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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 284 177 191
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.53% 10.34% 6.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.41% 34.98% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 147 155
10th Percentile £400 £360 £325
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +4.15% -5.65%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £600
90th Percentile £733 £688 £695
England median daily rate £535 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.73% -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 £75.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -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 850 506 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.53% 29.56% 25.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 374 606
10th Percentile £289 £235 £206
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £594
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 29 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.53
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.13 £14.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £16.95
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% +11.36% -68.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 -
England median hourly rate £45.50 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +75.17% +23.69% -35.19%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -11 75 £575 +9.52% 51
Wiltshire -7 51 £525 -14.29% 10
Devon +13 47 £547 +4.26% 21
Gloucestershire -2 38 £575 -6.50% 59
Dorset +9 30 £409 -18.20% 8
Somerset -5 26 £450 -7.69% 16
Cornwall -5 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 10 (3.52%) Apache
1 10 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.82%) IIS
3 5 (1.76%) Apache Superset
3 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.41%) Confluence
4 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 131 (46.13%) Azure
2 50 (17.61%) GCP
3 24 (8.45%) Serverless
4 21 (7.39%) GitHub
5 18 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (5.63%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.28%) Power Platform
8 12 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.82%) Datadog
12 8 (2.82%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.11%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.76%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.46%) Firewall
2 6 (2.11%) DNS
3 4 (1.41%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.41%) DHCP
3 4 (1.41%) HTTP
3 4 (1.41%) Network Security
3 4 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.41%) TETRA
4 3 (1.06%) LAN
4 3 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.70%) BGP
5 2 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) NAS
5 2 (0.70%) OSPF
5 2 (0.70%) SAN
5 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.70%) VLAN
5 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 2 (0.70%) Wireless
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.63%) MySQL
2 15 (5.28%) Power BI
3 14 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.23%) Tableau
5 10 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.52%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.11%) Flink
9 5 (1.76%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.41%) GIS
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.06%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.70%) Big Data
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (12.68%) Git
2 24 (8.45%) GitLab
3 17 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.41%) JIRA
4 4 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.06%) Selenium
6 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.70%) JUnit
6 2 (0.70%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Codeception
7 1 (0.35%) JBehave
7 1 (0.35%) MLflow
7 1 (0.35%) Mocha
7 1 (0.35%) Mockito
7 1 (0.35%) NUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 54 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.92%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.99%) Finance
5 11 (3.87%) Military
6 6 (2.11%) Banking
6 6 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.76%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.76%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (21.83%) Developer
2 47 (16.55%) Architect
3 28 (9.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (9.86%) Senior
4 27 (9.51%) Java Developer
5 24 (8.45%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.04%) Product Manager
6 20 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.69%) Site Engineer
8 18 (6.34%) Python Developer
9 17 (5.99%) AWS Architect
9 17 (5.99%) Digital Product Manager
10 15 (5.28%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
10 15 (5.28%) Infrastructure Architect
11 14 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) Lead
12 12 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (4.23%) Technical Architect
13 11 (3.87%) Consultant
13 11 (3.87%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.86%) React
2 25 (8.80%) Spring
2 25 (8.80%) Spring Boot
3 20 (7.04%) AWS CDK
4 18 (6.34%) Node.js
5 15 (5.28%) RESTful
6 14 (4.93%) .NET
7 13 (4.58%) REST
8 11 (3.87%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.87%) Kafka
8 11 (3.87%) Spring MVC
9 10 (3.52%) CSS
9 10 (3.52%) HTML
9 10 (3.52%) Jest
10 9 (3.17%) CSS3
10 9 (3.17%) HTML5
10 9 (3.17%) Redux
11 6 (2.11%) LDAP
12 5 (1.76%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.21%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.11%) Legacy Code
6 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Replication
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Clustering
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.70%) NHS
9 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.44%) Linux
2 21 (7.39%) Windows
3 12 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.76%) Rocky
5 5 (1.76%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.41%) Debian
6 4 (1.41%) Unix
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (32.75%) Agile
2 83 (29.23%) DevOps
3 76 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 48 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (15.85%) Containerisation
5 45 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (14.44%) Analytics
7 38 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (13.38%) Microservices
8 35 (12.32%) Roadmaps
9 33 (11.62%) Software Engineering
10 28 (9.86%) AI
11 27 (9.51%) Data Engineering
11 27 (9.51%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (9.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (8.45%) ETL
14 23 (8.10%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (7.39%) Migration
15 21 (7.39%) Observability
16 20 (7.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 92 (32.39%) Python
2 51 (17.96%) Java
3 47 (16.55%) SQL
4 35 (12.32%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.99%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.58%) Bash
8 8 (2.82%) Go
8 8 (2.82%) R
9 7 (2.46%) C#
10 6 (2.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.06%) Bicep
12 2 (0.70%) C++
12 2 (0.70%) PHP
12 2 (0.70%) Ruby
12 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (44.01%) Security Cleared
2 102 (35.92%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.15%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.82%) Degree
6 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.70%) CISM
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) CCSK
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) CISA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.58%) QA
2 8 (2.82%) GDPR
2 8 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.76%) NCSC
5 3 (1.06%) NIST
6 2 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.70%) HL7
6 2 (0.70%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.70%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 56 (19.72%) Docker
2 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.46%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.70%) Corosync
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 49 (17.25%) Terraform
3 20 (7.04%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.99%) Ansible
5 16 (5.63%) Grafana
6 6 (2.11%) Argo
7 4 (1.41%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.41%) Nagios
8 3 (1.06%) Pacemaker
8 3 (1.06%) SCCM
9 2 (0.70%) Cilium
9 2 (0.70%) Podman
9 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.70%) Puppet
10 1 (0.35%) CASB
10 1 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (5.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.87%) Oracle
3 10 (3.52%) Databricks
4 9 (3.17%) Google
5 8 (2.82%) SAP
6 7 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.41%) ESRI
7 4 (1.41%) F5
7 4 (1.41%) VMware
8 3 (1.06%) Cisco
8 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.70%) Citrix
9 2 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.70%) NetApp
9 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.70%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.35%) Veracode