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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 209 220 330
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.16% 9.59% 10.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.25% 32.93% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 164 265
10th Percentile £375 £425 £406
25th Percentile £456 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £688
90th Percentile £715 £784 £746
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £73.35
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £78.60
England median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -16.04% +22.22%

All Cloud 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 691 668 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.29% 29.11% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 422 713
10th Percentile £225 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £711
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 44
10th Percentile - £17.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £14.47
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £22.07
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +205.85% -61.78%
75th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 29 November 2025.

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
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 29 November 2025. 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 +14 84 £525 -4.55% 66
Wiltshire 0 42 £537 -10.50% 30
Gloucestershire -13 28 £550 -7.56% 51
Devon -5 21 £523 -12.97% 22
Somerset -1 12 £625 +8.70% 19
Dorset +2 8 £410 -10.87% 18
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 7 (3.35%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (1.91%) Apache
2 4 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) Documentum
5 1 (0.48%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 106 (50.72%) Azure
2 40 (19.14%) GCP
3 30 (14.35%) GitHub
4 24 (11.48%) Serverless
5 18 (8.61%) Amazon S3
6 17 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.31%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.83%) npm
13 7 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.35%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.87%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.78%) Firewall
2 9 (4.31%) VPN
3 6 (2.87%) Network Security
4 5 (2.39%) DNS
4 5 (2.39%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.39%) WAN
5 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.96%) SSL
6 1 (0.48%) 2G
6 1 (0.48%) 5G
6 1 (0.48%) BGP
6 1 (0.48%) DHCP
6 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.48%) MPLS
6 1 (0.48%) NAS
6 1 (0.48%) OSPF
6 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.48%) SAN
6 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.92%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.74%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.26%) Power BI
4 10 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.35%) Oracle ODI
6 7 (3.35%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.35%) Star Schema
7 6 (2.87%) MySQL
8 5 (2.39%) Big Data
8 5 (2.39%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.44%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (13.88%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.48%) GitLab
3 21 (10.05%) Git
4 15 (7.18%) JIRA
5 8 (3.83%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.35%) DBeaver
7 4 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.96%) JUnit
8 2 (0.96%) Maven
8 2 (0.96%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.48%) Mocha
9 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.97%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.40%) Finance
4 18 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.31%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.83%) Military
7 5 (2.39%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.91%) Electronics
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.91%) Marketing
8 4 (1.91%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (19.14%) Developer
2 31 (14.83%) Architect
3 29 (13.88%) Analyst
4 18 (8.61%) Senior
5 17 (8.13%) Lead
6 16 (7.66%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.74%) Security Analyst
7 12 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.78%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.83%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.35%) DBA
11 7 (3.35%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) Consultant
12 6 (2.87%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.87%) Security Architect
13 5 (2.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.40%) Node.js
2 24 (11.48%) React
3 15 (7.18%) AngularJS
4 13 (6.22%) REST
5 9 (4.31%) AWS CDK
5 9 (4.31%) HTML
5 9 (4.31%) RESTful
6 8 (3.83%) CSS
6 8 (3.83%) Spring
7 7 (3.35%) OAuth
7 7 (3.35%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 6 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.87%) OpenID
8 6 (2.87%) SOAP
8 6 (2.87%) XML
9 5 (2.39%) .NET
9 5 (2.39%) Kafka
9 5 (2.39%) SAML
9 5 (2.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.74%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.78%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.78%) Replication
4 7 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.91%) CMDB
7 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.91%) IoT
8 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.44%) PKI
8 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.96%) Linux
2 17 (8.13%) Windows
3 14 (6.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.28%) Agile
2 74 (35.41%) CI/CD
3 64 (30.62%) DevOps
4 39 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (12.44%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.44%) Mentoring
6 26 (12.44%) Microservices
7 24 (11.48%) Test Automation
8 23 (11.00%) Analytics
9 22 (10.53%) Migration
9 22 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (8.61%) Software Engineering
12 16 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (7.66%) ETL
13 14 (6.70%) Decision-Making
13 14 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.36%) Python
2 36 (17.22%) TypeScript
3 33 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.40%) SQL
5 27 (12.92%) Java
6 19 (9.09%) Bash
7 18 (8.61%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.35%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.39%) Ruby
10 4 (1.91%) Bicep
10 4 (1.91%) C
11 2 (0.96%) C#
11 2 (0.96%) Go
11 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 107 (51.20%) Security Cleared
2 81 (38.76%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.40%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.18%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.74%) CISSP
5 12 (5.74%) Degree
6 10 (4.78%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.87%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (2.87%) SANS
8 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.91%) CISM
8 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.96%) OCA
10 2 (0.96%) OCP
10 2 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.70%) GDPR
2 12 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.78%) NIST
4 9 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.31%) NCSC
5 8 (3.83%) QA
6 3 (1.44%) JSP 440
6 3 (1.44%) PSD2
6 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.96%) GRC
7 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.96%) WCAG
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (19.62%) Docker
2 11 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (29.19%) Terraform
2 40 (19.14%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.53%) Ansible
4 12 (5.74%) Grafana
5 11 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.78%) Puppet
7 7 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.91%) Argo
8 4 (1.91%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.91%) Dell DRAC
8 4 (1.91%) Kibana
8 4 (1.91%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.96%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.96%) Podman
9 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.48%) logstash
10 1 (0.48%) Nagios
10 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.13%) Oracle
3 8 (3.83%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.83%) Splunk
4 7 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.87%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.39%) Dell
6 5 (2.39%) Google
6 5 (2.39%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.91%) Cisco
7 4 (1.91%) Juniper
7 4 (1.91%) SAP
8 3 (1.44%) Databricks
8 3 (1.44%) F5
8 3 (1.44%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.96%) ESRI
9 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.96%) NetApp