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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 56 104 216
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.05% 12.81% 25.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.33% 29.21% 59.83%
Number of salaries quoted 43 51 106
10th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £62,475
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.04% +4.13%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,375 £78,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £86,375
South West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -

All Cloud 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 150 356 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.23% 43.84% 41.93%
Number of salaries quoted 110 131 219
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,300
25th Percentile £40,313 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £74,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £93,875 £82,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +7.75%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 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
Cheltenham -2 32 £65,000 +4.00% 34
Gloucester +11 8 £77,500 +5.08% 33
Tewkesbury +3 4 £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 (10.71%) Apache
2 4 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 10 (17.86%) Serverless
4 9 (16.07%) Amazon S3
4 9 (16.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.93%) GCP
8 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.36%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.57%) GitHub
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.79%) PaaS
11 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) VSAN
2 3 (5.36%) DHCP
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) LAN
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.36%) WAN
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.79%) Internet
4 1 (1.79%) IPv4
4 1 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.14%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.36%) InfluxDB
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Big Data
6 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Git
2 8 (14.29%) GitLab
3 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.14%) JIRA
4 4 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (5.36%) Balsamiq
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.57%) TestRail
7 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Military
3 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Finance
4 2 (3.57%) Games
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Software Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Administrator
3 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (7.14%) Developer
5 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) C Software Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) React
2 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.71%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (8.93%) Spring
3 5 (8.93%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 4 (7.14%) JSF
4 4 (7.14%) MERN Stack
4 4 (7.14%) PrimeFaces
5 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.57%) .NET
6 2 (3.57%) Node.js
6 2 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.79%) Express.js
7 1 (1.79%) Kafka
7 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.79%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.79%) Clustering
3 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (44.64%) Linux
2 12 (21.43%) Windows
3 10 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.29%) CentOS
5 7 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.36%) CoreOS
7 3 (5.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.57%) Debian
9 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 21 (37.50%) DevOps
3 17 (30.36%) Agile
4 16 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 10 (17.86%) Microservices
6 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.50%) Time Management
8 7 (12.50%) User Experience
9 6 (10.71%) AI
9 6 (10.71%) Coaching
9 6 (10.71%) ITIL
10 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (8.93%) Machine Learning
10 5 (8.93%) Software Testing
11 4 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (67.86%) Python
2 23 (41.07%) Java
3 17 (30.36%) Bash
3 17 (30.36%) JavaScript
4 14 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.93%) C
6 5 (8.93%) C#
7 4 (7.14%) Go
7 4 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.36%) VBScript
9 1 (1.79%) C++
9 1 (1.79%) SQL
9 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) CITP
5 3 (5.36%) CREST Certified
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
2 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.93%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.36%) vSphere
5 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.79%) KVM
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.36%) Ansible
3 12 (21.43%) Terraform
4 6 (10.71%) Kibana
5 4 (7.14%) Grafana
5 4 (7.14%) McAfee ePO
5 4 (7.14%) SCVMM
6 2 (3.57%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.79%) logstash
7 1 (1.79%) Nagios
7 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.93%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) McAfee
4 3 (5.36%) Cisco
4 3 (5.36%) Google
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.36%) VMware
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Dell
6 1 (1.79%) Draytek
6 1 (1.79%) F5
6 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds