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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS 342 191 198
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.63% 10.85% 6.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.42% 35.24% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 153 154
10th Percentile £408 £357 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.49%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £600
90th Percentile £744 £698 £688
England median daily rate £550 £538 £565
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.87% -5.83%
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% -36.74%

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 939 542 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.44% 30.78% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 387 598
10th Percentile £305 £223 £219
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.54% -6.59%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 38 50
10th Percentile £14.37 £18.13 £13.74
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -72.55% +30.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £32.69 £70.00
90th Percentile - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -10 86 £550 +4.76% 53
Wiltshire +4 64 £505 -15.83% 17
Devon +6 58 £538 +3.46% 14
Somerset -1 38 £550 +10.00% 20
Gloucestershire +4 37 £575 -6.50% 80
Dorset +13 36 £409 -25.64% 6
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 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.39%) Apache
3 8 (2.34%) Confluence
3 8 (2.34%) IIS
4 5 (1.46%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.58%) nginx
7 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 166 (48.54%) Azure
2 63 (18.42%) GCP
3 30 (8.77%) Serverless
4 25 (7.31%) Amazon S3
5 20 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (5.85%) Power Platform
6 19 (5.56%) GitHub
7 18 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.63%) Datadog
10 9 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (2.63%) OpenShift
10 9 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.34%) DNS
2 7 (2.05%) Firewall
3 4 (1.17%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.17%) TETRA
4 3 (0.88%) DHCP
4 3 (0.88%) Network Security
4 3 (0.88%) VLAN
5 2 (0.58%) BGP
5 2 (0.58%) IPsec
5 2 (0.58%) NAS
5 2 (0.58%) OSPF
5 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.58%) SAN
5 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) AMQP
6 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.29%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.85%) Power BI
1 20 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.39%) MySQL
4 15 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.51%) Tableau
7 11 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.92%) Flink
8 10 (2.92%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.05%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.75%) Big Data
11 6 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (10.82%) Git
2 26 (7.60%) GitLab
3 23 (6.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.22%) JIRA
5 6 (1.75%) Selenium
6 5 (1.46%) JUnit
7 4 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.17%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.58%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.29%) Codeception
10 1 (0.29%) JBehave
10 1 (0.29%) MLflow
10 1 (0.29%) Mockito
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
General
1 60 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.43%) Finance
5 12 (3.51%) Military
6 5 (1.46%) Banking
7 4 (1.17%) Retail
8 3 (0.88%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.88%) Local Government
8 3 (0.88%) Police
8 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.58%) Legal
9 2 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (19.88%) Developer
2 59 (17.25%) Architect
3 29 (8.48%) Lead
4 28 (8.19%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (7.89%) Product Manager
6 25 (7.31%) Data Engineer
6 25 (7.31%) Senior
6 25 (7.31%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.02%) Digital Product Manager
8 20 (5.85%) Site Engineer
8 20 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (5.26%) AWS Architect
9 18 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 18 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 17 (4.97%) Technical Architect
11 16 (4.68%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
11 16 (4.68%) Infrastructure Architect
12 15 (4.39%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.23%) Spring Boot
2 33 (9.65%) Spring
3 30 (8.77%) React
4 23 (6.73%) AWS CDK
5 17 (4.97%) .NET
5 17 (4.97%) Kafka
6 16 (4.68%) Node.js
7 12 (3.51%) RESTful
8 11 (3.22%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.22%) REST
9 10 (2.92%) Spring MVC
10 9 (2.63%) CSS
10 9 (2.63%) CSS3
10 9 (2.63%) HTML
10 9 (2.63%) HTML5
10 9 (2.63%) Jest
10 9 (2.63%) LDAP
10 9 (2.63%) Redux
11 6 (1.75%) SailPoint
12 5 (1.46%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.94%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.46%) Clustering
8 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.46%) Replication
9 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.57%) Linux
2 23 (6.73%) Windows
3 13 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.46%) Rocky
5 5 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.46%) Unix
6 4 (1.17%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.70%) Agile
2 95 (27.78%) DevOps
3 88 (25.73%) CI/CD
4 60 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (16.37%) Containerisation
6 55 (16.08%) Roadmaps
7 51 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (14.62%) Microservices
9 48 (14.04%) Analytics
10 44 (12.87%) AI
10 44 (12.87%) Software Engineering
11 43 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (10.53%) Data Engineering
14 32 (9.36%) ETL
15 31 (9.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (8.48%) Migration
16 29 (8.48%) Observability
17 28 (8.19%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 103 (30.12%) Python
2 74 (21.64%) SQL
3 59 (17.25%) Java
4 32 (9.36%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.09%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.51%) Bash
6 12 (3.51%) Go
6 12 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.22%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.92%) C#
8 10 (2.92%) R
9 3 (0.88%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.88%) Bicep
9 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.58%) PHP
10 2 (0.58%) Scala
10 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 144 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 108 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.68%) Degree
5 10 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.34%) CISSP
7 6 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.17%) CISM
9 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.58%) CCSK
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.85%) QA
2 14 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.63%) GDPR
4 8 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.75%) NCSC
6 5 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.17%) ISO 9000
7 4 (1.17%) NIST
8 3 (0.88%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.58%) HL7
9 2 (0.58%) 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 61 (17.84%) Docker
2 8 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.17%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.58%) Corosync
4 2 (0.58%) KVM
4 2 (0.58%) VirtualBox
4 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.58%) 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 79 (23.10%) Kubernetes
2 67 (19.59%) Terraform
3 21 (6.14%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.85%) Ansible
5 18 (5.26%) Grafana
6 10 (2.92%) Argo
7 5 (1.46%) Data Guard
7 5 (1.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.17%) Nagios
9 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.88%) Istio
9 3 (0.88%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.58%) Cilium
10 2 (0.58%) Kibana
10 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.58%) linkerd
10 2 (0.58%) Podman
10 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.60%) Oracle
2 24 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.26%) Databricks
4 9 (2.63%) Google
5 8 (2.34%) VMware
6 7 (2.05%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.05%) SAP
7 5 (1.46%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.46%) Splunk
8 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.88%) Cisco
9 3 (0.88%) F5
9 3 (0.88%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.58%) ESRI
10 2 (0.58%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.29%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.29%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow