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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS 348 191 203
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.79% 10.52% 6.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.83% 34.73% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 153 160
10th Percentile £409 £357 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.05%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £600
90th Percentile £750 £698 £719
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £54.90 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £102.50 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.95 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -36.52%

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 945 550 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.57% 30.30% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 393 594
10th Percentile £305 £225 £220
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 38 50
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.13 £13.74
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -73.04% +36.59%
75th Percentile £58.75 £32.69 -
90th Percentile - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -7 91 £550 +4.27% 53
Wiltshire +1 63 £515 -14.17% 25
Devon +4 58 £538 +3.46% 15
Somerset +1 40 £588 +17.50% 29
Gloucestershire +3 38 £575 -6.50% 84
Dorset +13 35 £409 -25.64% 9
Cornwall -3 1 £750 +15.38% 4
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 17 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.31%) Apache
3 10 (2.87%) Confluence
4 8 (2.30%) IIS
5 5 (1.44%) Apache Superset
6 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.57%) nginx
8 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 172 (49.43%) Azure
2 65 (18.68%) GCP
3 30 (8.62%) Serverless
4 27 (7.76%) Amazon S3
5 21 (6.03%) GitHub
6 20 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.59%) Datadog
10 9 (2.59%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.59%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.59%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.30%) dbt
12 7 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.30%) DNS
2 7 (2.01%) Firewall
3 4 (1.15%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.15%) TETRA
4 3 (0.86%) DHCP
4 3 (0.86%) Network Security
4 3 (0.86%) VLAN
5 2 (0.57%) BGP
5 2 (0.57%) IPsec
5 2 (0.57%) NAS
5 2 (0.57%) OSPF
5 2 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.57%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.29%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.29%) MPLS
6 1 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.75%) Power BI
3 17 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.02%) MySQL
6 13 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.45%) Tableau
8 11 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.16%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.87%) Flink
10 9 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.01%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.72%) Big Data
12 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.44%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (10.63%) Git
2 26 (7.47%) GitLab
3 24 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.16%) JIRA
5 6 (1.72%) JUnit
5 6 (1.72%) Selenium
6 4 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.15%) Liquibase
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.57%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.29%) Codeception
9 1 (0.29%) JBehave
9 1 (0.29%) MLflow
9 1 (0.29%) Mockito
9 1 (0.29%) NUnit
General
1 63 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.32%) Finance
5 13 (3.74%) Military
6 5 (1.44%) Banking
7 4 (1.15%) Retail
8 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.86%) Local Government
8 3 (0.86%) Police
8 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.57%) Legal
9 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Aviation
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (19.83%) Developer
2 60 (17.24%) Architect
3 32 (9.20%) Lead
4 29 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 28 (8.05%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (7.76%) Product Manager
7 24 (6.90%) Digital Product Manager
7 24 (6.90%) Senior
7 24 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 20 (5.75%) Site Engineer
8 20 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (5.17%) AWS Architect
9 18 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (5.17%) Python Developer
9 18 (5.17%) Software Developer
10 17 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.89%) Technical Architect
11 16 (4.60%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
11 16 (4.60%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.06%) Spring Boot
2 34 (9.77%) Spring
3 30 (8.62%) React
4 23 (6.61%) AWS CDK
5 18 (5.17%) Kafka
6 17 (4.89%) .NET
7 16 (4.60%) Node.js
8 13 (3.74%) RESTful
9 12 (3.45%) REST
10 11 (3.16%) .NET Framework
11 9 (2.59%) CSS
11 9 (2.59%) CSS3
11 9 (2.59%) HTML
11 9 (2.59%) HTML5
11 9 (2.59%) Jest
11 9 (2.59%) LDAP
11 9 (2.59%) Redux
11 9 (2.59%) Spring MVC
12 6 (1.72%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.44%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.77%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.72%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.44%) Clustering
8 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.44%) Replication
9 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.57%) IVR
10 2 (0.57%) NHS
10 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.36%) Linux
2 23 (6.61%) Windows
3 13 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.44%) Rocky
5 5 (1.44%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.44%) Unix
6 4 (1.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (30.46%) Agile
2 98 (28.16%) DevOps
3 92 (26.44%) CI/CD
4 63 (18.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 54 (15.52%) Roadmaps
7 52 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (14.37%) Microservices
9 48 (13.79%) Analytics
10 44 (12.64%) AI
11 43 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (12.36%) Software Engineering
12 41 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (10.34%) Data Engineering
14 32 (9.20%) ETL
15 31 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 30 (8.62%) Observability
17 29 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
17 29 (8.33%) Migration
18 28 (8.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 106 (30.46%) Python
2 75 (21.55%) SQL
3 59 (16.95%) Java
4 31 (8.91%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.31%) Bash
6 14 (4.02%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.45%) Go
7 12 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.16%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.87%) C#
9 10 (2.87%) R
10 3 (0.86%) BeanShell
10 3 (0.86%) Bicep
10 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.57%) C++
11 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.57%) PHP
11 2 (0.57%) Scala
11 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 148 (42.53%) Security Cleared
2 110 (31.61%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.64%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.60%) Degree
5 10 (2.87%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.30%) CISSP
7 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.15%) CISM
9 4 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.57%) CCSK
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) SANS
11 1 (0.29%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.75%) QA
2 14 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.59%) GDPR
4 8 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.72%) NCSC
6 5 (1.44%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.15%) NIST
8 3 (0.86%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.57%) HL7
9 2 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (18.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.15%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.57%) Corosync
4 2 (0.57%) KVM
4 2 (0.57%) VirtualBox
4 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) iptables
5 1 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (23.56%) Kubernetes
2 70 (20.11%) Terraform
3 21 (6.03%) Ansible
3 21 (6.03%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.75%) Grafana
5 12 (3.45%) Argo
6 6 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (1.44%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.15%) Nagios
9 3 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.86%) Istio
9 3 (0.86%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Cilium
10 2 (0.57%) Kibana
10 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.57%) linkerd
10 2 (0.57%) Podman
10 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (8.62%) Oracle
2 28 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.17%) Databricks
4 10 (2.87%) Google
5 8 (2.30%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.30%) VMware
6 7 (2.01%) SAP
7 5 (1.44%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.44%) Splunk
8 4 (1.15%) Cisco
8 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.86%) F5
10 2 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.57%) ESRI
10 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.57%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.29%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.29%) Okta
11 1 (0.29%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.29%) Tenable