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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 9 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 10.00% 1.69% 5.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.13% 9.38% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 9
10th Percentile £427 £280 £441
25th Percentile £493 £306 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £625
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -44.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile - £400 £738
90th Percentile - £430 £740
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +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 £35.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +124.86% -55.13% +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 32 32 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 35.56% 17.98% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 54
10th Percentile £203 £175 £172
25th Percentile £363 £175 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £185 £506
Median % change year-on-year +129.97% -63.49% +6.58%
75th Percentile £550 £472 £647
90th Percentile - £769 £726
South West median daily rate £488 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £14.70 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.99 - £17.38
Median hourly rate £16.78 £14.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.86% -26.32% -69.30%
75th Percentile £20.03 - £58.41
90th Percentile £23.01 - £60.70
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -46.09% -37.78% +161.63%

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 June 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 June 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
Poole - 5 £550 - 9
Bournemouth +8 4 £441 +26.00% 494
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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Code Climate
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Backend Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) API Design
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
6 1 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
6 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
6 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAI