senior
11 51 (6.83%) Trainee Programmer
12 41 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (5.09%) Lead
14 28 (3.75%) Java Developer
15 26 (3.48%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (36.01%) CSS
1 269 (36.01%) HTML
2 54 (7.23%) Hugging Face
2 54 (7.23%) Matplotlib
2 54 (7.23%) NumPy
2 54 (7.23%) Pandas
2 54 (7.23%) scikit-learn
2 54 (7.23%) Streamlit
3 42 (5.62%) Spring Boot
4 34 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 33 (4.42%) Gherkin
5 33 (4.42%) Jest
5 33 (4.42%) React
6 19 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.41%) .NET
7 18 (2.41%) AWS CDK
8 16 (2.14%) RESTful
9 14 (1.87%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.76%) Algorithms
3 35 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 23 (3.08%) PKI
5 22 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.01%) e-Learning
7 14 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.67%) Clustering
11 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.67%) PACS
11 5 (0.67%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.54%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.17%) Linux
2 30 (4.02%) Windows
3 29 (3.88%) 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 (37.62%) Mentoring
2 254 (34.00%) Cybersecurity
3 154 (20.62%) Agile
4 137 (18.34%) Customer Service
5 133 (17.80%) ITIL
6 131 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 125 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 124 (16.60%) DevOps
9 122 (16.33%) AI
10 84 (11.24%) Web Development
11 80 (10.71%) ITSM
12 78 (10.44%) Performance Metrics
13 72 (9.64%) Data Privacy
14 71 (9.50%) Machine Learning
15 69 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
16 68 (9.10%) Migration
17 65 (8.70%) Containerisation
18 60 (8.03%) Microservices
18 60 (8.03%) Visualisation
19 59 (7.90%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 431 (57.70%) Python
2 320 (42.84%) JavaScript
3 159 (21.29%) R
4 96 (12.85%) Java
5 80 (10.71%) Bash
6 60 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.55%) Go
8 33 (4.42%) Groovy
9 32 (4.28%) SQL
10 30 (4.02%) C#
11 22 (2.95%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.20%) C++
14 7 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.40%) Bicep
16 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.13%) C
16 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 375 (50.20%) Azure Certification
2 373 (49.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 336 (44.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 146 (19.54%) Degree
5 94 (12.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 76 (10.17%) MCSE
7 61 (8.17%) Security Cleared
8 41 (5.49%) SC Cleared
9 38 (5.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (4.28%) ITIL Certification
11 31 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (4.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 21 (2.81%) CISSP
15 17 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (2.28%) CISM
16 11 (1.47%) Master's Degree
17 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
18 7 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.84%) QA
2 31 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.95%) NIST
4 14 (1.87%) GDPR
4 14 (1.87%) PCI DSS
4 14 (1.87%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.34%) GRC
6 9 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.20%) NCSC
7 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.94%) SLA
8 6 (0.80%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.67%) DICOM
9 5 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.27%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 110 (14.73%) Docker
2 20 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.47%) 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
1 115 (15.39%) Terraform
2 76 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.56%) Ansible
4 38 (5.09%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.95%) HP Fortify
6 29 (3.88%) Grafana
7 20 (2.68%) Argo
8 19 (2.54%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.34%) Cilium
9 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.07%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.67%) Puppet
12 4 (0.54%) Packer
12 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.13%) Consul
14 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 488 (65.33%) Microsoft
2 93 (12.45%) ServiceNow
3 39 (5.22%) Google
4 29 (3.88%) Adobe
4 29 (3.88%) Apple
5 28 (3.75%) VMware
6 15 (2.01%) Databricks
7 11 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.34%) Cisco
9 8 (1.07%) Oracle
9 8 (1.07%) Splunk
10 6 (0.80%) 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%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.54%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.54%) OpenText
12 4 (0.54%) Pega