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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 293 174 190
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.71% 10.27% 6.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.03% 34.39% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 146 157
10th Percentile £400 £359 £325
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +5.58% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £600
90th Percentile £725 £700 £693
England median daily rate £540 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.27% -6.21%
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 £70.00 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +37.45% -26.67%

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 861 506 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.59% 29.85% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 372 601
10th Percentile £291 £226 £213
25th Percentile £405 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £599
90th Percentile £688 £687 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 29 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.58
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -3.23% -64.01%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 20 May 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

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 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 20 May 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 -15 75 £575 +9.52% 56
Devon +13 52 £538 +2.48% 26
Wiltshire -5 51 £525 -14.29% 10
Gloucestershire +1 38 £575 -6.50% 54
Dorset +10 31 £409 -23.91% 11
Somerset -4 29 £488 - 16
Cornwall -4 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 13 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.75%) Apache
3 8 (2.73%) IIS
4 5 (1.71%) Apache Superset
4 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.37%) Confluence
5 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.76%) Azure
2 53 (18.09%) GCP
3 26 (8.87%) Serverless
4 23 (7.85%) GitHub
5 19 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.80%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.12%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.73%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.39%) Datadog
13 6 (2.05%) Snowflake
14 5 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.71%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.73%) DNS
1 8 (2.73%) Firewall
2 5 (1.71%) DHCP
3 4 (1.37%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.37%) HTTP
3 4 (1.37%) Network Security
3 4 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.37%) TETRA
4 3 (1.02%) LAN
4 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.02%) VLAN
4 3 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) BGP
5 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.68%) NAS
5 2 (0.68%) OSPF
5 2 (0.68%) SAN
5 2 (0.68%) WAN
5 2 (0.68%) Wireless
6 1 (0.34%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.46%) MySQL
2 15 (5.12%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.12%) Power BI
3 12 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.10%) Tableau
4 11 (3.75%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.05%) Flink
9 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.02%) Big Data
11 3 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.02%) GIS
11 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.02%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (12.63%) Git
2 25 (8.53%) GitLab
3 19 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.71%) JIRA
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.37%) Selenium
6 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.02%) JUnit
7 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.34%) Codeception
8 1 (0.34%) JBehave
8 1 (0.34%) MLflow
8 1 (0.34%) Mockito
8 1 (0.34%) NUnit
8 1 (0.34%) Snyk
8 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.34%) Spinnaker
General
1 59 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.24%) Public Sector
3 26 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.48%) Finance
5 12 (4.10%) Military
6 7 (2.39%) Banking
7 5 (1.71%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Retail
8 4 (1.37%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (21.16%) Developer
2 49 (16.72%) Architect
3 29 (9.90%) Senior
4 28 (9.56%) Java Developer
5 27 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.19%) Product Manager
6 24 (8.19%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.17%) Digital Product Manager
8 20 (6.83%) Site Engineer
8 20 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (6.14%) AWS Architect
9 18 (6.14%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.46%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
10 16 (5.46%) Infrastructure Architect
11 15 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.78%) Lead
13 13 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (4.44%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) Technical Architect
14 12 (4.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.56%) React
2 26 (8.87%) Spring
2 26 (8.87%) Spring Boot
3 20 (6.83%) AWS CDK
4 17 (5.80%) Node.js
5 14 (4.78%) RESTful
6 13 (4.44%) .NET
6 13 (4.44%) Kafka
7 12 (4.10%) REST
8 11 (3.75%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.75%) Spring MVC
9 10 (3.41%) CSS
9 10 (3.41%) HTML
10 9 (3.07%) CSS3
10 9 (3.07%) HTML5
10 9 (3.07%) Jest
10 9 (3.07%) Redux
11 6 (2.05%) LDAP
12 5 (1.71%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.71%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.58%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.05%) Legacy Code
6 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.02%) Clustering
8 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.02%) Replication
9 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.68%) IVR
9 2 (0.68%) NHS
9 2 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.33%) Linux
2 21 (7.17%) Windows
3 12 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.71%) Rocky
5 5 (1.71%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.71%) Unix
6 4 (1.37%) Debian
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.76%) Agile
2 83 (28.33%) DevOps
3 77 (26.28%) CI/CD
4 49 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (16.04%) Containerisation
6 46 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (14.33%) Roadmaps
9 41 (13.99%) Analytics
10 38 (12.97%) Microservices
11 35 (11.95%) Software Engineering
12 31 (10.58%) AI
13 29 (9.90%) Data Engineering
13 29 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (8.87%) ETL
14 26 (8.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (8.19%) Migration
16 23 (7.85%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (7.85%) Observability
17 21 (7.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 93 (31.74%) Python
2 51 (17.41%) Java
3 50 (17.06%) SQL
4 35 (11.95%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.46%) TypeScript
6 14 (4.78%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.44%) Bash
8 8 (2.73%) Go
8 8 (2.73%) R
9 7 (2.39%) C#
10 6 (2.05%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.02%) Bicep
12 2 (0.68%) C++
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) Ruby
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (43.00%) Security Cleared
2 102 (34.81%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.22%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.75%) Degree
5 10 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.02%) CISM
8 3 (1.02%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.34%) CEH
9 1 (0.34%) CISA
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.12%) QA
2 9 (3.07%) GDPR
2 9 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.37%) NCSC
5 3 (1.02%) NIST
6 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.68%) HL7
6 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.68%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 55 (18.77%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.68%) Corosync
8 1 (0.34%) iptables
8 1 (0.34%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) NFS
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.06%) Terraform
3 19 (6.48%) Prometheus
4 15 (5.12%) Ansible
4 15 (5.12%) Grafana
5 7 (2.39%) Argo
6 4 (1.37%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (1.37%) Nagios
7 3 (1.02%) Pacemaker
7 3 (1.02%) SCCM
8 2 (0.68%) Cilium
8 2 (0.68%) Podman
8 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.68%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.10%) Oracle
3 10 (3.41%) Databricks
4 9 (3.07%) Google
5 8 (2.73%) SAP
6 7 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.71%) VMware
8 4 (1.37%) F5
8 4 (1.37%) Splunk
8 4 (1.37%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.02%) Cisco
9 3 (1.02%) ESRI
9 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.68%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.68%) Citrix
10 2 (0.68%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.68%) NetApp
10 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto