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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 383 186 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.51% 9.63% 7.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.36% 32.07% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 144 157
10th Percentile £413 £355 £425
25th Percentile £458 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £625
90th Percentile £765 £730 £753
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £83.25 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £88.95 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £98.82 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.58 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 973 580 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.71% 30.04% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 401 514
10th Percentile £325 £213 £250
25th Percentile £425 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £588 £600
90th Percentile £730 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 38 45
10th Percentile £13.97 £18.13 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.51 £33.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%
75th Percentile £48.75 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £98.82 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 25 August 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 25 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the South West

AWS
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 25 August 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 -6 88 £550 +8.91% 65
Wiltshire +10 77 £500 -13.04% 10
Devon +3 66 £560 +7.69% 22
Somerset -1 60 £654 +34.05% 24
Gloucestershire +6 33 £575 -6.12% 63
Dorset +11 31 £425 -22.73% 14
Cornwall - 1 £750 -
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 16 (4.18%) Apache
1 16 (4.18%) Confluence
2 14 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.09%) IIS
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 190 (49.61%) Azure
2 77 (20.10%) GCP
3 34 (8.88%) Serverless
4 27 (7.05%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (5.48%) GitHub
7 20 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (2.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (2.61%) dbt
12 9 (2.35%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.09%) Amazon Bedrock
13 8 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.83%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.83%) Firewall
2 29 (7.57%) DNS
3 27 (7.05%) TCP/IP
4 22 (5.74%) DHCP
5 18 (4.70%) VSAN
6 8 (2.09%) VLAN
7 6 (1.57%) VPN
8 5 (1.31%) BGP
8 5 (1.31%) Network Security
8 5 (1.31%) OSPF
9 4 (1.04%) 3GPP
9 4 (1.04%) TETRA
10 3 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.52%) CTI
11 2 (0.52%) IPsec
11 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.52%) tcpdump
12 1 (0.26%) MPLS
12 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
1 20 (5.22%) Power BI
1 20 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 12 (3.13%) Tableau
4 11 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.35%) MySQL
7 8 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.09%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.83%) Big Data
8 7 (1.83%) Metadata
9 6 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.57%) Flink
10 5 (1.31%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (10.97%) Git
2 30 (7.83%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.57%) GitLab
4 18 (4.70%) JIRA
5 6 (1.57%) JUnit
6 5 (1.31%) Selenium
7 4 (1.04%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.26%) Codeception
10 1 (0.26%) GoCD
10 1 (0.26%) Gradle
10 1 (0.26%) Maven
10 1 (0.26%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) NUnit
General
1 74 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.88%) Public Sector
3 34 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.36%) Finance
5 12 (3.13%) Military
6 8 (2.09%) Banking
7 4 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.04%) Local Government
8 3 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.78%) Police
8 3 (0.78%) Retail
9 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.52%) Aviation
9 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.26%) Marketing
10 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 76 (19.84%) Developer
2 62 (16.19%) Architect
3 39 (10.18%) Lead
4 30 (7.83%) Data Engineer
5 29 (7.57%) Senior
6 28 (7.31%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (7.05%) Product Manager
8 24 (6.27%) Digital Product Manager
9 23 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.74%) Java Developer
10 22 (5.74%) Site Engineer
10 22 (5.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 22 (5.74%) Software Developer
11 21 (5.48%) Lead Architect
11 21 (5.48%) Technical Architect
12 19 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (4.44%) AWS Architect
13 17 (4.44%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.92%) Python Developer
15 13 (3.39%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (27.15%) Terraform
2 35 (9.14%) React
3 29 (7.57%) Spring Boot
4 27 (7.05%) Spring
5 23 (6.01%) AWS CDK
6 20 (5.22%) .NET
7 19 (4.96%) Node.js
8 16 (4.18%) Kafka
9 15 (3.92%) REST
10 14 (3.66%) HTML
11 13 (3.39%) CSS
12 11 (2.87%) .NET Framework
12 11 (2.87%) RESTful
13 9 (2.35%) React Native
14 8 (2.09%) HTML5
14 8 (2.09%) LDAP
14 8 (2.09%) Next.js
14 8 (2.09%) Redux
15 7 (1.83%) CSS3
15 7 (1.83%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.14%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.18%) PKI
5 15 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.57%) Legacy Code
10 6 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.31%) Clustering
11 5 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.31%) Replication
12 4 (1.04%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.14%) Linux
2 37 (9.66%) Windows
3 14 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.57%) Unix
6 4 (1.04%) Rocky
6 4 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.78%) Debian
8 2 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Android
9 1 (0.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (31.59%) Agile
2 120 (31.33%) CI/CD
3 100 (26.11%) DevOps
4 91 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (16.45%) Containerisation
6 63 (16.45%) Roadmaps
7 54 (14.10%) AI
8 52 (13.58%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (13.05%) Software Engineering
10 49 (12.79%) Microservices
11 48 (12.53%) Technical Leadership
12 47 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (10.70%) DevSecOps
15 37 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (9.40%) Analytics
17 32 (8.36%) Migration
18 31 (8.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 124 (32.38%) Python
2 74 (19.32%) SQL
3 60 (15.67%) Java
4 34 (8.88%) JavaScript
5 33 (8.62%) Bash
6 31 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.44%) C#
9 12 (3.13%) Go
10 10 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.35%) R
12 7 (1.83%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.04%) PHP
14 3 (0.78%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.78%) Bicep
14 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.52%) C++
15 2 (0.52%) Groovy
15 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 184 (48.04%) Security Cleared
2 122 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 70 (18.28%) DV Cleared
4 23 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.96%) Degree
6 14 (3.66%) CISSP
7 12 (3.13%) VCAP
8 10 (2.61%) CISM
9 9 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.52%) CCNA
15 2 (0.52%) MCSE
15 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.22%) QA
2 17 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.61%) NCSC
4 8 (2.09%) GDPR
5 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.57%) NIST
6 5 (1.31%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.31%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.04%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) HL7
8 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 72 (18.80%) Docker
2 29 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 20 (5.22%) vSphere
5 19 (4.96%) VMware NSX
6 16 (4.18%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.78%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.52%) Corosync
8 2 (0.52%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) iptables
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.26%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.26%) zsh
Systems Management
1 98 (25.59%) Kubernetes
2 47 (12.27%) Ansible
3 18 (4.70%) Grafana
4 14 (3.66%) VxRail
5 13 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.35%) Argo
7 6 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (1.31%) Istio
9 3 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.78%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.52%) Cilium
10 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.52%) linkerd
10 2 (0.52%) Nagios
10 2 (0.52%) Podman
10 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.26%) CASB
11 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 30 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.57%) Oracle
2 29 (7.57%) VMware
3 20 (5.22%) Google
4 14 (3.66%) Databricks
5 10 (2.61%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.35%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.83%) Cisco
8 6 (1.57%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.57%) SAP
8 6 (1.57%) Splunk
9 5 (1.31%) OneLogin
10 3 (0.78%) F5
10 3 (0.78%) Thales
11 2 (0.52%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.52%) IBM
11 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.26%) Okta