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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 712 684
Rank change year-on-year +234 -28 +382
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 176 44 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.066% 0.079%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.02% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 171 24 12
10th Percentile £27,500 - £45,750
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% -15.38%
75th Percentile £32,750 £56,325 £66,250
90th Percentile - £84,273 £67,375
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 17,230 19,823 16,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 29.55% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,893 7,968 11,133
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +1.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,520 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +4.76% +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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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
UK excluding London +203 154 £30,500 -32.22% 408
England +220 151 £30,500 -32.22% 434
North of England +112 81 £30,500 -32.22% 104
Yorkshire +32 37 £30,500 -32.22% 36
North West +58 31 £30,500 -32.22% 57
London +74 22 £30,500 -67.03% 133
Scotland +20 21 £30,500 - 23
Midlands - 17 £30,500 - 77
South West +42 16 £30,500 - 28
West Midlands - 15 £30,500 - 48
North East +16 13 £30,500 -32.22% 13
Work from Home +46 8 £65,000 +44.44% 3
East of England +25 8 £30,000 -33.33% 53
South East +40 7 £31,000 -41.56% 94
Wales - 4 £30,250 - 26
East Midlands - 2 £30,750 - 29

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 19 (10.80%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) AWS
2 171 (97.16%) Azure
3 161 (91.48%) GitHub
4 3 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.14%) GCP
5 2 (1.14%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.14%) Miro
5 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.14%) Slack
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (92.61%) Internet
2 3 (1.70%) DHCP
2 3 (1.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.14%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 161 (91.48%) Git
2 5 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.70%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.70%) Gatling
3 3 (1.70%) GitLab
3 3 (1.70%) JMeter
3 3 (1.70%) Selenium
4 2 (1.14%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.14%) TestRail
General
1 162 (92.05%) Multimedia
2 6 (3.41%) Finance
3 3 (1.70%) Law
3 3 (1.70%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.14%) Legal
4 2 (1.14%) Marketing
5 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 162 (92.05%) Trainee
2 76 (43.18%) Developer
2 76 (43.18%) Trainee Developer
3 75 (42.61%) Software Developer
3 75 (42.61%) Trainee Software Developer
4 19 (10.80%) Administrator
4 19 (10.80%) Trainee Administrator
4 19 (10.80%) Web Administrator
5 4 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (2.27%) Lead
6 3 (1.70%) Senior
7 2 (1.14%) Automation Tester
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (1.14%) QA Leader
7 2 (1.14%) Senior Manager
7 2 (1.14%) Tester
7 2 (1.14%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (92.05%) CSS
1 162 (92.05%) HTML
2 3 (1.70%) Playwright
3 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.57%) React
4 1 (0.57%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.14%) Social Media
3 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Linux
1 6 (3.41%) Windows
2 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.70%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (82.39%) Cybersecurity
1 145 (82.39%) Mentoring
2 20 (11.36%) Web Development
3 7 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (3.41%) Agile
4 6 (3.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (2.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (2.84%) Test Automation
6 3 (1.70%) BDD
6 3 (1.70%) CI/CD
6 3 (1.70%) DevOps
6 3 (1.70%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 3 (1.70%) FinOps
6 3 (1.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (1.70%) Microservices
6 3 (1.70%) SDLC
6 3 (1.70%) Security Testing
6 3 (1.70%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (1.70%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (1.70%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 165 (93.75%) Python
2 162 (92.05%) JavaScript
3 86 (48.86%) R
4 5 (2.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 171 (97.16%) AWS Certification
2 165 (93.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 164 (93.18%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.14%) Degree
5 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.14%) MBA
5 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.57%) MCSA
6 1 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.14%) QA
2 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (2.84%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.70%) Ansible
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 3 (1.70%) SCCM
2 3 (1.70%) SCOM
2 3 (1.70%) WSUS
3 2 (1.14%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 167 (94.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.84%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (1.14%) Google
4 2 (1.14%) Splunk
4 2 (1.14%) VMware
5 1 (0.57%) Extreme Networks