AWS Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 11 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 3 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.56% 10.64% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.68% 42.86% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £447 £404 £533
25th Percentile £493 £426 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £460 £620
Median % change year-on-year +28.53% -25.81% +8.88%
75th Percentile £693 £613 £703
90th Percentile £742 £651 £731
Hampshire median daily rate £473 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -17.74% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00

All Cloud Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 31 35 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 16.15% 24.82% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 33
10th Percentile £190 £288 £470
25th Percentile £296 £360 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £548 £509 £631
90th Percentile £630 £620 £668
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £536 £545
% change year-on-year -6.76% -1.61% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £19.55
25th Percentile - - £19.87
Median hourly rate - - £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - - +98.33%
75th Percentile - - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £65.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing AWS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) linkerd
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) VMware