AWS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 239 188 217
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.57% 10.97% 6.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.14% 35.88% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 152 179
10th Percentile £400 £401 £325
25th Percentile £428 £472 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £699 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £52.88 - -
25th Percentile £55.13 - -
Median hourly rate £67.35 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% - -
75th Percentile £100.63 - -
90th Percentile £102.80 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £51.78
% change year-on-year +1.69% +42.44% -21.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 793 524 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.12% 30.57% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 396 643
10th Percentile £263 £240 £208
25th Percentile £402 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 20 25
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £29.75 £18.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.75 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.30% +77.59% -73.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £36.38 £14.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 £19.80
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -22.33%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South West

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the South West

AWS
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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 69 £550 +4.27% 67
Wiltshire -14 49 £525 -16.13% 16
Gloucestershire -7 34 £575 -6.50% 62
Dorset +14 26 £409 -7.26% 7
Somerset -3 26 £450 -23.40% 25
Devon -5 22 £529 -11.88% 23
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.18%) Apache
3 8 (3.35%) IIS
4 6 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.09%) Apache Superset
6 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.84%) Confluence
7 2 (0.84%) Documentum
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 101 (42.26%) Azure
2 41 (17.15%) GCP
3 23 (9.62%) Amazon S3
3 23 (9.62%) Serverless
4 20 (8.37%) GitHub
5 17 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.69%) Power Platform
7 15 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.77%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.93%) Datadog
13 7 (2.93%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.93%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.51%) Firewall
2 5 (2.09%) Network Security
3 4 (1.67%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.67%) DHCP
3 4 (1.67%) DNS
3 4 (1.67%) TETRA
3 4 (1.67%) VPN
4 3 (1.26%) HTTP
4 3 (1.26%) LAN
4 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.26%) WAN
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) NAS
5 2 (0.84%) OSPF
5 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.84%) SAN
5 2 (0.84%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.69%) MySQL
1 16 (6.69%) Power BI
2 14 (5.86%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.44%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.60%) Tableau
6 8 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.51%) Flink
9 5 (2.09%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.67%) GIS
11 3 (1.26%) Big Data
11 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.84%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.72%) Git
2 25 (10.46%) GitLab
3 22 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.26%) JIRA
5 3 (1.26%) Selenium
5 3 (1.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.84%) DBeaver
6 2 (0.84%) JUnit
6 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) JBehave
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Mocha
7 1 (0.42%) Mockito
7 1 (0.42%) NUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 40 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.23%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.02%) Military
5 9 (3.77%) Finance
6 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.09%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.67%) Marketing
8 3 (1.26%) Banking
8 3 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.84%) Electronics
9 2 (0.84%) Legal
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (21.76%) Developer
2 36 (15.06%) Architect
3 29 (12.13%) Senior
4 24 (10.04%) Java Developer
5 23 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (8.37%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 16 (6.69%) Analyst
8 16 (6.69%) Site Engineer
9 15 (6.28%) Python Developer
10 12 (5.02%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Security Analyst
12 10 (4.18%) Consultant
12 10 (4.18%) Data Architect
12 10 (4.18%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.18%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
13 9 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.04%) Spring
1 24 (10.04%) Spring Boot
2 22 (9.21%) React
3 15 (6.28%) .NET
4 14 (5.86%) REST
5 12 (5.02%) RESTful
6 11 (4.60%) CSS
6 11 (4.60%) HTML
6 11 (4.60%) Spring MVC
7 10 (4.18%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.18%) CSS3
7 10 (4.18%) HTML5
7 10 (4.18%) Jest
7 10 (4.18%) Kafka
7 10 (4.18%) Node.js
8 9 (3.77%) Redux
9 8 (3.35%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.09%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.09%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (2.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.28%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.51%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (2.51%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.67%) Replication
7 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Clustering
8 2 (0.84%) CMDB
8 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) NHS
8 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.32%) Linux
2 23 (9.62%) Windows
3 13 (5.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.93%) Unix
6 3 (1.26%) Debian
6 3 (1.26%) Rocky
6 3 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.64%) Agile
2 74 (30.96%) DevOps
3 69 (28.87%) CI/CD
4 45 (18.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (16.74%) Containerisation
6 39 (16.32%) Analytics
7 33 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (10.88%) Microservices
10 24 (10.04%) Data Engineering
11 23 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (9.62%) Software Engineering
12 21 (8.79%) ETL
12 21 (8.79%) Roadmaps
13 20 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (7.95%) Code Quality
14 19 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (7.95%) Migration
14 19 (7.95%) Observability
15 18 (7.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.80%) Python
2 49 (20.50%) SQL
3 43 (17.99%) Java
4 28 (11.72%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.28%) Bash
6 14 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.60%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.35%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.09%) C#
9 5 (2.09%) R
10 4 (1.67%) Go
10 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.26%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.42%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (49.37%) Security Cleared
2 95 (39.75%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.30%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.77%) Degree
5 6 (2.51%) CISSP
5 6 (2.51%) CompTIA CySA+
5 6 (2.51%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (2.51%) SANS
6 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CSPO
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.86%) QA
2 10 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.93%) GDPR
5 6 (2.51%) NCSC
6 5 (2.09%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.26%) NIST
8 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.84%) HL7
8 2 (0.84%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.84%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (22.18%) Docker
2 10 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.93%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.84%) Corosync
7 1 (0.42%) iptables
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (26.78%) Kubernetes
2 45 (18.83%) Terraform
3 23 (9.62%) Ansible
4 21 (8.79%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.11%) Grafana
6 7 (2.93%) Argo
7 5 (2.09%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (2.09%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.67%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.67%) Nagios
8 4 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.26%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.26%) Puppet
9 3 (1.26%) SCCM
9 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.84%) Cilium
10 2 (0.84%) Pacemaker
11 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.42%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.60%) Oracle
3 10 (4.18%) Databricks
3 10 (4.18%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.35%) SAP
5 6 (2.51%) Google
6 5 (2.09%) Dell
6 5 (2.09%) Splunk
7 4 (1.67%) ESRI
7 4 (1.67%) F5
7 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.67%) VMware
8 3 (1.26%) Cisco
8 3 (1.26%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.26%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.84%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.84%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.84%) OpenText
9 2 (0.84%) Tenable
9 2 (0.84%) Virgin Media