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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 646 708
Rank change year-on-year +273 +62 +240
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 295 55 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.10% 0.075%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.51% 0.28% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 286 37 14
10th Percentile £27,500 - £46,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £32,750 £53,750 £59,375
90th Percentile - £56,325 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -32.22% -18.18% +100.00%

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 19,492 19,679 17,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.47% 37.04% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,860 7,667 12,458
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,921 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Top 16 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 January 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 +247 253 £30,500 -32.22% 242
UK excluding London +213 248 £30,500 -32.22% 262
North of England +115 135 £30,500 -32.22% 70
Yorkshire +25 63 £30,500 -32.22% 31
North West +69 50 £30,500 -32.22% 30
London +81 42 £30,500 -67.03% 55
Scotland +24 33 £30,500 - 21
Midlands +47 30 £30,500 -43.19% 36
West Midlands +56 28 £30,500 -43.19% 10
South West +32 24 £30,500 -35.79% 26
North East +25 22 £30,500 -32.22% 10
South East +34 11 £30,500 -42.51% 52
East of England +27 11 £30,000 -33.33% 39
Work from Home +39 10 £62,500 +38.89%
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 17
East Midlands - 2 £30,750 - 26

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 29 (9.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 295 (100.00%) AWS
2 286 (96.95%) Azure
3 269 (91.19%) GitHub
4 6 (2.03%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.69%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.02%) Serverless
7 2 (0.68%) GCP
7 2 (0.68%) Miro
7 2 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 279 (94.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.03%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 270 (91.53%) Git
2 6 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.03%) Robot Framework
2 6 (2.03%) TestRail
3 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.34%) GitLab
3 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 278 (94.24%) Multimedia
2 6 (2.03%) Finance
3 5 (1.69%) Legal
3 5 (1.69%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.02%) Law
5 2 (0.68%) Marketing
6 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 278 (94.24%) Trainee
2 134 (45.42%) Developer
2 134 (45.42%) Trainee Developer
3 125 (42.37%) Software Developer
3 125 (42.37%) Trainee Software Developer
4 29 (9.83%) Administrator
4 29 (9.83%) Trainee Administrator
4 29 (9.83%) Web Administrator
5 9 (3.05%) Trainee Web Developer
5 9 (3.05%) Web Developer
6 6 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) Automation Tester
7 5 (1.69%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) Tester
7 5 (1.69%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (1.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (94.24%) CSS
1 278 (94.24%) HTML
2 9 (3.05%) React
2 9 (3.05%) Tailwind CSS
3 6 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.34%) Playwright
4 1 (0.34%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (0.68%) Social Media
2 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.03%) CentOS
1 6 (2.03%) Linux
1 6 (2.03%) Windows
2 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (85.08%) Cybersecurity
2 249 (84.41%) Mentoring
3 38 (12.88%) Web Development
4 8 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (2.71%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (2.03%) Agile
5 6 (2.03%) Containerisation
5 6 (2.03%) Software Testing
5 6 (2.03%) Test Automation
5 6 (2.03%) Test Management
6 5 (1.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (1.36%) CI/CD
7 4 (1.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (1.02%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (1.02%) DevOps
8 3 (1.02%) FinOps
8 3 (1.02%) Validation
9 2 (0.68%) AI Transformation
9 2 (0.68%) Generative AI
9 2 (0.68%) GTM Strategy
Programming Languages
1 279 (94.58%) JavaScript
1 279 (94.58%) Python
2 144 (48.81%) R
3 6 (2.03%) Bash
3 6 (2.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 286 (96.95%) AWS Certification
2 283 (95.93%) Azure Certification
2 283 (95.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (2.03%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (0.68%) Degree
6 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.68%) MBA
System Software
1 6 (2.03%) Docker
1 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.03%) Grafana
1 6 (2.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Ansible
2 1 (0.34%) Kibana
2 1 (0.34%) logstash
2 1 (0.34%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 283 (95.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.03%) Red Hat
2 6 (2.03%) Splunk
2 6 (2.03%) VMware
3 5 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (0.34%) Atlassian