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 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 604 772
Rank change year-on-year +246 +168 +204
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 376 49 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.11% 0.067%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.82% 0.29% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 361 39 21
10th Percentile £27,500 - £47,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -18.18% +12.82%
75th Percentile £33,250 £55,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £41,250 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -14.29% +10.53%

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 20,692 16,907 23,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.67% 39.32% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8,322 7,511 16,240
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,549 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,117 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +235 328 £30,500 -32.22% 284
UK excluding London +207 311 £30,500 -32.22% 306
North of England +83 164 £30,500 -32.22% 76
Yorkshire +15 74 £30,500 -32.22% 31
North West +46 64 £30,500 -32.22% 34
London +66 59 £30,500 -67.03% 63
Midlands +23 43 £30,500 -43.19% 50
West Midlands +45 38 £30,500 -43.19% 17
Scotland +14 36 £30,500 - 20
South West +5 31 £30,500 -35.79% 33
North East +1 26 £30,500 -32.22% 14
East of England +1 16 £30,250 -32.78% 39
South East -1 15 £31,000 -36.77% 67
Work from Home +2 11 £62,500 +38.89% 13
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 18
East Midlands - 5 £31,500 - 33
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 8

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 72 (19.15%) WordPress
2 54 (14.36%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 54 (14.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 376 (100.00%) AWS
2 310 (82.45%) Azure
3 288 (76.60%) GitHub
4 54 (14.36%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (1.86%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.33%) Google Workspace
6 5 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.33%) Serverless
7 2 (0.53%) GCP
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 299 (79.52%) Internet
2 4 (1.06%) DNS
2 4 (1.06%) Firewall
2 4 (1.06%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.86%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 286 (76.06%) Git
2 54 (14.36%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.86%) Robot Framework
3 7 (1.86%) TestRail
4 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 2 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 298 (79.26%) Multimedia
2 63 (16.76%) Finance
3 54 (14.36%) Manufacturing
3 54 (14.36%) Retail
4 7 (1.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (1.33%) Legal
6 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 349 (92.82%) Trainee
2 129 (34.31%) Developer
3 125 (33.24%) Trainee Developer
4 111 (29.52%) Software Developer
4 111 (29.52%) Trainee Software Developer
5 72 (19.15%) Administrator
5 72 (19.15%) Trainee Administrator
5 72 (19.15%) Web Administrator
6 51 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 51 (13.56%) Programmer
6 51 (13.56%) Trainee Programmer
7 14 (3.72%) Trainee Web Developer
7 14 (3.72%) Web Developer
8 7 (1.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (1.33%) Automation Tester
9 5 (1.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (1.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (1.33%) Tester
9 5 (1.33%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (79.26%) CSS
1 298 (79.26%) HTML
2 54 (14.36%) Hugging Face
2 54 (14.36%) Matplotlib
2 54 (14.36%) NumPy
2 54 (14.36%) Pandas
2 54 (14.36%) scikit-learn
2 54 (14.36%) Streamlit
3 14 (3.72%) React
3 14 (3.72%) Tailwind CSS
4 7 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.53%) Playwright
5 2 (0.53%) pytest
6 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.27%) Middleware
6 1 (0.27%) Node.js
6 1 (0.27%) Spring
6 1 (0.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.36%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (0.53%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.93%) Linux
1 11 (2.93%) Windows
2 7 (1.86%) CentOS
3 4 (1.06%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (60.90%) Mentoring
2 226 (60.11%) Cybersecurity
3 86 (22.87%) Web Development
4 56 (14.89%) AI
4 56 (14.89%) Data Privacy
4 56 (14.89%) Machine Learning
5 54 (14.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 54 (14.36%) Conversational UI
5 54 (14.36%) Customer Service
5 54 (14.36%) LLM
5 54 (14.36%) Neural Network
5 54 (14.36%) OO
5 54 (14.36%) OOP
5 54 (14.36%) Prompt Engineering
5 54 (14.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 54 (14.36%) Sentiment Analysis
5 54 (14.36%) Visualisation
5 54 (14.36%) Workflow
6 11 (2.93%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (2.66%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 358 (95.21%) Python
2 300 (79.79%) JavaScript
3 173 (46.01%) R
4 11 (2.93%) Bash
4 11 (2.93%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 364 (96.81%) AWS Certification
2 305 (81.12%) Azure Certification
3 303 (80.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (1.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.33%) Degree
5 5 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (1.06%) OSCP
7 2 (0.53%) CRISC
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (0.53%) EU AI Act
1 2 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (1.86%) Docker
1 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.86%) Grafana
3 6 (1.60%) Ansible
4 2 (0.53%) Kibana
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
4 2 (0.53%) Terraform
4 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 361 (96.01%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.86%) Google
2 7 (1.86%) Red Hat
2 7 (1.86%) Splunk
2 7 (1.86%) VMware
3 4 (1.06%) TOWER Software
4 2 (0.53%) Atlassian