AWS Contracts in Gloucestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 61 95 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.49% 19.87% 12.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.13% 49.74% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 76 64
10th Percentile £475 £450 £456
25th Percentile £519 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £652
90th Percentile £725 £717 £680
South West median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £78.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year - +61.59% -19.55%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 160 191 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 38.00% 39.96% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 150 132
10th Percentile £300 £400 £191
25th Percentile £463 £450 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £607
90th Percentile £706 £725 £680
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 6
10th Percentile £17.42 - -
25th Percentile £19.72 £35.00 £11.17
Median hourly rate £21.00 £73.00 £14.64
Median % change year-on-year -71.23% +398.63% -75.60%
75th Percentile £33.25 £78.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £55.30 - £26.88
South West median hourly rate £14.50 £55.43 £25.00
% change year-on-year -73.84% +121.70% -44.44%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Gloucestershire

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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 27 April 2024. 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 -2 31 £550 -20.00% 23
Gloucester +10 12 £675 +8.65% 4
Cirencester -2 2 £575 -11.54% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.51%) Azure
2 10 (16.39%) OpenShift
2 10 (16.39%) Serverless
3 8 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (13.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.28%) PaaS
6 1 (1.64%) npm
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Network Security
2 7 (11.48%) AMQP
3 4 (6.56%) Firewall
4 2 (3.28%) DMZ
4 2 (3.28%) LAN
4 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.28%) VPN
4 2 (3.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.11%) InfluxDB
2 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.84%) GitLab
3 3 (4.92%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
4 2 (3.28%) Git
4 2 (3.28%) Snyk
4 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.64%) Babel
5 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.64%) ERwin
5 1 (1.64%) ESLint
5 1 (1.64%) git-flow
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) JMeter
5 1 (1.64%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.64%) Vite
5 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 5 (8.20%) Finance
2 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Developer
3 9 (14.75%) Software Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Senior
6 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Architect
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Site Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Network Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.15%) React
2 13 (21.31%) Spring
3 8 (13.11%) AngularJS
4 7 (11.48%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (9.84%) Node.js
6 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.56%) RESTful
8 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.28%) Vue
10 1 (1.64%) .NET
10 1 (1.64%) ADO
10 1 (1.64%) CSS
10 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.64%) HTML
10 1 (1.64%) Jest
10 1 (1.64%) Material-UI
10 1 (1.64%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.28%) PKI
3 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) DevOps
2 21 (34.43%) CI/CD
3 13 (21.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (18.03%) Agile
4 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
5 10 (16.39%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (14.75%) Project Management
7 8 (13.11%) Change Management
7 8 (13.11%) OO
7 8 (13.11%) OOP
7 8 (13.11%) Programme Management
7 8 (13.11%) SDLC
7 8 (13.11%) Secure Coding
7 8 (13.11%) Software Architecture
7 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
8 7 (11.48%) Observability
9 6 (9.84%) Event-Driven
9 6 (9.84%) Service Management
10 5 (8.20%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.82%) Java
2 29 (47.54%) Python
3 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
4 18 (29.51%) C
5 13 (21.31%) Go
6 11 (18.03%) SQL
7 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.28%) Bicep
9 2 (3.28%) C#
10 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (78.69%) Security Cleared
2 39 (63.93%) DV Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (40.98%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (44.26%) Kubernetes
2 26 (42.62%) Terraform
3 18 (29.51%) Grafana
3 18 (29.51%) Prometheus
4 17 (27.87%) Ansible
5 10 (16.39%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (13.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.28%) Argo
8 1 (1.64%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Palo Alto
2 3 (4.92%) VMware
3 2 (3.28%) Cisco
3 2 (3.28%) F5
3 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.64%) Splunk