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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 393 177 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.75% 9.22% 7.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.43% 31.22% 27.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 137 157
10th Percentile £413 £355 £425
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% -8.17%
75th Percentile £654 £650 £650
90th Percentile £776 £738 £753
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.54%
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 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -38.43%

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 972 567 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.59% 29.55% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 390 483
10th Percentile £326 £213 £234
25th Percentile £425 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £730 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 46
10th Percentile £13.93 £18.13 £12.63
25th Percentile £15.24 £18.51 £30.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -73.04% +76.99%
75th Percentile £46.42 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £98.82 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -4 93 £550 +7.84% 136
Wiltshire +8 77 £503 -8.64% 27
Devon +5 65 £560 +7.69% 30
Somerset +2 61 £652 +33.74% 31
Gloucestershire +9 35 £563 -9.09% 151
Dorset +11 34 £419 -23.86% 30
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 19 (4.83%) Apache
2 16 (4.07%) Confluence
3 15 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.04%) IIS
5 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.02%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 194 (49.36%) Azure
2 80 (20.36%) GCP
3 35 (8.91%) Serverless
4 28 (7.12%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (6.11%) GitHub
6 21 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (5.09%) Power Platform
8 16 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (3.56%) Entra ID
10 12 (3.05%) Snowflake
11 11 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (2.54%) dbt
13 9 (2.29%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
14 8 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (1.78%) Amazon Cognito
16 6 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (1.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.14%) Firewall
2 31 (7.89%) DNS
3 28 (7.12%) TCP/IP
4 24 (6.11%) DHCP
5 18 (4.58%) VSAN
6 9 (2.29%) VLAN
7 6 (1.53%) Network Security
7 6 (1.53%) VPN
8 5 (1.27%) BGP
8 5 (1.27%) OSPF
9 4 (1.02%) 3GPP
9 4 (1.02%) TETRA
10 3 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.51%) CTI
11 2 (0.51%) IPsec
11 2 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.51%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.51%) Wireless
12 1 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.09%) Power BI
3 17 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.56%) Tableau
5 13 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.05%) Oracle Database
7 11 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.29%) MySQL
10 8 (2.04%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.04%) Metadata
10 8 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.78%) Big Data
11 7 (1.78%) Flink
12 6 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.53%) SAP HANA
13 5 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (11.20%) Git
2 32 (8.14%) Jenkins
3 31 (7.89%) GitLab
4 18 (4.58%) JIRA
5 6 (1.53%) JUnit
6 4 (1.02%) Liquibase
6 4 (1.02%) Selenium
7 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.51%) RStudio
8 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.25%) Codeception
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) GoCD
9 1 (0.25%) Gradle
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 75 (19.08%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.27%) Public Sector
3 34 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.40%) Finance
5 11 (2.80%) Military
6 8 (2.04%) Banking
7 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.02%) Local Government
8 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.76%) Police
9 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.51%) Aviation
9 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.25%) Advertising
10 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 79 (20.10%) Developer
2 65 (16.54%) Architect
3 39 (9.92%) Lead
4 32 (8.14%) Data Engineer
5 31 (7.89%) Senior
6 30 (7.63%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (6.87%) Product Manager
8 24 (6.11%) Digital Product Manager
9 23 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.85%) Software Developer
10 22 (5.60%) Java Developer
10 22 (5.60%) Site Engineer
10 22 (5.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (5.34%) Lead Architect
11 21 (5.34%) Technical Architect
12 20 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (4.58%) AWS Architect
14 17 (4.33%) Software Engineer
15 15 (3.82%) Consultant
16 14 (3.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (27.23%) Terraform
2 35 (8.91%) React
3 29 (7.38%) Spring Boot
4 27 (6.87%) Spring
5 25 (6.36%) AWS CDK
6 20 (5.09%) .NET
7 19 (4.83%) Node.js
8 17 (4.33%) Kafka
9 16 (4.07%) REST
10 14 (3.56%) HTML
11 13 (3.31%) CSS
12 11 (2.80%) .NET Framework
13 10 (2.54%) RESTful
14 9 (2.29%) React Native
15 8 (2.04%) HTML5
15 8 (2.04%) LDAP
15 8 (2.04%) Next.js
15 8 (2.04%) Redux
16 7 (1.78%) CSS3
16 7 (1.78%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.91%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.07%) PKI
5 14 (3.56%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.53%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.53%) Replication
10 5 (1.27%) Clustering
10 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.27%) Linux
2 38 (9.67%) Windows
3 15 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.54%) Unix
6 4 (1.02%) Rocky
6 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Debian
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (32.06%) CI/CD
2 122 (31.04%) Agile
3 103 (26.21%) DevOps
4 98 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (17.30%) Containerisation
6 66 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (16.54%) Roadmaps
8 56 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
9 55 (13.99%) AI
10 52 (13.23%) Software Engineering
11 50 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
12 48 (12.21%) Microservices
13 46 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (11.20%) DevSecOps
15 43 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (9.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 39 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (9.41%) Analytics
18 34 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
19 32 (8.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 130 (33.08%) Python
2 75 (19.08%) SQL
3 61 (15.52%) Java
4 34 (8.65%) Bash
4 34 (8.65%) JavaScript
5 31 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 19 (4.83%) C#
8 12 (3.05%) Go
9 10 (2.54%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.54%) R
10 9 (2.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.02%) PHP
12 3 (0.76%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.76%) Bicep
12 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) Groovy
13 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 195 (49.62%) Security Cleared
2 129 (32.82%) SC Cleared
3 75 (19.08%) DV Cleared
4 26 (6.62%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.83%) Degree
6 15 (3.82%) CISSP
7 12 (3.05%) VCAP
8 11 (2.80%) CISM
9 9 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.51%) CCNA
15 2 (0.51%) MCSE
15 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.60%) QA
2 18 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.80%) NCSC
4 7 (1.78%) GDPR
4 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.53%) NIST
6 5 (1.27%) ISO 9000
6 5 (1.27%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.02%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 2 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 76 (19.34%) Docker
2 30 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.60%) Active Directory
4 20 (5.09%) vSphere
5 19 (4.83%) VMware NSX
6 16 (4.07%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.76%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.51%) Corosync
8 2 (0.51%) KVM
9 1 (0.25%) iptables
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.25%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) zsh
Systems Management
1 103 (26.21%) Kubernetes
2 49 (12.47%) Ansible
3 18 (4.58%) Grafana
4 14 (3.56%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.56%) VxRail
5 9 (2.29%) Argo
6 6 (1.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (1.27%) Istio
8 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.76%) Pacemaker
8 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Nagios
9 2 (0.51%) Podman
9 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) CASB
10 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 32 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.63%) VMware
3 28 (7.12%) Oracle
4 24 (6.11%) Google
5 15 (3.82%) Databricks
6 10 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.29%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.04%) Cisco
8 8 (2.04%) SAP
9 6 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.53%) Splunk
10 5 (1.27%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.76%) F5
11 3 (0.76%) Thales
12 2 (0.51%) ArcSight
12 2 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.51%) IBM
12 2 (0.51%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
13 1 (0.25%) Okta