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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 211 188 233
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.23% 11.32% 7.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.44% 35.47% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 153 192
10th Percentile £385 £406 £326
25th Percentile £419 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £52.61 - -
25th Percentile £56.49 - -
Median hourly rate £79.92 £78.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +25.92% -3.85%
75th Percentile £101.56 - -
90th Percentile £102.88 - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.83% +38.10% -19.23%

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 742 530 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.44% 31.91% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 399 633
10th Percentile £246 £250 £211
25th Percentile £400 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 14 28
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.05 £13.45
25th Percentile £54.00 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.81 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.45% +84.91% -72.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £33.12 £16.42
90th Percentile £62.70 £68.75 £29.77
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 18 March 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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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 18 March 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 -5 68 £538 +0.47% 71
Wiltshire -18 40 £531 -16.84% 24
Gloucestershire -13 34 £563 -8.54% 51
Somerset -2 23 £494 -17.71% 17
Dorset +15 20 £384 -13.04% 7
Devon -5 19 £560 -6.67% 15
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 10 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.79%) Apache
3 7 (3.32%) IIS
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.42%) Apache Superset
5 3 (1.42%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.95%) Documentum
7 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (45.97%) Azure
2 35 (16.59%) GCP
3 25 (11.85%) GitHub
4 19 (9.00%) Serverless
5 18 (8.53%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.21%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.27%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.27%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.32%) Datadog
12 7 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) 3GPP
1 4 (1.90%) DHCP
1 4 (1.90%) Firewall
1 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.90%) TETRA
2 3 (1.42%) DNS
2 3 (1.42%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) LAN
2 3 (1.42%) Network Security
2 3 (1.42%) VPN
2 3 (1.42%) WAN
3 2 (0.95%) NAS
3 2 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.95%) SAN
4 1 (0.47%) 2G
4 1 (0.47%) BGP
4 1 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.47%) OSPF
4 1 (0.47%) VLAN
4 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.58%) MongoDB
2 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.16%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.27%) MySQL
6 9 (4.27%) Power BI
7 6 (2.84%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.84%) Flink
7 6 (2.84%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.90%) GIS
9 4 (1.90%) Tableau
10 3 (1.42%) Big Data
10 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.42%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (11.37%) Git
2 21 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.48%) GitLab
4 4 (1.90%) JIRA
4 4 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.42%) DBeaver
5 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.95%) Postman
6 2 (0.95%) Selenium
6 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) JBehave
7 1 (0.47%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) Maven
7 1 (0.47%) Mocha
7 1 (0.47%) Mockito
7 1 (0.47%) Snyk
General
1 42 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.48%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.16%) Finance
4 13 (6.16%) Military
5 5 (2.37%) Tech for Good
6 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.90%) Marketing
6 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.42%) Banking
8 2 (0.95%) Electronics
8 2 (0.95%) Legal
8 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.95%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.80%) Developer
2 34 (16.11%) Architect
3 24 (11.37%) Senior
4 18 (8.53%) Analyst
4 18 (8.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (8.53%) Java Developer
5 14 (6.64%) Software Engineer
6 12 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.21%) Data Architect
7 11 (5.21%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.21%) Security Analyst
7 11 (5.21%) Site Engineer
8 10 (4.74%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.27%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.79%) Lead
10 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.79%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.53%) Spring
2 16 (7.58%) React
3 15 (7.11%) Spring Boot
4 14 (6.64%) RESTful
5 12 (5.69%) .NET
5 12 (5.69%) Node.js
5 12 (5.69%) REST
6 10 (4.74%) Kafka
7 9 (4.27%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.27%) CSS
7 9 (4.27%) HTML
8 7 (3.32%) .NET Framework
8 7 (3.32%) SOAP
9 5 (2.37%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (1.90%) OAuth
10 4 (1.90%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.90%) PostGIS
10 4 (1.90%) Spring MVC
10 4 (1.90%) Vue
10 4 (1.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.84%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (2.84%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.90%) CMDB
6 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.90%) Replication
6 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.95%) NHS
8 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.47%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.22%) Linux
2 20 (9.48%) Windows
3 10 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.32%) Unix
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
7 3 (1.42%) Rocky
7 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (32.23%) Agile
1 68 (32.23%) DevOps
2 66 (31.28%) CI/CD
3 38 (18.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (16.11%) Containerisation
5 33 (15.64%) Analytics
6 32 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (10.43%) Microservices
7 22 (10.43%) Migration
8 21 (9.95%) ETL
9 20 (9.48%) Roadmaps
10 19 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (8.06%) Data Engineering
11 17 (8.06%) Mentoring
12 16 (7.58%) Scrum
12 16 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (7.58%) Software Engineering
12 16 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (7.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.75%) Python
2 38 (18.01%) SQL
3 37 (17.54%) Java
4 29 (13.74%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.00%) PowerShell
6 15 (7.11%) Bash
7 14 (6.64%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.32%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.37%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Go
10 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) C#
11 2 (0.95%) R
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (49.29%) Security Cleared
2 87 (41.23%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.90%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.64%) Degree
5 12 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.84%) CISSP
6 6 (2.84%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.84%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (2.84%) SANS
7 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.47%) CSPO
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.64%) QA
2 12 (5.69%) GDPR
3 9 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.84%) NCSC
5 4 (1.90%) NIST
5 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.42%) PSD2
6 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.95%) HL7
7 2 (0.95%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.95%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (22.75%) Docker
2 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.84%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.90%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (26.54%) Kubernetes
2 40 (18.96%) Terraform
3 19 (9.00%) Ansible
4 15 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.21%) Grafana
6 7 (3.32%) Argo
7 6 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.37%) Dell DRAC
8 5 (2.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (1.90%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.42%) Nagios
10 3 (1.42%) SCCM
11 2 (0.95%) Kibana
11 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.95%) Puppet
12 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.47%) logstash
12 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.58%) Oracle
3 9 (4.27%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.79%) Databricks
5 7 (3.32%) Google
5 7 (3.32%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.37%) Dell
6 5 (2.37%) Splunk
7 4 (1.90%) Cisco
7 4 (1.90%) ESRI
7 4 (1.90%) NetApp
7 4 (1.90%) SAP
8 3 (1.42%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.42%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.42%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.95%) F5
9 2 (0.95%) OpenText
9 2 (0.95%) Virgin Media