AWS Contracts in Cheltenham

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 14 33 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 24.14% 16.84% 19.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 73.68% 55.00% 52.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 22
10th Percentile £535 £510 £409
25th Percentile £575 £525 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% -10.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £625 £719 £709
90th Percentile £670 £745 £795
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £581 £550
% change year-on-year +5.81% +5.68% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Cheltenham

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19 60 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 32.76% 30.61% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 43
10th Percentile £399 £475 £400
25th Percentile £563 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.58% -6.46% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £719
90th Percentile £709 £731 £793
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +71.43% -71.23% +398.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Cheltenham.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
1 7 (50.00%) HTTP
1 7 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) JPA
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
2 6 (42.86%) Service Management
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.14%) Release Management
6 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) Bash
2 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) DV Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
2 7 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) Ansible
2 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (50.00%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle