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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 191 196 286
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.48% 10.18% 9.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.64% 34.45% 32.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 156 238
10th Percentile £375 £429 £363
25th Percentile £432 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £688
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £52.49 - £67.15
25th Percentile £54.40 - £74.13
Median hourly rate £59.28 - £78.00
75th Percentile £65.84 - -
90th Percentile £68.76 - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £50.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.51% +10.09% -27.28%

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 691 569 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.06% 29.56% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 386 683
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £405 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 35
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.75 £14.36
Median hourly rate £34.59 £26.81 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year +28.99% +40.23% -66.89%
75th Percentile £58.75 £29.24 £33.00
90th Percentile £67.61 £64.88 £78.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +7.14% +18.59% +1.99%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +11 66 £525 -4.55% 68
Gloucestershire -13 41 £563 -8.54% 106
Wiltshire -22 35 £537 -13.21% 49
Somerset 0 13 £600 +4.35% 46
Devon -9 13 £575 -4.17% 54
Dorset +8 11 £409 -7.26% 53
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 5 (2.62%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (2.09%) Apache
2 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.05%) Documentum
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (49.74%) Azure
2 33 (17.28%) GCP
3 21 (10.99%) GitHub
4 17 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (8.90%) Amazon S3
4 17 (8.90%) Serverless
5 15 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.76%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.76%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.19%) npm
10 8 (4.19%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.62%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) Firewall
1 8 (4.19%) VPN
2 6 (3.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.62%) DNS
3 5 (2.62%) Network Security
4 4 (2.09%) DHCP
4 4 (2.09%) WAN
5 3 (1.57%) HTTP
5 3 (1.57%) LAN
6 2 (1.05%) NAS
6 2 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.05%) SAN
6 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.05%) SSL
7 1 (0.52%) BGP
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.52%) OSPF
7 1 (0.52%) VLAN
7 1 (0.52%) Wireless
7 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.09%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (9.42%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.71%) MySQL
6 8 (4.19%) Power BI
7 7 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.14%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.62%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (2.62%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.62%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.09%) Big Data
10 4 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.05%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.05%) ClickHouse
12 2 (1.05%) GIS
12 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (15.71%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.99%) Git
3 20 (10.47%) GitLab
4 5 (2.62%) DBeaver
5 4 (2.09%) JIRA
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.05%) Postman
7 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) JBehave
8 1 (0.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Mocha
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 45 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.42%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.85%) Finance
4 9 (4.71%) Military
5 5 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.57%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.57%) Banking
7 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.57%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.05%) Electronics
8 2 (1.05%) Law
8 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (18.32%) Developer
2 25 (13.09%) Senior
3 23 (12.04%) Analyst
4 18 (9.42%) Architect
5 16 (8.38%) Software Engineer
6 13 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.81%) Lead
7 12 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.76%) Security Analyst
9 9 (4.71%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.71%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.66%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.62%) Consultant
13 5 (2.62%) DBA
13 5 (2.62%) Systems Administrator
13 5 (2.62%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.09%) Node.js
1 25 (13.09%) React
2 13 (6.81%) REST
3 10 (5.24%) AngularJS
4 9 (4.71%) RESTful
4 9 (4.71%) Spring
5 7 (3.66%) CSS
5 7 (3.66%) HTML
5 7 (3.66%) OAuth
5 7 (3.66%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.14%) .NET
6 6 (3.14%) OpenID
6 6 (3.14%) SOAP
6 6 (3.14%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.62%) Express.js
7 5 (2.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (2.62%) SAML
7 5 (2.62%) Vue
8 4 (2.09%) Next.js
8 4 (2.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.24%) Cyber Defence
3 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.14%) Replication
6 5 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.09%) CMDB
8 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.05%) IoT
9 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.05%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.61%) Linux
2 16 (8.38%) Windows
3 9 (4.71%) Unix
4 6 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.52%) Debian
8 1 (0.52%) Rocky
8 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.55%) Agile
2 62 (32.46%) CI/CD
3 54 (28.27%) DevOps
4 31 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.57%) Containerisation
7 22 (11.52%) Software Engineering
8 20 (10.47%) Microservices
9 18 (9.42%) Mentoring
10 17 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (8.38%) Test Automation
12 15 (7.85%) Analytics
12 15 (7.85%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (7.33%) ETL
13 14 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (6.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.23%) Python
2 33 (17.28%) JavaScript
3 32 (16.75%) Java
4 28 (14.66%) SQL
5 26 (13.61%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.38%) Bash
7 14 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.19%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.62%) Ruby
10 4 (2.09%) C
10 4 (2.09%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.57%) Bicep
11 3 (1.57%) C#
11 3 (1.57%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (51.31%) Security Cleared
2 76 (39.79%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.09%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.28%) Degree
5 9 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.19%) CISSP
7 6 (3.14%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.14%) SANS
8 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.05%) CISM
10 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.52%) CSPO
11 1 (0.52%) GCIH
11 1 (0.52%) GIAC
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) GDPR
2 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.66%) QA
3 6 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.14%) NCSC
4 4 (2.09%) NIST
5 3 (1.57%) PSD2
5 3 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.05%) GRC
6 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.05%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (20.94%) Docker
2 15 (7.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (23.56%) Kubernetes
1 45 (23.56%) Terraform
2 23 (12.04%) Ansible
3 11 (5.76%) Grafana
4 9 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.62%) Argo
6 5 (2.62%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (2.09%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.09%) Kibana
7 4 (2.09%) Puppet
8 3 (1.57%) SCCM
9 2 (1.05%) Nagios
9 2 (1.05%) PingFederate
9 2 (1.05%) Podman
9 2 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.52%) logstash
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.85%) Oracle
3 9 (4.71%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.66%) Google
5 6 (3.14%) Dell
5 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.62%) Cisco
6 5 (2.62%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.62%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.62%) Splunk
7 4 (2.09%) F5
7 4 (2.09%) NetApp
8 3 (1.57%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.57%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.57%) Juniper
8 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.57%) VMware
9 2 (1.05%) ESRI
9 2 (1.05%) OpenText
9 2 (1.05%) SAP