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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS 44 13 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 3.85% 3.13% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.80% 9.29% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile - £31,250 £41,800
25th Percentile £30,250 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +12.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £55,625 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £58,750 - £78,500
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
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 234 140 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 20.45% 33.73% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 139 82 85
10th Percentile £28,400 £28,750 £30,050
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £39,928 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -23.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,272 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.49% -17.69% -

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 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 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
Portishead - 18 £42,500 -
Weston-super-Mare -9 8 £30,500 -56.43%
Bath -19 6 £57,500 -23.33% 17
Taunton -19 5 £57,500 +76.92% 2
Street -3 3 - - 8
Martock - 1 - -
Yeovil - 1 - - 6
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 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) Azure
2 19 (43.18%) GCP
2 19 (43.18%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.45%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Datadog
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) DHCP
1 9 (20.45%) DNS
2 6 (13.64%) Firewall
3 5 (11.36%) LAN
3 5 (11.36%) Network Security
3 5 (11.36%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.36%) VLAN
3 5 (11.36%) VPN
3 5 (11.36%) WAN
3 5 (11.36%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (9.09%) DMZ
4 4 (9.09%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.27%) BGP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.27%) OSPF
5 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.27%) VXLAN
5 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 4 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Eclipse
1 8 (18.18%) Git
1 8 (18.18%) Subversion
2 4 (9.09%) GitLab
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) JUnit
4 1 (2.27%) Claude Code
4 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Swedish Language
3 8 (18.18%) Retail
4 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 5 (11.36%) Finance
7 4 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.55%) Banking
8 2 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Developer
2 10 (22.73%) Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Service Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) IT Support
3 8 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Junior
4 6 (13.64%) Junior Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Junior Java Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Data Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.27%) RESTful
2 10 (22.73%) React
3 8 (18.18%) Jakarta EE
3 8 (18.18%) Struts
3 8 (18.18%) Web Services
4 5 (11.36%) Node.js
5 4 (9.09%) .NET
5 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.09%) Spring
5 4 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.09%) Vue
6 3 (6.82%) Terraform
7 2 (4.55%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.55%) REST
8 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
8 1 (2.27%) LDAP
8 1 (2.27%) MFC
8 1 (2.27%) PySpark
8 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Linux
1 10 (22.73%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Unix
4 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (22.73%) Customer Service
3 10 (22.73%) ITIL
3 10 (22.73%) ITSM
3 10 (22.73%) Performance Metrics
4 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) AI
5 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 8 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (18.18%) Microservices
5 8 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
6 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.91%) DevOps
7 6 (13.64%) Agile
7 6 (13.64%) ETL
7 6 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (13.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) Java
3 7 (15.91%) C++
4 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.64%) Perl
5 5 (11.36%) SQL
6 2 (4.55%) Bash
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) PHP
7 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) Degree
2 15 (34.09%) AWS Certification
3 14 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (22.73%) MCSE
5 8 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 4 (9.09%) CCNA
6 4 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (9.09%) MCSA
6 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) QA
2 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (9.09%) WCAG
4 2 (4.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (20.45%) Hyper-V
3 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) NDS
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) Iperf
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) ServiceNow
3 9 (20.45%) VMware
4 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 4 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 4 (9.09%) OneLogin
5 4 (9.09%) Ruckus Wireless
5 4 (9.09%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 2 (4.55%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Ab Initio
7 1 (2.27%) Aruba
7 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.27%) NetIQ
7 1 (2.27%) Okta
7 1 (2.27%) OpenText
7 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto