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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 15 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 207 220 320
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.99% 9.85% 10.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.13% 33.18% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 166 258
10th Percentile £375 £419 £404
25th Percentile £450 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £688
90th Percentile £713 £781 £750
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £79.20
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £51.06
% change year-on-year +82.98% -9.55% -7.17%

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 687 663 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.83% 29.69% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 424 700
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £702
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 39
10th Percentile - £15.93 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £14.36
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.22% +151.25% -65.37%
75th Percentile £35.69 £70.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £76.20 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.14% +26.00% +11.11%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +11 81 £525 -4.55% 62
Wiltshire -3 43 £537 -10.50% 28
Gloucestershire -12 30 £550 -7.56% 63
Devon -5 20 £529 -11.93% 26
Somerset +1 12 £625 +8.70% 25
Dorset +4 8 £270 -40.07% 21
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 (3.38%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (1.93%) Apache
2 4 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.97%) Documentum
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 105 (50.72%) Azure
2 39 (18.84%) GCP
3 29 (14.01%) GitHub
4 25 (12.08%) Serverless
5 18 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 17 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.31%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.35%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.35%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.86%) npm
13 7 (3.38%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.35%) Firewall
2 8 (3.86%) VPN
3 6 (2.90%) Network Security
4 5 (2.42%) DNS
4 5 (2.42%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.42%) WAN
5 2 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.97%) 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 25 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.28%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.31%) Power BI
4 10 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.38%) Oracle ODI
6 7 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.38%) Star Schema
7 5 (2.42%) Big Data
7 5 (2.42%) MySQL
7 5 (2.42%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.45%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (14.49%) Jenkins
2 22 (10.63%) Git
3 21 (10.14%) GitLab
4 15 (7.25%) JIRA
5 8 (3.86%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.38%) DBeaver
7 4 (1.93%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.97%) Maven
8 2 (0.97%) 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%) JUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Mocha
9 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.15%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.56%) Finance
4 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.35%) Military
5 9 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.42%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.93%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.93%) Electronics
7 4 (1.93%) Marketing
7 4 (1.93%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.45%) Banking
8 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.97%) Law
9 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (19.81%) Developer
2 30 (14.49%) Architect
3 28 (13.53%) Analyst
4 20 (9.66%) Senior
5 16 (7.73%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) Lead
7 12 (5.80%) Security Analyst
7 12 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.83%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.38%) Network Architect
10 7 (3.38%) Quality Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Consultant
11 6 (2.90%) DBA
11 6 (2.90%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Security Architect
12 5 (2.42%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.53%) Node.js
2 24 (11.59%) React
3 14 (6.76%) AngularJS
3 14 (6.76%) REST
4 10 (4.83%) RESTful
5 9 (4.35%) AWS CDK
6 8 (3.86%) CSS
6 8 (3.86%) HTML
7 7 (3.38%) OAuth
7 7 (3.38%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 7 (3.38%) Spring
8 6 (2.90%) OpenID
8 6 (2.90%) SOAP
9 5 (2.42%) .NET
9 5 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.42%) Express.js
9 5 (2.42%) Next.js
9 5 (2.42%) SAML
9 5 (2.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.80%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.83%) Cyber Defence
4 9 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.35%) Replication
5 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.93%) CMDB
7 4 (1.93%) IoT
7 4 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.97%) PKI
9 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.59%) Linux
2 16 (7.73%) Windows
3 13 (6.28%) Unix
4 5 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.65%) Agile
2 73 (35.27%) CI/CD
3 61 (29.47%) DevOps
4 38 (18.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (13.04%) Microservices
7 26 (12.56%) Containerisation
8 24 (11.59%) Test Automation
9 22 (10.63%) Analytics
9 22 (10.63%) Mentoring
9 22 (10.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (9.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (8.70%) Migration
11 18 (8.70%) Software Engineering
12 16 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (7.25%) ETL
13 15 (7.25%) Roadmaps
14 14 (6.76%) DevSecOps
14 14 (6.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.60%) Python
2 38 (18.36%) TypeScript
3 35 (16.91%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.53%) Java
4 28 (13.53%) SQL
5 19 (9.18%) Bash
6 17 (8.21%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.86%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.42%) Ruby
9 4 (1.93%) Bicep
9 4 (1.93%) C
10 2 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) Go
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (52.66%) Security Cleared
2 83 (40.10%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.28%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.80%) CISSP
6 11 (5.31%) Degree
7 9 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (2.90%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (2.90%) SANS
9 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.93%) CISM
10 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) GDPR
2 11 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.35%) NCSC
3 9 (4.35%) NIST
4 8 (3.86%) QA
5 3 (1.45%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.45%) PSD2
5 3 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.97%) GRC
6 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.97%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (19.81%) Docker
2 11 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (28.50%) Terraform
2 40 (19.32%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.63%) Ansible
4 12 (5.80%) Grafana
4 12 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.38%) Puppet
5 7 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.42%) Dell DRAC
6 5 (2.42%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.93%) Argo
7 4 (1.93%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.93%) Kibana
7 4 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.97%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.97%) Podman
8 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.21%) Oracle
3 9 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.86%) Splunk
5 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.90%) Dell
6 6 (2.90%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.42%) Google
7 5 (2.42%) Ping Identity
7 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.93%) Cisco
8 4 (1.93%) Juniper
8 4 (1.93%) SAP
9 3 (1.45%) Databricks
9 3 (1.45%) F5
9 3 (1.45%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.97%) ESRI
10 2 (0.97%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.97%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.97%) NetApp