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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 23
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 368 190 215
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.35% 10.06% 6.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.25% 33.69% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 150 170
10th Percentile £407 £355 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £642 £622
90th Percentile £750 £700 £726
England median daily rate £550 £537 £573
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.20% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £55.80 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £86.25 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £95.50 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.65 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 988 564 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.78% 29.86% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 401 580
10th Percentile £313 £225 £249
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £704 £675 £675
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 40 48
10th Percentile £14.36 £18.13 £13.52
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £26.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -73.04% +32.26%
75th Percentile £58.75 £27.38 -
90th Percentile - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -6 95 £550 +6.80% 44
Wiltshire +4 67 £503 -16.25% 10
Devon +6 58 £538 +3.46% 10
Somerset 0 54 £615 +27.79% 22
Dorset +14 35 £409 -25.64% 8
Gloucestershire +2 35 £575 -6.50% 46
Cornwall - 1 £750 - 2
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 19 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.62%) Apache
3 10 (2.72%) Confluence
4 8 (2.17%) IIS
5 5 (1.36%) Apache Superset
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 181 (49.18%) Azure
2 69 (18.75%) GCP
3 32 (8.70%) Serverless
4 31 (8.42%) Amazon S3
5 22 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (5.43%) GitHub
6 20 (5.43%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.26%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.72%) dbt
10 10 (2.72%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.45%) Datadog
11 9 (2.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.17%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.90%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.16%) Firewall
2 17 (4.62%) DNS
3 16 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.26%) DHCP
5 10 (2.72%) VSAN
6 6 (1.63%) VLAN
7 5 (1.36%) BGP
7 5 (1.36%) Network Security
7 5 (1.36%) OSPF
8 4 (1.09%) 3GPP
8 4 (1.09%) TETRA
8 4 (1.09%) VPN
9 3 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.54%) CTI
10 2 (0.54%) IPsec
10 2 (0.54%) NAS
10 2 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.54%) SAN
10 2 (0.54%) WAN
11 1 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.43%) Power BI
3 18 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.26%) Oracle Database
6 12 (3.26%) Tableau
7 10 (2.72%) Flink
7 10 (2.72%) MySQL
8 9 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.90%) Big Data
10 7 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.36%) Metadata
11 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.82%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (10.33%) Git
2 25 (6.79%) GitLab
3 24 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.99%) JIRA
5 6 (1.63%) JUnit
6 5 (1.36%) Selenium
7 4 (1.09%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.54%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.27%) Codeception
10 1 (0.27%) GoCD
10 1 (0.27%) Gradle
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) MLflow
10 1 (0.27%) Mockito
10 1 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 65 (17.66%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 36 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.52%) Finance
5 13 (3.53%) Military
6 6 (1.63%) Banking
7 4 (1.09%) Retail
8 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.82%) Local Government
8 3 (0.82%) Police
8 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.54%) Legal
9 2 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Aviation
10 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (20.38%) Developer
2 63 (17.12%) Architect
3 35 (9.51%) Lead
4 31 (8.42%) Data Engineer
5 29 (7.88%) Java Developer
5 29 (7.88%) Senior
6 27 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (7.34%) Product Manager
7 24 (6.52%) Digital Product Manager
8 22 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.71%) Site Engineer
9 21 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.16%) Software Developer
11 18 (4.89%) AWS Architect
11 18 (4.89%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) Technical Architect
12 16 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (4.35%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.78%) Spring Boot
2 34 (9.24%) Spring
3 32 (8.70%) React
4 24 (6.52%) AWS CDK
5 21 (5.71%) Kafka
6 19 (5.16%) .NET
6 19 (5.16%) Node.js
7 16 (4.35%) REST
8 14 (3.80%) RESTful
9 11 (2.99%) .NET Framework
10 10 (2.72%) HTML
10 10 (2.72%) HTML5
10 10 (2.72%) Redux
11 9 (2.45%) CSS
11 9 (2.45%) CSS3
11 9 (2.45%) Jest
11 9 (2.45%) LDAP
11 9 (2.45%) Spring MVC
12 6 (1.63%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.36%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.24%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.17%) PKI
7 7 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.63%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.36%) Clustering
9 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.36%) Replication
10 4 (1.09%) IVR
11 3 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.67%) Linux
2 32 (8.70%) Windows
3 13 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.36%) Unix
6 4 (1.09%) Rocky
6 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.82%) Debian
8 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (31.25%) Agile
2 107 (29.08%) CI/CD
3 105 (28.53%) DevOps
4 77 (20.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (17.12%) Containerisation
6 60 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (15.49%) Roadmaps
8 52 (14.13%) Analytics
8 52 (14.13%) Microservices
9 49 (13.32%) AI
10 47 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (10.60%) Software Engineering
13 38 (10.33%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (9.78%) Data Engineering
14 36 (9.78%) ETL
15 35 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (8.97%) Migration
16 33 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 30 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (32.61%) Python
2 75 (20.38%) SQL
3 62 (16.85%) Java
4 33 (8.97%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.79%) Bash
6 23 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.26%) C#
7 12 (3.26%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.99%) Go
9 10 (2.72%) R
10 9 (2.45%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.82%) BeanShell
11 3 (0.82%) Bicep
11 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
12 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.54%) PHP
12 2 (0.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 161 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 112 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 57 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.08%) Degree
5 14 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.17%) CISSP
7 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.36%) VCAP
9 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.09%) CISM
9 4 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.54%) CCSK
11 2 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.43%) QA
2 16 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.45%) GDPR
4 8 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.90%) NCSC
6 5 (1.36%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.36%) NIST
6 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.09%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.54%) HL7
8 2 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (20.38%) Docker
2 20 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.26%) Hyper-V
4 12 (3.26%) vSphere
5 11 (2.99%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.54%) Corosync
6 2 (0.54%) KVM
6 2 (0.54%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) iptables
7 1 (0.27%) NFS
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (24.46%) Kubernetes
2 85 (23.10%) Terraform
3 34 (9.24%) Ansible
4 21 (5.71%) Grafana
4 21 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.26%) Argo
6 6 (1.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (1.63%) VxRail
7 4 (1.09%) Nagios
8 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.82%) Istio
8 3 (0.82%) Pacemaker
8 3 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.54%) Cilium
9 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.54%) linkerd
9 2 (0.54%) Podman
9 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.07%) Oracle
3 20 (5.43%) VMware
4 19 (5.16%) Databricks
5 12 (3.26%) Google
6 9 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.17%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.90%) Cisco
8 7 (1.90%) SAP
9 5 (1.36%) Splunk
10 4 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.82%) F5
12 2 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.54%) ESRI
12 2 (0.54%) IBM
12 2 (0.54%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.54%) Thales
12 2 (0.54%) Virgin Media
13 1 (0.27%) Okta