AWS Job Trends in Somerset

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 37 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 -23 +5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 10 10 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 1.75% 2.15% 10.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.68% 9.90% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 36
10th Percentile £30,900 £50,750 £30,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £53,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% -16.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £60,313
90th Percentile £78,000 £73,250 £73,750
South West median annual salary £62,500 £61,644 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.39% +2.74% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 176 101 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 30.88% 21.67% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 80 50 108
10th Percentile £27,975 £29,100 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,188 £37,502 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £56,452 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
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 Somerset

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Somerset

AWS
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Somerset over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in Somerset

AWS
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bath -7 6 £75,000 +17.65% 76
Taunton - 4 £32,500 -
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DKIM
1 3 (30.00%) DMARC
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) IT Support
2 3 (30.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Debian
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Business Development
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) arcserve
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Veeam