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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 200 46 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.80% 8.47% 13.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.83% 33.82% 45.75%
Number of salaries quoted 118 36 78
10th Percentile £47,750 £48,750 £43,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,438 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,750 £87,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%

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 467 136 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.55% 25.05% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 265 108 203
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,063 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £82,300
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 4 September 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 4 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
Cheltenham -6 90 £75,000 +3.45% 46
Gloucester +6 75 £75,000 +13.21% 33
Tewkesbury -14 2 - -
Cirencester -2 1 £62,500 +13.64% 2
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 25 (12.50%) Apache
2 12 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.00%) Confluence
3 4 (2.00%) JBoss
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.00%) WordPress
4 3 (1.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.50%) Azure
2 45 (22.50%) GCP
3 22 (11.00%) OpenShift
4 19 (9.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (8.50%) Serverless
6 14 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.00%) GitHub
10 8 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.00%) SaaS
12 5 (2.50%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.00%) LAN
1 14 (7.00%) WAN
2 10 (5.00%) Firewall
3 8 (4.00%) DNS
3 8 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 8 (4.00%) VLAN
4 7 (3.50%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (3.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (3.50%) Unified Communications
4 7 (3.50%) WebEx
5 6 (3.00%) VPN
6 5 (2.50%) BGP
6 5 (2.50%) OSPF
6 5 (2.50%) Wireless
7 4 (2.00%) DHCP
7 4 (2.00%) IPv4
7 4 (2.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.00%) WLAN
8 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (6.50%) Big Data
3 11 (5.50%) Hadoop
4 9 (4.50%) InfluxDB
5 7 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.00%) Flink
7 4 (2.00%) Power BI
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.50%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.50%) MySQL
8 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.50%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 36 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.50%) Git
2 33 (16.50%) GitLab
3 10 (5.00%) Robot Framework
4 9 (4.50%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.50%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.50%) Selenium
4 9 (4.50%) TestRail
5 8 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.50%) JIRA
7 3 (1.50%) MLflow
8 2 (1.00%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.00%) Metasploit
8 2 (1.00%) Subversion
9 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.50%) JMeter
9 1 (0.50%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (14.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.50%) Finance
3 20 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.00%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.50%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.50%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Marketing
6 7 (3.50%) Retail
7 5 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Automotive
8 3 (1.50%) Electronics
8 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (24.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 41 (20.50%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (13.50%) Data Engineer
4 25 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 21 (10.50%) Software Engineer
6 14 (7.00%) Developer
7 12 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 12 (6.00%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.50%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) Architect
9 10 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.00%) Lead
11 7 (3.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Senior
11 7 (3.50%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (41.50%) Terraform
2 23 (11.50%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.50%) React
4 9 (4.50%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (4.50%) Node.js
5 8 (4.00%) pytest
5 8 (4.00%) Vue
6 7 (3.50%) Playwright
6 7 (3.50%) REST
6 7 (3.50%) XMPP
7 5 (2.50%) OAuth
7 5 (2.50%) OpenID
7 5 (2.50%) Spring
7 5 (2.50%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.00%) boto
8 4 (2.00%) OpenAPI
8 4 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.00%) RESTful
8 4 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.50%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.00%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.50%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.50%) Blog
9 5 (2.50%) Social Media
10 4 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (2.00%) CMDB
10 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.00%) Replication
10 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.50%) PKI
11 3 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 61 (30.50%) Linux
2 37 (18.50%) Windows
3 15 (7.50%) CentOS
3 15 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.50%) Unix
6 3 (1.50%) Debian
6 3 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.00%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.50%) CI/CD
2 72 (36.00%) Agile
3 63 (31.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (28.00%) DevOps
5 51 (25.50%) Containerisation
6 43 (21.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (19.50%) Software Engineering
8 31 (15.50%) Test Automation
9 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (14.50%) AI
11 28 (14.00%) Collaborative Culture
11 28 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (13.50%) Analytics
13 24 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (11.00%) DevSecOps
15 21 (10.50%) Cloud Security
16 18 (9.00%) Microservices
16 18 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (8.50%) Machine Learning
18 16 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.00%) Python
2 37 (18.50%) Bash
3 34 (17.00%) Java
4 30 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.50%) C++
5 15 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.00%) Rust
6 14 (7.00%) SQL
7 13 (6.50%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.00%) Go
9 8 (4.00%) Scala
10 7 (3.50%) C#
11 4 (2.00%) PHP
12 3 (1.50%) C
12 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 109 (54.50%) Security Cleared
2 64 (32.00%) DV Cleared
3 31 (15.50%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.50%) CCNP
7 7 (3.50%) CREST Certified
8 6 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.00%) OSCP
9 4 (2.00%) CCNA
9 4 (2.00%) Degree
9 4 (2.00%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.00%) RHCE
9 4 (2.00%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.50%) CCIE
10 3 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.50%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.50%) QA
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (26.00%) Docker
2 24 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (9.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.00%) vSphere
5 7 (3.50%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.50%) Firmware
7 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.00%) Squid
7 4 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.50%) KVM
9 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (36.50%) Kubernetes
2 71 (35.50%) Ansible
3 33 (16.50%) Grafana
4 15 (7.50%) Kibana
4 15 (7.50%) logstash
5 11 (5.50%) Puppet
6 9 (4.50%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.50%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (3.50%) Packer
7 7 (3.50%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.50%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.50%) Argo
10 3 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.50%) Istio
10 3 (1.50%) Kubeflow
10 3 (1.50%) linkerd
10 3 (1.50%) Mesos
10 3 (1.50%) Nagios
10 3 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (15.00%) VMware
2 23 (11.50%) Splunk
3 22 (11.00%) Red Hat
4 21 (10.50%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.50%) Cisco
6 14 (7.00%) Atlassian
7 12 (6.00%) Fortinet
8 7 (3.50%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.50%) Databricks
9 5 (2.50%) Google
9 5 (2.50%) Oracle
9 5 (2.50%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.00%) Avaya
10 4 (2.00%) F5
10 4 (2.00%) Infoblox
10 4 (2.00%) Meraki
10 4 (2.00%) NetApp
10 4 (2.00%) Netskope
10 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.00%) Veeam