AWS Certified Developer Job Trends

AWS Certified Developer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Developer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 684 702
Rank change year-on-year +64 +18 +248
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 30 15 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.028% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.077% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,375 £52,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -22.75% +29.03%
75th Percentile £93,750 £79,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £68,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year +16.36% +129.17% -61.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Developer 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 19,380 19,505 17,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.69% 36.87% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,776 7,588 11,965
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
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% -1.96%

AWS Certified Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certified Developer relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified Developer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Developer over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Developer in the UK

AWS Certified Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +84 29 £80,000 +3.56% 1
UK excluding London +64 18 £80,000 +16.36% 1
North of England +20 16 £70,000 -
Yorkshire - 16 £70,000 -
London +56 11 £78,500 +1.62%
Work from Home +68 7 £83,000 +5.06% 1
East of England +27 2 £100,000 -

AWS Certified Developer
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:

Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (90.00%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (90.00%) Serverless
3 24 (80.00%) Amazon S3
4 21 (70.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (60.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 14 (46.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (46.67%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (46.67%) Azure
7 13 (43.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (36.67%) GitHub
8 11 (36.67%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (20.00%) CloudFront
10 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (16.67%) Apigee
10 5 (16.67%) Figma
11 3 (10.00%) GCP
11 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (36.67%) NoSQL
3 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Git
2 10 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (16.67%) GitLab
4 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (16.67%) Maven
4 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 5 (16.67%) Vite
5 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.33%) Banking
2 1 (3.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Lead
3 10 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 9 (30.00%) Technical Leader
5 7 (23.33%) Senior
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Developer
6 5 (16.67%) Senior Manager
6 5 (16.67%) Senior Technical Manager
6 5 (16.67%) Technical Manager
7 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Serverless Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) React
2 13 (43.33%) AWS CDK
3 11 (36.67%) .NET
3 11 (36.67%) .NET Core
3 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET
3 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (36.67%) Blazor
3 11 (36.67%) RESTful
3 11 (36.67%) Spring Boot
4 10 (33.33%) Jest
5 7 (23.33%) AngularJS
5 7 (23.33%) Spring
6 5 (16.67%) Gherkin
6 5 (16.67%) Next.js
7 4 (13.33%) Node.js
8 2 (6.67%) Hugging Face
8 2 (6.67%) Kafka
8 2 (6.67%) Nuxt
8 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) Agile
1 25 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 21 (70.00%) DevOps
3 16 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (46.67%) Microservices
6 11 (36.67%) Application Security
6 11 (36.67%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (36.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
9 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (20.00%) SDLC
9 6 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Java
2 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) TypeScript
3 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.67%) Bash
4 5 (16.67%) Groovy
4 5 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) C#
5 2 (6.67%) C++
5 2 (6.67%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 11 (36.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (16.67%) QA
3 3 (10.00%) GDPR
4 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (76.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) KVM
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) HP Fortify
3 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.67%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.67%) VMware