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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 376 182 201
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.50% 9.59% 7.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.29% 32.44% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 142 163
10th Percentile £410 £355 £425
25th Percentile £450 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% -8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £642 £628
90th Percentile £750 £700 £768
England median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £83.25 £73.12 -
25th Percentile £88.95 £74.05 -
Median hourly rate £98.82 £76.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% +119.57% -55.13%
75th Percentile £100.00 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £102.58 £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -35.19%

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 982 561 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.41% 29.56% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 394 536
10th Percentile £330 £214 £246
25th Percentile £419 £351 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.97
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £33.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.70% -73.04% +76.99%
75th Percentile £58.75 £29.13 -
90th Percentile £94.40 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £37.12 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +47.59% +5.67% -29.79%

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 6 August 2026.

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

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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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -5 93 £550 +7.32% 111
Wiltshire +6 74 £500 -14.89% 10
Devon +5 61 £538 +3.46% 15
Somerset -2 59 £640 +31.28% 26
Dorset +10 33 £410 -25.45% 22
Gloucestershire +1 31 £575 -8.00% 70
Cornwall - 1 £750 -
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 17 (4.52%) Apache
2 16 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.93%) Confluence
4 8 (2.13%) IIS
5 5 (1.33%) Apache Superset
6 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.27%) JBoss
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 186 (49.47%) Azure
2 71 (18.88%) GCP
3 36 (9.57%) Serverless
4 30 (7.98%) Amazon S3
5 26 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.59%) GitHub
6 21 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.72%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (2.66%) dbt
11 9 (2.39%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (2.39%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (1.86%) Datadog
14 6 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.38%) Firewall
2 23 (6.12%) DNS
3 21 (5.59%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.79%) DHCP
5 16 (4.26%) VSAN
6 6 (1.60%) VLAN
7 5 (1.33%) BGP
7 5 (1.33%) OSPF
8 4 (1.06%) 3GPP
8 4 (1.06%) Network Security
8 4 (1.06%) TETRA
8 4 (1.06%) VPN
9 3 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.53%) CTI
10 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.53%) IPsec
10 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.27%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.27%) SAN
11 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.59%) Power BI
2 20 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.46%) Tableau
7 12 (3.19%) Oracle Database
8 11 (2.93%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (2.39%) MySQL
10 8 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.13%) Flink
11 7 (1.86%) Big Data
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.60%) Metadata
13 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (10.37%) Git
2 26 (6.91%) GitLab
2 26 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.46%) JIRA
4 6 (1.60%) JUnit
5 5 (1.33%) Selenium
6 4 (1.06%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.53%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.27%) Codeception
9 1 (0.27%) GoCD
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) NUnit
General
1 69 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.03%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.45%) Finance
5 13 (3.46%) Military
6 6 (1.60%) Banking
7 4 (1.06%) Local Government
7 4 (1.06%) Retail
8 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.80%) Police
9 2 (0.53%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.53%) Aviation
9 2 (0.53%) Marketing
9 2 (0.53%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.27%) Legal
10 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (20.21%) Developer
2 64 (17.02%) Architect
3 36 (9.57%) Lead
4 30 (7.98%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.45%) Senior
6 27 (7.18%) Product Manager
7 26 (6.91%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (6.65%) Java Developer
9 24 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.38%) Digital Product Manager
10 21 (5.59%) Site Engineer
10 21 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (5.59%) Software Developer
11 20 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.79%) AWS Architect
12 18 (4.79%) Python Developer
12 18 (4.79%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.52%) Lead Architect
13 17 (4.52%) Technical Architect
14 16 (4.26%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.51%) Spring Boot
2 31 (8.24%) React
3 30 (7.98%) Spring
4 24 (6.38%) AWS CDK
5 20 (5.32%) .NET
5 20 (5.32%) Node.js
6 18 (4.79%) Kafka
7 15 (3.99%) REST
8 13 (3.46%) RESTful
9 11 (2.93%) .NET Framework
10 10 (2.66%) HTML
11 9 (2.39%) CSS
11 9 (2.39%) HTML5
11 9 (2.39%) React Native
11 9 (2.39%) Redux
12 8 (2.13%) CSS3
12 8 (2.13%) Jest
12 8 (2.13%) LDAP
12 8 (2.13%) Spring MVC
13 6 (1.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.04%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.72%) PKI
5 13 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.60%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.33%) Clustering
9 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.33%) Replication
10 4 (1.06%) IVR
10 4 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.89%) Linux
2 36 (9.57%) Windows
3 13 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.33%) Rocky
5 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.33%) Unix
6 4 (1.06%) Debian
7 2 (0.53%) CentOS
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (30.85%) Agile
2 113 (30.05%) CI/CD
3 103 (27.39%) DevOps
4 86 (22.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (17.02%) Containerisation
7 55 (14.63%) Roadmaps
8 52 (13.83%) Microservices
9 51 (13.56%) AI
10 47 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (11.44%) Analytics
13 43 (11.44%) Software Engineering
14 42 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (9.57%) DevSecOps
15 36 (9.57%) ETL
15 36 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 32 (8.51%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (32.98%) Python
2 73 (19.41%) SQL
3 60 (15.96%) Java
4 32 (8.51%) Bash
5 31 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.71%) PowerShell
7 15 (3.99%) C#
8 14 (3.72%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.19%) Go
10 10 (2.66%) R
11 9 (2.39%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.80%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.80%) Bicep
13 3 (0.80%) PHP
13 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (47.87%) Security Cleared
2 123 (32.71%) SC Cleared
3 66 (17.55%) DV Cleared
4 17 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 16 (4.26%) Degree
6 10 (2.66%) VCAP
7 9 (2.39%) CISSP
8 8 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.33%) CISM
10 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.53%) CCNA
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.32%) QA
2 16 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.13%) GDPR
4 7 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.86%) NCSC
5 5 (1.33%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.33%) NIST
5 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.53%) HL7
7 2 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (20.21%) Docker
2 25 (6.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.32%) Active Directory
4 18 (4.79%) vSphere
5 17 (4.52%) VMware NSX
6 16 (4.26%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.53%) Corosync
7 2 (0.53%) KVM
7 2 (0.53%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.27%) iptables
8 1 (0.27%) NFS
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.27%) zsh
Systems Management
1 95 (25.27%) Terraform
2 93 (24.73%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.90%) Ansible
4 18 (4.79%) Grafana
5 17 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.19%) VxRail
7 10 (2.66%) Argo
8 6 (1.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.80%) Istio
9 3 (0.80%) Pacemaker
9 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.53%) Cilium
10 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.53%) linkerd
10 2 (0.53%) Nagios
10 2 (0.53%) Podman
10 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.27%) OPNET
Vendors
1 30 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.45%) Oracle
3 25 (6.65%) VMware
4 18 (4.79%) Databricks
5 17 (4.52%) Google
6 10 (2.66%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.39%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.86%) Cisco
8 7 (1.86%) SAP
9 5 (1.33%) Splunk
10 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.80%) F5
11 3 (0.80%) Thales
12 2 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.53%) IBM
12 2 (0.53%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.53%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.53%) Virgin Media
13 1 (0.27%) Denodo
13 1 (0.27%) Okta