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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 254 172 196
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.79% 10.13% 6.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.90% 34.19% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 144 158
10th Percentile £400 £369 £325
25th Percentile £429 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £609
90th Percentile £708 £688 £691
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £52.88 - -
25th Percentile £55.13 - -
Median hourly rate £67.35 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% - -
75th Percentile £100.63 - -
90th Percentile £102.80 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +35.71% -27.84%

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 822 503 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.22% 29.62% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 380 613
10th Percentile £294 £235 £205
25th Percentile £403 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £594
90th Percentile £688 £685 £688
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 26 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £14.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% +27.66% -73.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £34.88
90th Percentile - £53.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.15 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +63.13% +27.35% -35.70%

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 April 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 28 April 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 April 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 74 £550 +5.77% 54
Wiltshire -8 48 £525 -16.00% 19
Gloucestershire +2 39 £575 -6.50% 67
Dorset +10 29 £409 -13.89% 10
Devon +3 26 £613 +19.51% 22
Somerset -6 26 £450 -7.69% 15
Cornwall -6 1 £750 +15.38% 1
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 11 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.94%) Apache
3 8 (3.15%) IIS
4 6 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Superset
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.79%) Confluence
8 2 (0.79%) nginx
9 1 (0.39%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 107 (42.13%) Azure
2 48 (18.90%) GCP
3 26 (10.24%) Serverless
4 21 (8.27%) Amazon S3
4 21 (8.27%) GitHub
5 17 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.51%) Power Platform
8 12 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.54%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.76%) Datadog
13 6 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.36%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.97%) Network Security
3 4 (1.57%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.57%) HTTP
3 4 (1.57%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.57%) TETRA
4 3 (1.18%) DHCP
4 3 (1.18%) DNS
4 3 (1.18%) LAN
4 3 (1.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.79%) BGP
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.79%) OSPF
5 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) VLAN
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Wireless
6 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.30%) MySQL
2 15 (5.91%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.51%) Power BI
4 12 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.72%) Tableau
5 10 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.94%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.36%) Flink
8 5 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.57%) GIS
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.18%) Big Data
10 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (12.60%) Git
2 25 (9.84%) GitLab
3 18 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.18%) Selenium
6 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.79%) JIRA
6 2 (0.79%) JUnit
6 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Codeception
7 1 (0.39%) JBehave
7 1 (0.39%) MLflow
7 1 (0.39%) Mocha
7 1 (0.39%) Mockito
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 44 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.42%) Public Sector
3 22 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.12%) Finance
5 10 (3.94%) Military
6 6 (2.36%) Banking
6 6 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Marketing
9 3 (1.18%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Electronics
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (23.23%) Developer
2 42 (16.54%) Architect
3 29 (11.42%) Senior
4 27 (10.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (9.84%) Java Developer
6 24 (9.45%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 18 (7.09%) Site Engineer
9 16 (6.30%) Python Developer
10 15 (5.91%) AWS Architect
11 13 (5.12%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
11 13 (5.12%) Infrastructure Architect
12 12 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (4.72%) Lead
12 12 (4.72%) Technical Architect
13 11 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (4.33%) Consultant
13 11 (4.33%) Data Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.42%) React
2 24 (9.45%) Spring
2 24 (9.45%) Spring Boot
3 17 (6.69%) Node.js
4 15 (5.91%) .NET
4 15 (5.91%) AWS CDK
5 14 (5.51%) REST
5 14 (5.51%) RESTful
6 11 (4.33%) .NET Framework
6 11 (4.33%) Kafka
6 11 (4.33%) Spring MVC
7 10 (3.94%) CSS
7 10 (3.94%) HTML
7 10 (3.94%) Jest
8 9 (3.54%) CSS3
8 9 (3.54%) HTML5
8 9 (3.54%) Redux
9 7 (2.76%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.97%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (1.97%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.78%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.30%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.36%) Legacy Code
6 5 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Clustering
8 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.79%) NHS
8 2 (0.79%) Replication
8 2 (0.79%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.35%) Linux
2 22 (8.66%) Windows
3 12 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.33%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.97%) Unix
6 4 (1.57%) Debian
6 4 (1.57%) Rocky
6 4 (1.57%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.10%) DevOps
2 76 (29.92%) CI/CD
3 72 (28.35%) Agile
4 46 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (17.72%) Containerisation
6 39 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.96%) Analytics
8 34 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (13.39%) Microservices
9 31 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 26 (10.24%) Data Engineering
11 25 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (9.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (8.66%) AI
13 22 (8.66%) ETL
14 21 (8.27%) Migration
15 20 (7.87%) Code Quality
15 20 (7.87%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (7.48%) Observability
16 19 (7.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (33.46%) Python
2 48 (18.90%) Java
3 47 (18.50%) SQL
4 34 (13.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.69%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.91%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.51%) Bash
8 6 (2.36%) C#
8 6 (2.36%) R
9 5 (1.97%) Go
9 5 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.18%) Bicep
12 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) Ruby
13 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.39%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 94 (37.01%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.24%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.94%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.57%) Degree
5 4 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) CCSK
7 1 (0.39%) CEH
7 1 (0.39%) CISA
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.39%) CISSP
7 1 (0.39%) CSPO
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.51%) QA
2 8 (3.15%) GDPR
2 8 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.76%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.57%) NCSC
5 3 (1.18%) NIST
6 2 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.79%) HL7
6 2 (0.79%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.79%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 57 (22.44%) Docker
2 9 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.57%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.79%) Corosync
7 1 (0.39%) iptables
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (27.56%) Kubernetes
2 48 (18.90%) Terraform
3 20 (7.87%) Ansible
3 20 (7.87%) Prometheus
4 16 (6.30%) Grafana
5 7 (2.76%) Argo
6 4 (1.57%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.57%) Nagios
7 3 (1.18%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.18%) Puppet
7 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.18%) SCCM
8 2 (0.79%) Cilium
8 2 (0.79%) Pacemaker
8 2 (0.79%) Podman
8 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) Kibana
9 1 (0.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.94%) Databricks
3 9 (3.54%) Google
3 9 (3.54%) Oracle
4 8 (3.15%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.76%) SAP
6 4 (1.57%) ESRI
6 4 (1.57%) F5
6 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.18%) Cisco
7 3 (1.18%) Dell
7 3 (1.18%) Splunk
7 3 (1.18%) VMware
8 2 (0.79%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.79%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.79%) Citrix
8 2 (0.79%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.79%) NetApp
8 2 (0.79%) Virgin Media