AWS Job Trends in Devon

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Devon requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 16 31 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 2.69% 6.92% 8.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.70% 31.31% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 25
10th Percentile £40,385 £42,500 £35,649
25th Percentile £45,500 £42,608 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,940 £72,500 £79,000
South West median annual salary £62,500 £61,644 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.39% +2.74% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Devon

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 165 99 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 27.78% 22.10% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 96 60 104
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,750 £26,475
25th Percentile £29,625 £38,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £42,274
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +24.19% +10.44%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,142 £52,875
90th Percentile £58,375 £72,500 £59,625
South West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +6.48% +2.86%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Devon.

AWS job vacancy trend in Devon

AWS
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Devon over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Devon

AWS
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Devon region over the 6 months to 17 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
Exeter -7 14 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Plymouth -14 1 £63,950 +3.74% 40
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) Azure App Service
3 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (12.50%) CloudFront
5 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Selenium
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) CircleCI
4 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (12.50%) Gatling
4 2 (12.50%) LoadRunner
4 2 (12.50%) Locust
4 2 (12.50%) TestRail
4 2 (12.50%) Zephyr
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Developer
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) QA Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
1 5 (31.25%) .NET Core
1 5 (31.25%) Blazor
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Symfony
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) pytest
4 1 (6.25%) Qt
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 12 (75.00%) DevOps
3 8 (50.00%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Application Security
4 5 (31.25%) B2B
4 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
4 5 (31.25%) OWASP
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 2 (12.50%) API Development
7 2 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CEH
2 1 (6.25%) CISM
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle