AWS Contracts in Dorset

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 14 25 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 10 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 10.20% 1.82% 4.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.64% 10.00% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £407 £280 £420
25th Percentile £433 £306 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -31.71% +5.13%
75th Percentile £550 £400 £631
90th Percentile £555 £430 £638
South West median daily rate £575 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - - £59.80
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +61.59%

All Cloud Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 39 30 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 39.80% 18.18% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 58
10th Percentile £223 £175 £160
25th Percentile £413 £175 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £185 £494
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% -62.57% -1.15%
75th Percentile £550 £425 £625
90th Percentile £683 £769 £679
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile £14.70 - £13.64
25th Percentile £14.99 - £17.22
Median hourly rate £16.78 £14.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.86% -26.32% -69.30%
75th Percentile £20.03 - £57.72
90th Percentile £23.01 - £60.61
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Dorset

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Dorset

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Dorset

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +6 8 £441 +26.00% 96
Poole - 2 £550 - 4
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) React
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
1 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (20.00%) Operational Stability
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes