AWS Engineer Contracts in the South West

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > South West

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the South West is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 130 124
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 12 39 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.38% 1.08% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.16% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 36 40
10th Percentile £450 £500 £486
25th Percentile £456 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -6.12% +18.64%
75th Percentile £556 £694 £638
90th Percentile £600 £713 £654
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 2,968 3,350 3,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.46% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,513 2,535
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £388 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 267 206
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +39.78% +9.41%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.25 £69.49
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the South West

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the South West

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the South West

AWS Engineer
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 AWS Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Bristol +7 4 £450 -21.74% 2
Wiltshire +1 4 £500 -27.27%
Gloucestershire +4 2 £625 +8.70% 1
Somerset - 1 £475 -
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Python
4 6 (50.00%) Terraform
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
5 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (33.33%) Serverless
6 4 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (33.33%) PySpark
7 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (25.00%) Ansible
7 3 (25.00%) Docker
7 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
8 2 (16.67%) SDLC
8 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
8 2 (16.67%) Data Acquisition

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) R
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) IBM Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks