Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 120 143
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 12 24 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.61% 0.93% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 3.48% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 9
10th Percentile £270 £510 £524
25th Percentile £380 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £643 £675
Median % change year-on-year -29.96% -4.81% +6.30%
75th Percentile £520 £685 £700
90th Percentile £526 - £726
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Amazon EC2 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 623 689 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.59% 26.62% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 441 763
10th Percentile £213 £250 £310
25th Percentile £353 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £666
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
England median daily rate £501 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 43 53
10th Percentile £18.13 £25.26 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £33.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% +1.54%
75th Percentile £33.94 - £78.00
90th Percentile £36.75 - £79.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South West over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Bristol +12 5 £450 -18.18% 6
Devon -2 3 £520 -24.09% 3
Wiltshire +8 2 - - 1
Dorset - 2 £270 -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) Kong
6 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
1 2 (16.67%) SSL
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Database Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) React Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
5 3 (25.00%) Database Security
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) MCSE
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle