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 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 296 456
Rank change year-on-year +7 +160 -297
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 599 461 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.06% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.87% 2.66% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 317 134 325
10th Percentile - £44,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,860 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £95,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £83,684 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% -14.29% -

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 20,891 17,306 26,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.42% 39.76% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,324 7,218 17,196
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,432 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.91% +1.93% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -3 542 £37,500 -48.28% 309
UK excluding London +12 374 £37,500 -37.50% 238
Work from Home -39 201 £62,500 -8.79% 112
London -1 182 £55,000 -33.33% 109
North of England -41 181 £37,500 -42.31% 66
Yorkshire +27 87 £37,500 -44.44% 24
North West -70 75 £37,500 -34.78% 31
Midlands +5 62 £35,000 -34.81% 34
West Midlands -7 56 £35,000 -34.81% 17
South East +7 39 £62,500 -14.38% 53
South West -56 36 £42,250 -25.54% 35
Scotland +19 21 £30,500 -41.90% 10
North East -28 19 £37,500 -21.05% 11
East of England -6 18 £37,500 -55.88% 26
Northern Ireland -26 12 £39,000 - 4
East Midlands - 6 £34,500 - 17
Wales - 5 £51,619 - 12

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 54 (9.02%) Jupyter
2 47 (7.85%) WordPress
3 14 (2.34%) Confluence
4 10 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.00%) Apache
7 4 (0.67%) Documentum
8 3 (0.50%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 65 (10.85%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.18%) Chatbot
3 19 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
4 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (4.01%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 599 (100.00%) AWS
2 308 (51.42%) Azure
3 165 (27.55%) GitHub
4 92 (15.36%) GCP
5 90 (15.03%) Serverless
6 81 (13.52%) Microsoft 365
7 79 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
9 70 (11.69%) Amazon S3
10 61 (10.18%) Cloud Computing
11 48 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (6.68%) AWS Step Functions
13 39 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (5.51%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (4.84%) Apigee
17 23 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 135 (22.54%) Internet
2 30 (5.01%) Firewall
3 29 (4.84%) Network Security
4 19 (3.17%) VPN
5 18 (3.01%) Broadband
6 14 (2.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.67%) WAN
8 9 (1.50%) LAN
8 9 (1.50%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.34%) IPv4
10 7 (1.17%) Wireless
11 5 (0.83%) DNS
12 4 (0.67%) DHCP
12 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.50%) VLAN
14 2 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
15 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
15 1 (0.17%) SSL
15 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.85%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.01%) DynamoDB
3 27 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.67%) Metadata
5 19 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.01%) RDBMS
6 18 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.83%) Power BI
11 3 (0.50%) Big Data
11 3 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.33%) GIS
12 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.33%) Spark SQL
13 1 (0.17%) Flink
Development Applications
1 150 (25.04%) Git
2 65 (10.85%) GitLab
3 54 (9.02%) Visual Studio Code
4 53 (8.85%) Jenkins
5 30 (5.01%) Cypress.io
5 30 (5.01%) Maven
6 29 (4.84%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.67%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.01%) Jaeger
8 18 (3.01%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.50%) JIRA
10 12 (2.00%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.67%) MLflow
12 3 (0.50%) Selenium
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 170 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 135 (22.54%) Multimedia
3 120 (20.03%) Finance
4 75 (12.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (12.35%) Retail
6 59 (9.85%) Manufacturing
7 49 (8.18%) French Language
8 42 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (6.01%) Banking
10 25 (4.17%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.67%) Swedish Language
12 13 (2.17%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.67%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.50%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.34%) Advertising
16 7 (1.17%) Legal
17 5 (0.83%) Publishing
18 4 (0.67%) Billing
18 4 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 186 (31.05%) Trainee
2 111 (18.53%) Analyst
3 99 (16.53%) Developer
4 86 (14.36%) Architect
5 74 (12.35%) Senior
6 65 (10.85%) Service Analyst
6 65 (10.85%) Service Desk Analyst
7 54 (9.02%) Administrator
8 51 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.51%) Programmer
8 51 (8.51%) Trainee Programmer
9 50 (8.35%) Trainee Developer
10 46 (7.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 46 (7.68%) Trainee Administrator
10 46 (7.68%) Web Administrator
11 42 (7.01%) Software Developer
12 41 (6.84%) Trainee Software Developer
13 33 (5.51%) Lead
14 28 (4.67%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (22.87%) CSS
1 137 (22.87%) HTML
2 54 (9.02%) Hugging Face
2 54 (9.02%) Matplotlib
2 54 (9.02%) NumPy
2 54 (9.02%) Pandas
2 54 (9.02%) scikit-learn
2 54 (9.02%) Streamlit
3 53 (8.85%) Spring Boot
4 31 (5.18%) AngularJS
5 30 (5.01%) Jest
6 29 (4.84%) Gherkin
7 24 (4.01%) Kafka
7 24 (4.01%) React
7 24 (4.01%) Spring
8 18 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (3.01%) OpenTelemetry
9 14 (2.34%) .NET
10 12 (2.00%) AWS CDK
11 9 (1.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.52%) Algorithms
1 63 (10.52%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.85%) Public Cloud
3 30 (5.01%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (4.51%) PKI
5 26 (4.34%) e-Learning
5 26 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.83%) PACS
11 5 (0.83%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.50%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.68%) Linux
2 35 (5.84%) Windows
3 22 (3.67%) Unix
4 17 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (29.38%) Mentoring
2 154 (25.71%) Agile
2 154 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
3 149 (24.87%) CI/CD
4 137 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 129 (21.54%) AI
6 124 (20.70%) Customer Service
7 121 (20.20%) ITIL
8 104 (17.36%) DevOps
9 67 (11.19%) Cost Optimisation
9 67 (11.19%) ITSM
9 67 (11.19%) Machine Learning
10 65 (10.85%) Data Privacy
10 65 (10.85%) Performance Metrics
11 61 (10.18%) LLM
12 59 (9.85%) Microservices
12 59 (9.85%) OO
12 59 (9.85%) Visualisation
13 57 (9.52%) Workflow
14 56 (9.35%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 292 (48.75%) Python
2 177 (29.55%) JavaScript
3 101 (16.86%) Java
4 85 (14.19%) R
5 74 (12.35%) Bash
6 50 (8.35%) TypeScript
7 38 (6.34%) SQL
8 36 (6.01%) Go
9 30 (5.01%) Groovy
10 25 (4.17%) C#
10 25 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.34%) C++
13 6 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.50%) Bicep
14 3 (0.50%) Ruby
15 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.17%) C
15 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 236 (39.40%) Azure Certification
2 224 (37.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 203 (33.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 127 (21.20%) Degree
5 99 (16.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (10.85%) MCSE
7 62 (10.35%) Security Cleared
8 40 (6.68%) SC Cleared
9 29 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (4.34%) ITIL Certification
10 26 (4.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
13 17 (2.84%) CISSP
14 14 (2.34%) CISM
15 10 (1.67%) CCNA
15 10 (1.67%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.50%) OSCP
16 9 (1.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.35%) QA
2 34 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.01%) NIST
4 15 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.00%) GRC
6 11 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.67%) GDPR
8 8 (1.34%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.34%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.34%) NCSC
9 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.83%) DICOM
10 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.33%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.33%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) COBIT
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 101 (16.86%) Docker
2 21 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.50%) vSphere
5 8 (1.34%) Squid
5 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.00%) KVM
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) iptables
8 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 120 (20.03%) Terraform
2 85 (14.19%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.18%) Ansible
4 38 (6.34%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.51%) HP Fortify
6 27 (4.51%) Grafana
7 21 (3.51%) Argo
8 18 (3.01%) Kustomize
9 12 (2.00%) Cilium
10 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.50%) Packer
11 8 (1.34%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.83%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.83%) Puppet
14 2 (0.33%) QRadar
15 1 (0.17%) Consul
15 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 349 (58.26%) Microsoft
2 93 (15.53%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.84%) Adobe
3 41 (6.84%) Apple
4 35 (5.84%) Google
5 30 (5.01%) VMware
6 16 (2.67%) Databricks
7 14 (2.34%) Splunk
8 12 (2.00%) Cisco
8 12 (2.00%) Oracle
9 10 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.17%) CheckPoint
10 7 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.83%) SAP
11 5 (0.83%) Workday
12 4 (0.67%) OpenText
12 4 (0.67%) Pega
12 4 (0.67%) YouTube