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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 756 769
Rank change year-on-year +132 +13 +358
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 50 35 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.045% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.29% 0.17% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 47 9 6
10th Percentile - £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,775 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £53,050 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.51% -15.12% +8.70%
75th Percentile £32,750 £96,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £67,500 - £66,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £53,050 £62,500
% change year-on-year -42.51% -15.12% +31.58%

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 16,951 21,033 18,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.30% 26.92% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,498 9,747 12,252
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,170 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,762 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -4.68% +6.36%
75th Percentile £73,462 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Top 14 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 19 September 2025. 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 +124 43 £30,500 -42.51% 406
UK excluding London +119 41 £30,500 -42.51% 381
North of England +46 23 £30,500 -32.22% 93
Yorkshire +18 10 £30,500 -32.22% 30
North West +15 10 £30,500 - 52
London +71 8 £30,500 -67.03% 126
Scotland +43 6 £30,500 - 22
South West +72 5 £30,500 - 29
Work from Home +60 5 £65,000 +22.53% 1
Midlands - 4 £30,500 - 75
West Midlands - 4 £30,500 - 46
North East - 3 £30,500 - 13
South East +42 2 £31,000 -41.56% 90
East of England - 1 £30,500 - 43

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (90.00%) Azure
3 39 (78.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Miro
5 2 (4.00%) Slack
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) Internet
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 39 (78.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (6.00%) Gatling
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) JMeter
2 3 (6.00%) Selenium
General
1 39 (78.00%) Multimedia
2 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Marketing
4 2 (4.00%) Law
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (78.00%) Trainee
2 21 (42.00%) Developer
2 21 (42.00%) Software Developer
2 21 (42.00%) Trainee Developer
2 21 (42.00%) Trainee Software Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) QA Leader
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (78.00%) CSS
1 39 (78.00%) HTML
2 3 (6.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Social Media
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) Cybersecurity
1 41 (82.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (8.00%) Agile
2 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (6.00%) BDD
3 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (6.00%) DevOps
3 3 (6.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (6.00%) Microservices
3 3 (6.00%) SDLC
3 3 (6.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (6.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (6.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (6.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (4.00%) Practice Management
4 2 (4.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (84.00%) Python
2 39 (78.00%) JavaScript
3 18 (36.00%) R
4 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 47 (94.00%) AWS Certification
2 41 (82.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (78.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.00%) MBA
5 2 (4.00%) MCSE
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Ansible
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 3 (6.00%) SCCM
1 3 (6.00%) SCOM
1 3 (6.00%) WSUS
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) Dell
4 1 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) YouTube