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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 405 353
Rank change year-on-year +224 -52 -177
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 800 319 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 0.60% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.17% 1.63% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 480 146 253
10th Percentile - £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £65,000
% change year-on-year -42.51% -18.38% -7.14%

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 19,162 19,568 16,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.94% 36.57% 29.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,764 7,644 10,980
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,518 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +3.51% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,976 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,300
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.21% +1.40%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +233 691 £30,500 -52.01% 309
UK excluding London +229 484 £30,500 -42.51% 299
Work from Home +158 298 £75,000 +25.00% 90
London +127 237 £70,000 -20.00% 81
North of England +132 222 £30,500 -32.22% 80
Yorkshire +60 128 £30,500 -32.22% 34
North West +72 68 £30,500 -48.09% 36
South East +67 65 £40,625 -23.42% 69
Midlands +49 57 £30,500 -44.55% 40
West Midlands +49 47 £30,500 -48.43% 17
Scotland +32 42 £30,500 -54.81% 19
South West +37 33 £30,500 -64.12% 36
Northern Ireland +18 31 - - 3
East of England +36 30 £82,500 +53.49% 35
North East +34 26 £30,500 -32.22% 11
East Midlands -9 10 £51,058 -7.17% 23
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 20

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 34 (4.25%) WordPress
2 17 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.13%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (1.13%) Confluence
4 9 (1.13%) nginx
5 8 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.63%) Apache
7 5 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.63%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (17.38%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 800 (100.00%) AWS
2 496 (62.00%) Azure
3 303 (37.88%) GitHub
4 172 (21.50%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (15.25%) Serverless
6 87 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (10.63%) Amazon S3
8 80 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 78 (9.75%) GCP
10 41 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 23 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
17 21 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
18 20 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
19 16 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 278 (34.75%) Internet
2 33 (4.13%) Firewall
3 27 (3.38%) VPN
4 24 (3.00%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.38%) Broadband
5 19 (2.38%) SSL
6 18 (2.25%) DNS
6 18 (2.25%) WAN
7 17 (2.13%) Network Security
8 14 (1.75%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.63%) VoIP
10 12 (1.50%) LAN
10 12 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 12 (1.50%) VLAN
10 12 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.13%) DHCP
12 7 (0.88%) HTTP
12 7 (0.88%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.75%) FTP
13 6 (0.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.13%) DynamoDB
2 39 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 35 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 30 (3.75%) Metadata
7 23 (2.88%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (2.13%) DB2
9 14 (1.75%) RDBMS
9 14 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.63%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.50%) MySQL
14 3 (0.38%) Big Data
14 3 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 1 (0.13%) GIS
Development Applications
1 303 (37.88%) Git
2 48 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.50%) GitLab
4 17 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.00%) JIRA
6 13 (1.63%) Jaeger
7 12 (1.50%) Maven
7 12 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.75%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.63%) Vite
11 4 (0.50%) MLflow
12 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.25%) Subversion
14 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
14 1 (0.13%) JMeter
14 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
14 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 288 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 278 (34.75%) Multimedia
3 139 (17.38%) French Language
4 119 (14.88%) Swedish Language
5 102 (12.75%) Finance
6 61 (7.63%) Banking
6 61 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (6.25%) Financial Institution
9 28 (3.50%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.25%) Retail Banking
11 24 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.50%) Retail
13 11 (1.38%) Law
13 11 (1.38%) Publishing
14 9 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.63%) Legal
15 5 (0.63%) Local Government
15 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 278 (34.75%) Trainee
2 161 (20.13%) Analyst
2 161 (20.13%) Developer
3 139 (17.38%) Service Analyst
3 139 (17.38%) Service Desk Analyst
4 134 (16.75%) Trainee Developer
5 125 (15.63%) Software Developer
5 125 (15.63%) Trainee Software Developer
6 112 (14.00%) Architect
7 77 (9.63%) Senior
8 41 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (4.00%) Lead
10 31 (3.88%) Administrator
11 30 (3.75%) Data Architect
12 29 (3.63%) Trainee Administrator
12 29 (3.63%) Web Administrator
13 27 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (3.00%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
15 22 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support
15 22 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (34.75%) CSS
1 278 (34.75%) HTML
2 32 (4.00%) React
3 22 (2.75%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.63%) AWS CDK
5 20 (2.50%) LDAP
6 17 (2.13%) .NET
6 17 (2.13%) Jest
7 16 (2.00%) LAPP Stack
7 16 (2.00%) WebSphere MQ
8 15 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 14 (1.75%) RESTful
10 13 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.50%) Gherkin
12 11 (1.38%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.38%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (1.38%) Blazor
12 11 (1.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.63%) PKI
7 13 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.88%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.75%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.63%) Blog
11 5 (0.63%) Clustering
12 4 (0.50%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.50%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.50%) Replication
12 4 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (9.75%) Linux
2 71 (8.88%) Windows
3 42 (5.25%) Unix
4 22 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.75%) VMS
7 5 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.25%) CentOS
10 2 (0.25%) Debian
10 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (43.50%) Mentoring
2 301 (37.63%) Cybersecurity
3 207 (25.88%) ITIL
4 150 (18.75%) ITSM
5 138 (17.25%) Agile
6 129 (16.13%) DevOps
7 123 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 123 (15.38%) Customer Service
8 119 (14.88%) Performance Metrics
9 113 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (9.25%) Migration
11 72 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (8.00%) Containerisation
13 63 (7.88%) Computer Science
13 63 (7.88%) Microservices
13 63 (7.88%) TOGAF
14 61 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (7.63%) Data Modelling
15 59 (7.38%) Roadmaps
16 56 (7.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 410 (51.25%) Python
2 333 (41.63%) JavaScript
3 144 (18.00%) R
4 81 (10.13%) Java
5 59 (7.38%) Bash
6 55 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.88%) C#
8 36 (4.50%) SQL
9 34 (4.25%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.25%) Go
10 18 (2.25%) Groovy
11 10 (1.25%) Bicep
12 4 (0.50%) C++
12 4 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.25%) C
13 2 (0.25%) Perl
13 2 (0.25%) Ruby
13 2 (0.25%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 459 (57.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 427 (53.38%) Azure Certification
3 286 (35.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 228 (28.50%) Degree
5 139 (17.38%) MCSE
6 115 (14.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 56 (7.00%) Security Cleared
8 52 (6.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 47 (5.88%) SC Cleared
10 46 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (3.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 30 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (3.25%) A+ Certification
13 22 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (2.63%) CISSP
15 20 (2.50%) Master's Degree
16 14 (1.75%) CISM
17 13 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 13 (1.63%) CCNP
18 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.88%) QA
2 32 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.63%) NIST
4 24 (3.00%) SLA
5 21 (2.63%) GDPR
6 12 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.00%) NCSC
9 7 (0.88%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.63%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.50%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) GxP
12 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) Basel III
13 1 (0.13%) GAAP
13 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 97 (12.13%) Docker
2 49 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.75%) KVM
6 5 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.63%) vSphere
7 4 (0.50%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.50%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.50%) Postfix
7 4 (0.50%) Squid
8 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.25%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 98 (12.25%) Terraform
2 75 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 42 (5.25%) Ansible
4 28 (3.50%) Grafana
5 26 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.88%) Argo
7 13 (1.63%) Kustomize
8 12 (1.50%) HP Fortify
9 7 (0.88%) Nessus
9 7 (0.88%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.50%) Autotask
10 4 (0.50%) Cilium
10 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.25%) Nagios
12 2 (0.25%) Puppet
13 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 531 (66.38%) Microsoft
2 154 (19.25%) ServiceNow
3 51 (6.38%) VMware
4 31 (3.88%) Google
5 24 (3.00%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.75%) IBM
7 17 (2.13%) Adobe
7 17 (2.13%) Apple
8 16 (2.00%) Cisco
8 16 (2.00%) SAP
9 11 (1.38%) Workday
10 6 (0.75%) Databricks
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle
11 5 (0.63%) Symantec
12 4 (0.50%) Ariba
12 4 (0.50%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.50%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.38%) Datto
13 3 (0.38%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.25%) Arista