AWS Contracts in Devon

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 28 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 5 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 4.67% 3.27% 13.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% 20.93% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 22
10th Percentile £427 £413 £425
25th Percentile £458 £425 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +2.13% +0.43%
75th Percentile £553 - £600
90th Percentile £581 - £700
South West median daily rate £575 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25 43 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 23.36% 15.64% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 50
10th Percentile £280 £129 £159
25th Percentile £313 £153 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £639
90th Percentile £530 - £700
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Devon

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Devon

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Devon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Devon

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Devon region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Exeter +6 2 £413 -31.25% 59
Plymouth - 2 £513 - 54
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) htmx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Aruba
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) ESRI
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (20.00%) Juniper
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk