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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 224 192 221
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.52% 11.33% 6.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.63% 36.29% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 156 181
10th Percentile £400 £406 £325
25th Percentile £413 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £681
90th Percentile £700 £700 £706
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £52.61 - -
25th Percentile £56.49 - -
Median hourly rate £79.92 £78.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +25.92% -12.59%
75th Percentile £101.56 - -
90th Percentile £102.88 - -
England median hourly rate £75.50 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.14% +38.10% -19.54%

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 756 529 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.37% 31.23% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 404 629
10th Percentile £259 £236 £210
25th Percentile £403 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 13 27
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £31.81 £18.51 £14.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -74.78%
75th Percentile £58.75 £37.50 £15.74
90th Percentile £59.38 £68.75 £21.26
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -16.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 March 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 63 £550 +2.80% 67
Wiltshire -15 47 £525 -16.13% 16
Gloucestershire -6 36 £575 -6.50% 62
Dorset +12 23 £409 -7.26% 7
Somerset -3 23 £494 -17.71% 25
Devon +1 21 £529 -11.88% 23
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 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.02%) Apache
3 7 (3.13%) IIS
4 5 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.79%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.89%) Documentum
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 99 (44.20%) Azure
2 35 (15.63%) GCP
3 24 (10.71%) GitHub
4 21 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 21 (9.38%) Serverless
5 17 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.91%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.02%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.13%) Datadog
12 7 (3.13%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) Firewall
1 5 (2.23%) Network Security
2 4 (1.79%) 3GPP
2 4 (1.79%) DHCP
2 4 (1.79%) TETRA
3 3 (1.34%) DNS
3 3 (1.34%) HTTP
3 3 (1.34%) LAN
3 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.34%) VPN
3 3 (1.34%) WAN
4 2 (0.89%) BGP
4 2 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.89%) NAS
4 2 (0.89%) OSPF
4 2 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.89%) SAN
4 2 (0.89%) VLAN
4 2 (0.89%) Wireless
5 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 13 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.80%) MySQL
3 11 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.91%) Power BI
4 10 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.68%) Flink
7 6 (2.68%) Tableau
8 5 (2.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.79%) GIS
10 3 (1.34%) Big Data
11 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.89%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 27 (12.05%) Git
2 22 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.38%) GitLab
4 6 (2.68%) JIRA
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.89%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.89%) Selenium
7 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) JBehave
8 1 (0.45%) JUnit
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) MLflow
8 1 (0.45%) Mocha
8 1 (0.45%) Mockito
8 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 41 (18.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.41%) Public Sector
3 20 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.36%) Military
5 10 (4.46%) Finance
6 5 (2.23%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.79%) Marketing
7 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.34%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.34%) Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Electronics
9 2 (0.89%) Legal
9 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (22.77%) Developer
2 35 (15.63%) Architect
3 26 (11.61%) Senior
4 22 (9.82%) Java Developer
5 20 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (8.04%) Analyst
7 17 (7.59%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.80%) Python Developer
9 13 (5.80%) Site Engineer
10 12 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Security Analyst
12 10 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Data Architect
12 10 (4.46%) Security Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 8 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
14 8 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (3.57%) Technical Architect
15 7 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.38%) Spring
1 21 (9.38%) Spring Boot
2 16 (7.14%) React
3 15 (6.70%) RESTful
4 13 (5.80%) REST
5 11 (4.91%) .NET
6 10 (4.46%) CSS
6 10 (4.46%) HTML
6 10 (4.46%) Kafka
7 8 (3.57%) Node.js
7 8 (3.57%) Spring MVC
8 7 (3.13%) .NET Framework
8 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.13%) AWS CDK
8 7 (3.13%) CSS3
8 7 (3.13%) HTML5
8 7 (3.13%) Jest
8 7 (3.13%) SOAP
9 6 (2.68%) Redux
10 5 (2.23%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (2.68%) Legacy Code
4 6 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.79%) CMDB
5 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.89%) NHS
7 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Replication
7 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.73%) Linux
2 21 (9.38%) Windows
3 11 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.13%) Unix
6 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.34%) Debian
7 3 (1.34%) Rocky
7 3 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.48%) Agile
2 69 (30.80%) DevOps
3 67 (29.91%) CI/CD
4 41 (18.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (15.63%) Analytics
7 34 (15.18%) Containerisation
8 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (9.82%) Migration
10 21 (9.38%) ETL
10 21 (9.38%) Microservices
11 20 (8.93%) Data Engineering
12 19 (8.48%) Roadmaps
12 19 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (8.04%) Scrum
13 18 (8.04%) Software Engineering
14 17 (7.59%) Mentoring
15 16 (7.14%) AI
15 16 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (7.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 73 (32.59%) Python
2 42 (18.75%) SQL
3 38 (16.96%) Java
4 26 (11.61%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.48%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.14%) Bash
7 9 (4.02%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.79%) Go
9 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.34%) R
11 2 (0.89%) Bicep
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) C#
12 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 92 (41.07%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.16%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.02%) Degree
6 6 (2.68%) CISSP
6 6 (2.68%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (2.68%) SANS
7 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) CSPO
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.25%) QA
2 10 (4.46%) GDPR
3 9 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.68%) NCSC
6 5 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.89%) HL7
8 2 (0.89%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.89%) PSD2
8 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.89%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (21.88%) Docker
2 12 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.68%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (25.89%) Kubernetes
2 40 (17.86%) Terraform
3 19 (8.48%) Ansible
4 17 (7.59%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.80%) Grafana
6 5 (2.23%) Argo
6 5 (2.23%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.79%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.34%) Nagios
8 3 (1.34%) Puppet
8 3 (1.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.45%) Kibana
9 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.25%) Oracle
3 9 (4.02%) Databricks
4 8 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.23%) Cisco
6 5 (2.23%) Dell
6 5 (2.23%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.23%) SAP
6 5 (2.23%) Splunk
7 4 (1.79%) ESRI
7 4 (1.79%) F5
7 4 (1.79%) Google
7 4 (1.79%) NetApp
8 3 (1.34%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.34%) VMware
9 2 (0.89%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.89%) Citrix
9 2 (0.89%) Juniper
9 2 (0.89%) OpenText