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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 400 382
Rank change year-on-year +221 -18 -213
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 815 322 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 0.61% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.18% 1.65% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 481 145 274
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £55,000
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -41.90% -19.23% -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 19,509 19,550 19,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.92% 37.30% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,879 7,521 13,608
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.04%

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 28 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 28 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 +213 702 £30,500 -52.01% 370
UK excluding London +223 485 £30,500 -41.90% 367
Work from Home +148 306 £75,000 +25.00% 93
London +110 244 £67,500 -21.74% 96
North of England +131 225 £30,500 -32.22% 89
Yorkshire +55 130 £30,500 -32.22% 37
North West +74 69 £30,500 -48.09% 39
South East +56 64 £33,750 -36.38% 81
Midlands +36 57 £30,500 -44.55% 50
West Midlands +57 47 £30,500 -48.43% 22
Scotland +21 42 £30,500 -61.88% 28
South West +28 32 £30,500 -56.43% 47
Northern Ireland +16 31 - - 6
East of England +34 30 £82,500 +53.49% 47
North East +20 26 £30,500 -32.22% 14
East Midlands -11 10 £51,058 -7.17% 28
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 23

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 (4.17%) WordPress
2 17 (2.09%) Tomcat
2 17 (2.09%) WebSphere
3 16 (1.96%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (1.35%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.98%) nginx
7 6 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 5 (0.61%) Drupal
9 4 (0.49%) Documentum
9 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (17.06%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.25%) Weka
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 815 (100.00%) AWS
2 493 (60.49%) Azure
3 306 (37.55%) GitHub
4 172 (21.10%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (15.46%) Serverless
6 90 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
7 89 (10.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 86 (10.55%) Amazon S3
9 79 (9.69%) GCP
10 43 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (4.91%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
17 21 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (2.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 278 (34.11%) Internet
2 34 (4.17%) Firewall
3 27 (3.31%) VPN
4 24 (2.94%) Broadband
4 24 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (2.33%) SSL
6 17 (2.09%) Network Security
7 15 (1.84%) DNS
8 14 (1.72%) WAN
9 12 (1.47%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.23%) VLAN
10 10 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.10%) VoIP
12 8 (0.98%) LAN
13 7 (0.86%) DHCP
14 6 (0.74%) HTTP
14 6 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.61%) SSH
15 5 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.28%) DynamoDB
2 39 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.54%) Data Lake
4 35 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (3.68%) Metadata
7 23 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.45%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (2.09%) DB2
10 13 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.37%) Big Data
13 3 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.25%) MySQL
14 2 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 304 (37.30%) Git
2 49 (6.01%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.05%) GitLab
4 20 (2.45%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.33%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.09%) JIRA
7 15 (1.84%) Maven
7 15 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.61%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.61%) Vite
11 4 (0.49%) MLflow
12 2 (0.25%) Subversion
13 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 288 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 278 (34.11%) Multimedia
3 139 (17.06%) French Language
4 119 (14.60%) Swedish Language
5 106 (13.01%) Finance
6 68 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (7.24%) Banking
8 50 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (6.01%) Financial Institution
10 26 (3.19%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.19%) Retail Banking
11 24 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.84%) Retail
13 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.47%) Law
14 11 (1.35%) Publishing
15 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.74%) Legal
17 5 (0.61%) Local Government
17 5 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 279 (34.23%) Trainee
2 162 (19.88%) Analyst
3 161 (19.75%) Developer
4 139 (17.06%) Service Analyst
4 139 (17.06%) Service Desk Analyst
5 134 (16.44%) Trainee Developer
6 125 (15.34%) Software Developer
6 125 (15.34%) Trainee Software Developer
7 119 (14.60%) Architect
8 74 (9.08%) Senior
9 45 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 43 (5.28%) Lead
11 33 (4.05%) Administrator
12 30 (3.68%) Data Architect
13 29 (3.56%) Trainee Administrator
13 29 (3.56%) Web Administrator
14 27 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.94%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
16 22 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
17 21 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (34.11%) CSS
1 278 (34.11%) HTML
2 31 (3.80%) React
3 25 (3.07%) Spring Boot
4 21 (2.58%) AWS CDK
4 21 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (2.45%) Jest
6 19 (2.33%) LDAP
6 19 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.21%) .NET
8 17 (2.09%) AngularJS
9 16 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
9 16 (1.96%) WebSphere MQ
10 15 (1.84%) Gherkin
10 15 (1.84%) RESTful
11 13 (1.60%) Kafka
12 11 (1.35%) .NET Core
12 11 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (1.35%) Blazor
12 11 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.54%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (4.05%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.21%) PKI
8 11 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.74%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.74%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.61%) Blog
12 5 (0.61%) Clustering
12 5 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.61%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.49%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.80%) Linux
2 69 (8.47%) Windows
3 49 (6.01%) Unix
4 22 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.61%) VMS
7 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Debian
9 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (43.44%) Mentoring
2 301 (36.93%) Cybersecurity
3 210 (25.77%) ITIL
4 152 (18.65%) Agile
5 148 (18.16%) ITSM
6 141 (17.30%) DevOps
7 128 (15.71%) CI/CD
8 127 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 124 (15.21%) Customer Service
10 119 (14.60%) Performance Metrics
11 79 (9.69%) Migration
12 73 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (8.47%) Containerisation
13 69 (8.47%) TOGAF
14 68 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (8.10%) Roadmaps
16 65 (7.98%) Microservices
17 64 (7.85%) Computer Science
18 62 (7.61%) AI
19 61 (7.48%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 422 (51.78%) Python
2 341 (41.84%) JavaScript
3 144 (17.67%) R
4 92 (11.29%) Java
5 70 (8.59%) Bash
6 56 (6.87%) TypeScript
7 42 (5.15%) C#
8 36 (4.42%) SQL
9 34 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 27 (3.31%) Go
11 20 (2.45%) Groovy
12 10 (1.23%) Bicep
13 7 (0.86%) C++
13 7 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.25%) C
15 2 (0.25%) Perl
15 2 (0.25%) Ruby
15 2 (0.25%) Scala
16 1 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 455 (55.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 426 (52.27%) Azure Certification
3 288 (35.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 225 (27.61%) Degree
5 139 (17.06%) MCSE
6 117 (14.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 60 (7.36%) Security Cleared
8 56 (6.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 47 (5.77%) SC Cleared
10 46 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 33 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
12 28 (3.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 26 (3.19%) A+ Certification
14 24 (2.94%) CISSP
15 19 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (2.09%) CISM
16 17 (2.09%) Master's Degree
17 16 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 11 (1.35%) CCNP
19 10 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (15.34%) QA
2 34 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.31%) NIST
4 24 (2.94%) SLA
5 22 (2.70%) GDPR
6 14 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.23%) NCSC
9 9 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.86%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.49%) GRC
14 2 (0.25%) DICOM
14 2 (0.25%) GxP
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) Basel III
15 1 (0.12%) GAAP
15 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 106 (13.01%) Docker
2 48 (5.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.84%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.86%) KVM
6 5 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.37%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.37%) Postfix
8 3 (0.37%) Squid
8 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) iptables
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 110 (13.50%) Terraform
2 86 (10.55%) Kubernetes
3 50 (6.13%) Ansible
4 34 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.93%) Grafana
6 21 (2.58%) Argo
7 19 (2.33%) Kustomize
8 15 (1.84%) HP Fortify
9 9 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.74%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 2 (0.25%) Autotask
13 2 (0.25%) Nagios
13 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
14 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 522 (64.05%) Microsoft
2 157 (19.26%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.50%) VMware
4 39 (4.79%) Google
5 24 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.70%) IBM
7 17 (2.09%) Adobe
7 17 (2.09%) Apple
8 15 (1.84%) SAP
9 13 (1.60%) Cisco
10 11 (1.35%) Workday
11 6 (0.74%) Databricks
12 5 (0.61%) Oracle
12 5 (0.61%) Symantec
12 5 (0.61%) YouTube
13 4 (0.49%) OpenText
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) Pega
14 3 (0.37%) Jaspersoft
14 3 (0.37%) OpenAI