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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 203 201 260
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.49% 10.71% 8.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.96% 34.66% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 160 215
10th Percentile £375 £433 £340
25th Percentile £423 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £639 £653 £675
90th Percentile £713 £709 £706
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £51.77 - £67.15
25th Percentile £52.61 - £74.13
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £62.36 - -
90th Percentile £67.37 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -28.95%

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 726 580 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.80% 30.92% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 402 641
10th Percentile £227 £226 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.37% -8.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £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 46 11 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £31.52 £17.67 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £15.89
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +66.77% -72.37%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £33.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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

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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 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the South West

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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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +4 72 £538 -2.27% 47
Gloucestershire -10 42 £550 -10.57% 69
Wiltshire -14 36 £531 -16.84% 26
Dorset +10 17 £388 -12.13% 14
Devon -11 14 £575 -4.17% 14
Somerset -5 11 £588 - 14
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 8 (3.94%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.96%) Apache
3 5 (2.46%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.99%) Documentum
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (46.80%) Azure
2 34 (16.75%) GCP
3 21 (10.34%) GitHub
4 16 (7.88%) Amazon S3
4 16 (7.88%) Serverless
5 14 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (5.42%) Entra ID
7 11 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.42%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.43%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.94%) npm
11 6 (2.96%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) Firewall
1 7 (3.45%) VPN
2 5 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.97%) DHCP
3 4 (1.97%) DNS
3 4 (1.97%) Network Security
3 4 (1.97%) WAN
4 3 (1.48%) HTTP
4 3 (1.48%) LAN
5 2 (0.99%) NAS
5 2 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.99%) SAN
5 2 (0.99%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.49%) BGP
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.49%) OSPF
6 1 (0.49%) SSL
6 1 (0.49%) VLAN
6 1 (0.49%) Wireless
6 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.87%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.43%) MySQL
6 9 (4.43%) Power BI
7 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.46%) Oracle ODI
8 5 (2.46%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (2.46%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.97%) Flink
9 4 (1.97%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.48%) Big Data
10 3 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.48%) GIS
11 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 20 (9.85%) Git
3 19 (9.36%) GitLab
4 5 (2.46%) DBeaver
5 4 (1.97%) JIRA
5 4 (1.97%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.99%) Postman
7 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.49%) JBehave
8 1 (0.49%) JUnit
8 1 (0.49%) Maven
8 1 (0.49%) Mocha
8 1 (0.49%) Mockito
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 45 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.90%) Finance
5 10 (4.93%) Military
6 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.48%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.48%) Banking
8 3 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.48%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.99%) Electronics
9 2 (0.99%) Law
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (20.69%) Developer
2 23 (11.33%) Analyst
2 23 (11.33%) Architect
2 23 (11.33%) Senior
3 15 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (7.39%) Software Engineer
4 14 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 13 (6.40%) Lead
6 11 (5.42%) Security Analyst
7 10 (4.93%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.43%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.96%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.96%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.79%) React
2 25 (12.32%) Node.js
3 14 (6.90%) Spring
4 13 (6.40%) REST
5 12 (5.91%) RESTful
6 11 (5.42%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.93%) AngularJS
8 9 (4.43%) CSS
8 9 (4.43%) HTML
9 8 (3.94%) Kafka
10 7 (3.45%) OAuth
10 7 (3.45%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.45%) SOAP
11 6 (2.96%) .NET
11 6 (2.96%) OpenID
12 5 (2.46%) Express.js
12 5 (2.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 5 (2.46%) SAML
12 5 (2.46%) Vue
13 4 (1.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.93%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.96%) Replication
7 4 (1.97%) CMDB
7 4 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.30%) Linux
2 17 (8.37%) Windows
3 10 (4.93%) Unix
4 6 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.49%) Debian
8 1 (0.49%) Rocky
8 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.54%) Agile
2 61 (30.05%) CI/CD
3 59 (29.06%) DevOps
4 35 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (12.32%) Analytics
8 20 (9.85%) Software Engineering
9 19 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.36%) Mentoring
9 19 (9.36%) Microservices
10 18 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (7.88%) ETL
11 16 (7.88%) Roadmaps
11 16 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (6.90%) Test Automation
13 13 (6.40%) Migration
13 13 (6.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.06%) Python
2 35 (17.24%) Java
2 35 (17.24%) JavaScript
2 35 (17.24%) SQL
3 25 (12.32%) TypeScript
4 16 (7.88%) Bash
5 13 (6.40%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.94%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.46%) Ruby
8 4 (1.97%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.48%) Bicep
9 3 (1.48%) C#
9 3 (1.48%) Go
10 2 (0.99%) C
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) R
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (49.26%) Security Cleared
2 80 (39.41%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.33%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.91%) Degree
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.94%) CISSP
7 6 (2.96%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (2.96%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (2.96%) SANS
8 4 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.99%) CISM
10 2 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.49%) CSPO
11 1 (0.49%) GCIH
11 1 (0.49%) GIAC
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) GDPR
2 10 (4.93%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.94%) QA
4 6 (2.96%) NCSC
5 4 (1.97%) NIST
6 3 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.48%) PSD2
6 3 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.99%) GRC
7 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (22.17%) Docker
2 15 (7.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.96%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.97%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 47 (23.15%) Terraform
3 21 (10.34%) Ansible
4 14 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.91%) Grafana
6 7 (3.45%) Argo
6 7 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.46%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (2.46%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.97%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.97%) Kibana
9 3 (1.48%) Nagios
9 3 (1.48%) Puppet
9 3 (1.48%) SCCM
10 2 (0.99%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.99%) Podman
10 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.49%) logstash
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.39%) Oracle
3 9 (4.43%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.45%) Google
4 7 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.96%) Dell
6 5 (2.46%) Cisco
6 5 (2.46%) Databricks
6 5 (2.46%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.46%) Splunk
7 4 (1.97%) NetApp
7 4 (1.97%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.48%) ESRI
8 3 (1.48%) F5
8 3 (1.48%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.48%) Juniper
8 3 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.48%) VMware
9 2 (0.99%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.99%) Virgin Media