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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 208 195 250
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.32% 11.41% 7.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.66% 35.26% 30.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 156 206
10th Percentile £375 £423 £325
25th Percentile £413 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +5.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £703 £703
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £51.77 - -
25th Percentile £52.61 - -
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £62.36 - -
90th Percentile £67.37 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +35.14% +7.19% -19.41%

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 752 553 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.48% 32.36% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 401 635
10th Percentile £245 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 10 24
10th Percentile £18.91 £14.89 -
25th Percentile £51.91 £19.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.81 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.45% +84.91% -71.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £18.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 £40.62
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.12% +28.10% -14.52%

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 3 March 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 3 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 3 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 -1 71 £538 -2.27% 81
Wiltshire -15 40 £525 -17.78% 38
Gloucestershire -12 39 £550 -10.57% 93
Dorset +11 19 £384 -13.04% 30
Devon -5 18 £510 -15.00% 49
Somerset -5 12 £575 -4.17% 36
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 10 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.37%) Apache
3 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.96%) Documentum
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (46.63%) Azure
2 34 (16.35%) GCP
3 24 (11.54%) GitHub
4 18 (8.65%) Serverless
5 17 (8.17%) Amazon S3
6 14 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.33%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.85%) npm
13 7 (3.37%) Datadog
13 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) Firewall
2 5 (2.40%) VPN
3 4 (1.92%) DHCP
3 4 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) DNS
4 3 (1.44%) HTTP
4 3 (1.44%) LAN
4 3 (1.44%) Network Security
4 3 (1.44%) WAN
5 2 (0.96%) NAS
5 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.96%) SAN
6 1 (0.48%) 2G
6 1 (0.48%) BGP
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.48%) OSPF
6 1 (0.48%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.48%) VLAN
6 1 (0.48%) Wireless
6 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.17%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.21%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.33%) MySQL
7 7 (3.37%) Power BI
8 6 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.88%) Flink
8 6 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.92%) GIS
11 3 (1.44%) Big Data
11 3 (1.44%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.44%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (12.98%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.06%) Git
3 19 (9.13%) GitLab
4 4 (1.92%) JIRA
4 4 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.44%) DBeaver
5 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.96%) Postman
6 2 (0.96%) Selenium
6 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) JBehave
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Maven
7 1 (0.48%) Mocha
7 1 (0.48%) Mockito
7 1 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 45 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.19%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.25%) Finance
5 11 (5.29%) Military
6 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.92%) Marketing
7 4 (1.92%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.44%) Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Electronics
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (20.67%) Developer
2 27 (12.98%) Architect
3 22 (10.58%) Senior
4 21 (10.10%) Analyst
5 17 (8.17%) Java Developer
6 16 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (7.21%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Lead
9 11 (5.29%) Security Analyst
10 9 (4.33%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.02%) React
2 22 (10.58%) Node.js
3 17 (8.17%) Spring
4 15 (7.21%) RESTful
5 14 (6.73%) Spring Boot
6 13 (6.25%) REST
7 10 (4.81%) Kafka
8 9 (4.33%) AngularJS
8 9 (4.33%) CSS
8 9 (4.33%) HTML
9 7 (3.37%) OAuth
9 7 (3.37%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.37%) SOAP
10 6 (2.88%) .NET
11 5 (2.40%) Java Concurrency
11 5 (2.40%) OpenID
11 5 (2.40%) SAML
12 4 (1.92%) Express.js
12 4 (1.92%) PostGIS
12 4 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.92%) CMDB
6 4 (1.92%) Replication
7 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.48%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.94%) Linux
2 17 (8.17%) Windows
3 9 (4.33%) Unix
4 7 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.96%) Debian
6 2 (0.96%) Rocky
6 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.29%) Agile
2 62 (29.81%) CI/CD
3 61 (29.33%) DevOps
4 33 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 31 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.50%) Analytics
8 22 (10.58%) Microservices
9 20 (9.62%) Software Engineering
10 19 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (9.13%) ETL
10 19 (9.13%) Mentoring
11 17 (8.17%) Migration
11 17 (8.17%) Roadmaps
11 17 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (6.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (29.33%) Python
2 38 (18.27%) SQL
3 36 (17.31%) Java
4 35 (16.83%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.06%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.21%) Bash
7 13 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.40%) Ruby
10 4 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.44%) C#
11 3 (1.44%) Go
12 2 (0.96%) Bicep
13 1 (0.48%) R
13 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (49.52%) Security Cleared
2 85 (40.87%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.58%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.25%) Degree
5 9 (4.33%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.85%) CISSP
7 6 (2.88%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (2.88%) SANS
8 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.96%) CISM
10 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.48%) CSPO
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.25%) GDPR
2 10 (4.81%) QA
3 9 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.37%) NCSC
5 5 (2.40%) NIST
6 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.44%) PSD2
7 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.96%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (21.63%) Docker
2 15 (7.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (25.48%) Kubernetes
2 43 (20.67%) Terraform
3 18 (8.65%) Ansible
4 15 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.29%) Grafana
6 7 (3.37%) Argo
6 7 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.40%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.92%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.44%) Kibana
9 3 (1.44%) Nagios
9 3 (1.44%) SCCM
10 2 (0.96%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.96%) Puppet
11 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.48%) logstash
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.21%) Oracle
3 8 (3.85%) Databricks
3 8 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.37%) Google
4 7 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.88%) Dell
6 5 (2.40%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.40%) Splunk
7 4 (1.92%) Cisco
7 4 (1.92%) ESRI
7 4 (1.92%) NetApp
7 4 (1.92%) SAP
8 3 (1.44%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.44%) Juniper
8 3 (1.44%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.44%) VMware
9 2 (0.96%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.96%) Virgin Media