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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 193 188 286
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.45% 10.05% 9.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.65% 33.45% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 148 236
10th Percentile £375 £425 £363
25th Percentile £436 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £688
90th Percentile £713 £734 £731
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 £76.00 £50.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.49% +10.09% -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 698 562 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.96% 30.04% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 380 684
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £405 £420 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £704
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 35
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.67 £14.36
Median hourly rate £54.36 £26.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.11% +39.47% -67.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £33.00
90th Percentile £65.12 £68.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £31.93 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +16.11% +18.46% -3.27%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +8 67 £525 -4.55% 62
Gloucestershire -9 42 £563 -8.54% 95
Wiltshire -16 35 £537 -14.35% 38
Devon -9 14 £575 -4.17% 48
Somerset -2 13 £600 +4.35% 40
Dorset +7 10 £409 -7.26% 52
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 (2.59%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (2.07%) Apache
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.04%) Documentum
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (49.22%) Azure
2 33 (17.10%) GCP
3 21 (10.88%) GitHub
4 17 (8.81%) Serverless
5 16 (8.29%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (8.29%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.70%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.70%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.15%) npm
10 8 (4.15%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.15%) Firewall
1 8 (4.15%) VPN
2 6 (3.11%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.59%) DNS
3 5 (2.59%) Network Security
4 4 (2.07%) DHCP
4 4 (2.07%) WAN
5 3 (1.55%) HTTP
5 3 (1.55%) LAN
6 2 (1.04%) NAS
6 2 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.04%) SAN
6 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.04%) 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 (12.95%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.66%) MySQL
6 8 (4.15%) Power BI
7 7 (3.63%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.11%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.59%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (2.59%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.07%) Big Data
10 4 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.04%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.04%) ClickHouse
12 2 (1.04%) GIS
12 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (15.54%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.36%) Git
2 20 (10.36%) GitLab
3 5 (2.59%) DBeaver
4 4 (2.07%) JIRA
4 4 (2.07%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.04%) Postman
6 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.52%) JBehave
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Mocha
7 1 (0.52%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 45 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.73%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.25%) Finance
5 10 (5.18%) Military
6 5 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.55%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.55%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.55%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.04%) Electronics
9 2 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (18.13%) Developer
2 25 (12.95%) Senior
3 23 (11.92%) Analyst
4 18 (9.33%) Architect
5 16 (8.29%) Software Engineer
6 14 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.74%) Lead
8 12 (6.22%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.70%) Security Analyst
10 9 (4.66%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.63%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.11%) Linux Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.59%) Consultant
14 5 (2.59%) DBA
14 5 (2.59%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.47%) Node.js
2 25 (12.95%) React
3 12 (6.22%) REST
4 10 (5.18%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.66%) RESTful
6 8 (4.15%) Spring
7 7 (3.63%) CSS
7 7 (3.63%) HTML
7 7 (3.63%) OAuth
7 7 (3.63%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.11%) .NET
8 6 (3.11%) OpenID
8 6 (3.11%) SOAP
9 5 (2.59%) Express.js
9 5 (2.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 5 (2.59%) SAML
9 5 (2.59%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.59%) Vue
10 4 (2.07%) Next.js
10 4 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.18%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (4.15%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.15%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.11%) Replication
5 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.07%) CMDB
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) IoT
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.99%) Linux
2 16 (8.29%) Windows
3 9 (4.66%) Unix
4 6 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.52%) Debian
8 1 (0.52%) Rocky
8 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.16%) Agile
2 62 (32.12%) CI/CD
3 54 (27.98%) DevOps
4 33 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.44%) Containerisation
7 22 (11.40%) Software Engineering
8 19 (9.84%) Microservices
9 18 (9.33%) Mentoring
10 17 (8.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (8.29%) Test Automation
12 15 (7.77%) Analytics
12 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (7.25%) ETL
13 14 (7.25%) Roadmaps
14 13 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (6.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 53 (27.46%) Python
2 33 (17.10%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.06%) Java
4 28 (14.51%) SQL
5 27 (13.99%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.29%) Bash
7 14 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.15%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.59%) Ruby
10 4 (2.07%) C
10 4 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.55%) Bicep
11 3 (1.55%) C#
11 3 (1.55%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (51.30%) Security Cleared
2 77 (39.90%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.95%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.22%) Degree
5 9 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.15%) CISSP
7 6 (3.11%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (3.11%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.11%) SANS
8 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.04%) CISM
10 2 (1.04%) 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 (5.18%) GDPR
2 7 (3.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.63%) QA
3 6 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.11%) NCSC
4 4 (2.07%) NIST
5 3 (1.55%) PSD2
5 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.04%) GRC
6 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.04%) 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 41 (21.24%) Docker
2 15 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.07%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (24.35%) Terraform
2 46 (23.83%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.92%) Ansible
4 11 (5.70%) Grafana
5 9 (4.66%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.59%) Argo
7 5 (2.59%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (2.59%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.07%) Data Guard
8 4 (2.07%) Kibana
8 4 (2.07%) Puppet
9 3 (1.55%) SCCM
10 2 (1.04%) Nagios
10 2 (1.04%) PingFederate
10 2 (1.04%) Podman
10 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.52%) logstash
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.77%) Oracle
3 9 (4.66%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.63%) Google
5 6 (3.11%) Dell
5 6 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.59%) Cisco
6 5 (2.59%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.59%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.59%) Splunk
7 4 (2.07%) F5
7 4 (2.07%) NetApp
8 3 (1.55%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.55%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.55%) Juniper
8 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.55%) VMware
9 2 (1.04%) ESRI
9 2 (1.04%) OpenText
9 2 (1.04%) SAP