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 citing AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	13	14	16
Rank change year-on-year	+1	+2	-5
Contract jobs citing AWS	331	205	225
As % of all contract jobs in the South West	8.93%	9.63%	9.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category	36.33%	30.19%	32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	232	159	171
10^th Percentile	£425	£375	£425
25^th Percentile	£500	£457	£504
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-	-8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£675	£650	£675
90^th Percentile	£798	£715	£775
England median daily rate	£550	£525	£575
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-8.70%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	13	1	1
10^th Percentile	£68.40	-	-
25^th Percentile	£92.00	£72.50	-
Median hourly rate	£92.53	£75.00	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+23.37%	+114.29%	-55.13%
75^th Percentile	£98.82	£77.50	-
90^th Percentile	£100.00	-	-
England median hourly rate	£70.00	£80.00	£46.18
% change year-on-year	-12.50%	+73.24%	-12.04%

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 citing cloud computing skills in the South West.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	911	679	696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West	24.58%	31.89%	28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted	591	475	438
10^th Percentile	£394	£220	£250
25^th Percentile	£463	£366	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£500	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+10.00%	-9.09%	-
75^th Percentile	£663	£613	£638
90^th Percentile	£750	£700	£700
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£535
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-6.54%	+0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	62	27	33
10^th Percentile	£15.25	-	£20.92
25^th Percentile	£17.50	-	£30.00
Median hourly rate	£48.75	£18.87	£70.00
Median % change year-on-year	+158.35%	-73.04%	+171.84%
75^th Percentile	£75.00	£35.67	-
90^th Percentile	£92.48	£67.70	-
England median hourly rate	£34.06	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+35.42%	-28.14%	+17.77%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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 6 November 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.

AWS Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 6 November 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 6 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Bristol	-8	95	£600	+14.29%	79
Wiltshire	+2	60	£518	-5.91%	14
Somerset	+7	53	£655	+11.49%	25
Gloucestershire	+10	40	£550	-	70
Devon	+4	36	£560	+7.18%	33
Dorset	+5	26	£430	-21.82%	17
Avon	-	1	-	-	48
AWS England

AWS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AWS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region citing AWS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	52.9%	175
2	Azure	48.0%	159
3	CI/CD	39.9%	132
4	Python	34.1%	113
5	Kubernetes	32.6%	108
6	Infrastructure as Code	32.3%	107
6	Terraform	32.3%	107
8	DevOps	28.4%	94
9	DV Cleared	27.5%	91
9	SC Cleared	27.5%	91
11	Agile	26.3%	87
12	Docker	23.9%	79
13	GCP	23.0%	76
14	SQL	22.7%	75
15	Containerisation	21.1%	70
16	Ansible	19.3%	64
16	Platform Engineering	19.3%	64
18	Java	16.9%	56
19	Roadmaps	16.6%	55
20	DevSecOps	15.7%	52
21	Technical Leadership	15.1%	50
22	AI	14.8%	49
22	Problem-Solving	14.8%	49
24	Linux	14.2%	47
25	Jenkins	13.3%	44
26	Software Engineering	13.0%	43
27	Data Pipeline	12.7%	42
28	Microservices	12.4%	41
29	Serverless	11.5%	38
29	Stakeholder Management	11.5%	38

AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	48.0%	159
2	GCP	23.0%	76
3	Serverless	11.5%	38
4	AWS Lambda	8.5%	28
4	GitHub	8.5%	28
6	Amazon S3	8.2%	27
7	GitHub Actions	6.3%	21
8	dbt	6.0%	20
8	Snowflake	6.0%	20
10	AWS CloudFormation	4.5%	15
11	Amazon Bedrock	3.3%	11
11	Amazon EKS	3.3%	11
13	Entra ID	3.0%	10
13	OpenShift	3.0%	10
15	Google Kubernetes Engine	2.4%	8
16	Amazon Cognito	2.1%	7
16	Amazon SQS	2.1%	7
16	Power Platform	2.1%	7
19	Amazon EC2	1.8%	6
19	SaaS	1.8%	6