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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 945 1,104 1,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.08% 16.52% 17.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.62% 42.67% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 619 643 996
10th Percentile £37,700 £37,000 £37,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,919 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

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 2,730 2,587 3,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.13% 38.72% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,129 1,610 2,384
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,390 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +4.54% +11.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -4 404 £65,000 -3.70% 103
Gloucestershire -5 312 £60,000 -11.11% 44
Dorset -9 87 £45,000 - 8
Wiltshire -32 49 £62,500 +25.00% 15
Devon -32 36 £57,500 +35.29% 29
Somerset -21 35 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Cornwall -15 7 £40,000 -
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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 33 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.17%) ArcGIS
2 30 (3.17%) GeoServer
3 27 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.12%) Apache
5 17 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.95%) Confluence
7 7 (0.74%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (0.74%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.53%) nginx
9 4 (0.42%) CMS
9 4 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.42%) WordPress
10 3 (0.32%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.32%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Mule
12 1 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.63%) Trello
3 5 (0.53%) OrCAD
3 5 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.32%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 562 (59.47%) Azure
2 194 (20.53%) GCP
3 101 (10.69%) OpenShift
4 96 (10.16%) SaaS
5 79 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (6.56%) Serverless
8 37 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (3.81%) PaaS
10 32 (3.39%) IaaS
11 26 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (2.33%) GitHub
13 20 (2.12%) Amazon S3
14 19 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.01%) OCI
15 16 (1.69%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.59%) Datadog
16 15 (1.59%) Power Platform
17 11 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.14%) DNS
2 53 (5.61%) TCP/IP
3 48 (5.08%) DHCP
4 44 (4.66%) Firewall
5 39 (4.13%) HTTP
6 28 (2.96%) WAN
7 27 (2.86%) LAN
8 22 (2.33%) AMQP
9 17 (1.80%) Network Security
10 14 (1.48%) Internet
11 13 (1.38%) VPN
12 12 (1.27%) VSAN
13 11 (1.16%) Ethernet
13 11 (1.16%) RS-232
13 11 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (1.06%) SAN
15 8 (0.85%) VLAN
16 7 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
16 7 (0.74%) SSL
17 6 (0.63%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 64 (6.77%) MySQL
4 60 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (5.40%) Big Data
6 44 (4.66%) BigQuery
7 42 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 40 (4.23%) Looker
8 40 (4.23%) Relational Database
9 36 (3.81%) GIS
10 35 (3.70%) NoSQL
11 27 (2.86%) QGIS
12 26 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (2.75%) Hadoop
13 22 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
14 16 (1.69%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.38%) Oracle Database
16 12 (1.27%) Power BI
17 11 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (9.63%) Git
2 53 (5.61%) JIRA
3 46 (4.87%) GitLab
4 41 (4.34%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.69%) Selenium
6 14 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 12 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.53%) JMeter
10 5 (0.53%) LabVIEW
10 5 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.32%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.32%) Appium
12 3 (0.32%) Maven
12 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.32%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 117 (12.38%) Social Skills
2 109 (11.53%) Aerospace
3 95 (10.05%) Finance
4 87 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (3.39%) Billing
6 28 (2.96%) Tech for Good
7 27 (2.86%) Retail
8 25 (2.65%) Public Sector
9 23 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (2.12%) Banking
11 14 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.27%) Law
13 11 (1.16%) Electronics
13 11 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.16%) Marketing
14 10 (1.06%) Games
15 7 (0.74%) Aviation
15 7 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 219 (23.17%) Developer
2 185 (19.58%) Senior
3 166 (17.57%) Software Engineer
4 118 (12.49%) Architect
5 104 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 84 (8.89%) Lead
7 55 (5.82%) Senior Developer
8 50 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 46 (4.87%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 43 (4.55%) Software Developer
12 42 (4.44%) Java Developer
13 41 (4.34%) Cloud Architect
14 37 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (3.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 35 (3.70%) Consultant
16 35 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
17 34 (3.60%) Data Manager
18 33 (3.49%) Java Engineer
19 32 (3.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (21.27%) React
2 101 (10.69%) AngularJS
3 97 (10.26%) .NET
4 89 (9.42%) Node.js
5 79 (8.36%) CSS
6 72 (7.62%) Spring
7 63 (6.67%) Vue
8 61 (6.46%) Spring Boot
9 54 (5.71%) .NET Core
10 52 (5.50%) HTML
10 52 (5.50%) Laravel
11 42 (4.44%) ASP.NET
12 36 (3.81%) .NET Framework
13 30 (3.17%) Kafka
14 29 (3.07%) REST
15 27 (2.86%) Leaflet
15 27 (2.86%) OpenLayers
15 27 (2.86%) PostGIS
15 27 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (2.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.51%) Public Cloud
2 58 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 48 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.44%) Private Cloud
5 31 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 22 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 20 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.90%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.48%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.16%) Analogue Electronics
12 11 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.16%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.06%) Taxonomies
14 9 (0.95%) IoT
14 9 (0.95%) PKI
15 8 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 249 (26.35%) Linux
2 128 (13.54%) Windows
3 94 (9.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 35 (3.70%) CentOS
6 31 (3.28%) Unix
7 25 (2.65%) Debian
7 25 (2.65%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.01%) CoreOS
10 13 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (1.27%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.74%) Android
12 7 (0.74%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.63%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.42%) Solaris
15 3 (0.32%) SUSE
15 3 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (44.44%) Agile
2 380 (40.21%) DevOps
3 233 (24.66%) Software Engineering
4 210 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 185 (19.58%) Scrum
6 176 (18.62%) Actionable Insight
7 142 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
8 128 (13.54%) Microservices
9 125 (13.23%) Full Stack Development
10 112 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 109 (11.53%) Collaborative Working
12 96 (10.16%) Kanban
13 94 (9.95%) Continuous Integration
14 93 (9.84%) Containerisation
15 88 (9.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 84 (8.89%) Project Management
17 83 (8.78%) Mentoring
18 69 (7.30%) SDLC
19 67 (7.09%) Data Modelling
20 64 (6.77%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 312 (33.02%) Python
2 264 (27.94%) Java
3 232 (24.55%) JavaScript
4 103 (10.90%) SQL
5 101 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 94 (9.95%) Bash
7 84 (8.89%) C#
8 77 (8.15%) PowerShell
9 66 (6.98%) PHP
10 22 (2.33%) Go
11 21 (2.22%) Scala
12 20 (2.12%) C
13 18 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 16 (1.69%) C++
15 13 (1.38%) R
15 13 (1.38%) Ruby
16 11 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 10 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.95%) Rust
19 6 (0.63%) Ada
Qualifications
1 361 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 170 (17.99%) DV Cleared
3 163 (17.25%) SC Cleared
4 89 (9.42%) Degree
5 39 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 27 (2.86%) CISSP
7 26 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.59%) CISM
9 14 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.06%) CISA
13 9 (0.95%) CEH
13 9 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.74%) CRISC
15 7 (0.74%) MCITP
15 7 (0.74%) MCSE
16 6 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.41%) QA
2 36 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.33%) NIST
4 17 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.06%) GDPR
7 9 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.63%) GRC
9 5 (0.53%) SLA
10 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.42%) WCAG
11 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.21%) SEPA
12 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 214 (22.65%) Docker
2 97 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (8.36%) Hyper-V
4 56 (5.93%) Active Directory
5 15 (1.59%) XenApp
6 13 (1.38%) vSphere
7 11 (1.16%) XenDesktop
8 7 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.63%) KVM
10 5 (0.53%) Firmware
11 4 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.32%) Ceph
12 3 (0.32%) Gluster
12 3 (0.32%) oVirt
12 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.21%) Apache Flume
14 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 255 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 184 (19.47%) Ansible
3 159 (16.83%) Terraform
4 110 (11.64%) Puppet
5 28 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.90%) Grafana
6 18 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.69%) SCCM
8 15 (1.59%) Nagios
9 11 (1.16%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
10 8 (0.85%) SCVMM
11 7 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
12 5 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.42%) Istio
13 4 (0.42%) Podman
14 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 140 (14.81%) Google
2 139 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 116 (12.28%) VMware
4 95 (10.05%) Red Hat
5 58 (6.14%) Oracle
6 28 (2.96%) ESRI
7 21 (2.22%) Cisco
8 18 (1.90%) Citrix
9 16 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.69%) SaltStack
10 13 (1.38%) Dell
10 13 (1.38%) EMC
11 12 (1.27%) Veeam
12 11 (1.16%) HP
12 11 (1.16%) Symantec
13 9 (0.95%) Sybase
14 8 (0.85%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.85%) McAfee
15 7 (0.74%) Centreon
16 6 (0.63%) SolarWinds