AWS Contracts in Somerset

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS 16 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 10.67% 2.39% 6.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.00% 15.15% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 11
10th Percentile £409 £345 -
25th Percentile £434 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -24.00% +16.88%
75th Percentile £631 £488 £674
90th Percentile £645 £555 £700
South West median daily rate £570 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +6.05% -6.52% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 40 33 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 26.67% 15.79% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 44
10th Percentile £240 £213 £226
25th Percentile £406 £388 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £622
Median % change year-on-year - -23.67% +38.29%
75th Percentile £585 £532 £706
90th Percentile £638 £600 £740
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £16.93
25th Percentile - £12.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £26.90
Median % change year-on-year - -51.67% +25.10%
75th Percentile - £13.50 £40.39
90th Percentile - - £46.16
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £53.35
% change year-on-year -10.14% -60.64% +148.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Somerset

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Somerset

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Somerset over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Somerset

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 22 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
Bath -2 10 £463 -2.63% 9
Street - 3 £625 - 6
Yeovil - 1 £475 - 1
AWS
South West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) Prefect
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
5 1 (6.25%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BGP
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) MPLS
1 2 (12.50%) OSPF
1 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 2 (12.50%) VLAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (18.75%) GIS
2 2 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Tech for Good
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Data Scientist
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Python Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) GIS Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) NumPy
1 3 (18.75%) PostGIS
2 2 (12.50%) Django
2 2 (12.50%) Metaflow
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Analytics
1 6 (37.50%) Data Science
2 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 2 (12.50%) Business Development
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (12.50%) IT Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (12.50%) CCIE
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (12.50%) JNCIE
3 2 (12.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) ESRI
3 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
3 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) Criteo
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle