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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 293 514
Rank change year-on-year -42 +221 -205
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 590 509 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 2.96% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 256 167 218
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £69,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% -10.97% +2.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £101,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -38.46% -10.34% +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 19,641 17,170 21,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 34.59% 25.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,375 7,900 12,139
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,975
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -4.17%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -48 549 £52,500 -23.65% 493
UK excluding London -72 319 £40,000 -38.46% 321
London +22 248 £77,500 +3.33% 245
Work from Home -104 175 £78,750 +14.92% 267
North of England -87 128 £37,500 -42.31% 96
North West -88 64 £37,500 -40.00% 64
Midlands -12 53 £37,500 -44.44% 45
West Midlands -25 48 £37,500 -44.44% 30
South West -53 48 £52,500 -7.48% 51
Yorkshire -9 44 £37,500 -42.31% 23
South East -10 43 £62,500 -9.42% 69
North East -36 20 £52,000 +9.47% 12
East of England -16 15 £37,500 -55.88% 23
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 10
Scotland +13 10 £37,500 -28.57% 23
Northern Ireland -65 9 £40,750 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 15

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 47 (7.97%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.46%) WordPress
3 19 (3.22%) Confluence
4 15 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.85%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.68%) Apache
6 4 (0.68%) JBoss
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.05%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (8.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.07%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 590 (100.00%) AWS
2 216 (36.61%) Azure
3 126 (21.36%) Cloud Computing
4 118 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 105 (17.80%) GCP
6 104 (17.63%) GitHub
7 101 (17.12%) Serverless
8 93 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
9 84 (14.24%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (13.56%) Amazon S3
11 74 (12.54%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
15 26 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
16 24 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (3.90%) Apigee
17 23 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 76 (12.88%) Internet
2 64 (10.85%) Network Security
3 42 (7.12%) Firewall
4 25 (4.24%) VPN
5 24 (4.07%) WAN
6 19 (3.22%) DNS
6 19 (3.22%) SD-WAN
6 19 (3.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 17 (2.88%) LAN
8 16 (2.71%) DHCP
9 12 (2.03%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.69%) Wireless
11 8 (1.36%) IPv4
11 8 (1.36%) VLAN
12 7 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.85%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.68%) DMZ
15 3 (0.51%) BGP
15 3 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.14%) NoSQL
2 42 (7.12%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (6.61%) DynamoDB
4 22 (3.73%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.05%) Metadata
6 13 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.03%) Big Data
8 10 (1.69%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.19%) SAP HANA
11 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.85%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.85%) Power BI
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 3 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (12.03%) Git
2 70 (11.86%) GitLab
3 57 (9.66%) Jenkins
4 47 (7.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 31 (5.25%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.41%) JIRA
7 25 (4.24%) Maven
8 24 (4.07%) Cypress.io
9 23 (3.90%) SonarQube
10 18 (3.05%) TeamCity
11 16 (2.71%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 3 (0.51%) Taiga
13 3 (0.51%) VersionOne
14 2 (0.34%) Claude Code
15 1 (0.17%) Gatling
15 1 (0.17%) git-flow
15 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
15 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 163 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 152 (25.76%) Finance
3 70 (11.86%) Retail
4 59 (10.00%) Multimedia
5 57 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 52 (8.81%) Manufacturing
7 48 (8.14%) Swedish Language
8 46 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (5.42%) Banking
11 29 (4.92%) French Language
12 20 (3.39%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.20%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.86%) Law
16 8 (1.36%) Marketing
17 7 (1.19%) Legal
17 7 (1.19%) Military
18 6 (1.02%) Advertising
18 6 (1.02%) Billing
Job Titles
1 127 (21.53%) Senior
2 108 (18.31%) Analyst
3 103 (17.46%) Trainee
4 101 (17.12%) Architect
5 77 (13.05%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.05%) Service Desk Analyst
6 60 (10.17%) Consultant
7 58 (9.83%) Developer
8 49 (8.31%) Administrator
9 44 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 44 (7.46%) Programmer
9 44 (7.46%) Trainee Programmer
10 43 (7.29%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.29%) Web Administrator
11 38 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (4.92%) Security Consultant
14 28 (4.75%) Java Engineer
15 27 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.58%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 63 (10.68%) CSS
2 63 (10.68%) HTML
3 47 (7.97%) Hugging Face
3 47 (7.97%) Matplotlib
3 47 (7.97%) NumPy
3 47 (7.97%) Pandas
3 47 (7.97%) scikit-learn
3 47 (7.97%) Streamlit
4 44 (7.46%) Kafka
5 42 (7.12%) Spring
6 30 (5.08%) AngularJS
7 27 (4.58%) AWS CDK
8 24 (4.07%) Jest
8 24 (4.07%) Node.js
9 23 (3.90%) Gherkin
10 20 (3.39%) .NET
11 19 (3.22%) React
12 14 (2.37%) REST
13 10 (1.69%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 102 (17.29%) Cloud Native
2 86 (14.58%) Onboarding
3 58 (9.83%) Algorithms
4 47 (7.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 41 (6.95%) Public Cloud
6 36 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (5.93%) e-Learning
8 34 (5.76%) Data Centre
9 28 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (3.90%) PKI
11 13 (2.20%) Blog
11 13 (2.20%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
12 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.14%) Windows
2 38 (6.44%) Linux
3 21 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (31.53%) AI
2 174 (29.49%) CI/CD
3 169 (28.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (26.27%) Agile
4 155 (26.27%) Mentoring
5 127 (21.53%) ITIL
6 126 (21.36%) Customer Service
7 105 (17.80%) Cloud Security
8 98 (16.61%) Machine Learning
9 87 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
10 86 (14.58%) DevOps
11 81 (13.73%) ITSM
12 77 (13.05%) Performance Metrics
13 76 (12.88%) Migration
14 69 (11.69%) Microservices
15 65 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (10.68%) LLM
17 60 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
18 59 (10.00%) Analytics
18 59 (10.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 220 (37.29%) Python
2 112 (18.98%) Java
3 81 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 64 (10.85%) Bash
5 55 (9.32%) SQL
6 47 (7.97%) R
7 36 (6.10%) TypeScript
8 26 (4.41%) Go
9 24 (4.07%) Groovy
9 24 (4.07%) Ruby
10 23 (3.90%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.05%) C#
12 15 (2.54%) PHP
13 14 (2.37%) Perl
14 10 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.02%) C++
15 6 (1.02%) COBOL
16 5 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.68%) Bicep
18 2 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 168 (28.47%) Degree
2 157 (26.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 145 (24.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 143 (24.24%) Azure Certification
5 128 (21.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 104 (17.63%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.05%) MCSE
8 56 (9.49%) SC Cleared
9 46 (7.80%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (4.92%) CISSP
10 29 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.39%) Master's Degree
12 20 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (3.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 19 (3.22%) CCNA
13 19 (3.22%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (3.05%) CCNP
15 14 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (2.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.22%) QA
2 43 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.07%) SOC 2
4 21 (3.56%) GDPR
5 20 (3.39%) NIST
6 14 (2.37%) GRC
6 14 (2.37%) NCSC
7 12 (2.03%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.36%) ISO 9001
10 8 (1.36%) PCI DSS
11 7 (1.19%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.51%) SLA
14 2 (0.34%) DICOM
14 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.17%) COBIT
15 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 70 (11.86%) Docker
2 23 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.73%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.36%) Squid
4 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.36%) vSphere
5 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.85%) KVM
6 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) iptables
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 132 (22.37%) Terraform
2 72 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.61%) Ansible
4 27 (4.58%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.22%) Grafana
6 13 (2.20%) Cilium
6 13 (2.20%) Puppet
7 12 (2.03%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.53%) Packer
9 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.36%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.85%) Argo
11 4 (0.68%) Iperf
11 4 (0.68%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.51%) QRadar
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.34%) kaniko
14 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 269 (45.59%) Microsoft
2 103 (17.46%) ServiceNow
3 32 (5.42%) Oracle
4 31 (5.25%) VMware
5 25 (4.24%) Apple
5 25 (4.24%) Splunk
6 24 (4.07%) Adobe
6 24 (4.07%) Cisco
7 18 (3.05%) Google
7 18 (3.05%) SAP
8 16 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.54%) Databricks
10 12 (2.03%) Fortinet
11 11 (1.86%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.36%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.19%) Avaya
14 7 (1.19%) Genesys
15 6 (1.02%) Salesforce
16 5 (0.85%) Infor