AWS Contracts in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 187 398 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.93% 11.47% 9.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.88% 33.67% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 337 291
10th Percentile £325 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £638
90th Percentile £696 £719 £680
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
10th Percentile - £57.78 -
25th Percentile - £60.70 £47.02
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +61.59% -19.55%
75th Percentile - - £49.52
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +18.64%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 783 1,182 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.84% 34.05% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 950 852
10th Percentile £210 £311 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £594
90th Percentile £680 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 58 20
10th Percentile £12.58 £16.95 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £52.93 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.16% +101.62% -41.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £56.85
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +5 77 £488 -11.36% 113
Gloucestershire -3 55 £600 +6.67% 45
Wiltshire -48 29 £600 +4.35% 15
Devon -14 9 £600 +4.35% 35
Somerset -5 4 £450 -28.00% 10
Cornwall - 4 £388 -
Dorset +1 3 £350 -44.00% 4
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 10 (5.35%) Confluence
2 6 (3.21%) Apache
3 3 (1.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 66 (35.29%) Azure
2 21 (11.23%) OpenShift
3 18 (9.63%) GCP
4 17 (9.09%) Serverless
5 16 (8.56%) PaaS
6 13 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.42%) GitHub
8 11 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.81%) SaaS
10 6 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.67%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (2.14%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.14%) Pulumi
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.81%) PBX
1 9 (4.81%) VoIP
2 7 (3.74%) AMQP
2 7 (3.74%) Network Security
3 5 (2.67%) HTTP
3 5 (2.67%) VPN
4 3 (1.60%) DNS
5 2 (1.07%) Firewall
5 2 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.07%) LAN
5 2 (1.07%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.07%) WAN
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (4.81%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.28%) InfluxDB
3 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.67%) Triplestore
5 3 (1.60%) MySQL
5 3 (1.60%) Power BI
5 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.07%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.07%) Flink
6 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.07%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.07%) OLAP
6 2 (1.07%) OLTP
6 2 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.04%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.49%) JIRA
3 12 (6.42%) GitLab
4 9 (4.81%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (4.28%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.74%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.74%) Selenium
7 6 (3.21%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.67%) Git
9 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.07%) JUnit
10 2 (1.07%) Snyk
11 1 (0.53%) ERwin
11 1 (0.53%) ESLint
11 1 (0.53%) JMeter
11 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.53%) Vite
11 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 23 (12.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 8 (4.28%) Finance
5 7 (3.74%) Digital Economy
5 7 (3.74%) Legal
6 5 (2.67%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.07%) German Language
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (25.13%) Developer
2 38 (20.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.44%) Architect
4 18 (9.63%) Senior
5 15 (8.02%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) SOC Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Angular Developer
11 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Test Engineer
13 4 (2.14%) AWS Architect
13 4 (2.14%) AWS Developer
13 4 (2.14%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.65%) React
2 17 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 14 (7.49%) Node.js
4 12 (6.42%) Spring
5 9 (4.81%) .NET
5 9 (4.81%) CSS
5 9 (4.81%) REST
6 8 (4.28%) HTML
6 8 (4.28%) Vue
7 7 (3.74%) GraphQL
7 7 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (3.74%) YAML
8 6 (3.21%) Laravel
8 6 (3.21%) Next.js
8 6 (3.21%) React Native
8 6 (3.21%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.67%) Apache Jena
9 5 (2.67%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (2.67%) Kafka
9 5 (2.67%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.49%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.35%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.81%) Blackberry
3 9 (4.81%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.21%) PKI
6 5 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.53%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.51%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Windows
3 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.07%) Android
4 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.53%) Solaris
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.29%) DevOps
2 53 (28.34%) CI/CD
3 29 (15.51%) Agile
4 26 (13.90%) Software Engineering
5 24 (12.83%) Full Stack Development
6 20 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (9.63%) ArchiMate
7 18 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (7.49%) SDLC
9 13 (6.95%) Containerisation
9 13 (6.95%) Project Management
9 13 (6.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (6.95%) TOGAF
10 11 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (5.88%) Digital Strategy
11 10 (5.35%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.35%) Configuration Management
11 10 (5.35%) OO
11 10 (5.35%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 63 (33.69%) Python
2 38 (20.32%) Java
3 37 (19.79%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.23%) SQL
5 20 (10.70%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.63%) PowerShell
7 16 (8.56%) C
7 16 (8.56%) Go
8 11 (5.88%) Bash
9 7 (3.74%) C#
10 6 (3.21%) PHP
11 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.67%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.60%) R
13 2 (1.07%) Bicep
13 2 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.07%) Scala
13 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.53%) Dart
14 1 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 111 (59.36%) Security Cleared
2 68 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 49 (26.20%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.49%) Degree
5 8 (4.28%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (3.74%) HND
7 5 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.14%) CCNP
8 4 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.60%) OSCP
9 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.07%) CEH
10 2 (1.07%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.07%) IBM Certification
10 2 (1.07%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.07%) SANS
11 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.88%) QA
2 8 (4.28%) NCSC
3 7 (3.74%) NIST
4 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.14%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) GRC
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (26.74%) Docker
2 9 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.21%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.14%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (31.55%) Terraform
2 49 (26.20%) Kubernetes
3 35 (18.72%) Ansible
4 22 (11.76%) Grafana
4 22 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (4.28%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.14%) Argo
7 4 (2.14%) OPNET
7 4 (2.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (1.60%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.60%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) SCCM
10 1 (0.53%) SELinux
10 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.56%) VMware
3 14 (7.49%) Google
4 13 (6.95%) Cisco
5 11 (5.88%) IBM
6 9 (4.81%) Avaya
6 9 (4.81%) Ericsson
6 9 (4.81%) Juniper
6 9 (4.81%) Nokia
6 9 (4.81%) Ribbon
7 8 (4.28%) Splunk
8 6 (3.21%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.14%) Databricks
10 3 (1.60%) SAP
11 2 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle
12 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.53%) Veritas