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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 188 401 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 11.30% 9.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.71% 32.98% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 339 298
10th Percentile £325 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £658 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £680
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
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 £50.59 £75.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -32.55% +33.33% -3.02%

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 793 1,216 1,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.14% 34.27% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 979 859
10th Percentile £205 £298 £250
25th Percentile £363 £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 £592
90th Percentile £688 £719 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 56 22
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.40 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.69 £18.13
Median hourly rate £15.20 £51.68 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.60% +106.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £53.78
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

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 7 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 7 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 73 £475 -14.61% 115
Gloucestershire -2 56 £588 +6.82% 51
Wiltshire -42 32 £600 +4.35% 12
Devon -17 9 £600 +2.13% 23
Somerset -7 4 £450 -28.00% 16
Cornwall - 4 £388 -
Dorset -2 3 £350 -31.71% 11
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 (5.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 63 (33.51%) Azure
2 20 (10.64%) Serverless
3 18 (9.57%) GCP
4 15 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (7.45%) OpenShift
5 14 (7.45%) PaaS
6 13 (6.91%) Amazon S3
6 13 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.79%) SaaS
8 8 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.19%) GitHub
10 4 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.13%) Pulumi
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.60%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.79%) PBX
1 9 (4.79%) VoIP
2 7 (3.72%) AMQP
2 7 (3.72%) Network Security
3 5 (2.66%) VPN
4 3 (1.60%) DNS
4 3 (1.60%) Firewall
5 2 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.06%) LAN
5 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.06%) WAN
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (4.79%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.26%) InfluxDB
4 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.60%) MySQL
7 3 (1.60%) Power BI
7 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.06%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.06%) Flink
8 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.06%) OLAP
8 2 (1.06%) OLTP
8 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.45%) JIRA
3 9 (4.79%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (4.26%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.72%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.72%) GitLab
5 7 (3.72%) Selenium
6 6 (3.19%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.19%) Git
7 5 (2.66%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.06%) JUnit
9 2 (1.06%) Snyk
10 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.53%) ERwin
10 1 (0.53%) ESLint
10 1 (0.53%) git-flow
10 1 (0.53%) JMeter
10 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
General
1 21 (11.17%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.45%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.85%) Telecoms
4 10 (5.32%) Finance
5 7 (3.72%) Digital Economy
5 7 (3.72%) Legal
6 5 (2.66%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.13%) German Language
8 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
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 50 (26.60%) Developer
2 31 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.36%) Architect
4 20 (10.64%) Senior
5 16 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.26%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) SOC Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Angular Developer
11 6 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Database Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Senior Database Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.62%) React
2 18 (9.57%) AngularJS
3 16 (8.51%) Node.js
4 13 (6.91%) Spring
5 9 (4.79%) .NET
6 8 (4.26%) Vue
7 7 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (3.72%) YAML
8 6 (3.19%) Laravel
8 6 (3.19%) Next.js
8 6 (3.19%) React Native
8 6 (3.19%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.66%) CSS
9 5 (2.66%) RESTful
9 5 (2.66%) SQLAlchemy
10 4 (2.13%) Flask
10 4 (2.13%) HTML
10 4 (2.13%) ModSecurity
10 4 (2.13%) PySpark
10 4 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.32%) Security Posture
3 9 (4.79%) Blackberry
3 9 (4.79%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.19%) PKI
5 5 (2.66%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.06%) IoT
8 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.23%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Windows
3 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.06%) Android
4 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.06%) 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 (35.11%) DevOps
2 45 (23.94%) CI/CD
3 35 (18.62%) Agile
4 26 (13.83%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (13.83%) Software Engineering
5 21 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (9.57%) ArchiMate
8 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (7.45%) Project Management
10 13 (6.91%) SDLC
10 13 (6.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (6.91%) TOGAF
11 11 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (5.85%) Digital Strategy
11 11 (5.85%) OO
12 10 (5.32%) Cloud Security
12 10 (5.32%) Roadmaps
12 10 (5.32%) SIEM
12 10 (5.32%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.04%) Python
2 41 (21.81%) Java
3 35 (18.62%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.83%) SQL
5 20 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.04%) C
7 16 (8.51%) Go
7 16 (8.51%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.79%) Bash
9 8 (4.26%) C#
10 6 (3.19%) PHP
11 5 (2.66%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.60%) R
13 2 (1.06%) Bicep
13 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.06%) Scala
13 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.53%) Dart
14 1 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 105 (55.85%) Security Cleared
2 67 (35.64%) DV Cleared
3 44 (23.40%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.45%) Degree
5 8 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (3.72%) HND
7 5 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.13%) CCNP
8 4 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.60%) OSCP
9 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.06%) CEH
10 2 (1.06%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.06%) IBM Certification
10 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.06%) SANS
11 1 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) NCSC
3 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.72%) NIST
4 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.13%) 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 43 (22.87%) Docker
2 9 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (31.91%) Terraform
2 42 (22.34%) Kubernetes
3 36 (19.15%) Ansible
4 20 (10.64%) Grafana
4 20 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.85%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (4.26%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.13%) OPNET
7 4 (2.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (1.60%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.60%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.06%) Argo
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 24 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) VMware
3 14 (7.45%) Google
4 13 (6.91%) Cisco
5 11 (5.85%) IBM
6 9 (4.79%) Avaya
6 9 (4.79%) Ericsson
6 9 (4.79%) Juniper
6 9 (4.79%) Nokia
6 9 (4.79%) Ribbon
7 8 (4.26%) Splunk
8 6 (3.19%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.13%) Databricks
10 3 (1.60%) SAP
11 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle
12 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.53%) Veritas