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 £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 144 125
Rank change year-on-year +36 -19 +3
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 2 9 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.29% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.31% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 36
10th Percentile £534 - £503
25th Percentile £547 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £622 £488 £694
90th Percentile £631 £518 £713
England median daily rate £600 £573 £600
% change year-on-year +4.80% -4.58% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,557 2,934 3,207
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.08% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,860 2,398
10th Percentile £215 £213 £275
25th Percentile £379 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 412 254
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -14.82% +35.94%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £72.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%

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
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 17 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
Bristol +11 2 £588 +30.56% 1
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty

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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes