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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 286 504
Rank change year-on-year -39 +218 -223
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 573 504 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.02% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.89% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 252 161 267
10th Percentile £28,250 £44,000 £53,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -10.97% +2.42%
75th Percentile £79,063 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -42.31% -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 19,060 17,437 24,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.09% 35.35% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,091 7,833 15,195
10th Percentile £31,055 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £39,750
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 £71,250
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 20 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 20 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 -40 532 £50,000 -27.29% 267
UK excluding London -82 305 £37,500 -42.31% 203
London +26 242 £77,500 +3.33% 118
Work from Home -94 176 £67,500 +3.85% 83
North of England -81 125 £37,500 -42.31% 59
North West -84 65 £37,500 -40.00% 26
Midlands -12 51 £37,500 -38.78% 30
Yorkshire +8 48 £37,500 -42.31% 21
West Midlands -7 46 £37,500 -38.78% 16
South West -51 43 £52,500 -7.48% 23
South East -5 40 £62,500 -9.42% 50
East of England -10 15 £37,500 -55.88% 21
Wales - 13 £67,500 - 6
North East -36 12 £37,500 -21.05% 13
Scotland +19 9 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Northern Ireland -52 9 £40,750 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £34,500 - 14

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 (9.42%) Jupyter
2 44 (7.68%) WordPress
3 17 (2.97%) Confluence
4 14 (2.44%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (13.44%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (10.30%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.19%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 573 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (34.55%) Azure
3 133 (23.21%) Cloud Computing
4 113 (19.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 103 (17.98%) GitHub
5 103 (17.98%) Serverless
6 92 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
7 88 (15.36%) GCP
8 87 (15.18%) AWS Lambda
9 81 (14.14%) Amazon S3
10 71 (12.39%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (5.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 28 (4.89%) Amazon ECR
15 25 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (4.36%) Apigee
16 22 (3.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (3.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.26%) Internet
2 62 (10.82%) Network Security
3 41 (7.16%) Firewall
4 23 (4.01%) VPN
5 19 (3.32%) WAN
6 16 (2.79%) LAN
7 15 (2.62%) DNS
7 15 (2.62%) SD-WAN
7 15 (2.62%) Software-Defined Networking
8 13 (2.27%) DHCP
9 10 (1.75%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.40%) IPv4
10 8 (1.40%) VLAN
10 8 (1.40%) Wireless
11 7 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.87%) Broadband
12 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.70%) DMZ
14 3 (0.52%) BGP
15 2 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.73%) NoSQL
2 40 (6.98%) DynamoDB
3 38 (6.63%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (4.19%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.49%) Metadata
6 14 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.09%) Big Data
9 11 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.22%) SAP HANA
10 7 (1.22%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.87%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.87%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.87%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 70 (12.22%) GitLab
2 68 (11.87%) Git
3 57 (9.95%) Jenkins
4 54 (9.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 29 (5.06%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.54%) Cypress.io
6 26 (4.54%) Maven
7 25 (4.36%) SonarQube
8 22 (3.84%) JIRA
9 18 (3.14%) TeamCity
10 16 (2.79%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.87%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.52%) Selenium
12 3 (0.52%) Taiga
12 3 (0.52%) VersionOne
13 1 (0.17%) Gatling
13 1 (0.17%) JMeter
13 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 150 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 144 (25.13%) Finance
3 79 (13.79%) Retail
4 59 (10.30%) Manufacturing
4 59 (10.30%) Multimedia
5 48 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.38%) Swedish Language
6 37 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.41%) Banking
8 29 (5.06%) French Language
9 20 (3.49%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.22%) Military
13 6 (1.05%) Advertising
13 6 (1.05%) Billing
14 5 (0.87%) Legal
15 4 (0.70%) Automotive
15 4 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 119 (20.77%) Senior
2 110 (19.20%) Trainee
3 108 (18.85%) Analyst
4 96 (16.75%) Architect
5 77 (13.44%) Service Analyst
5 77 (13.44%) Service Desk Analyst
6 58 (10.12%) Consultant
7 57 (9.95%) Developer
8 51 (8.90%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (8.90%) Programmer
8 51 (8.90%) Trainee Programmer
9 49 (8.55%) Administrator
10 43 (7.50%) Trainee Administrator
10 43 (7.50%) Web Administrator
11 36 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.71%) Security Consultant
12 27 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (4.71%) Senior Consultant
13 26 (4.54%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.87%) Spring Boot
2 61 (10.65%) CSS
2 61 (10.65%) HTML
3 54 (9.42%) Hugging Face
3 54 (9.42%) Matplotlib
3 54 (9.42%) NumPy
3 54 (9.42%) Pandas
3 54 (9.42%) scikit-learn
3 54 (9.42%) Streamlit
4 38 (6.63%) Spring
5 37 (6.46%) Kafka
6 32 (5.58%) AngularJS
7 26 (4.54%) Jest
8 25 (4.36%) Gherkin
9 24 (4.19%) AWS CDK
10 22 (3.84%) Node.js
11 18 (3.14%) React
12 15 (2.62%) .NET
13 13 (2.27%) REST
14 10 (1.75%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.66%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.96%) Onboarding
3 63 (10.99%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 37 (6.46%) Public Cloud
6 33 (5.76%) Data Centre
6 33 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.76%) e-Learning
7 28 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (4.36%) PKI
10 13 (2.27%) Mainframe
11 12 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
11 12 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.92%) Blog
13 7 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.22%) Fat Client
13 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.22%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.85%) Windows
2 44 (7.68%) Linux
3 19 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.40%) Unix
5 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (31.76%) AI
2 152 (26.53%) CI/CD
3 150 (26.18%) Agile
4 147 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (25.65%) Mentoring
5 133 (23.21%) Customer Service
6 126 (21.99%) ITIL
7 98 (17.10%) Machine Learning
8 97 (16.93%) Cloud Security
9 82 (14.31%) Cybersecurity
10 81 (14.14%) DevOps
11 79 (13.79%) ITSM
12 78 (13.61%) Migration
13 77 (13.44%) Performance Metrics
14 64 (11.17%) Microservices
15 63 (10.99%) LLM
16 62 (10.82%) Prompt Engineering
17 60 (10.47%) OO
17 60 (10.47%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 59 (10.30%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 223 (38.92%) Python
2 111 (19.37%) Java
3 82 (14.31%) JavaScript
4 70 (12.22%) Bash
5 56 (9.77%) SQL
6 47 (8.20%) R
7 38 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 27 (4.71%) Go
9 26 (4.54%) Groovy
10 24 (4.19%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.19%) Ruby
11 18 (3.14%) C#
12 15 (2.62%) PHP
13 14 (2.44%) Perl
14 10 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.22%) C++
16 6 (1.05%) COBOL
17 5 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.70%) Bicep
19 2 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 162 (28.27%) Degree
2 156 (27.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 140 (24.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 138 (24.08%) Azure Certification
5 132 (23.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 92 (16.06%) Security Cleared
7 77 (13.44%) MCSE
8 43 (7.50%) SC Cleared
9 42 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.89%) CISSP
11 26 (4.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (3.32%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (3.14%) Master's Degree
16 17 (2.97%) CCNA
17 16 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
18 14 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 14 (2.44%) CCNP
18 14 (2.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.61%) QA
2 41 (7.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.66%) SOC 2
4 20 (3.49%) GDPR
5 19 (3.32%) NIST
6 14 (2.44%) GRC
7 13 (2.27%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.92%) NCSC
9 9 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.57%) PCI DSS
10 8 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 8 (1.40%) ISO 9001
11 6 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.87%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.70%) DICOM
14 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.35%) SLA
15 1 (0.17%) COBIT
15 1 (0.17%) GxP
System Software
1 69 (12.04%) Docker
2 22 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.40%) Squid
4 8 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.40%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) KVM
6 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) iptables
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (22.16%) Terraform
2 66 (11.52%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.98%) Ansible
4 29 (5.06%) HP Fortify
5 21 (3.66%) Grafana
6 20 (3.49%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.27%) Cilium
8 11 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.75%) Puppet
10 9 (1.57%) Packer
11 8 (1.40%) Argo
11 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.40%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.05%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.87%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.70%) Iperf
15 3 (0.52%) QRadar
16 1 (0.17%) Consul
16 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 272 (47.47%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.15%) ServiceNow
3 30 (5.24%) VMware
4 29 (5.06%) Oracle
5 25 (4.36%) Apple
6 24 (4.19%) Adobe
6 24 (4.19%) Cisco
7 23 (4.01%) Splunk
8 21 (3.66%) Google
9 18 (3.14%) SAP
10 14 (2.44%) Databricks
10 14 (2.44%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.09%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (1.57%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.40%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.22%) Avaya
14 7 (1.22%) Genesys
15 6 (1.05%) IBM
15 6 (1.05%) Salesforce