AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Jobs

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 942 1184
Rank change year-on-year +80 +242 -283
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 40 30 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.030% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.091% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 33
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £89,375 £99,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £111,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,444 33,124 42,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 32.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 14,907 18,785
10th Percentile £28,374 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Salary trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +105 34 £55,000 +10.00% 132
London +114 20 £85,000 -20.93% 61
UK excluding London +8 20 £55,000 +15.79% 87
North of England +56 9 - - 25
Work from Home +67 7 £55,000 - 6
North West +16 6 - - 13
Scotland -60 6 - - 6
South West - 4 £55,000 - 10
Yorkshire +90 3 - - 9
South East - 1 £34,000 - 11

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (55.00%) Azure
3 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (22.50%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (17.50%) Entra ID
6 7 (17.50%) GCP
6 7 (17.50%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.50%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.50%) Route 53
8 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (42.50%) Firewall
2 13 (32.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (5.00%) DMZ
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) HTTP
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) SMTP
3 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) tcpdump
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Git
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (15.00%) Law
3 6 (15.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Local Government
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Analyst
2 16 (40.00%) Security Analyst
3 15 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 12 (30.00%) Senior
5 10 (25.00%) Architect
6 8 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (20.00%) Lead
7 7 (17.50%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 6 (15.00%) Lead Architect
8 6 (15.00%) Senior Architect
8 6 (15.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (12.50%) SIEM Analyst
10 4 (10.00%) CISSP Analyst
10 4 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security Architect
10 4 (10.00%) Monitoring Analyst
10 4 (10.00%) Security Architect
10 4 (10.00%) Security Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) OAuth
1 6 (15.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (27.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 7 (17.50%) Public Cloud
3 7 (17.50%) Security Posture
4 6 (15.00%) Blog
5 3 (7.50%) Cyberattack
5 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.50%) Digital Currency
7 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (45.00%) Application Security
3 17 (42.50%) Security Operations
3 17 (42.50%) SIEM
4 16 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 15 (37.50%) Information Security
5 15 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (37.50%) Runbook
5 15 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
6 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (30.00%) Incident Response
7 12 (30.00%) Use Case
8 11 (27.50%) DDoS Mitigation
9 9 (22.50%) Cloud Security
10 8 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) Go
3 1 (2.50%) Groovy
3 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (70.00%) CISSP
2 22 (55.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 22 (55.00%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (47.50%) AWS Certification
4 17 (42.50%) CompTIA CySA+
5 15 (37.50%) CCSP
6 14 (35.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (35.00%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (32.50%) Degree
8 8 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (17.50%) Azure Certification
9 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (15.00%) CISM
11 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
11 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
12 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (5.00%) CASP
12 2 (5.00%) CREST Certified
12 2 (5.00%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (67.50%) NIST
2 12 (30.00%) SOC 2
3 9 (22.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (20.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Google