AWS Jobs in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 651 832 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.61% 16.27% 15.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.29% 38.55% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 358 567 723
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,300 £41,400
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% -0.67% +7.14%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,016 2,158 3,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.65% 42.21% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 1,595 2,041
10th Percentile £31,200 £30,823 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,175 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% +5.83%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for AWS in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 9 October 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the South West

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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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 October 2024. 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 -1 274 £67,500 +8.00% 58
Gloucestershire -11 174 £60,000 -4.00% 38
Wiltshire -10 68 £67,500 +12.50% 14
Devon 0 48 £58,194 +22.51% 23
Dorset -26 48 £50,000 - 17
Somerset -20 23 £62,500 +31.58% 16
Cornwall -12 2 - - 1
AWS
England

AWS
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 19 (2.92%) Confluence
2 15 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.84%) Apache
5 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.08%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (1.08%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.77%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.61%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.31%) JBoss
10 2 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.15%) CloudStack
11 1 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.15%) Luigi
11 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.31%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.15%) 1Password
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 347 (53.30%) Azure
2 122 (18.74%) GCP
3 60 (9.22%) SaaS
4 54 (8.29%) OpenShift
4 54 (8.29%) Serverless
5 36 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (4.76%) GitHub
7 29 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (4.45%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 25 (3.84%) IaaS
11 21 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.92%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.76%) PaaS
14 15 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.38%) OCI
15 9 (1.38%) Power Platform
16 7 (1.08%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 61 (9.37%) Firewall
2 38 (5.84%) DNS
3 37 (5.68%) Network Security
4 35 (5.38%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.15%) HTTP
6 21 (3.23%) DHCP
6 21 (3.23%) Internet
7 20 (3.07%) Broadband
8 18 (2.76%) WAN
9 16 (2.46%) LAN
10 15 (2.30%) VPN
11 9 (1.38%) VLAN
12 8 (1.23%) AMQP
12 8 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (0.92%) Softphone
15 5 (0.77%) BGP
16 4 (0.61%) SSH
16 4 (0.61%) SSL
16 4 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.99%) MySQL
2 37 (5.68%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 33 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.38%) Big Data
7 20 (3.07%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.46%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.46%) Looker
9 15 (2.30%) Oracle Database
10 12 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.84%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.84%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.38%) Power BI
11 9 (1.38%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.38%) Redis
12 8 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
12 8 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (10.45%) Git
2 61 (9.37%) Jenkins
3 48 (7.37%) GitLab
4 41 (6.30%) JIRA
5 16 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.23%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.08%) Maven
9 6 (0.92%) Selenium
10 5 (0.77%) JMeter
10 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.46%) Babel
12 3 (0.46%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.46%) ESLint
12 3 (0.46%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.46%) Vite
12 3 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 105 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 79 (12.14%) Finance
3 57 (8.76%) Aerospace
4 49 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.30%) Tech for Good
7 23 (3.53%) Marketing
8 22 (3.38%) Banking
9 17 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.15%) Automotive
10 14 (2.15%) Billing
10 14 (2.15%) Games
11 12 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.38%) Law
13 6 (0.92%) Aviation
14 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Advertising
16 2 (0.31%) Legal
16 2 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (22.12%) Developer
2 115 (17.67%) Software Engineer
3 105 (16.13%) Senior
4 69 (10.60%) Architect
4 69 (10.60%) Lead
5 63 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (5.84%) Analyst
9 36 (5.53%) Java Developer
10 29 (4.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 29 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 28 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (3.84%) Consultant
13 24 (3.69%) Security Analyst
14 21 (3.23%) Cloud Security Analyst
14 21 (3.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 20 (3.07%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.07%) Operations Engineer
15 20 (3.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (23.35%) React
2 68 (10.45%) AngularJS
3 51 (7.83%) HTML
4 50 (7.68%) Node.js
5 47 (7.22%) Spring
6 45 (6.91%) CSS
7 44 (6.76%) Spring Boot
8 40 (6.14%) REST
9 29 (4.45%) .NET
10 26 (3.99%) Vue
11 25 (3.84%) OAuth
11 25 (3.84%) OpenID
12 24 (3.69%) Kafka
12 24 (3.69%) Laravel
13 23 (3.53%) SAML
14 20 (3.07%) RESTful
15 16 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (2.46%) XML
16 15 (2.30%) .NET Core
17 12 (1.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (3.84%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.69%) Data Centre
4 24 (3.69%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (3.07%) Cyberattack
7 20 (3.07%) Social Media
8 19 (2.92%) Private Cloud
9 16 (2.46%) IoT
10 12 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.54%) Life Science
13 9 (1.38%) e-Learning
13 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 184 (28.26%) Linux
2 75 (11.52%) Windows
3 49 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (5.68%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.30%) CentOS
6 12 (1.84%) Android
6 12 (1.84%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.69%) Debian
7 11 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.46%) Unix
9 2 (0.31%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (41.47%) Agile
2 196 (30.11%) DevOps
3 182 (27.96%) CI/CD
4 174 (26.73%) Software Engineering
5 127 (19.51%) Scrum
6 116 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 109 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (16.13%) Microservices
9 101 (15.51%) Containerisation
10 65 (9.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 61 (9.37%) Kanban
12 60 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
13 56 (8.60%) Mentoring
14 55 (8.45%) Test Automation
15 54 (8.29%) Collaborative Working
16 53 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence
17 52 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 49 (7.53%) Open Source
19 47 (7.22%) Front End Development
19 47 (7.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 212 (32.57%) Python
2 191 (29.34%) Java
3 154 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 60 (9.22%) SQL
5 59 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 40 (6.14%) PHP
7 36 (5.53%) C#
8 31 (4.76%) Bash
9 28 (4.30%) C
9 28 (4.30%) C++
10 26 (3.99%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.61%) Go
12 16 (2.46%) Perl
13 12 (1.84%) Embedded C++
14 7 (1.08%) R
15 6 (0.92%) Rust
15 6 (0.92%) Scala
16 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.46%) Dart
17 3 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 233 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 115 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 93 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 59 (9.06%) Degree
5 26 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.84%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.92%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.30%) CISSP
9 12 (1.84%) CISM
10 10 (1.54%) CISA
10 10 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.38%) MCSE
11 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.08%) CRISC
12 7 (1.08%) MCITP
12 7 (1.08%) SANS
13 6 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.92%) CCNP
13 6 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (5.38%) QA
3 32 (4.92%) NIST
4 26 (3.99%) GDPR
5 20 (3.07%) HIPAA
6 17 (2.61%) SLA
7 12 (1.84%) ISO 9001
8 10 (1.54%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.46%) WCAG
13 2 (0.31%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.31%) WAI
14 1 (0.15%) GRC
14 1 (0.15%) NCSC
14 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 207 (31.80%) Docker
2 52 (7.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 32 (4.92%) Hyper-V
5 15 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.23%) NDS
6 8 (1.23%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 8 (1.23%) vSphere
7 7 (1.08%) XenApp
7 7 (1.08%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.92%) Firmware
9 5 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.46%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.15%) Ceph
12 1 (0.15%) Gluster
12 1 (0.15%) KVM
12 1 (0.15%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 211 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 141 (21.66%) Terraform
3 109 (16.74%) Ansible
4 53 (8.14%) Puppet
5 20 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (2.76%) Progress Chef
6 18 (2.76%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.61%) Grafana
8 15 (2.30%) Salt
9 11 (1.69%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 10 (1.54%) SCCM
11 8 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.92%) Nagios
13 5 (0.77%) Kibana
14 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.46%) Host Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.46%) Opsview
14 3 (0.46%) VxRail
15 2 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
15 2 (0.31%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 72 (11.06%) VMware
2 68 (10.45%) Google
3 61 (9.37%) Microsoft
4 49 (7.53%) Red Hat
5 33 (5.07%) Cisco
5 33 (5.07%) Oracle
6 22 (3.38%) HP
7 15 (2.30%) Dell
8 11 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.69%) ForgeRock
8 11 (1.69%) NetIQ
9 9 (1.38%) Symantec
10 8 (1.23%) Citrix
10 8 (1.23%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.23%) IBM
10 8 (1.23%) Novell
10 8 (1.23%) SaltStack
10 8 (1.23%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.08%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.08%) Splunk