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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 290 504
Rank change year-on-year -28 +214 -219
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 578 504 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.03% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 2.87% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 254 161 278
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £53,375
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -10.97% +2.42%
75th Percentile £79,688 £87,500 £85,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £63,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -41.18% -12.07% +3.57%

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 19,098 17,555 25,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.33% 35.72% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,977 7,801 16,254
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,613
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 July 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 July 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 -33 536 £51,000 -25.83% 439
UK excluding London -63 307 £37,500 -41.18% 353
London +11 243 £77,500 +1.64% 177
Work from Home -95 178 £62,500 -3.85% 282
North of England -83 126 £37,500 -42.31% 101
North West -83 65 £37,500 -40.00% 61
Midlands -14 51 £37,500 -34.78% 56
Yorkshire 0 49 £37,500 -42.31% 30
West Midlands -17 46 £37,500 -34.78% 37
South West -56 43 £52,500 -7.48% 39
South East -5 41 £62,500 -11.03% 73
East of England -13 15 £37,500 -55.88% 31
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 13
North East -48 12 £37,500 -21.05% 13
Scotland +22 9 £37,500 -28.57% 39
Northern Ireland -49 9 £40,750 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 19

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 (9.34%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.61%) WordPress
3 18 (3.11%) Confluence
4 14 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) Documentum
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.32%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.15%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 578 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (34.78%) Azure
3 131 (22.66%) Cloud Computing
4 115 (19.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 104 (17.99%) GitHub
5 104 (17.99%) Serverless
6 93 (16.09%) Microsoft 365
7 91 (15.74%) GCP
8 88 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
9 79 (13.67%) Amazon S3
10 72 (12.46%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (5.02%) Amazon ECR
16 26 (4.50%) Apigee
17 25 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (3.63%) Entra ID
18 21 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.15%) Internet
2 60 (10.38%) Network Security
3 43 (7.44%) Firewall
4 25 (4.33%) VPN
5 19 (3.29%) WAN
6 16 (2.77%) LAN
7 15 (2.60%) DNS
7 15 (2.60%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
8 13 (2.25%) DHCP
9 10 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.38%) IPv4
10 8 (1.38%) VLAN
10 8 (1.38%) Wireless
11 7 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.04%) Broadband
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.69%) DMZ
15 3 (0.52%) BGP
16 2 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 40 (6.92%) DynamoDB
3 36 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.46%) Metadata
6 13 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.90%) Big Data
8 11 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (1.21%) SAP HANA
10 6 (1.04%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.04%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (12.46%) GitLab
2 68 (11.76%) Git
3 58 (10.03%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.34%) Visual Studio Code
5 30 (5.19%) Cucumber
6 27 (4.67%) Cypress.io
6 27 (4.67%) Maven
7 26 (4.50%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.98%) JIRA
9 19 (3.29%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.77%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.04%) Jaeger
12 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.52%) Selenium
13 3 (0.52%) Taiga
13 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
14 1 (0.17%) Gatling
14 1 (0.17%) JMeter
14 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 151 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.43%) Finance
3 81 (14.01%) Retail
4 59 (10.21%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.21%) Multimedia
5 48 (8.30%) Swedish Language
6 46 (7.96%) Public Sector
7 39 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
9 32 (5.54%) Banking
10 29 (5.02%) French Language
11 22 (3.81%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.73%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.21%) Military
15 6 (1.04%) Advertising
15 6 (1.04%) Billing
16 4 (0.69%) Automotive
16 4 (0.69%) Legal
16 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (20.76%) Senior
2 110 (19.03%) Trainee
3 108 (18.69%) Analyst
4 99 (17.13%) Architect
5 77 (13.32%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.32%) Service Desk Analyst
6 57 (9.86%) Developer
7 55 (9.52%) Consultant
8 51 (8.82%) Administrator
8 51 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.82%) Programmer
8 51 (8.82%) Trainee Programmer
9 43 (7.44%) Trainee Administrator
9 43 (7.44%) Web Administrator
10 36 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (6.23%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (4.67%) Java Engineer
11 27 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (4.67%) Senior Consultant
12 26 (4.50%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.11%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.55%) CSS
2 61 (10.55%) HTML
3 54 (9.34%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.34%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.34%) NumPy
3 54 (9.34%) Pandas
3 54 (9.34%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.34%) Streamlit
4 39 (6.75%) Spring
5 38 (6.57%) Kafka
6 33 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 27 (4.67%) Jest
8 26 (4.50%) Gherkin
9 24 (4.15%) AWS CDK
10 22 (3.81%) Node.js
11 18 (3.11%) React
12 14 (2.42%) .NET
13 13 (2.25%) REST
14 10 (1.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 85 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 77 (13.32%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.90%) Algorithms
4 45 (7.79%) Enterprise Cloud
5 37 (6.40%) Public Cloud
6 34 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 34 (5.88%) e-Learning
7 31 (5.36%) Data Centre
8 30 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 27 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (4.67%) PKI
10 12 (2.08%) Mainframe
11 11 (1.90%) Blog
11 11 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.38%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.21%) Fat Client
14 7 (1.21%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.21%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.30%) Linux
2 46 (7.96%) Windows
3 19 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.56%) Unix
5 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (31.14%) AI
2 155 (26.82%) Agile
2 155 (26.82%) CI/CD
3 151 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (25.26%) Mentoring
5 133 (23.01%) Customer Service
6 128 (22.15%) ITIL
7 97 (16.78%) Cloud Security
7 97 (16.78%) Machine Learning
8 86 (14.88%) DevOps
9 81 (14.01%) Cybersecurity
10 79 (13.67%) ITSM
11 78 (13.49%) Migration
12 77 (13.32%) Performance Metrics
13 66 (11.42%) Microservices
14 62 (10.73%) LLM
14 62 (10.73%) Prompt Engineering
15 60 (10.38%) OO
15 60 (10.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 59 (10.21%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 227 (39.27%) Python
2 115 (19.90%) Java
3 84 (14.53%) JavaScript
4 74 (12.80%) Bash
5 57 (9.86%) SQL
6 47 (8.13%) R
7 39 (6.75%) TypeScript
8 30 (5.19%) Go
9 27 (4.67%) Groovy
10 24 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.15%) Ruby
11 18 (3.11%) C#
12 15 (2.60%) PHP
13 14 (2.42%) Perl
14 11 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.38%) C++
16 6 (1.04%) COBOL
16 6 (1.04%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.69%) Bicep
18 2 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 160 (27.68%) Degree
2 156 (26.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 141 (24.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 141 (24.39%) Azure Certification
4 132 (22.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 93 (16.09%) Security Cleared
6 77 (13.32%) MCSE
7 44 (7.61%) SC Cleared
8 40 (6.92%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (4.84%) CISSP
10 27 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (3.81%) ITIL Certification
12 21 (3.63%) TOGAF Certification
13 17 (2.94%) CCNA
14 16 (2.77%) AWS Certified Developer
14 16 (2.77%) CISM
14 16 (2.77%) Master's Degree
15 14 (2.42%) CCNP
16 12 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.49%) QA
2 41 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.63%) GDPR
3 21 (3.63%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.46%) NIST
5 13 (2.25%) GRC
6 12 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.08%) NCSC
7 10 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.38%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.38%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.87%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.69%) DICOM
13 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.35%) SLA
14 1 (0.17%) COBIT
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 72 (12.46%) Docker
2 23 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.38%) Squid
4 8 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.38%) vSphere
5 6 (1.04%) KVM
6 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (22.49%) Terraform
2 70 (12.11%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.44%) Ansible
4 30 (5.19%) HP Fortify
5 24 (4.15%) Grafana
6 23 (3.98%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.25%) Cilium
8 10 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.56%) Argo
9 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.56%) Packer
9 9 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.56%) Puppet
10 8 (1.38%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.38%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.04%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.69%) Iperf
13 3 (0.52%) QRadar
14 1 (0.17%) Consul
14 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 272 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 105 (18.17%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.71%) VMware
4 28 (4.84%) Oracle
5 25 (4.33%) Apple
6 24 (4.15%) Adobe
6 24 (4.15%) Cisco
7 23 (3.98%) Splunk
8 22 (3.81%) Google
9 18 (3.11%) SAP
10 14 (2.42%) Databricks
11 13 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.08%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.56%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.38%) CheckPoint
14 8 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (1.21%) Avaya
15 7 (1.21%) Genesys
16 6 (1.04%) IBM
16 6 (1.04%) Salesforce