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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS 301 170 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.89% 10.20% 6.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.64% 33.66% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 142 160
10th Percentile £402 £356 £325
25th Percentile £449 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +6.05% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £699 £689
England median daily rate £544 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.09% -2.22% -6.25%
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 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +31.82% -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 869 505 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.67% 30.29% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 368 614
10th Percentile £300 £229 £213
25th Percentile £406 £374 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £686 £675
England median daily rate £513 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 29 35
10th Percentile £14.12 £18.13 £12.60
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -10.14% -61.24%
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% -37.15%

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

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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 23 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 23 May 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 23 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 -13 76 £582 +10.81% 60
Devon +12 53 £547 +6.80% 9
Wiltshire +4 53 £525 -14.29% 8
Gloucestershire +2 38 £575 -6.50% 57
Dorset +12 34 £409 -25.64% 5
Somerset -4 28 £525 +7.69% 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 14 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.65%) Apache
3 8 (2.66%) IIS
4 6 (1.99%) Confluence
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Superset
5 5 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.66%) nginx
7 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 144 (47.84%) Azure
2 57 (18.94%) GCP
3 26 (8.64%) Serverless
4 24 (7.97%) GitHub
5 19 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.65%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.32%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.99%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.33%) Datadog
13 6 (1.99%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.99%) Snowflake
14 5 (1.66%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.66%) DNS
1 8 (2.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.66%) DHCP
3 4 (1.33%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.33%) HTTP
3 4 (1.33%) Network Security
3 4 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.33%) TETRA
4 3 (1.00%) BGP
4 3 (1.00%) LAN
4 3 (1.00%) OSPF
4 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.00%) VLAN
4 3 (1.00%) VPN
4 3 (1.00%) WAN
5 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.66%) IPsec
5 2 (0.66%) NAS
5 2 (0.66%) SAN
5 2 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.65%) NoSQL
2 16 (5.32%) MySQL
2 16 (5.32%) Power BI
3 12 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.99%) Tableau
4 11 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.65%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.99%) Flink
9 5 (1.66%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.33%) Big Data
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.00%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.00%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (12.62%) Git
2 25 (8.31%) GitLab
3 20 (6.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.33%) JIRA
5 5 (1.66%) Selenium
6 4 (1.33%) JUnit
6 4 (1.33%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.66%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.33%) Codeception
9 1 (0.33%) JBehave
9 1 (0.33%) MLflow
9 1 (0.33%) Mockito
9 1 (0.33%) NUnit
9 1 (0.33%) Snyk
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 60 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.30%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.64%) Finance
5 13 (4.32%) Military
6 7 (2.33%) Banking
7 5 (1.66%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Retail
9 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.00%) Marketing
9 3 (1.00%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Electronics
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.27%) Developer
2 54 (17.94%) Architect
3 29 (9.63%) Senior
4 28 (9.30%) Java Developer
5 27 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.31%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) Product Manager
8 21 (6.98%) Digital Product Manager
9 20 (6.64%) Site Engineer
9 20 (6.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (5.98%) AWS Architect
11 17 (5.65%) Python Developer
12 16 (5.32%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (5.32%) Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (5.32%) Lead
13 15 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (4.65%) Technical Architect
15 13 (4.32%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (4.32%) Data Engineer
16 12 (3.99%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.63%) React
2 28 (9.30%) Spring Boot
3 27 (8.97%) Spring
4 20 (6.64%) AWS CDK
5 18 (5.98%) Node.js
6 14 (4.65%) .NET
6 14 (4.65%) Kafka
6 14 (4.65%) RESTful
7 13 (4.32%) REST
8 11 (3.65%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.65%) Spring MVC
9 10 (3.32%) CSS
9 10 (3.32%) HTML
10 9 (2.99%) CSS3
10 9 (2.99%) HTML5
10 9 (2.99%) Jest
10 9 (2.99%) Redux
11 7 (2.33%) LDAP
12 5 (1.66%) Java Concurrency
12 5 (1.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.30%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.99%) Legacy Code
5 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.66%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.33%) Clustering
7 4 (1.33%) Replication
8 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.66%) IVR
9 2 (0.66%) NHS
9 2 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.95%) Linux
2 22 (7.31%) Windows
3 12 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.66%) Rocky
4 5 (1.66%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.66%) Unix
5 4 (1.33%) Debian
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.89%) Agile
2 84 (27.91%) DevOps
3 80 (26.58%) CI/CD
4 51 (16.94%) Containerisation
4 51 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (14.62%) Roadmaps
7 43 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (13.95%) Analytics
9 41 (13.62%) Microservices
10 36 (11.96%) Software Engineering
11 31 (10.30%) AI
12 29 (9.63%) Data Engineering
12 29 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (8.31%) ETL
14 25 (8.31%) Migration
15 23 (7.64%) Data Modelling
15 23 (7.64%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (7.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 92 (30.56%) Python
2 54 (17.94%) Java
3 53 (17.61%) SQL
4 35 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.32%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.98%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.32%) Bash
8 8 (2.66%) Go
8 8 (2.66%) R
9 7 (2.33%) C#
10 6 (1.99%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) C++
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 2 (0.66%) Ruby
12 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 107 (35.55%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.63%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.99%) Degree
5 10 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.99%) CISSP
7 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.33%) CISM
8 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.66%) CCSK
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.32%) QA
2 10 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.99%) GDPR
4 7 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.66%) NCSC
6 4 (1.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.66%) HL7
7 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (18.94%) Docker
2 10 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.66%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.66%) Corosync
7 2 (0.66%) KVM
7 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.66%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) iptables
8 1 (0.33%) NFS
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.33%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 52 (17.28%) Terraform
3 19 (6.31%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.32%) Ansible
5 15 (4.98%) Grafana
6 8 (2.66%) Argo
7 5 (1.66%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.33%) Nagios
9 3 (1.00%) Pacemaker
9 3 (1.00%) SCCM
10 2 (0.66%) Cilium
10 2 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.66%) Podman
10 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.66%) Puppet
10 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 19 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.65%) Oracle
3 10 (3.32%) Databricks
3 10 (3.32%) Google
4 8 (2.66%) SAP
5 7 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.33%) VMware
6 4 (1.33%) Cisco
6 4 (1.33%) F5
6 4 (1.33%) Splunk
6 4 (1.33%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.00%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.66%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.66%) Citrix
8 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.66%) ESRI
8 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.66%) NetApp
8 2 (0.66%) Palo Alto