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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 376 184 202
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.42% 9.68% 7.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.21% 32.57% 27.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 143 164
10th Percentile £413 £355 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £647 £625
90th Percentile £761 £723 £764
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -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 984 565 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.27% 29.74% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 393 527
10th Percentile £325 £213 £250
25th Percentile £425 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £606
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 40 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.97
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £33.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.93% -73.04% +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £98.13 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 13 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

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the South West over the 6 months to 13 August 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 13 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 -8 91 £550 +10.00% 174
Wiltshire +8 73 £500 -13.04% 12
Devon +4 60 £538 +3.46% 26
Somerset 0 60 £646 +32.51% 26
Gloucestershire +3 33 £575 -8.00% 133
Dorset +10 32 £410 -25.45% 38
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 4 (1.06%) Apache Superset
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
8 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 74 (19.68%) GCP
3 36 (9.57%) Serverless
4 29 (7.71%) Amazon S3
5 26 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (5.59%) GitHub
7 20 (5.32%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.46%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.66%) dbt
12 9 (2.39%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (2.39%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
13 8 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.60%) Datadog
15 6 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.18%) Firewall
2 26 (6.91%) DNS
3 24 (6.38%) TCP/IP
4 21 (5.59%) DHCP
5 17 (4.52%) VSAN
6 8 (2.13%) VLAN
7 5 (1.33%) BGP
7 5 (1.33%) Network Security
7 5 (1.33%) OSPF
8 4 (1.06%) 3GPP
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 20 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
1 20 (5.32%) Power BI
1 20 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (3.46%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.19%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.19%) Tableau
5 10 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.39%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.39%) MySQL
7 8 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.13%) Flink
8 7 (1.86%) Big Data
8 7 (1.86%) Metadata
9 6 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (10.11%) Git
2 29 (7.71%) GitLab
2 29 (7.71%) 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 71 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.03%) Public Sector
3 35 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.71%) Finance
5 12 (3.19%) Military
6 6 (1.60%) Banking
7 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.06%) Local Government
7 4 (1.06%) Retail
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%) Influencing Skills
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%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (19.68%) Developer
2 61 (16.22%) Architect
3 36 (9.57%) Lead
4 31 (8.24%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.45%) Senior
6 27 (7.18%) Product Manager
7 26 (6.91%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (6.38%) Digital Product Manager
8 24 (6.38%) Java Developer
9 23 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (5.59%) Site Engineer
10 21 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 21 (5.59%) Software Developer
11 19 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.79%) AWS Architect
12 18 (4.79%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.52%) Lead Architect
13 17 (4.52%) Python Developer
13 17 (4.52%) Technical Architect
14 15 (3.99%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.24%) Spring Boot
2 30 (7.98%) React
3 29 (7.71%) Spring
4 24 (6.38%) AWS CDK
5 20 (5.32%) .NET
6 19 (5.05%) Node.js
7 18 (4.79%) Kafka
8 15 (3.99%) REST
9 13 (3.46%) RESTful
10 11 (2.93%) .NET Framework
11 9 (2.39%) HTML
11 9 (2.39%) React Native
12 8 (2.13%) CSS
12 8 (2.13%) HTML5
12 8 (2.13%) LDAP
12 8 (2.13%) Redux
13 7 (1.86%) CSS3
13 7 (1.86%) Jest
13 7 (1.86%) Spring MVC
14 6 (1.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 60 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.04%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.99%) PKI
5 14 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Clustering
10 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.33%) Replication
11 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.06%) IVR
12 3 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.43%) Linux
2 37 (9.84%) Windows
3 14 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.60%) Unix
6 5 (1.33%) Rocky
6 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.06%) Debian
8 2 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (31.65%) Agile
2 114 (30.32%) CI/CD
3 99 (26.33%) DevOps
4 88 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (17.02%) Containerisation
7 57 (15.16%) Roadmaps
8 54 (14.36%) AI
9 52 (13.83%) Microservices
10 48 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (12.23%) Software Engineering
12 45 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (10.37%) Analytics
14 39 (10.37%) DevSecOps
15 37 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (9.31%) ETL
17 34 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 30 (7.98%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 125 (33.24%) Python
2 72 (19.15%) SQL
3 61 (16.22%) Java
4 31 (8.24%) Bash
4 31 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 30 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.26%) C#
7 15 (3.99%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.46%) Go
9 10 (2.66%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.39%) R
11 4 (1.06%) PHP
11 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.80%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.80%) Bicep
12 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.53%) C++
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 181 (48.14%) Security Cleared
2 120 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 69 (18.35%) DV Cleared
4 18 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 16 (4.26%) Degree
6 11 (2.93%) VCAP
7 9 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.39%) CISSP
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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.53%) CCNA
12 2 (0.53%) MCSE
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.59%) QA
2 15 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.13%) GDPR
3 8 (2.13%) NCSC
4 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.33%) ISO 9000
5 5 (1.33%) NIST
6 4 (1.06%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.53%) HL7
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
7 2 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 75 (19.95%) Docker
2 29 (7.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.59%) Active Directory
4 20 (5.32%) vSphere
5 18 (4.79%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.52%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.80%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.53%) Corosync
8 2 (0.53%) KVM
9 1 (0.27%) iptables
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.27%) NFS
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.27%) zsh
Systems Management
1 99 (26.33%) Terraform
2 96 (25.53%) Kubernetes
3 45 (11.97%) Ansible
4 18 (4.79%) Grafana
5 15 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.46%) VxRail
7 9 (2.39%) 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
1 30 (7.98%) Oracle
2 29 (7.71%) VMware
3 18 (4.79%) Google
4 17 (4.52%) Databricks
5 10 (2.66%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.39%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.86%) Cisco
7 7 (1.86%) SAP
8 6 (1.60%) Splunk
9 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.80%) F5
10 3 (0.80%) Thales
11 2 (0.53%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.53%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.53%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.27%) Okta