AWS Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 17 6
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 32 35 75
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 8.40% 9.86% 18.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.93% 26.92% 44.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 55
10th Percentile £375 £460 £455
25th Percentile £405 £516 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -4.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £705 £694
90th Percentile £691 £734 £738
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £52.49 - £67.15
25th Percentile £54.40 - £74.13
Median hourly rate £59.28 - £78.00
75th Percentile £65.84 - -
90th Percentile £68.76 - -
South West median hourly rate £59.28 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 189 130 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 49.61% 36.62% 41.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 84 121
10th Percentile £290 £413 £375
25th Percentile £439 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £688
90th Percentile £700 £734 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £31.53 £40.88 £19.10
25th Percentile £31.59 £57.19 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -10.00% -22.08%
75th Percentile £51.21 £69.06 £78.00
90th Percentile £62.91 £69.63 £78.90
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

AWS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Gloucestershire

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Gloucestershire

AWS
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 21 December 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
Gloucester -3 15 £419 -34.18% 5
Cheltenham -3 9 £650 +8.25% 12
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Documentum
1 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Big Data
1 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Hive
2 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) Impala
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) GitLab
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.63%) Git
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Junior
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) OpenID
2 3 (9.38%) SOAP
2 3 (9.38%) XML
3 2 (6.25%) Bootstrap
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) JSON
3 2 (6.25%) LDAP
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.25%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) CMDB
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.88%) Scrum
5 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.63%) Incident Response
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) User Experience
7 4 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.38%) AI
8 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (9.38%) Data Science
8 3 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
8 3 (9.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Bash
2 8 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.50%) C
6 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
7 1 (3.13%) C++
7 1 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) SQL
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) Security Cleared
2 13 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (28.13%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) CISM
4 3 (9.38%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) CCSP
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) GCIH
6 1 (3.13%) GIAC
6 1 (3.13%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
4 1 (3.13%) GRC
4 1 (3.13%) NCSC
4 1 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.63%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) PingFederate
4 2 (6.25%) Podman
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (3.13%) Nagios
5 1 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) NetApp
3 2 (6.25%) Ping Identity
3 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) OpenText
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) Tenable