AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Job Trends in the South West

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 162 223
Rank change year-on-year -66 +61 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 15 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.20% 0.073%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 0.54% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £30,500 -
England median annual salary £45,000 £30,500 £53,050
% change year-on-year +47.54% -42.51% -15.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 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 in the South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,390 1,308 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.73% 36.56% 31.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 729 1,106
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £86,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Gloucestershire - 12 - -
Bristol -45 3 - -
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
England

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) OpenShift
3 7 (46.67%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
1 8 (53.33%) Robot Framework
1 8 (53.33%) TestRail
2 6 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (40.00%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 6 (40.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Legal
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 8 (53.33%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (40.00%) Playwright
3 6 (40.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (20.00%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Linux
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) CentOS
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (53.33%) Software Testing
4 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
4 8 (53.33%) Test Management
5 6 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
6 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Server Management
6 4 (26.67%) Tech Ops
7 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (20.00%) Community of Practice
7 3 (20.00%) Runbook
7 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Bash
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Docker
2 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Grafana
3 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 6 (40.00%) Kibana
3 6 (40.00%) logstash
3 6 (40.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 8 (53.33%) Splunk
3 6 (40.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Veeam