AWS Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 24 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -20 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 60 82 229
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.24% 12.89% 23.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.22% 26.80% 59.48%
Number of salaries quoted 47 37 115
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,150
South West median annual salary £62,500 £60,822 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +1.37% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 157 306 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.19% 48.11% 39.41%
Number of salaries quoted 115 97 227
10th Percentile £31,350 £31,900 £29,064
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £66,875 £75,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,900 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

AWS
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Gloucestershire

AWS
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cheltenham -2 37 £57,500 -13.21% 32
Gloucester +11 8 £77,500 -8.82% 26
Tewkesbury -1 5 £70,000 -6.67% 1
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (10.00%) Apache
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) OpenShift
3 10 (16.67%) Serverless
4 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.67%) GCP
6 6 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.33%) GitHub
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) VSAN
2 3 (5.00%) DHCP
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) LAN
2 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.00%) WAN
3 2 (3.33%) Firewall
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.67%) VLAN
4 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.00%) Neo4j
4 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.00%) InfluxDB
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.33%) MySQL
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.67%) Big Data
7 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Git
2 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.33%) GitLab
4 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 4 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.67%) JIRA
4 4 (6.67%) JUnit
5 3 (5.00%) Balsamiq
6 2 (3.33%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.33%) TestRail
7 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Military
3 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Marketing
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Electronics
5 2 (3.33%) Games
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Administrator
3 6 (10.00%) Developer
4 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (6.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (5.00%) C Software Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) React
2 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 6 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (10.00%) MERN Stack
3 6 (10.00%) Spring
3 6 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (6.67%) JSF
4 4 (6.67%) PrimeFaces
4 4 (6.67%) RESTful
5 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.33%) .NET
6 2 (3.33%) Bootstrap
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
6 2 (3.33%) Flask
6 2 (3.33%) HTML
6 2 (3.33%) Node.js
7 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.67%) Express.js
7 1 (1.67%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.33%) Clustering
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (43.33%) Linux
2 13 (21.67%) Windows
3 10 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.67%) CentOS
4 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.33%) CoreOS
7 2 (3.33%) Debian
8 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) Software Engineering
2 22 (36.67%) CI/CD
2 22 (36.67%) DevOps
3 17 (28.33%) Agile
4 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
5 11 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (18.33%) Microservices
6 8 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (11.67%) DevSecOps
7 7 (11.67%) User Experience
8 6 (10.00%) AI
8 6 (10.00%) Coaching
8 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.00%) Time Management
9 5 (8.33%) ITIL
9 5 (8.33%) Machine Learning
9 5 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (75.00%) Python
2 26 (43.33%) Java
3 21 (35.00%) Bash
4 19 (31.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (23.33%) PowerShell
5 14 (23.33%) TypeScript
6 8 (13.33%) C
7 6 (10.00%) Kotlin
8 5 (8.33%) C#
9 4 (6.67%) Go
10 3 (5.00%) Elixir
10 3 (5.00%) Erlang
10 3 (5.00%) VBScript
11 2 (3.33%) SQL
12 1 (1.67%) C++
12 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (48.33%) DV Cleared
3 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) CITP
5 3 (5.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.67%) CCNA
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.00%) vSphere
5 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.67%) KVM
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (26.67%) Ansible
3 12 (20.00%) Terraform
4 7 (11.67%) Grafana
5 6 (10.00%) Kibana
6 4 (6.67%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.67%) SCVMM
7 2 (3.33%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.33%) Nagios
8 1 (1.67%) logstash
8 1 (1.67%) Nessus
8 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.67%) Puppet
8 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.67%) McAfee
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco
5 3 (5.00%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) VMware
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 2 (3.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.67%) Dell
7 1 (1.67%) F5
7 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds