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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 691 636 761
Rank change year-on-year -55 +125 +20
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 102 36 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.073% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 66 31 8
10th Percentile - - £47,593
25th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £49,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £30,500 £70,275
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -56.60% +12.44%
75th Percentile £33,750 £46,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £41,250 £70,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £30,500 £53,050
% change year-on-year +1.64% -42.51% -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 19,916 16,935 20,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 34.33% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,917 7,618 10,300
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,463 £36,925 £41,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -52 95 £31,000 +1.64% 155
UK excluding London -58 76 £31,000 +1.64% 162
North of England -49 27 £30,750 +0.82% 41
London -33 25 £30,500 -32.60% 29
South West -60 20 £30,750 +0.82% 23
North West +1 16 £30,500 - 18
Midlands -30 11 £31,500 +3.28% 27
Yorkshire -46 9 £31,500 +3.28% 16
West Midlands -30 8 £32,000 +4.92% 10
Work from Home -34 8 £30,000 -53.85% 11
East of England -32 6 £34,000 +11.48% 22
South East -34 6 £31,250 +0.81% 36
Scotland +4 4 £31,250 +2.46% 9
East Midlands - 3 £31,500 - 17
North East -62 2 £30,000 -1.64% 7
Wales - 1 £31,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 1

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 (42.16%) WordPress
2 8 (7.84%) Confluence
3 4 (3.92%) Jupyter
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (68.63%) Azure
3 61 (59.80%) GitHub
4 10 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (8.82%) OpenShift
6 8 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.90%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.90%) GCP
7 5 (4.90%) Serverless
8 3 (2.94%) Slack
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (58.82%) Internet
2 2 (1.96%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.98%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) InfluxDB
2 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 62 (60.78%) Git
2 9 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.82%) Robot Framework
2 9 (8.82%) TestRail
3 8 (7.84%) JIRA
4 7 (6.86%) Cypress.io
4 7 (6.86%) GitLab
4 7 (6.86%) Selenium
5 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (58.82%) Multimedia
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.90%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Law
4 4 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.92%) Retail
5 3 (2.94%) Legal
5 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.96%) Banking
6 2 (1.96%) Billing
6 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (59.80%) Trainee
2 43 (42.16%) Administrator
2 43 (42.16%) Trainee Administrator
2 43 (42.16%) Web Administrator
3 15 (14.71%) Developer
4 12 (11.76%) Trainee Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Software Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Test Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Trainee Software Developer
6 6 (5.88%) Account Manager
7 5 (4.90%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) IT Support
7 5 (4.90%) Senior
7 5 (4.90%) Trainee Web Developer
7 5 (4.90%) Web Developer
8 4 (3.92%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (58.82%) CSS
1 60 (58.82%) HTML
2 10 (9.80%) Terraform
3 9 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.86%) Playwright
4 7 (6.86%) pytest
5 5 (4.90%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.90%) Node.js
5 5 (4.90%) React
5 5 (4.90%) Spring
5 5 (4.90%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.90%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (3.92%) Hugging Face
6 4 (3.92%) Matplotlib
6 4 (3.92%) NumPy
6 4 (3.92%) Pandas
6 4 (3.92%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.92%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.94%) Blog
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.71%) Windows
2 14 (13.73%) Linux
3 9 (8.82%) CentOS
4 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (47.06%) Web Development
2 28 (27.45%) Agile
3 25 (24.51%) Mentoring
4 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
5 17 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (14.71%) AI
6 15 (14.71%) Machine Learning
7 14 (13.73%) Test Automation
8 12 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (9.80%) Customer Service
11 9 (8.82%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (8.82%) Software Testing
11 9 (8.82%) Test Management
12 8 (7.84%) Scrum
12 8 (7.84%) TDD
12 8 (7.84%) Thought Leadership
13 7 (6.86%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (78.43%) Python
2 70 (68.63%) JavaScript
3 48 (47.06%) R
4 13 (12.75%) Bash
5 10 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.86%) Java
7 5 (4.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (85.29%) AWS Certification
2 62 (60.78%) Azure Certification
3 60 (58.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 17 (16.67%) Degree
6 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
7 8 (7.84%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.94%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.94%) PMP
9 2 (1.96%) CRISC
9 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.98%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) NCSC
2 2 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (1.96%) EU AI Act
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (11.76%) Docker
2 11 (10.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.86%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.82%) Grafana
3 8 (7.84%) Ansible
4 7 (6.86%) Kibana
4 7 (6.86%) logstash
4 7 (6.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.73%) Splunk
3 11 (10.78%) VMware
4 9 (8.82%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.86%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.92%) Veeam
7 2 (1.96%) Google
8 1 (0.98%) TOWER Software