AWS Contracts in Gloucestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 33 60 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.04% 13.99% 19.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.28% 37.50% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 54 73
10th Percentile £525 £475 £450
25th Percentile £569 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £725 £722
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 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +61.59%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 160 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.78% 37.30% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 115 148
10th Percentile £230 £300 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £706 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile - £17.42 -
25th Percentile £31.50 £19.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -71.23% +398.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - £55.30 -
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 Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Gloucestershire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Gloucestershire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Gloucestershire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham 0 15 £614 +11.59% 103
Gloucester -4 8 £583 -13.70% 99
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) OpenShift
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) Matillion
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) DHCP
1 15 (45.45%) DNS
1 15 (45.45%) HTTP
1 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Support
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Node.js
1 2 (6.06%) React
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) JPA
2 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Linux
2 19 (57.58%) Windows
3 17 (51.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (51.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Containerisation
2 14 (42.42%) Service Management
3 9 (27.27%) DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
5 6 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Agile
8 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (9.09%) Microservices
8 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security
9 2 (6.06%) Code Quality
9 2 (6.06%) DevSecOps
9 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (6.06%) SDLC
9 2 (6.06%) Task Automation
9 2 (6.06%) Threat Analysis
9 2 (6.06%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) Python
2 19 (57.58%) Java
3 18 (54.55%) PowerShell
4 15 (45.45%) Bash
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 3 (9.09%) C
7 2 (6.06%) Go
7 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (78.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (66.67%) Docker
2 17 (51.52%) Hyper-V
3 16 (48.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (63.64%) Terraform
3 18 (54.55%) Ansible
4 15 (45.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) VMware
2 15 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow