AWS Engineer Jobs in the South West

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > South West

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 254 220
Rank change year-on-year +78 -34 +45
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 7 38 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.41% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.43% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 33 44
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,100 £44,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% - +16.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £108,250 £85,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £107,500 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +31.90% +1.88% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 3,366 8,908 5,965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 96.25% 89.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,014 6,534 3,700
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the South West

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the South West

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the South West

AWS Engineer
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 AWS Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Gloucestershire +57 4 £103,750 +80.43%
Bristol +32 1 £47,500 -34.48% 1
Devon +21 1 £55,000 - 1
Somerset - 1 £60,000 -
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Co-Creation
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 1 (14.29%) React
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) ModSecurity
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Co-Creation
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) VMware