AWS Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 568 230 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.41% 6.39% 8.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.72% 24.36% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 375 178 358
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £48,165 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 1,978 944 1,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.85% 26.21% 25.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,372 685 1,061
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -15.45% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.17%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the South West

AWS
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 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
Gloucestershire +6 202 £75,000 +15.38% 146
Bristol -9 183 £70,000 +16.67% 88
Devon +11 67 £65,000 +36.84% 27
Wiltshire +2 45 £67,500 +18.95% 27
Somerset +3 43 £35,000 -50.00% 35
Dorset -26 13 £113,593 +113.32% 43
Cornwall +7 2 - -
AWS
England

AWS
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 38 (6.69%) Apache
2 18 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.58%) Confluence
5 5 (0.88%) nginx
6 4 (0.70%) JBoss
6 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.70%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) Site Server
Applications
1 18 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (44.01%) Azure
2 116 (20.42%) GCP
3 54 (9.51%) Serverless
4 44 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (5.99%) GitHub
7 32 (5.63%) Entra ID
8 30 (5.28%) Amazon S3
9 29 (5.11%) OpenShift
10 27 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (3.35%) Power Platform
13 17 (2.99%) SaaS
14 15 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.58%) Azure AKS
18 8 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.99%) Firewall
2 21 (3.70%) DNS
2 21 (3.70%) WAN
3 19 (3.35%) LAN
3 19 (3.35%) Network Security
4 16 (2.82%) DHCP
5 14 (2.46%) VPN
6 13 (2.29%) VLAN
7 11 (1.94%) TCP/IP
8 10 (1.76%) Software-Defined Networking
8 10 (1.76%) Wireless
9 8 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.23%) BGP
10 7 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.23%) OSPF
11 6 (1.06%) DMZ
11 6 (1.06%) VXLAN
11 6 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (3.52%) MongoDB
3 19 (3.35%) Big Data
3 19 (3.35%) Power BI
4 18 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.46%) Data Lake
6 14 (2.46%) Hadoop
6 14 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.29%) MySQL
7 13 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.58%) Flink
9 9 (1.58%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.41%) InfluxDB
10 8 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.23%) ClickHouse
11 7 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 58 (10.21%) Git
2 54 (9.51%) GitLab
3 53 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.82%) JIRA
5 14 (2.46%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.29%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.94%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.94%) Selenium
8 11 (1.94%) Subversion
9 10 (1.76%) Eclipse
9 10 (1.76%) NUnit
10 9 (1.58%) Robot Framework
11 8 (1.41%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.41%) TestRail
12 7 (1.23%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.88%) JUnit
14 4 (0.70%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.70%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.70%) Postman
General
1 141 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.37%) Finance
3 72 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 67 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.87%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.35%) Retail
7 17 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.29%) Marketing
9 13 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.94%) Local Government
11 10 (1.76%) Swedish Language
12 9 (1.58%) Legal
13 6 (1.06%) Banking
13 6 (1.06%) Billing
14 5 (0.88%) Military
15 2 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.35%) Law
15 2 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (16.02%) Developer
2 76 (13.38%) AWS Engineer
3 75 (13.20%) Architect
4 72 (12.68%) Senior
5 71 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 56 (9.86%) Software Engineer
7 44 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (7.39%) Lead
9 40 (7.04%) Data Engineer
10 38 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (5.99%) Security Engineer
12 33 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (3.87%) AWS Architect
15 20 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 20 (3.52%) Software Developer
16 19 (3.35%) Analyst
17 18 (3.17%) Support Engineer
18 16 (2.82%) IT Support
19 15 (2.64%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (25.35%) Terraform
2 55 (9.68%) React
3 37 (6.51%) Node.js
4 34 (5.99%) Spring Boot
5 33 (5.81%) .NET
5 33 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (4.58%) RESTful
6 26 (4.58%) Spring
7 21 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 17 (2.99%) .NET Core
8 17 (2.99%) Vue
9 16 (2.82%) REST
10 15 (2.64%) CSS
10 15 (2.64%) HTML
10 15 (2.64%) Next.js
11 14 (2.46%) .NET Framework
12 13 (2.29%) LDAP
12 13 (2.29%) SailPoint
13 12 (2.11%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (1.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 119 (20.95%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.94%) NHS
7 11 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.58%) Blog
8 9 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.41%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.23%) PKI
11 6 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (15.85%) Linux
2 62 (10.92%) Windows
3 33 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.52%) Unix
5 16 (2.82%) CentOS
6 14 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.88%) Debian
8 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (33.80%) CI/CD
2 171 (30.11%) DevOps
3 168 (29.58%) Agile
4 125 (22.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (22.01%) Software Engineering
5 112 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (19.19%) Containerisation
7 98 (17.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 89 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (14.61%) AI
10 72 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 69 (12.15%) Microservices
12 64 (11.27%) Mentoring
13 60 (10.56%) Test Automation
14 56 (9.86%) Cloud Security
15 54 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
16 51 (8.98%) Analytics
17 48 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
17 48 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (8.10%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 162 (28.52%) Python
2 94 (16.55%) Java
3 84 (14.79%) JavaScript
4 60 (10.56%) SQL
5 58 (10.21%) Bash
6 40 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 36 (6.34%) C++
8 33 (5.81%) C#
9 22 (3.87%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.17%) Go
11 15 (2.64%) Rust
12 13 (2.29%) PHP
13 10 (1.76%) Scala
14 9 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.23%) Perl
16 4 (0.70%) C
16 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 197 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 90 (15.85%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.27%) AWS Certification
5 42 (7.39%) Degree
6 28 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.82%) CISSP
9 15 (2.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 15 (2.64%) Azure Certification
10 14 (2.46%) CISM
11 13 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.76%) CCNP
12 10 (1.76%) MCSE
13 8 (1.41%) CCNA
14 6 (1.06%) OSCP
14 6 (1.06%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.75%) Accessibility
1 27 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.52%) QA
3 19 (3.35%) NIST
4 16 (2.82%) GDPR
5 12 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.76%) NCSC
7 9 (1.58%) GRC
8 7 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.06%) JSP 440
9 6 (1.06%) SLA
10 5 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.70%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.70%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.70%) WCAG
12 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 105 (18.49%) Docker
2 50 (8.80%) Active Directory
3 35 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.52%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.76%) NDS
6 9 (1.58%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.41%) vSphere
8 5 (0.88%) Firmware
9 4 (0.70%) Squid
10 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.18%) KVM
12 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.18%) XenApp
12 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 119 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 100 (17.61%) Ansible
3 46 (8.10%) Grafana
4 23 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.87%) Puppet
6 17 (2.99%) Kibana
6 17 (2.99%) logstash
7 8 (1.41%) Packer
8 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.88%) Argo
9 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.88%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.70%) Iperf
10 4 (0.70%) Istio
10 4 (0.70%) linkerd
10 4 (0.70%) Mesos
10 4 (0.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 106 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.39%) VMware
3 33 (5.81%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.58%) Cisco
5 23 (4.05%) Google
6 22 (3.87%) Splunk
7 20 (3.52%) Atlassian
8 15 (2.64%) Fortinet
9 14 (2.46%) CyberArk
9 14 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 13 (2.29%) ForgeRock
10 13 (2.29%) Okta
10 13 (2.29%) OpenText
10 13 (2.29%) Oracle
11 10 (1.76%) NetIQ
12 9 (1.58%) Databricks
13 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.23%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.23%) Veeam
14 6 (1.06%) HubSpot