AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Job Trends

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 669 796
Rank change year-on-year -5 +127 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 105 15 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.030% 0.026%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% 0.087% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 70 10 7
10th Percentile - £62,250 £48,865
25th Percentile £27,500 £62,500 £49,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.71% -20.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 £73,750 £96,250
90th Percentile - £96,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £67,500 £53,050
% change year-on-year -54.07% +27.24% -15.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,778 17,252 21,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.32% 34.62% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,663 7,786 11,488
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,170 £41,250
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 £72,597
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.00% -2.91% -1.90%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Salary Trend

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

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

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 Certified Cloud Practitioner within the UK over the 6 months to 22 August 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 -16 98 £31,000 -55.71% 153
UK excluding London -16 77 £31,000 -54.07% 159
North of England -30 29 £31,000 -52.31% 43
London -26 27 £30,500 -62.46% 34
South West -55 18 £30,750 -59.00% 22
North West +3 16 £30,500 -56.43% 21
Midlands - 12 £32,000 - 26
Yorkshire -28 11 £33,000 -49.23% 15
West Midlands - 9 £32,500 - 9
Work from Home -30 7 £30,000 -53.85% 9
East of England - 6 £34,000 - 22
South East - 6 £31,250 - 37
Scotland - 4 £31,250 - 6
East Midlands - 3 £31,500 - 17
North East - 2 £30,000 - 9
Wales - 1 £31,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 2

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 43 (40.95%) WordPress
2 8 (7.62%) Confluence
2 8 (7.62%) Jupyter
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (67.62%) Azure
3 62 (59.05%) GitHub
4 14 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.76%) GCP
7 5 (4.76%) Serverless
8 3 (2.86%) Slack
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (56.19%) Internet
2 4 (3.81%) DNS
3 3 (2.86%) Firewall
3 3 (2.86%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.90%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 5 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (57.14%) Git
2 8 (7.62%) Bitbucket
2 8 (7.62%) JIRA
2 8 (7.62%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) Robot Framework
3 7 (6.67%) TestRail
4 6 (5.71%) Cypress.io
4 6 (5.71%) GitLab
4 6 (5.71%) Selenium
5 5 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 59 (56.19%) Multimedia
2 24 (22.86%) Finance
3 8 (7.62%) Manufacturing
3 8 (7.62%) Retail
4 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Law
6 3 (2.86%) Legal
6 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Billing
7 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (60.95%) Trainee
2 43 (40.95%) Administrator
2 43 (40.95%) Trainee Administrator
2 43 (40.95%) Web Administrator
3 15 (14.29%) Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Trainee Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Trainee Software Developer
6 6 (5.71%) Account Manager
6 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 5 (4.76%) IT Support
7 5 (4.76%) Programmer
7 5 (4.76%) Senior
7 5 (4.76%) Trainee Programmer
7 5 (4.76%) Trainee Web Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (56.19%) CSS
1 59 (56.19%) HTML
2 9 (8.57%) Terraform
3 8 (7.62%) Hugging Face
3 8 (7.62%) Matplotlib
3 8 (7.62%) NumPy
3 8 (7.62%) Pandas
3 8 (7.62%) scikit-learn
3 8 (7.62%) Streamlit
4 7 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (5.71%) Playwright
5 6 (5.71%) pytest
6 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.76%) Node.js
6 5 (4.76%) React
6 5 (4.76%) Spring
6 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Algorithms
1 8 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.86%) Blog
4 3 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Windows
2 14 (13.33%) Linux
3 7 (6.67%) CentOS
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.71%) Web Development
2 26 (24.76%) Agile
3 24 (22.86%) Mentoring
4 19 (18.10%) AI
4 19 (18.10%) CI/CD
4 19 (18.10%) Machine Learning
5 16 (15.24%) Collaborative Culture
5 16 (15.24%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (11.43%) Test Automation
8 11 (10.48%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.52%) Data Privacy
10 8 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 8 (7.62%) Conversational UI
10 8 (7.62%) LLM
10 8 (7.62%) Prompt Engineering
10 8 (7.62%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 8 (7.62%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 84 (80.00%) Python
2 68 (64.76%) JavaScript
3 47 (44.76%) R
4 13 (12.38%) Bash
5 10 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.67%) Java
7 5 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (85.71%) AWS Certification
2 61 (58.10%) Azure Certification
3 59 (56.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (18.10%) Degree
5 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
6 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
7 8 (7.62%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.86%) OSCP
8 3 (2.86%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.86%) PMP
9 2 (1.90%) CRISC
9 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) NCSC
2 2 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (1.90%) EU AI Act
2 2 (1.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (9.52%) Docker
1 10 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.57%) Ansible
3 7 (6.67%) Grafana
4 6 (5.71%) Kibana
4 6 (5.71%) logstash
4 6 (5.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.43%) Splunk
3 10 (9.52%) VMware
4 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.71%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.81%) Veeam
7 3 (2.86%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.90%) Google