Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 139 270
Rank change year-on-year -42 +131 -35
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 27 16 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.35% 0.57% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.76% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24 15 17
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £50,375 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,450 £96,500 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% -6.45% +14.81%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

Amazon EC2 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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,908 909 2,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.44% 32.15% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 712 2,157
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,786
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Bristol -23 8 £66,250 +20.45% 2
Gloucestershire -34 7 £60,500 -30.86% 6
Devon - 7 £52,500 -
Somerset - 1 £42,500 - 4
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) IIS
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.70%) Drupal
4 1 (3.70%) nginx
4 1 (3.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (85.19%) Amazon S3
3 21 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (77.78%) Serverless
4 11 (40.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (29.63%) Azure
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (18.52%) CloudFront
7 5 (18.52%) SaaS
8 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (14.81%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (11.11%) GitHub
9 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (7.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) IPv4
1 4 (14.81%) Network Security
1 4 (14.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Flink
3 1 (3.70%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Redis
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Bitbucket
3 5 (18.52%) JIRA
4 4 (14.81%) Git
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Gatling
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Aerospace
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Billing
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) Head of Software Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) boto
2 3 (11.11%) Spring
2 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.70%) Loki
3 1 (3.70%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) IoT
4 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
1 16 (59.26%) Containerisation
1 16 (59.26%) DevOps
2 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 8 (29.63%) Agile
5 7 (25.93%) Migration
6 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Programme Management
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
7 4 (14.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Bash
3 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
4 7 (25.93%) Java
5 5 (18.52%) PHP
6 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.41%) SQL
8 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (14.81%) CCNA
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (14.81%) ISTQB
3 4 (14.81%) OSCP
3 4 (14.81%) RHCE
3 4 (14.81%) RHCSA
3 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO 9001
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.81%) iptables
3 4 (14.81%) Squid
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
3 4 (14.81%) vSphere
4 3 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (55.56%) Terraform
2 12 (44.44%) Ansible
2 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (22.22%) Packer
4 5 (18.52%) Grafana
4 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
4 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (18.52%) Puppet
5 4 (14.81%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.70%) Consul
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) TOWER Software