AWS Jobs in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 7 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 773 1,132 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.56% 14.21% 17.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.25% 39.61% 39.85%
Number of salaries quoted 520 695 840
10th Percentile £38,675 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £74,625 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
South West

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,021 2,858 3,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.29% 35.88% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,499 1,978 2,323
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,425 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,044 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +4.17% +3.16%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,889 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

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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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +4 300 £62,500 - 102
Gloucestershire +1 263 £62,475 +4.13% 37
Wiltshire +8 58 £55,426 -9.51% 11
Dorset +22 53 £52,500 -4.55% 14
Somerset 0 41 £42,500 -15.00% 23
Devon -5 31 £47,500 +5.56% 29
Cornwall +29 8 £52,500 +23.53% 5
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England

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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 20 (2.59%) Apache
2 17 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.03%) MS Exchange
5 6 (0.78%) Confluence
5 6 (0.78%) nginx
6 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.65%) Mule
7 4 (0.52%) Luigi
7 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.39%) IIS
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Trello
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) SAP ERP
1 4 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 405 (52.39%) Azure
2 137 (17.72%) GCP
3 82 (10.61%) Serverless
4 77 (9.96%) OpenShift
5 63 (8.15%) SaaS
6 50 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (5.95%) PaaS
8 44 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (5.17%) IaaS
11 39 (5.05%) Amazon S3
12 38 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (3.36%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.68%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (1.16%) GitHub
17 9 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 96 (12.42%) DNS
2 92 (11.90%) TCP/IP
3 83 (10.74%) DHCP
4 70 (9.06%) HTTP
5 38 (4.92%) Firewall
6 34 (4.40%) VPN
7 28 (3.62%) VLAN
8 24 (3.10%) WAN
9 21 (2.72%) IPv4
10 15 (1.94%) LAN
11 11 (1.42%) Internet
12 10 (1.29%) OSPF
13 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.65%) 5G
15 5 (0.65%) NetScaler
15 5 (0.65%) Network Security
15 5 (0.65%) VSAN
16 4 (0.52%) AMQP
16 4 (0.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.47%) NoSQL
2 46 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (5.69%) MySQL
4 43 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (4.53%) MongoDB
7 33 (4.27%) Big Data
8 31 (4.01%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.62%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (2.85%) Relational Database
12 18 (2.33%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.68%) Power BI
14 11 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.42%) Redis
15 10 (1.29%) Hadoop
16 9 (1.16%) Tableau
17 8 (1.03%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 6 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 73 (9.44%) Jenkins
2 58 (7.50%) Git
3 46 (5.95%) GitLab
4 28 (3.62%) JIRA
5 18 (2.33%) Selenium
6 15 (1.94%) Maven
7 14 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (1.16%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.03%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.91%) JUnit
12 7 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.65%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.65%) Postman
14 4 (0.52%) GCC
14 4 (0.52%) Subversion
15 3 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.39%) Newman
15 3 (0.39%) TestCafe
General
1 142 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 135 (17.46%) Finance
3 47 (6.08%) Banking
4 43 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (4.53%) Retail
6 32 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (4.01%) Public Sector
8 25 (3.23%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.59%) Marketing
10 18 (2.33%) Tech for Good
10 18 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.16%) Legal
13 7 (0.91%) Aviation
13 7 (0.91%) Electronics
13 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.52%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.39%) Local Government
16 2 (0.26%) Advertising
16 2 (0.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 159 (20.57%) Senior
2 138 (17.85%) Developer
3 130 (16.82%) Software Engineer
4 107 (13.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (12.68%) Architect
6 74 (9.57%) Lead
7 54 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 41 (5.30%) Java Developer
9 40 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
9 40 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (4.79%) Java Engineer
11 34 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.88%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
16 28 (3.62%) Senior Developer
17 25 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
17 25 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.90%) React
2 74 (9.57%) Spring
3 63 (8.15%) HTML
4 52 (6.73%) Spring Boot
5 49 (6.34%) AngularJS
6 47 (6.08%) OpenID
7 41 (5.30%) Kafka
7 41 (5.30%) RESTful
8 37 (4.79%) Node.js
9 36 (4.66%) SAML
10 35 (4.53%) CSS
11 31 (4.01%) Hibernate
12 25 (3.23%) .NET
13 19 (2.46%) JSON
14 15 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (1.94%) REST
15 14 (1.81%) LAMP
15 14 (1.81%) Vue
16 13 (1.68%) ASP.NET
16 13 (1.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.18%) Public Cloud
2 67 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 35 (4.53%) Private Cloud
4 29 (3.75%) Cyberattack
5 24 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.33%) NHS
8 16 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.68%) Mainframe
10 12 (1.55%) Blockchain
10 12 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.55%) IoT
11 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 194 (25.10%) Linux
2 128 (16.56%) Windows
3 44 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (4.53%) Unix
5 32 (4.14%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.33%) Android
7 14 (1.81%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.29%) CentOS
9 9 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.91%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.39%) Debian
13 3 (0.39%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.39%) Solaris
13 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.13%) VMS
15 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (39.84%) Agile
2 304 (39.33%) DevOps
3 191 (24.71%) Software Engineering
4 164 (21.22%) CI/CD
5 156 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (16.95%) Actionable Insight
7 114 (14.75%) Microservices
8 100 (12.94%) Containerisation
9 98 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 88 (11.38%) Scrum
11 78 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 77 (9.96%) Roadmaps
13 73 (9.44%) SDLC
14 72 (9.31%) Mentoring
15 69 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
15 69 (8.93%) Full Stack Development
16 64 (8.28%) DevSecOps
17 60 (7.76%) Software Architecture
18 58 (7.50%) Computer Science
19 57 (7.37%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 294 (38.03%) Python
2 271 (35.06%) Java
3 129 (16.69%) JavaScript
4 118 (15.27%) SQL
5 108 (13.97%) Bash
6 91 (11.77%) PowerShell
7 46 (5.95%) C++
8 40 (5.17%) C#
9 39 (5.05%) PHP
9 39 (5.05%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.85%) Go
11 18 (2.33%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.81%) C
12 14 (1.81%) Ruby
13 12 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.16%) Perl
16 8 (1.03%) Scala
17 7 (0.91%) Rust
18 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 276 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 132 (17.08%) DV Cleared
3 108 (13.97%) SC Cleared
4 81 (10.48%) Degree
5 76 (9.83%) AWS Certification
6 44 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.16%) CISSP
11 8 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.03%) MCP
12 7 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.91%) MCSE
13 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.78%) CCNA
13 6 (0.78%) CCNP
14 5 (0.65%) GIAC
15 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.14%) QA
2 13 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.78%) NCSC
5 5 (0.65%) SLA
6 3 (0.39%) NIST
6 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.13%) GDPR
8 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 245 (31.69%) Docker
2 84 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (6.99%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.30%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.81%) vSphere
6 9 (1.16%) Firmware
7 7 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.39%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.39%) XenApp
10 3 (0.39%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.13%) KVM
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 261 (33.76%) Kubernetes
2 162 (20.96%) Terraform
3 144 (18.63%) Ansible
4 85 (11.00%) Puppet
5 14 (1.81%) Grafana
6 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.55%) Packer
7 12 (1.55%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.03%) Nagios
9 7 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.78%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.52%) Podman
11 4 (0.52%) SCCM
11 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.39%) Istio
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 91 (11.77%) VMware
2 89 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 59 (7.63%) Google
4 47 (6.08%) Red Hat
5 39 (5.05%) Oracle
6 23 (2.98%) Cisco
7 11 (1.42%) Dell
8 9 (1.16%) SAP
9 8 (1.03%) Citrix
9 8 (1.03%) Databricks
9 8 (1.03%) HP
10 7 (0.91%) CheckPoint
10 7 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.91%) Teradata
11 6 (0.78%) Meraki
12 5 (0.65%) Centrify
12 5 (0.65%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.65%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.65%) Splunk