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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 603 837
Rank change year-on-year +200 +234 +103
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 349 44 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.10% 0.047%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.53% 0.27% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 333 33 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 22,780 16,533 25,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.94% 39.42% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,935 7,702 17,118
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.59%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

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 April 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 April 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 +174 307 £30,500 -32.22% 141
UK excluding London +155 287 £30,500 -32.22% 140
North of England +70 151 £30,500 -32.22% 33
Yorkshire -4 67 £30,500 -32.22% 14
North West +29 60 £30,500 -32.22% 11
London +49 56 £30,500 -67.03% 42
Midlands -9 41 £30,500 -43.19% 17
West Midlands +8 36 £30,500 -43.19% 9
Scotland +13 30 £30,500 - 6
South West -26 30 £30,500 -35.79% 15
North East -20 24 £30,500 -32.22% 8
South East -29 15 £31,000 -31.11% 39
East of England -17 14 £30,000 -33.33% 25
Work from Home -7 10 £60,000 +33.33% 6
East Midlands - 5 £31,500 - 8
Wales - 5 £30,500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 3

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 70 (20.06%) WordPress
2 54 (15.47%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 54 (15.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 349 (100.00%) AWS
2 279 (79.94%) Azure
3 259 (74.21%) GitHub
4 54 (15.47%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (2.58%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.43%) Serverless
7 4 (1.15%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.57%) GCP
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 269 (77.08%) Internet
2 4 (1.15%) DNS
2 4 (1.15%) Firewall
2 4 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.58%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 259 (74.21%) Git
2 54 (15.47%) Visual Studio Code
3 9 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.58%) Robot Framework
3 9 (2.58%) TestRail
4 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.15%) GitLab
4 4 (1.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 269 (77.08%) Multimedia
2 62 (17.77%) Finance
3 54 (15.47%) Manufacturing
3 54 (15.47%) Retail
4 8 (2.29%) Social Skills
5 4 (1.15%) Legal
6 2 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.57%) Billing
6 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 320 (91.69%) Trainee
2 114 (32.66%) Developer
3 110 (31.52%) Trainee Developer
4 96 (27.51%) Software Developer
4 96 (27.51%) Trainee Software Developer
5 70 (20.06%) Administrator
5 70 (20.06%) Trainee Administrator
5 70 (20.06%) Web Administrator
6 51 (14.61%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 51 (14.61%) Programmer
6 51 (14.61%) Trainee Programmer
7 14 (4.01%) Trainee Web Developer
7 14 (4.01%) Web Developer
8 8 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (1.43%) Automation Tester
9 5 (1.43%) Tester
10 4 (1.15%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (1.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (1.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 4 (1.15%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (77.08%) CSS
1 269 (77.08%) HTML
2 54 (15.47%) Hugging Face
2 54 (15.47%) Matplotlib
2 54 (15.47%) NumPy
2 54 (15.47%) Pandas
2 54 (15.47%) scikit-learn
2 54 (15.47%) Streamlit
3 14 (4.01%) React
3 14 (4.01%) Tailwind CSS
4 9 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.15%) Playwright
5 4 (1.15%) pytest
6 1 (0.29%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.29%) Middleware
6 1 (0.29%) Node.js
6 1 (0.29%) Spring
6 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.47%) Algorithms
2 4 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (1.15%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.72%) Linux
1 13 (3.72%) Windows
2 9 (2.58%) CentOS
3 4 (1.15%) Unix
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (57.88%) Mentoring
2 199 (57.02%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (24.07%) Web Development
4 56 (16.05%) AI
4 56 (16.05%) Customer Service
4 56 (16.05%) Data Privacy
4 56 (16.05%) Machine Learning
5 54 (15.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 54 (15.47%) Conversational UI
5 54 (15.47%) LLM
5 54 (15.47%) Neural Network
5 54 (15.47%) OO
5 54 (15.47%) OOP
5 54 (15.47%) Prompt Engineering
5 54 (15.47%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 54 (15.47%) Sentiment Analysis
5 54 (15.47%) Visualisation
5 54 (15.47%) Workflow
6 13 (3.72%) CI/CD
7 12 (3.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 331 (94.84%) Python
2 273 (78.22%) JavaScript
3 159 (45.56%) R
4 13 (3.72%) Bash
4 13 (3.72%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 336 (96.28%) AWS Certification
2 275 (78.80%) Azure Certification
3 273 (78.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.58%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.01%) Degree
6 5 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.15%) OSCP
8 2 (0.57%) CRISC
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (0.57%) EU AI Act
1 2 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (2.58%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.15%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.58%) Grafana
3 8 (2.29%) Ansible
4 4 (1.15%) Kibana
4 4 (1.15%) logstash
4 4 (1.15%) Terraform
4 4 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 333 (95.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.58%) Red Hat
2 9 (2.58%) Splunk
3 8 (2.29%) VMware
4 6 (1.72%) Google
5 4 (1.15%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.15%) TOWER Software