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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 769 633 746
Rank change year-on-year -136 +113 +13
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 40 50 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.10% 0.045%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5 47 9
10th Percentile £30,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £49,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £30,500 £53,050
Median % change year-on-year +88.52% -42.51% -15.12%
75th Percentile £61,250 £32,750 £96,250
90th Percentile - £67,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £30,500 £53,050
% change year-on-year +88.52% -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 20,829 16,879 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 34.24% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,379 7,455 9,707
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £37,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,424 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

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 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Top 10 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 20 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 -140 36 £57,500 +88.52% 172
UK excluding London -162 25 £57,500 +88.52% 162
South West -62 15 - - 24
London -66 11 - - 41
Work from Home -38 8 £30,000 -53.85% 18
North of England -87 8 £57,500 +88.52% 43
North West -29 6 £30,000 -1.64% 20
Yorkshire -46 2 £57,500 +88.52% 16
West Midlands -49 2 £45,000 +47.54% 10
Midlands -50 2 £45,000 +47.54% 27

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 8 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (20.00%) GitHub
4 8 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 7 (17.50%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (12.50%) GCP
6 5 (12.50%) Serverless
7 3 (7.50%) Slack
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.00%) Stackdriver
9 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Internet
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) InfluxDB
2 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Git
2 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 8 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 8 (20.00%) TestRail
3 6 (15.00%) Cypress.io
3 6 (15.00%) GitLab
3 6 (15.00%) Selenium
4 5 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Law
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Legal
3 3 (7.50%) Multimedia
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Account Manager
1 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (15.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 6 (15.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) IT Support
3 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Trainee
4 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Automation Tester
5 2 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Sales Executive
5 2 (5.00%) Site Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Solutions Sales Executive
5 2 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Terraform
2 8 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (15.00%) Playwright
3 6 (15.00%) pytest
4 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.50%) Node.js
4 5 (12.50%) Spring
4 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.50%) CSS
5 3 (7.50%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.50%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.50%) Matplotlib
7 1 (2.50%) NumPy
7 1 (2.50%) Pandas
7 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.50%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (7.50%) Blog
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
2 14 (35.00%) Linux
3 8 (20.00%) CentOS
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Agile
2 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (42.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
5 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (25.00%) AI
6 10 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
8 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 8 (20.00%) TDD
8 8 (20.00%) Test Management
9 7 (17.50%) Customer Service
9 7 (17.50%) DevOps
10 6 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (15.00%) Kanban
10 6 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
10 6 (15.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) Bash
3 12 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (17.50%) Java
6 5 (12.50%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) AWS Certification
2 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
3 16 (40.00%) Degree
4 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (20.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
7 3 (7.50%) PMP
8 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.00%) Grafana
3 6 (15.00%) Ansible
3 6 (15.00%) Kibana
3 6 (15.00%) logstash
3 6 (15.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Splunk
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (25.00%) VMware
4 8 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (15.00%) Atlassian
6 4 (10.00%) Veeam
7 2 (5.00%) Google